Five more minutes? Alarming idea (to the folks who bring you The Most...
It's like this: I'm adrift in dreamland, when I'm rudely startled awake by the "Bleet-Bleet-Pounding-In-Your-Brain-Bleet-Bleet" of The Most Annoying Alarm Clock In The History Of the World (Patent Pending).
FSA Andy: Eating that milk chocolate Easter bunny and thinking about MILC
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the Milk Income Loss Contract will kick in for February, the first time there has been a payment for MILC since April 2010.
Conservation starts in your backyard
COSHOCTON, Ohio -- Do you ever remember mowing your lawn in March? Due to the warm weather this year many of us did just...
The Bluebird Effect explains uncommon bonds
The backyard nesting season is well under way here on the ridge. The first complete bluebird nest held five eggs on March 26. As...
Spring: Easter, birthdays and new life
Remember when old ones died and new were born. And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged. Remember when 30 seemed so old. Now, lookin' back...
Checkoff oversight virtually nil
More and more, the federally-mandated, non-refundable commodity checkoffs resemble something out of a Charles Dickens novel. Most feature huge casts, complicated plots and, to...
Letter writer misrepresented landowners
This letter is in response to the letter by Steven J. Beck in the March 22 issue of Farm and Dairy. The tone of...
LETTER: When counting your shale money, remember your local community
Editor:It seems everywhere you go you hear or see something about the oil and gas phenomenon that is occurring in and around Columbiana County.Testimonies...
High-tech tracker to share findings of coyote survey
Wondering which hunting activities top the most popular list? That’s easy. Whitetail deer, wild turkey, and coyote.
Coyote hunting
Well, ranking coyote hunting even close to...
Bigger and bigger and …
It was, literally, a sight for sore eyes. Two years ago March 12, trumpets blasted in Ankeny, Iowa, as America's new gladiators for agricultural...
