Friday, June 13, 2025

Around the Table

Ohio State Extension educator Paige (Irwin) Shaffer provides food safety tips for summer cookouts and family gatherings.

How-To's

The best way to avoid a tick bite is to stay away from tick habitats. But that's hard for farmers and other outdoor workers to do. If you can’t avoid the outdoors, here are some things you can do to prevent tick bites.

Geauga SWCD Education/Communications Specialist Gail Prunty breaks down strategies for managing horse manure to reduce its environmental impact.

Columns

composting waste

Brianna Roe, agricultural technician for the Guernsey Soil and Water Conservation District, shares tips to reduce food waste.
kitten

Eliza Blue shares the happy ending for a kitten she found on her ranch a couple of years ago.
A holstein cow looks through a fence.

Ohio State Extension educator Bonnie Ayars welcomes Dairy Month, sharing ways to celebrate the dairy industry throughout June.
flies on a cow

Ohio State Extension educator Ted Wiseman provides tips to control flies around livestock to reduce stress and disease transmission.
children playing in a stream

Judith Sutherland unearths treasured memories with childhood friends on her family farm.
corn kernels and dollar bills

Alan Guebert considers a 1956 quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the recently-released 2026 U.S. Department of Agriculture budget plan.