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Raising peafowl not all it’s cracked up to be
Julie Geiss recalls the time she tried to raise peafowl and all the trials and tribulations that came with it. Is she going for round two?
‘Family’ antics fill the long, summer days
Usually the big calendar hanging on the kitchen door is filled with all kinds of squiggles and notes about birthdays and birds and reminders of anniversaries — the reality days of life — but so far July’s page is comparatively empty. I should write that, as of the 14th, the four baby barn swallows which
All Wii we want for Christmas
Every 20 seconds in America a child suffers an almost unimaginable fate. They discover that life is not, in fact, fair.
Grain markets weathering the good and bad
The weather continues to be the biggest grain story of 2018 so far, for better or worse.
United Fresh report finds fresh produce sales up
WASHINGTON — United Fresh Produce Association released the 2013 Year in Review edition of the FreshFacts on Retail report, which examines overall retail trends in produce for the past year. The report shows during 2013, the produce department averaged more than $47,000 per week per store, which was up 4.8 percent over the previous year.
Farm expenses decline first time since 1986
WASHINGTON — After setting a record high in 2008, U.S. farm production expenditures decreased by $20 billion in 2009. This is the first major decline in 25 years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Statistics Service. Average spent The average production expenditures per farm fell 6.4 percent in 2009, from $140,075 to
Pa. winter wheat numbers thrash 2007
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Based on May 1 conditions, Pennsylvania’s 2008 production of winter wheat is expected to be 23 percent above 2007. Final total tobacco production figures for 2007 were up 6 percent from 2006. May 1 hay stocks are estimated to be down 4 percent from a year ago, according to the Pennsylvania office
Missouri Holstein sets new record
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — MS Bayless Champ Flipper-ET, a four-year-old registered Holstein owned by Derek Page, Mt. Vernon, Mo., has produced a record that makes her the all-time champion for butterfat production in a single lactation in the Holstein breed. Calving at 3 years 9 months of age, Flipper completed a 365-day record on three-times-a-day milking
Farming gives normalcy to life for Crawford Co. family after fire
UNION CITY, Pa. — As pork chops were just finishing up and homemade noodles sat warming in a pan on the stove, and a Jersey calf needing constant nursing laid in a dog crate in the kitchen corner, an unwelcome danger raged in the top of the Isiminger home. Silently, the stranger roared between the
Auld Lang sighs as 2012 begins
Before this 2012 thing gets too far down the road, let’s take a sober second or two to review some of the more inventive ideas from 2011 and see if we can’t make them work in the coming 12 months of political and economic stalemate.
