Saturday, December 20, 2025

Farm safety was constantly a part of our dialogue over the course of my growing up years, and though I am sure we turned deaf ears to it at the time, I now can understand the enormity of it.

"(Michael) Jackson taken to hospital with flu; jury selection delayed a week'' - Associated Press, Feb.

We think it's time for a change, and after months of consideration, planning, and reviewing trial layouts created by graphic artist Karen Johnson, we've come up with a new look.

Lately I have been working with the Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency to formulate plans for dealing with animal disease outbreaks such as foot-and-mouth disease and other natural or man-made threats to agriculture.

The trick in getting farmers to read farm magazines, a long-time editor of mine repeatedly admonished, is to put numbers in the headline, the lead and every paragraph thereafter.

The man who painted eloquent pictures of everyday heroes may have been surprised to know that he became one of mine.

No two words chill a landowner's soul like the words "eminent domain." The concept of eminent domain is the right of a government to take private property for public use, like a road.

In the beginning, when it came to parenting a daughter, I wasn't exactly in the pink. Sure, I had been a girlie-girl as a child.

Wheat reigns supreme in our Western world with wheat flour a staple in so many of our foods. Besides wheat's nutritional properties, it is valued for the versatility of wheat gluten.

As the White House and Congress pout, parry and plot over the 2006 federal budget plan of President George W.