Sunday, May 5, 2024

Ohio State University might have beaten Penn State in football, but the state of Pennsylvania runs circles around Ohio in its commitment to support and grow its dairy industry.

If you tuned into the webcast debate of the Senate Ag Committee approving its long overdue 2007 farm bill Oct.

One day last week, a woman told me the story of her parents. As her father's arthritis began to worsen, her mother began helping him dress each morning.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see - and be willing to voice - a problem. Mark Partridge, the

All of my columns carry alternate titles (if only in my head). What the nice typesetter might call it and what I call it is often something else entirely.

Eating healthy is important for everyone, especially for people with diabetes because the type and amounts of food can have a great impact on your blood glucose (sugar).

Before a months-long summer slips into a months-long winter, it's time to use this week or two interlude - formerly called fall - to sweep my office.

The world of agriculture keeps evolving in all sorts of ways, and it is refreshing to be able to say that many things are looking up.

What ever happened to "play nice?" News sources quote a Chinese safety official with the "General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine" (whew!) as saying that discussion with the United States over how much lead paint could be used in toys were being worked out by product safety officials in both countries.

As sure as the rooster crows every morning, someone will crow every farm bill year on how New Zealand's 1984 elimination of government farm programs has brought a never-ending dawn to Kiwi farmers.