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The Christmas gift
By Abbey Benninghoff Bessemer, Pa. Age 17 Honorable mention Up at dawn, doing chores at six years of age may sound crazy, but for Grace, she thrived on that repetition. Now with the new baby in the family, her father needed the help in the barn. The first white blanket of snow had fallen, unexpectedly,
US pork exports set new volume records
U.S. pork and pork variety meat exports totaled 5.399 billion pounds valued at $6.486 billion, up 6 percent and 9 percent respectively from 2016.
Beef cattle prices continue surge
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Tight supplies and strong demand propelled fed cattle values into another record-breaking week Feb. 28 to March 4, but cattle feeders’ profits are not as lofty as some might expect, according to Kansas State University agricultural economist, Glynn Tonsor.
Rural Pennsylvanians willing to pay for broadband, study says
A recent study from The Center for Rural Pennsylvania confirmed what many have been saying: rural Pennsylvanians are often getting slower internet speeds at higher prices than urban Pennsylvanians. But it also suggested that rural residents are more willing to pay for broadband than urban residents.
Enjoy your favorite things every day
The best way to enjoy your “favorite things” is to consider, as much as possible, only surrounding yourself every day with your absolute “favorite” things.
We always come back to the tried and true
Kymberly Foster Seabolt experiences car trouble this week and is forced to retire one of her family’s older vehicles.
Love and loss, pride and joy
“I can’t find Pikachu.” You wouldn’t think those words would strike fear in a woman’s heart but oh, let me tell you, they do. Pikachu in this case is not a Pokemon character from the long running children’s series. No. Pikachu is our pet goat. He was a gift to our then 5-year-old son from
Animal ID system goes voluntary
Cover crops can diminish need for nitrogen fertilizer applications
PIKETON, Ohio – Cover crops incorporated into a continuous no-till field crop rotation can produce enough nitrogen to complement, or in some cases, replace corn nitrogen fertilizer applications, according to long-term Ohio State University Extension research. Seven years of research at Ohio State University’s South Centers at Piketon have found that cover crops such as
Flexible Cash Lease Calculator decision aid at OSU farm management
Now, more than ever, big swings in crop prices and input costs points toward negotiating some flexibility in cash leases for farmland. “Volatile” and “uncertain” are two words that might best describe grain prices and input costs for row crop production heading into the 2009 planting season. With this increased volatility and uncertainty, risk increases
