Putting on your game face
Our son is a brand new freshman soccer player and, as a result, I suspect the entire team feels like they are being hounded...
In a disaster-designated area? Apply for emergency loss loan
Hello again!Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack designated 83 counties in Ohio as primary agricultural natural disaster areas and five counties in Ohio as contiguous...
Having a beef with Ohio’s checkoff, where cattle will vote … sort of
According to Chicago legend, a tombstone somewhere in the city reads: "John Smith, Born 1934, Died 1981, Voted 1984, 1988, 1992". What makes the...
Some days are meant to last forever
Someone -- my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone -- told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a...
Our world needs more benevolence
A few weeks ago, the children of our church had their summer vacation Bible school. Keri, the director of the Bible school, challenged the...
I can’t deny it — the Internet has everything
My sister says everything is on the Internet. It hurts to admit this, but she's right. I hope she doesn't read this. According to...
Buy hay by weight, not by bales
Recently, a local hay producer asked what hay was worth. Of course, each forage producer will have a different cost of production.After he told...
Attention birders: Fall migration is beginning
The fall bird migration actually begins in July. Along East Coast beaches, shorebirds that nested in the Arctic begin showing up along coastlines in...
Now is the time to calculate the cost of production for your crops
We were inches away from an entirely different set of crop and feed prices. Inches of rain that is. During the Ag Outlook Meetings...
What organic is and what it isn’t
No two farmers manage their farms the same way -- one organic grower could have higher risk of bacterial contamination than another, and the same could be said of a nonorganic grower.
