Thursday, May 14, 2026

We'll go on the assumption that by press time, our weather will change dramatically. In other words, it will stop raining, the grass will stop greening up, and the temperature will drop below 30 F and stay there.

A college friend once noted that everyone is missing one word from their personal vocabulary. "My missing word is modesty," he pronounced.

I couldn't help but laugh one day last week when a high school girl told me she was praying for a snow day just in time for semester exams.

I can't open the mail, or another farm publication, or my e-mail without reading the word "ethanol." We're riding the e-wave right now, bobbing along on high corn prices and floating on renewable energy currents from Washington.

Lower fuel and nitrogen prices in the last half of 2006 have signaled trends that should hold throughout 2007. The outlook numbers laid out...

Editor: I recently read the article about the Wayne County hog farmer accused of animal abuse (Hog farm investigated for abuse, Dec. 21, 2006). I...

(Editor's note: In the Jan. 4 column, Boardman Police Officer Kim Kotheimer was incorrectly referred to as "Jim" in one sentence.

There is a reason I have no desire to travel the world, see exotic places, and meet new and exciting people and it is this: new and exciting people who live in other places are strange.

The rain let up on New Year's Eve, leaving the bricks of my brother's new entry patio glistening in the moonlight.

Lower fuel and nitrogen prices in the last half of 2006 have signaled trends that should hold throughout 2007.