Horses dumped like unwanted cats
When a Kentucky reader stopped by Farm and Dairy's booth at Farm Science Review, we chatted a bit about the extreme dry conditions down there, and the lack of pasture and feed for livestock.
ATVs: Managing the unmanageable
ATVs. We love them, use them on our farms and occasionally do a little joy riding. But they're also the enemy, for in the hands of a trespasser, they often tear up crops and fields and woodlots.
On tractors, two’s a crowd
The four-color photo on the front page of the local daily paper immediately caught my eye, but not with a reaction the editors desired.
Corn triggers the ultimate food fight
Lots of headlines dampen the ethanol euphoria by proclaiming we'll be paying more for our food. After all, there's only so much corn to go around.
Who’s crying over spoiled milk?
The file's contents spilled out of one folder and into a second. Then a third. For at least seven years in the late 1980s and until 1993, we tracked and reported and wrote about the research and pending FDA decision on the use and commercial sale of bovine somatotropin, or bST.
Don’t bid unless you can pay
Editor: I am a 4-H'er in Trumbull County who sold animals in the livestock sale, which took place July 14.
United States building highway to socialism
Editor: At a time that we are being drowned in a sea of illegal aliens and at risk daily from Islamo-fascist terrorists, the Bush administration is quietly advancing the construction of a massive superhighway that will all but obliterate our borders with Canada and Mexico.
Rogers Community Auction will stay put
Editor: I would like to renounce the rumors that seem to be abounding in the area about the Rogers sale.
Environmentalists choose mosquito over man
Editor: It was interesting to read Jerome K. Stephens' letter concerning DDT and Rachel Carson (With DDT use, comes resistant insects, July 5, 2007).
Food policy council could be the ticket
Editor: The formation of Gov. Strickland's Ohio Food Policy Advisory Council ("Council formed to establish, enhance Ohio food policies," Aug.
