Essential oils 101
Essential oils contain all the organic compounds, elements and constituents from the plant which they are derived. Their powerful properties have been used in natural health and healing for centuries.
Kicking grain trading down the road
Confession time: Over the last three years I often have referred to the 113th and 114th Congress as either “do nothing” or “doing less than nothing.”
No substitute for quality forages
Forage quality has a huge effect on your cows' health and productivity and is arguably the single most important factor to dairy profitability.
Emergency assistance available for livestock producers
Options available for livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish.
Join the race to help save monarchs
The monarch butterfly is now in great decline and its main . . . well, only sourcing of food; milkweed is just about as scarce as the butterfly itself.
Surviving the threat of catastrophe
This neighbor came face-to-face with the robbers and complained that they were taking all of his money.
Courtship is in the air for many birds
Turkeys aren’t the only birds with courtship on their minds. With long days and warmer temperatures, song bird nesting season is also underway.
When launching your boat, be courteous
Launching your boat can be hectic, but just be patient.
Changing English language without trying
Today, autocorrect on most devices has made it easy to pretend that spelling (and proofreading) doesn’t matter.
Ohio farmers, itching to plant, watch markets continue lower
Except for four days of respite, grain markets have been lower almost every day since the March 31 USDA Planting Intentions Report. Ohio farmers, itching to get in wet/cold fields, can only watch prices fall.















