Friday, May 1, 2026
Tractor lighting and visibility

Farmers are reminded of roadway safety tips as harvest season approaches.
ohio soybeans

Marlin Clark offers an update on the grain markets, reporting the quality of Ohio's corn and soybeans to be among the best in the country.
Fisher

Fishers may be making a resurgence in Ohio as 30 have been sighted in Ashtabula, Lake, Trumbull, Jefferson and Columbiana counties since 2013.
books

Eric Keller shares some of his favorite homesteading authors, admiring their ability to solve problems by thinking outside the box — kind of like he does.
tractor stirring up dust in a field

Alan Guebert encourages those in the ag industry to stop telling the market what we will produce and start listening to what it needs us to produce.
mud

Judith Sutherland recalls a real life lesson her father taught her about quicksand.
outhouse

Bryce Angell crafts a poem about a lesson he learned from Mother Nature.
horse

Eliza Blue shares the legend of the Bloody Shoulder marking after getting her daughter a horse with it.
Horse

There is no form of seed dispersal more efficient than that of the hitchhikers. Tami Gingrich details hitchhiker seeds that you may encounter this fall.
acorns

Keep in mind that ingestion of some types of leaves can lead to toxicity problems with livestock. These include maples, oaks, black locust, buckeye and yew.