Yearly Archives: 2010
EPA delivers 15 years of acid rain reductions
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a report that shows 15 years of successful results from its nationwide effort to address...
This year I really want to …
The beginning of a new year is normally associated with resolutions. This year instead of asking for resolutions, we requested our readers share their...
OLCSB swine committee recommends stall-free by 2025
Swine subcommittee trying to even the playing field, no new stall-based facilities after 2025
Dear Mr. Apples and Oranges
Another final column of the year and, as is the custom, another year where readers will have the final word. Some of their words...
We lost some great ones in century’s first decade: Earl Butz
Earl ButzEarl Lauer Butz, the outspoken U.S. secretary of agriculture who served under presidents Nixon and Ford, died Feb. 2, 2008. he was 98.A...
We lost some great ones in century’s first decade: Fred Johnson
Fred Johnson Fred H. Johnson Jr., who did more to advance the Angus cattle breed than probably any other individual in the breed’s history...
We lost some great ones in century’s first decade: Ed Johnson
Ed JohnsonThe voice of Ohio agriculture, G. Edwin Johnson, founder and president of Agri Communicators Inc., parent company of his TV show Agri Country,...
We lost some great ones in century’s first decade: Orville Freeman
Orville FreemanOrville Freeman, a Democratic Farmer Labor party member who served as governor of Minnesota from 1955 to 1961, died Feb. 20, 2003. As...
We lost some great ones in century’s first decade: Bob Evans
Bob EvansBob Evans, who founded a retail sausage and family restaurant business and became one of the best-known Ohioans of the 20th century, died...
We lost some great ones in century’s first decade: O.C. Duke
O.C. DukeOrland C. Duke, known as the “grand old man of agriculture” in the Medina County, Ohio, area, died May 11, 2002. Born in...