Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Each week Farm and Diary 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.

Bernie Erven, ag economist at The Ohio State University specializing in human resource issues writes about the two-sided question of employee motivation.

A reader urges the U.S. legislature to "wake up and begin funding more ethanol plants."

Antique columnist Roy Booth remembers the use and uses of wooden carpenter's planes, a block of beech with a blade.

Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about the sylvan king and queen that rule over the space she also inhabits.

Each week Farm and Diary 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.

Ernie Oelker, agricultural extension agent in Columbiana County, writes about the design and sizing of bunker silos for dairy operations.

Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about the numerous rebuilt evidences and records of forts in Ohio and western Pennsylvania that tell a story of the settlers who sought protection from hostiles a century and a half ago.