The coming autumn can’t be denied
It wasn't even Labor Day yet when Halloween decorations, cards and other gimcracks appeared on store shelves.
Iodine tincture hard to acquire now
(Editor's note: When OSU Extension Dairy Specialist Dianne Shoemaker went to buy some iodine for their farm, she discovered she couldn't get it where she's always purchased it.
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.
September will pack several punches
In the summer's waning warmth after Labor Day, my mother would order her child army into the big garden of my youth to gather the year's final flush of vegetables.
Average Ohio farm
Wages and benefits for farm employees are not only important to the employees, but to the employers as they try to provide fair compensation.
Don’t fall victim to temptation when grazing in the fall; You’ll be sorry
The drought that hit much of the state this summer added new wrinkles in forage and water management for many livestock producers.
Start of school is the end of freedom
There is nothing like the start of a new school year to make a child just itch for freedom. This was my first year in a very long time to not be sending a child off to the local school in August.
A Little Thanks Goes a Long Way
The plucky planter on the back of our bathroom commode still makes me feel appreciated. It arrived at our house one morning in early June.
Fashion police air age-old warnings
Giving new merit to the term "fashion police," baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thong underwear would be illegal under a proposed amendment to Atlanta's indecency laws.
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.
