Checkoff boosters’ facts are weak
Columnist Alan Guebert comments on the USDA's lenthgy, costly and failing devense of commodity checkoffs.
The Vegetable Vigil
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb wonders where parents went wrong in getting children to eat vegetables.
What color matches a deer head?
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt searches for the perfect dining room paint color to match her husband's mounted deer head.
Hazard A Guess: Week of April 29, 2004.
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Watch it sprout, watch it bloom
Columnist Judith Sutherland thinks there is nothing like a blooming flower to chase the gloom of life away.
Dairy Excel: Ohio’s dairy industry unified in support of U.S. animal identification program
Tim Demland writes on the Ohio Dairy Industry Forum's decision to support a national animal identification program.
Small town fun or big time heist?
One reader wishes community festivals would be fun instead of expensive to attend.
Indian scientist proves ‘good’ GM seeds have place in developing nations
Alan Guebert's final column in a series on developing world agriculture and its impact on U.S. farmers.
A Real Easter Bunny
Look what came hopping down the bunny trail to Family Life Editor Laurie Steeb's house.
Step up to modern life in a not-so-modern home
A funny thing happened on author Kymberly Foster Seabolt's way to this column. She lost her office.













