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Monthly Archives: September 2005

LONDON, Ohio - For Jack Fisher, there was an unexpected outcome from the 18-month brainstorming that led to the new Ohio Agricultural Roadmap.

It is the job of a parent to create order out of a somewhat chaotic world, to orchestrate the subtle and the major things within a child's life.

More than most months, September delivers farmers key numbers - yield per acre, weaning weight, price per pound or bushel - they will live with for the coming months.

On mornings when I'm not working away from home, around 7:50, our dog Lydia begins her bark that usually announces just about anything that moves in our vicinity.

There are just some things no woman ever wants to hear from her spouse including: "Honey, I've met someone.

See who took top honors in the steer, hog and lamb competitions at this year's Crawford (Pa.) County Fair.

See who took top honors in the steer, hog and lamb competitions at this year's Wayne County Fair.

WASHINGTON - Nightcrawlers may be at least partly responsible for the sometimes rapid movement of liquid manure and chemicals through soil to underground drainage pipes.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Two weeks after asking Pennsylvania's agriculture community to help farmers affected by Katrina, state Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff sent a tractor-trailer loaded with supplies bound for Mississippi.

COLUMBUS - Ohio Farmers Union members returned to their farms after three days on Capitol Hill talking with members of Congress on behalf of farm families in Ohio and around the nation.