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Can’t stand the heat? Stay out of summer
Summer is a favorite of so many for one obvious reason: it is the one season when total disintegration of social mores is completely acceptable.
Crop returns growing as production costs rise, specialists say
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Farmers will spend more to produce their 2011 crops but they’re likely to make that up — and then some — from higher grain prices, say two Purdue University Extension specialists. Crop decisions Which crops farmers choose to plant this season also will play a factor in the returns they’ll earn,
Plans set for Northeast Ohio Winter Grape School set for March 17
OSU Extension, KSU Vesta Program, and the Ashtabula Research Station for the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center are co-sponsoring the Northeast Ohio Winter Grape School from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 17 at the Geneva Lodge and Conference Center in Geneva-on-the-Lake.
Firestar is high seller at Quality-Quest
BELOIT, Ohio — Quality-Quest Firestar was top seller at the Quality-Quest Holsteins sale Oct. 23. The sale was held at the farm owned by Doug and Marty Dye and family near Beloit. Top Quality-Quest Firestar, No. 1 in the catalog, led the parade of outstanding individuals passing through the sale ring and was the high
Readers react to the Farm and Food File
Six months may have passed since readers last got their say in this space but nothing during that time has mellowed their views of this effort.
Cabela’s: A retail store and a destination
When the Cabela’s store in Wheeling, W.Va. opened in 2004, it was billed as a “destination.” Give it a few months, I thought, and it will be just another outdoors store. I could not have been more wrong. Four million shoppers. According to Cabela’s retail marketing manager, Bud Forte, four million shoppers visited the Wheeling
USDA ‘data dump’ excites commodities markets
Marlin Clark explains corn and soybean price changes due to the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and the Quarterly Grain Stocks reports.
Learning against the grain
Eric Keller explores the advantages of homeschooling, drawing from his own experience in public school.
Geotextile fabric great for heavy-use
As beneficial as soil is, even we conservationists have a hard time extolling its virtues when spring rains turn farms to mud and the cows are standing in it up to their knees.
‘Elect me because I’ll send you more federal money than the other guy’
Alan Guebert explains that though Trump claims to have gotten more money for farmers, the numbers show that farmers are actually doing better under Biden.
