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Beating that brick wall
Kymberly Foster Seabolt cunningly convinces her husband to start a new home improvement project.
Hummingbird guilt while on summer vacation
When my wife and I left on vacation July 21, I felt pangs of guilt. I had been hosting a growing number of ruby-throated hummingbirds at my feeders since early May.
Fuel prices costing farmers, too
Fewer trips and better equipment can help farmers save.
Pedal tractor pulling fun for generations of New Castle family
Bob Nimmo’s children and grandchildren have been competing in and winning pedal tractor pulling contests at county fairs for three decades.
Soil problems still take ingenuity, courage
Soil management has come a long way, and crop yields have increased 400 or 500 percent. Soil erosion can’t be stopped, but we have a better handle on it.
Income over dairy feed costs? There’s a free app for that
Using the mobile app DairyCents is as easy as entering a zip code, selecting a milk production level, and date and the app will calculate income over feed costs.
Five agri-stories you should read today (2-21-2014)
Today’s must-read stories feature agricultural growth for the United States and China. Honeybees may be spreading disease to bumblebees and one Kentucky couple is helping FFA members get official jackets.
Transgenic sweet corn no more susceptible to Goss’s wilt disease
A new study from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service provides evidence showing no increase in disease susceptibility in transgenic sweet corn treated with glyphosate.
Baled stover robs fields of nutrients
LEXINGTON, Ky. — As spring planting gets under way, farmers who baled corn stover for winter feed will have to replace soil nutrients lost during residue removal, said Chad Lee, University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension grains specialist. With last year’s inclement weather, many livestock producers across the United States were faced with a shortage of
Apple production is down across the state, and spring weather is to blame
The apple harvest is coming to an end earlier than usual in Ohio with a reduced, but some say sweeter, supply.
