Know how to properly manage corn silage harvest
Weather conditions have been highly variable this summer. As I drive through northeast Ohio and western Pennsylvania, I see beautiful fields of corn, and a few miles away I see drought-stunted fields where it looks like corn is already dying.
What voters want in farm policy
Baseball has its winter hot-stove league when teams and players wheel and deal in hopes of improving their World Series chances.
Moving straw: If I only had a brain
Hard work is good for the soul. Hard work builds character. Hard work makes you tougher. Hard work teaches you things you don't even know you are learning.
Fashion platform: Ugg-ly fads should end
I have a limited fashion sense due to one minor detail: I'm not six-foot-nine and the weight of a Q-tip.
Grazing during a drought, preparing for fall
August is the time Ohio producers should begin stockpiling feed for their animals winter needs.
Stockpiling means to accumulate forages that will be harvested by grazing livestock at a later time.
D.C. sausage grinder running wild
In its rush to blow out of steamy Washington D.C. for a month of cooler temperatures and cooler tempers, Congress ran the legislative meat grinder hard in the final days of July to crank out enough fat-laden sausage to sate even the hungriest special interest.
Life’s changes can be hard to accept
Attitude is everything.
I have learned this, if nothing else, in the journey of this life.
Bright outlook.
Prepare a pasture with these tips
Late summer is an excellent time to establish forages.
The following steps will assist producers in successful renovation and establishment of grass fields and legumes.
Uncle Honey: dangerous, but sweet
The last week of July and first week of August were always the longest and hottest weeks of the year on the southern Illinois' farm of my youth.
This world just lost one of the good guys
There are people who walk the path of life so graciously, so quietly, that we sometimes don't stop to celebrate the enormity of their presence.
