Animal rights vandals hit butter cow at Iowa State Fair
Vandals from the Iowans for Animal Liberation dowsed the Iowa State Fair’s butter cow with red paint symbolizing blood, and wrote “Freedom for All” on the glass display window.
Crowell on video junkies, ag research and county fairs
Congressional appropriations to R&D of the National Institutes of Health totaled nearly $31 billion in fiscal year 2012. Ag research got a paltry $277 million.
Precautionary principle: By removing a risk, are we limiting finding solutions to the problem?
Editor Susan Crowell on the precautionary principle: Public perception of risk can certainly be different than a scientific assessment of risk, but I’m not sure my perhaps-ignorant perception should hamper scientific inquiry.
Commentary by Susan Crowell: What farm bill history do we want to repeat?
Editor Susan Crowell wonders if we've learned anything from past farm bill wrangling.
A House divided: Farm bill is fall guy
Political or dysfunctional. Take your pick for describing the U.S. House of Representatives’ actions when the farm bill came up for a vote on the floor.
Teens DO look to you for guidance
Every youth could benefit from hearing from you, and I can think of no greater lesson you could share than the passion you each bear for your own life’s work.
Commercial kitchens: Can we stir up new food processing in Ohio?
A commercial kitchen lets food entrepreneurs rent time in a licensed facility to develop and make their products. We need more in Ohio.
Big data: Farming by the numbers
Better data drives better ag decisions, and data is getting bigger and bigger. How will you manage it?
Susan Crowell: HSUS creates its own Ohio ag council to try and gain farming...
I wasn’t going to write about it. I truly wasn’t.
I was going to let last week’s news story by reporter Kristy Seachrist stand on...
Susan Crowell: Immigration reform affects farming
One source estimates 55 to 75 percent of farm workers lack legal status, while others put the number at closer to 20 percent.
