People today do not need to live in fear of pesticides
Editor: I am currently a student at Ohio State's College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and I wanted to shed light on a...
Reader: Educate yourself and start saving our society now
Editor: Watch out America; there is a funeral coming for the American dream. Our children won't be better off financially than us. We've reached...
Reader cites dangers starting with the SB 310 passage
Editor: Now that the registration of animals has passed, the danger of this bill has started. One group -- the ODNR -- stated you...
Outdoorsman essentials make the best holiday gifts
It’s gift buying time. Like, hate it, or anything in between, it is time for Santa to emerge and do the deed. I’ve assembled...
Peeling the layers of hearts, horror and remodeling
When it became apparent that we had no choice but to renovate the bathroom in our 108-year-old house, I had the same sensation you...
How do birds survive cold winter nights?
My bird feeders have been busy this week, and as I watch the nonstop feeding frenzy, I marvel at how birds as tiny as...
Looking back through pages of farm magazine
At the end of October 70 years ago, farmers and farmers' wives were reading the Farm Journal. It was a dark period in the...
Farmland value and rent outlook 2013
COLUMBUS -- Cropland values in Ohio have increased again in 2012. Data from the Oho Ag Statistics Service shows an increase of 13.6 percent...
Halloween boo (hoo)
This Halloween was the first in 15 Halloweens that I had no little ones to force into a ridiculous costume and cart around town....
Neither drop camps or guided hunts can promise results
I get an armload of questions about long distance big game hunts, namely hunting trips for elk, antelope and bear. Most questions concern the...
