Action at vernal pools is heating up
As you head to the woods seeking relief from late winter cabin fever, you're virtually certain to stumble upon vernal pools -- small bodies...
Ohioans, get ready for another HSUS battle
Reading between the HSUS lines: "We'll say we'll negotiate with agriculture, but if we don't get our way, we're not going to play nice anymore."
Two boys from New Springfield, Ohio
Instead of grain marketing insight, Marlin Clark shares a different story this week -- a story that is more important than the price of corn, and we're privileged to share it.
Grazing can improve milk quality
Grazing cows produce milk with more favorable characteristics from a human health perspective than do cows on silage or high concentrate diets. That is the message that Dr. Anjo Elgersma shared with a group of dairy producers from the Ohio Forage and Grasslands Council and in Wisconsin in late October last year.
The Crossley ID Guide to eastern birds
More than 30 bird identification guides line my book shelves, so I guess I'm a collector. Most are very good. Some even include...
Let’s put knowledge to work: Support land-grant mission
We are in an atmosphere of questioning spending, taxes and finding ways for all levels of government to live within its means. But cutting investments in agricultural R&D, innovation and education is like eating your seed corn -- and next year you'll go hungry.
What the written word can do
I wish I had a nickle for every time I have been asked, “how do you find something to write about every single week?”...
New conservation loan program offered
Hello Again!The Farm Service Agency (FSA) has added a new Conservation Loan program. The Conservation loan program provides farmers with the credit necessary to...
Benefits of tile drainage are inarguable
Hooray for tile!Now that's something you don't hear too often from people these days. Seems over the last decade or so in certain quarters...
The circus comes to town
As has been noted here before, most journalists get into the writing game because they cannot do math. I don't mean the hard stuff...