Monthly Archives: August 2003
Geauga square dancers give state competition a whirl, finish at top
More than two dozen young people spend hours year-round to perfect their skills at a dying pasttime.
First round of Clean Ohio easement funds depleted; nine more farms saved
Clean Ohio's first round of funding paid out, state enters second year of program.
Summer rains push crops to extremes
Late plantings, a wet summer and cooler-than-normal daytime temperatures are adding up to a disease-ridden, nonproductive soybean crop.
Pigskin on the minds of Lawrence hog exhibitors
New records set at Saturday sale; Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie among buyers.
Fairy-tale financial fortune telling faulty
Writer calls bankers, analysts, brokers and money managers "parasitic terrorists."
Dairy Channel: Manure research results will be presented at field day Aug. 20
Ernie Oelker writes about the manure research field day at Myron Wehr's farm in New Waterford, Ohio.
Farmer learns to live by the weather
Columnist Judith Sutherland concludes a series on Charles Smart, who learned in the 1930s that farmers live by the weather.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Aug. 14, 2003
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Sentimental journey through old memories
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt may hoard babyhood memorabilia but she plans on keeping it all.
Iron Horses and Dairy Farms
Jean L. Fugman tells about the memories of a summer on a dairy farm before World War II.