Dairy Excel: Tax planning will be a mixed bag for Ohio’s dairy farm businesses...
It is critical to get books fully caught up and to project income and expenses through the end of the year -- whether your gut tells you the results will look good or not so good.
FSA loan programs assist socially disadvantaged farmers
The Farm Service Agency has loan programs to assist members of socially disadvantaged groups and beginning farmers to finance agricultural enterprises.
Running of the does is a sight for hunters to see
The running of the bulls is an international spectacle but no more popular to deer hunters than this week's running of the does, an...
Farm and Food File: How did this happen? Pogo politics
TV talkers and radio ranters briefly bloviated last week on the world's population topping 7 billion. While 7 billion is a big number it isn't the biggest part of the population story.
Memories go beyond the photographs
It has been said that you can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family. Well, you also can’t choose your co-workers, which can cause a fellow all sorts of angst.
On My Mind: Gift-giving advice — avoid catalogs
With the holidays lurking just around the corner -- who needs to be reminded? All the stores, commercials, etc. have been reminding us since the Fourth of July.
The Dirt on Conservation: Rural life is all about respect
For rural neighbors, maintaining a positive relationship and mutual respect for one another could be one of the most important aspects in an ever-changing environment.
Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: Relishing in the history of chickens
Poultry and eggs are a big business and, although estimates vary, possibly as many as 45 billion chickens are eaten every year in this country, along with 75 billion eggs.
Making it to the finish line
Because we have been working on this old house or another for the last 70 billion years someone will occasionally ask me why I...
Black Ink: Happy people lead to happy cattle
When ranchers or feedlot employees are unhappy or feeling stress, how much pride can they take in the job they're doing? Call it mammalian empathy or stress-related errors of management, but those bad feelings are contagious across species.
