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.
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.
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.
Dairy Channel: A twist on feeding dairy cows
Let's talk feed efficiency, rather than pounds of dry matter intake, when talking about dairy rations, says OSU Extension Agent Ernie Oelker.
Bush didn’t cause all U.S. problems
Reader says you can't point to the current administration for all of this country's current woes.
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.
