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For the love of farming
We asked readers to tell us what they love most about their life’s work. Here are some of their replies. I love farming because… “on the days you look at your spouse both exhausted from lambing all night and asking, “and why do we do this?” Then two things happen. A half hour later you
A weekly roundup of 4-H news for the week of June 5, 2008
NORTH BENTON, Ohio — The Village Varieties 4-H club met May 20 at the North Benton Presbyterian Church. In old business, the club collected notes of encouragement to send to servicemen currently serving in Iraq. The county poster contest was also discussed. In new business, adviser Sharen O’Brock read a thank-you note from a servicewoman,
Dairy Excel: Will hospital and nursing home bills rob you of your home and farm?
Many of us who are nearing retirement age have not sufficiently planned for the increasingly likely possibility of being incapacitated or disabled.
Coming home
JERUSALEM, Ohio – When I went to bed that first night in our new country house, I could barely choke back the tears.
Manage feeders to minimize hay waste
Hay wasted would support one more cow for every eight already in the herd.
Ashtabula County buyers set new cheese, turkey sale records
The Ashtabula County Fair junior market livestock sale totaled $152,359.81, up more than $3,000 from last year’s sale.
Conservation and cattle: Pete Conkle knows them both
Pete Conkle says conservation is something that his family has always been involved in– he can remember his grandparents building ponds and using contour strips to farm.
Shake, gavel and roll: Carroll Co. native is auctioneer by day and Elvis by night
By SUSAN MELLISH Contributing Writer WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Mike Albert has always been a cut-up; a person who loves center stage; an entertainer. This former Carroll County native attended auctions with his parents and was entranced by the auctioneer running the show. Is it any wonder he gravitated toward this profession?
Riding away
THE first time Linda Hren fought cancer was bad enough. But getting it back months later was far worse.
How not to talk to strangers
Farm and Dairy Editor Rachel Wagoner loves talking to strangers and hates talking about politics. How does she reconcile these two things?
