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US natural gas production fell in 2016
Pennsylvania and Ohio had the two largest annual natural gas production increases from 2015 to 2016, reflecting higher production from the Utica and Marcellus shale plays.
Small grains field day offers opportunities for farmers
The first small grains field day, held June 14, in Wooster, offered a closer look at small grains for forages, new cash crop opportunities and disease prevention
CRP signup should be hot topic
Farm bill makes changes in prior crop production eligibility.
Visionary genius, short-sighted fools
Last October, several University of Illinois alums sent a letter “to encourage [me] to … join [them] by making a contribution to a scholarship fund that has a personal meaning to you.” College cost What, I toss a pebble-sized check into the Big U’s pond and that “C” in Math 111 nearly 40 years ago
The more you give, the more you receive
Last week, my son opened a door to a pantry full of food and proclaimed that there was nothing to eat. Granted, he is 12, and if there are no snack chips, carbonated beverages or cookies then the cupboard is deemed bare. Still, it struck me that people who have all that they need and
Onomatopoeic birds
If you are among the many who struggle to learn bird songs, start with those species that actually identify themselves; they say their own names.
Double cropping research helps northern New York dairy farmers
Research conducted on northern New York farms by Cornell University researchers is helping farmers enhance their production of forage crops for dairy cows.
Sweet diesel: Discovery resurrects process to convert sugar directly to diesel
BERKELEY, Calif. — A long-abandoned fermentation process once used to turn starch into explosives can be used to produce renewable diesel fuel to replace the fossil fuels now used in transportation, University of California, Berkeley, scientists have discovered. Campus chemists and chemical engineers teamed up to produce diesel fuel from the products of a bacterial
Meadowbrook Farms collapses
A sudden surge of spring-like warmth put a hint of green in my backyard just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Whether the lovely weather lasts or if it’s just the luck of the Irish matters little because, clearly, winter is doomed. So, too, seem the hog-growing farmers of Meadowbrook Farms, the Rantoul, Ill., pork
Facts on the yellow-bellied sapsucker
To the uninitiated, the yellow-bellied sapsucker sounds like a mythical creature. “Where is it in the field guide?” they ask. “Right next to the “bleary-eyed bedthrasher?” “No,” I answer. “It’s a woodpecker.” Four There are actually four species of sapsuckers in North America, but only the yellow-belly is found here in the east. Williamson’s, red-breasted,
