Portage County Randolph Fair auction results
Find out who topped the junior fair market livestock competitions, and see a slideshow of photos taken at this year’s Portage County Randolph Fair.
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Auctioneer John Kiko, who calls bids at the Portage County Fair livestock auction, got a bit more than he bargained for during last week’s junior fair steer sale. Kiko was the top vote-getter in the junior fair board’s ‘Kiss a Cow’ fundraiser and got to pucker up …
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust: Preserve brings green burials to Ohio
WILMOT, Ohio — Many a farmer has lived day in and day out in his or her blown-out leather work boots, holey blue jeans, and tattered shirts and hats that should have been retired long ago.
And many of those same people have joked that their attire is so second-nature, so “them,” they’d be buried in […]
Trumbull Farm Bureau celebrates year
Recipients of Trumbull County Farm Bureau’s Tom Schwartz Environmentally Friendly Farmer award were David and Becky Lynn and Roland Wildman. The awards were presented during last week’s annual meeting.
P. R. Miller: Man preaches recycling through unconventional and controversial art
AKRON — In six decades, P. R. Miller has called many places home: Mars, a scrapyard and town landfill, a Stark County farm, an outdoor art studio in south Akron.
And for the past year, Miller has made himself at home in a place no one else has for years. The eccentric yet earthy character has […]
USDA takes next step toward COOL
SALEM, Ohio — Like it or not, mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) is coming your way.
The USDA issued its interim final rule for the program July 29, which leaves time for public comment toward the program’s final operation, but allows COOL to go into effect, as planned, Sept. 30.
Covered. COOL, which has been on […]
Build or bust: Dairies, suppliers seeing strong growth
SALEM, Ohio — Freestall and feeding barns bigger than football fields. Brand new parlors, double-12s and larger. Bulk tanks to hold 6,500 gallons of milk.
Drive across the Ohio countryside and you’ll see these are no longer the stuff dreams are made of.
Despite sky-high feed and fuel costs, farmers across the region are pulling out the […]
Carroll County Junior Fair Auction Results
Find out who topped the livestock competitions, and see if you’re in a slideshow of photos taken at this year’s Carroll County Fair.
The Blueberry Patch: Couple turns hobby into Ohio’s largest blueberry farm
MANSFIELD, Ohio — A quarter-century ago, Steve and Lisa Beilstein never thought they’d be where they are at this very instant: seated among customers in the garden-style tea room and gift shop they operate alongside Richland County’s The Blueberry Patch, Ohio’s biggest blueberry farm.
Their success is perhaps surprising for a couple with no farm […]
Gary Lee Bishop
AKRON — Gary Lee Bishop, age 67, passed away July 12, 2008, at Akron City Hospital after a four-month battle with cancer.
Mr. Bishop was born Jan. 3, 1941, in Ravenna, Ohio, and was a lifelong resident of Edinburg.
He owned and operated Bishop Tractor Sales in Edinburg until he retired in 2004. He was a member […]