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,...
B-Vitamins
For many years, every morning I have taken my daily vitamins. My daughter, Karen, tells me what I should take and I follow her...
Ask FSA Andy about the final plant dates for crops this year
Hello Again!
April showers bring May flowers! And here we go again! Now that spring planting has slowly begun, many farmers are busy trying to...
SNAP should be embraced by ag
Two of the greatest ironies of living in the richest, strongest nation in the history of the world are how many poor people remain...
