Dirty laundry is out in the open now
With the summer’s big holiday just ahead and the midpoint of the year just behind, it’s time to empty the office bucket of spleen,...
A whole new meaning to July Fourth
This past week has been one in which I have come to realize how very much I should appreciate the freedom I tend to...
Of cabbage and children
Dear Bonnie Plant Company: I blame you for this.
You sent my third-grader home with an innocuous little plant.
Like kittens, puppies and fluffy...
Farmers are swamped by feed costs
In recent years, the explosive changes around us -- especially in the technological age we find ourselves -- have been described as constant ripples...
Reader questions MWCD’s authority
Editor:
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District has purposely mislead more than 2 million citizens within the district to believe it still maintains a role in...
The grain market blows its top
December corn prices made new all-time highs for eight days in a row.
The Longest Day
Summer has arrived. The longest day of the year has passed. When summer solstice approaches, the noonday sun rises higher and higher in the...
Hazard A Guess: Week of June 26, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Buy now, play later
As many of you were, I hope, reading all about how rising fuel prices had me firmly resolving to stay home this summer, I...
Flooding fallout is anyone’s guess
While Midwestern farmers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have precise measurements on how much rain fell where in the deluge that socked 2008...
