Dairy Channel: Biotech: Science vs. pseudo science
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.
Mend Fences or Tear Them Down?
Although it might be time to check fences and make repairs, there is another way to look at them. This was sent in to family life editor Laurie Marlatt Steeb by an anonymous reader:
On the origin of fireplace tools
Collectors often referred to fireplace implements as "furniture."
Learning to let go is a hard lesson
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt lost two of her pets this month. Telling her two children was the hardest thing she ever had to do.
Read it Again: Week of March 27, 2003.
Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Protecting church from the state
'Separation between church and state' has been misconstrued, misused and misapplied.
Columnist off base with poison idea
Starling and sparrow traps better answer than poisoning.
Heck no we won’t go – to the Oscars!
Since when did Hollywood stars become foreign policy experts? Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt questions the public peace-making credibility Sean Penn and other president wannabes.
World then and now seem strikingly similar
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.
Rail wood burners light Americana
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.
