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Northwest Pa.’s Pioneer show always a good one
By TOM DOWNING Farm and Dairy columnist Attending steam shows involves some nostalgia if we have been there before, and the Pioneer Steam and Gas Engine Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania certainly is one of those for me. I believe this was their 47th year and I know I have missed a few, but not too
Building fences in the bayou ’til the cows come home: Volunteers help rebuild Texas ranches
SALEM, Ohio — Chip, a Texas cattleman, bragged to Jesse Dotterer and the handful of others visiting his Anahuac, Texas, ranch. Years of selective breeding had paid off in the herd he managed with his wife, Jean, and her twin sister, Janet. The cattle were resistant to bayou mosquitoes, suited for the area’s grasses, and
Managed grazing the only way to go
If you have not yet adopted management intensive grazing, you should now. At the end of 2007, I figured I would be spending my winter talking about how to evaluate and renovate pastures after the drought. Boy, was I wrong.
Environment and economics: Making the case for farmland preservation
(Editor’s note: This week, we begin a four-part look at Ohio’s farmland preservation efforts.) Each year in the United States, more than 1 million acres of land are converted from agriculture to other uses – never to be reclaimed.
The life of Lake Erie is full of ups and downs
Naturalists say Lake Erie is not in decline, that change in the water level are inevitable and have varied considerably over the historical life of the Lake.
At 394 bushels, he ‘sure knows how to raise corn’
Francis Childs of Manchester, Iowa, the four-time national corn growers’ contest winner in the non-irrigated class, was guest speaker July 18 at the 2001 Lawrence Conservation Crop Day at Sankey’s Feed Mill north of Plain Grove, Pa.
Ron Novak’s focus is Angus breeding
Attention to details is at the root of this Trumbull County, Ohio, farm’s success.
A little planning keeps ponds afloat
More than a backhoe and a big rain are required for building some ponds and dams in Ohio.
Junior fair market livestock sales total $222,716
The rain didn’t dampen buyers’ spirits at Friday night’s junior fair market rabbit, steer and feeder calf sales.
The pileated woodpecker: A gifted carpenter
Tami Gingrich offers insight into the lives of pileated woodpeckers — the largest North American species still confirmed to be living.
