Monday, February 23, 2026
Item No. 1287

Item No. 1287 was submitted and discovered by Sharon Wolford, of Ravenna, Ohio, in her elderly aunt’s home. It appears to be some sort of clamp.
corn

Following weeks of lower prices, Marlin Clark has good news to report about the corn, soybean and wheat markets, as prices rally on unexpected supplies.
Hepatica flowers

What better way to usher in the spring than with a breathtaking display of wildflowers? Tami Gingrich provides a rundown of her favorite ephemerals.
glacier

A Farm and Dairy reader responds to an article that ran March 27, arguing that recent climate changes are not caused solely by human activity.
wheelbarrow

Farm and Dairy reader Gordon Meeder, of Midland, Pennsylvania, shares a story about a runaway wheelbarrow.
hunting with permission sign

With fishing season in play and turkey hunting around the corner, Jim Abrams explains how hunters and anglers can get permission to enter private land.
rye straw baskets

Paul Locher outlines the use of rye straw to make baskets and store dried apple slices, schnitz, at homesteads in the early 1800s in Ohio Country.
monopoly

Kymberly Foster Seabolt really wanted her family to be a board game family; sometimes the shoe just doesn't fit.
farm fog

Alan Guebert shares a tale to explain the rural version of the Golden Rule: Do unto your neighbors’ farms that you’d have your neighbors to do unto yours.
Noble Soil and Water Conservation District ag and natural resource technician Kirstin Roman outlines the negative impacts of litter.

Noble Soil and Water Conservation District ag and natural resource technician Kirstin Roman outlines the negative impacts of litter.