GOP House hardliners are again threatening farm bill
Alan Guebert details the most recent barriers to passing a new farm bill, which has already been delayed and should have been finalized in 2023.
Springtime fever and imaginations
The best gifts of Judith Sutherland's childhood weren't gifts at all, but games played on the stage of her imagination.
‘Bloated’ farm bill on shaky ground
Since 1981, when I picked up my first pen, paper and paycheck as a journalist, six farm bills have come and gone. With them...
The Great Doughnut Resistance
I am eating a banana when what I really want to be eating is pastry. I call that progress.
Ever since starting my new to...
Ask FSA Andy about loans
Hello again,
One of the greatest challenges facing U.S. farmers is marketing their production at a profit. The last couple of years, corn and soybeans...
The old field is filled with old feathered friends
Almost overnight, the old field below the house has greened up, and birds have set up nesting territories.
Bluebirds were the first to lay eggs...
Ask FSA Andy about conservation plans
This week found yellow school buses screeching to a stop to pick up children with overstuffed backpacks and a lunch box in their hand, excited for their first day of school
Grandmother knew joys of hard work
One person I have long admired is someone I never had the chance to meet.
Plan now for walleye tournaments
Mike Tontimonia provides a quick look at the 2020 Ohio Walleye Federation schedule.
Technology: Let it help with an old school chore
This isn’t the first article, and I’m sure it won’t be the last article, telling you the importance of accurately gauging the nutritional condition of your brood cows, especially this time of year.