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Agricultural district designation protects farms and farmers
COLUMBUS — Q: I’ve been hearing about agricultural districts; what are they? A: An agricultural district is a legal description of farmland property that, when designated as an agricultural district, entitles the owner of the farmland to certain benefits.
The great goat escape
Regular readers will recall that I recently stalked, er, assisted, a woman in finding a home for her wayward goat. Eavesdropping in a local salon led me to a woman who had a goat that needed a home and there we were — a home in need of a goat. Can you can say “kismet?”
Ohio has huge potential, demand for fish farming
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Most Ohioans know how to catch a fish. A line and reel, a bobber, a farm pond and a bucket full of night crawlers or crawdads and even the novice can be successful. But a growing industry in the state promises to produce as many or more fish than can be
Incredible shrinking food
Nowadays, I not only take my calculator along on grocery shopping trips (the better to ascertain if we can or cannot afford to eat again this week), but I probably should take a magnifying glass along too. I don’t mean to alarm anyone unnecessarily, but our food appears to be shrinking. Granted, most would agree
Hearts gone wild
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. — Elizabeth Stone The collision seemed to happen — as these things always do — in excruciatingly slow motion. In a burst of reckless speed, a sudden swerve and then the
Back to the future: An adventure in fifth grade
You know that nightmare we’ve all had where you suddenly find yourself back in school? Perhaps something has happened and it has come to light that you never actually graduated and *poof* there you are, back in class? That’s the one where you wake up in a cold sweat and the only way it could
Farmers: Don’t be victims of stress
It’s that busy time a year, when trying to get the crops planted and worrying about getting the first cutting of hay off is weighing heavily on every farmer’s mind. This seasonal stress is added to the already existing stress of keeping up with all the day-to-day activities. Along with these “normal seasonal” and “day-to-day”
Farmers: Look, listen and then talk
By now you’ve read or heard about the Wayne County hog farm accused of mistreating its animals. Accused. Not convicted, not jailed, not hung by their toenails and flogged in the public square. Just accused. Yet the farm is in a glaring nationwide spotlight. People all over are tracking the case on the Internet, asking
Hurry up and wait: Use rain delays to make planting and crop decisions, experts say
SALEM, Ohio — Rain showers. Tile washouts. Mud. Thanks to Mother Nature, you’re already falling behind schedule with spring tillage and planting. In the past week, farmers have been spotted chisel plowing, planting oats and making progress across parts of the Farm and Dairy coverage area. It’s been slow going, though, with USDA data showing
Farmers wrestle with planting decisions
COLUMBUS — High soybean prices and low input costs won out over the demand for ethanol production in U.S. farmers’ decisions to plant more soybeans and less corn this year. According to the March USDA prospective plantings report, U.S. growers intend to plant 74.8 million acres of soybeans, up 18 percent from last year. By
