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Rushmore is the world’s largest sculpture
Hugh Earnhart digs into the history of Mount Rushmore. Learn how the idea began, the faces were chosen and the work was completed.
15 questions to ask before purchasing farmland
The increase in crop and livestock prices have generated significant profits for many farmers, which some are using to buy additional land.
Growing demand has driven land values to record highs in many areas. Whether farmers are using cash or borrowing money, buying land should include a well-researched financial plan.
DNA: An arriving tool for beef cattle
Producers are using DNA to give consumers what they want in beef.
Study: Consumers value safer food more than current analyses suggest
COLUMBUS — Government regulators could more realistically assess the value of improving food safety if they considered that consumers typically want to avoid getting sick — even if it means they have to pay a little extra for safer food, researchers say. In the world of food regulation, cost-benefit analyses are a primary tool for
Lawsuit ruling closes Wayne County motocross
Judge claims defendants’ use of their property was “an absolute nuisance.”
Farm life soothes with tedium, richness
“Whenever I have worked on farms, I have found my thoughts drifting back to the early agricultural parables, perhaps because the very nature of manual work leaves one’s mind open to unhampered thinking, and perhaps because many farm chores today are remarkably unremoved from farm chores thousands of years old — shoveling out irrigation canals
Phone rage rears its ugly head
I suppressed my telephone monster one morning when the woman caller incorrectly pronounced my daughter Josie’s first name, “May I speak to Nina (Nee-nah)?” We call both our girls by their middle names; a fate they will never forgive us for. Nina Josephine (Josie); Anna Katherine (Kathie); can you tell the same parents picked those
Will New England farm story repeat?
Columnist Judith Sutherland questions what is really progress.
Singing birds: The joy of spring
If you can, build or put up a bluebird house near your home, says columnist Judith Sutherland, and you’re in for great wonder.
Life lessons learned from grandparents make us richer
Judith Sutherland remembers her grandparents as happy and resourceful people who had very little but were rich in all the ways that count.
