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The long road to women’s suffrage
On June 4, 1919, the 19th Amendment passed the Senate and was submitted to the states, allowing women to vote. Learn what it took to get there.
Confessions of a home renovation junkie
Leave Kymberly Foster Seabolt alone with a drill or a hammer and all heck breaks loose. In her column this week, she offers an update on her latest project.
Early harvest means tough grain marketing decisions
Low prices make marketing decisions easy to defer, but the big, early crops mean most farmers will have some corn and soybeans that need to go to town.
Tips for repelling mosquitoes this summer
Certain herbs are known to repel mosquitoes. There are many ways you can reduce the number of mosquitoes around your home and property.
The trials and tribulations of a thresherman
Years ago, I bought a big stack of American Thresherman magazines from 1924 through 1932. The paper was started by Bascom B. Clarke in 1898, to cater to the many professional thresherman in the country.
O Be Joyful Farm: Key to longevity is keeping it simple
The O Be Joyful Farm features a herd of Jersey, Holsteins, Ayrshires and even some Shorthorn cattle.
Propane shortage may be waning, but price concerns aren’t going away
U.S. propane inventories are nearly 44 percent lower than a year ago, and, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. price for propane hit a record two weeks ago, up $1.05 to $4.01 a gallon. The propane supply is rebounding, but it is going to cost consumers.
I really am lucky to ‘get to’ be so stressed
When you really get down to it, life is made up not of what you “have” to do but what you “get” to do — and that makes all the difference.
SWCD offers something for everyone
As I near my 10th anniversary with the Columbiana Soil & Water Conservation District, I reflect on one of the questions I hear the most; “What do you guys do here?” And while this may seem like any easy question to answer, it actually can be quite complex. The reason this question is so complex
More crop producers to plant non-genetically modified soybeans
COLUMBUS — Cheaper seed and lucrative premiums are driving more crop producers to plant non-genetically modified soybeans this year. U.S. soybean production is 95 percent dominated by genetically modified Round Up Ready soybeans. Trend However, a small percentage of that crop — perhaps 5 percent — will be planted to non-GM soybeans and the trend
