Thursday, January 1, 2026

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

Louis Bromfield was a Pulitzer-prize winning author, but he wanted to be remembered for his contribution to agriculture, writes columnist Judith Sutherland in this week's Farm and Dairy.

Scientific advance always involves some risk of unintended outcomes. Columbiana County Ag Agent Ernest Oelker ponders comments by Norman Borlaug and their meaning for agriculture.

Politics rearing its head at United Local School District board meetings.

'Separation between church and state' has been misconstrued, misused and misapplied.

Starling and sparrow traps better answer than poisoning.

When author Louis Bromfield was looking to give his life roots, he turned to a farm in northcentral Ohio. Columnist Judith Sutherland shares the story.

Unwanted birds have become an extremely frustrating problem for dairy farms.

Kura establishment has been characterized this way: "First year it sleeps, second year it creeps, third year it leaps."

By mid-1800, rail systems were consuming more than four to five million cords of wood per year. More than 5,300 men earned a living in Massachusetts supplying the local railroads with wood.