Monday, May 20, 2024

Home Living columnist Laurie Mariatt Steeb writes about the problems and rewards of cooking with the kids.

Each week Farm and Dary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Columbiana County agricultural extension agent Ernie Oelker takes the opportunity to provide further clarification about cattle diseases currently in the news.

A reader stresses that agriculture is no longer a profession of farmers. It is a government institution fraught with bureaucrats, lobbyists and all the mud and muck of politics.

A local pork producer take the opportunity to share a few facts about the recent settlement agreement reached between the USDA and the National Pork Producers Council.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Cameron Thraen, dairy marketing and policy state specialist with Ohio State University Extension, writes about milk check revenue that should have been paid to Order 33 milk producers, but was siphoned off to the pockets of producers in areas that do not normally share in the Mideast Area revenue pool.

Antique columnist Roy Booth recounts the history of the development of portable lanterns from candle to oil to kerosene, from barn to carriage.

Home Living columnist Laurie Mariatt Steeb writes about sock eating plant and the angle of the sun.