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A Portage County farmer is getting it right with his land conservation efforts
A Portage County farmer is named one of the Ohio Conservation Farm Family Award recipients this year.
A new generation learns the hard way
Does the word “relief” bring anything special to your mind except a slogan for an anti-acid? Probably not, unless you grew up in the Great Depression, and there are getting to be fewer of us as the years fly by. “Relief” was a government program to assist jobless families whose savings were gone, whose homes
Now may be the perfect time to re-evaluate operation and your goals
This past week, I taught a session at the state Soil and Water Conservation District Summer Supervisors’ School. The session was an overview of the current agriculture climate and many of the risks involved in the business. One of my summary statements was ‘make time to take stock’. Re-evaluate What I meant by this statement
Dairymen crying over spilled milk prices
Maybe this is what Willie and Waylon were thinking when they warned American “mommas” to not let their “babies to grow up to be cowboys:” Anyone with a dairy cow this year will lose, on average, $70 per month feeding and milking it; more if the cow is also packin’ debt. Losing big That means,
Recommended summer reading
Whether you’re planning a stay-cation in the backyard or a getaway to the shore or mountains this summer, a good book makes a great companion. Here are a few titles you might enjoy as you settle into a favorite reading chair. – Birdsong by the Seasons: A Year of Listening to Birds by Donald Kroodsma
Happy cows, as ankle bracelets prove, like to relax
You know a barn is full of happy cows when you see them all lying down.
The return of the vireos is as notable as other birds
Nothing excites birders like the month of May. Spring migration peaks. New birds arrive almost every day. Colorful warblers and tanagers monopolize the attention, but several groups of less spectacular birds are equally interesting. Escape the spotlight A red-eyed vireo, for example, is a drab tree top dweller, but its return is just as notable
Homeowners making mountains out of moles’ hills
Mounds of fresh top soil and ridges from tunnels just under the sod mean one thing — moles. Have to offer But before you succumb to the pest industry’s annual campaign against moles and rush to the local home improvement center for traps and poison, consider what moles have to offer. The presence of moles
Alternatives for dealing with down cycle
Most dairy farm businesses are not cash flowing. Some may be if they priced first half milk production using futures or options contracts when the early 2009 prices were trading considerably higher than they are now. No sense in kicking yourself if you didn’t do that, just deal with what is. Protecting your equity and
Record export levels continue
DENVER, Colo. — While economic caution flags are flying as we enter the final quarter of 2008, both U.S. beef and pork export levels continued to exceed expectations through the first nine months of the year. U.S. pork exports built on the record set in August, skyrocketing 61 percent in September over totals from a
