By TERRY MORT
Sorry it has taken me so long to finish our year of events in Florida this year, but when you are gone from home so long, it takes you a while to catch up with everything.
We had a great winter down there, but eventually everything must end. There’s nothing like some excitement to […]
By Amy Fovargue
Contributing Writer
FREDERICKTOWN, Ohio — Ann Trudel has always loved picking red raspberries and making jam with them. So it made sense that after she and her husband, Dan, bought 5 acres near Fredericktown, they decided to raise their own and make a business out of it.
They named their business — what else! — […]
URBANA, Ill. — Corn and soybean markets are not reliant solely on energy or futures prices to support their levels, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist.
“Some suggest that corn and soybean prices have not been following fundamentals, but have traded on outside markets like crude oil,” said Darrel Good. “However, energy prices are […]
By MIKE WOOLVERTON
Extension Grain Economist
Sighs of relief were heard throughout the grain trade last week as corn and soybean planting both progressed.
Ordinarily, prices would drop as the Battle for Acres was resolved, but corn and soybean prices have remained strong due to rising energy prices.
Close scrutiny
Corn and soybeans are now lumped together with […]
By KANTELE FRANKO
ARLINGTON, Va. — Nearly 4 million people visit Arlington National Cemetery annually, many of them tourists searching for U.S. history. They watch the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns and see more than a dozen other memorials or monuments.
They pay their respects to the 300,000 people who have been […]
By KAREN KIRSCH
Contributing Writer
MOUNT HOPE, Ohio –The tiny village of Mount Hope, Ohio, will host Horse Progress Days July 4 and 5.
By HOLLY WIEMERS
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Experts report that eastern tent caterpillars are now wandering and population levels are among the highest they’ve seen since 2001, when Mare Reproductive Loss Syndrome (MRLS) hit Central Kentucky particularly hard.
“The eastern tent caterpillar populations are dramatically up this year — the highest I’ve seen since the MRLS crisis. The […]
By Daryll Ray
How long can this go on? How much higher will corn prices go? Those questions are of concern not only to corn farmers, but to producers of other crops, as well.
In general, the price increase for other commodities followed that of corn as crops competed with each other for acreage as, within agronomic […]
The Ashland County Cattlemen’s Association hosted its annual banquet at the Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center April 10.
WOOSTER, Ohio — Wayne County dairy production was celebrated during the annual Wayne County Dairy Banquet at the Amish Door Restaurant in Wooster.
