Sign up for CRP any time
Last week, the Farm Service Agency restarted the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) signup. This program gets its name from having no ending sign-up...
Pollinators are needed to keep the world green
By SCOTT SHALAWAY
Every year, the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture designates a week in June as National Pollinator Week. The effort is intended to draw...
It really does all come out in the wash
I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble or make them question the beliefs they hold dear and the meaning of life, but I do...
New Ohio deer hunting regulations available now
By MIKE TONTIMONIA
This year’s crop of whitetail fawns is on the ground but they aren’t the only new things that might interest Ohio deer...
Reader: Grapevines can indeed be destructive
Editor:
Your June 5 issue contained a column by Scott Shalaway titled, Grapevines are aggressive, but not deadly. Both the title of the article and...
Technology makes a big difference in forage production
Technology, while costly, can make a big difference in your forage crop.
Sometimes the needy are closer to home than we think
There was a big family who had just moved in to our community, and one day in class I noticed the hole in the new boy’s shirt.
Betting against climate change
According to 2013 data compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, you and I owe our very existence to water. After all, 92 percent...
Great weather brings poor grain prices
It is hard to argue with the direction of the corn market, which has been down. It is also hard to envision a scenario where we can justify a big weather market.
Exploring the humble beginnings of the M1 rifle
By SAM MOORE
With this month being the 70th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, it might be an...
