Scott Shalaway: Meet the vireo, a singing bird of its own kind
During spring migration, warblers get lots of attention. Most are brightly colored and sing loud distinctive songs. Yellow warblers, for example, are common, beautiful,...
Put-in-Bay events commemorate battle of Lake Erie
On an crisp autumn day in the year 1813, Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry, in just his late 20s, altered national history and spawned a...
Susan Crowell: HSUS creates its own Ohio ag council to try and gain farming...
I wasn’t going to write about it. I truly wasn’t.
I was going to let last week’s news story by reporter Kristy Seachrist stand on...
FSA Andy talks planting season
Hello Again!
It took a while, but I think winter has finally lost its tenuous grip on us. The smells of spring are fully upon...
Judith Sutherland: Papa was a farmer
"She would gather the eggs in her apron, studying each one, deciding whether this one was a keeper egg or one she would take...
Dirt on Conservation: Ag plastic recycling project underway
I grew up in a recycling house and didn’t even realize it. My parents both grew up during the Depression and they would never...
Dairy Excel: Farmers get reprieve on fuel storage regs
The month of May has brought a nice stretch of weather for our farmers in northeast Ohio. This has allowed our farmers to get...
Lake Erie still a world-class walleye fishery
PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — According to Ohio’s Lake Erie fisheries supervisor Jeff Tyson, last year’s walleye season was the best in recent memory.
That in itself...
My kids are dating? Game on
There’s a thin line between insanity and coping with your daughter dating.
Our son is 16 and has begun to date a sweet and lovely...
Patience is farming with a faulty planter
The first good corn planting day of spring finally arrived at my central Illinois farmette April 30. Like the month’s previous 29 days, however,...
