Monthly Archives: June 2002
Jackie Brannon: Head over heels for horses
A Tuscarawas County teen won the state FFA proficiency award in equine management.
Farming on the heels of disaster: Rebuilding, success eight years later
A devastating fire in 1994 forced an Ashtabula County family to come face-to-face with some difficult decisions, including whether farming was really meant for them.
Dairy dream yields Trumbull Co. family farm
Most farms are handed down from father to child. The opposite is true for Eric Campbell, who started Center Creek Dairy and then brought his father into the business.
Toad Hill Organic Farm jumps into vegetable market
Toad Hill Organic Farm has proved to be enough to hold over the Patrick family for the last 10 years, through good and bad weather and changing consumer attitude toward organic foods.
Sexed semen: Get what you want
Research and technology is clearing a path that will allow producers to predetermine the sex of their dams' progeny.
Distance, order size not an issue for Brogan’s L.J. Hay
The Kensington-based L.J. Hay deals in hay and straw in small square bales, large square bales and round bales, most of it raised on their eastern Ohio farm.
Buying power: Erie County dairymen band together in profitable group buying venture
Volume buying and cash discounts are saving a group of Erie County dairymen big bucks.
Manufactured homes dealt blow
Reader comments on ruling in regard to manufactured homes.
Hazard A Guess: Week of June 13, 2002
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Read it Again: Week of June 13, 2002
Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.