My Horn of Plenty Runneth Over
It's tough to eat right in the average American home these days. Although most of us know we should balance meals consuming more from the fruit and vegetable groups than all the rest combined, it's a tough task to accomplish.
Do you pay your farm help enough?
Benefits for farm employees vary tremendously from farm to farm and frequently take the place of some wages that might normally be paid to employees in a nonfarm position.
Carbon credits are fraud
In the science of agronomy, no more sacred ground exists than that of the Morrow Plots, a hemmed-in acre in the middle of the University of Illinois campus that, since 1876, has been under continuous corn production.
Hunting doesn’t need to be divisive
One day last week, the noise caught my attention. I pulled on my jacket to ward off the chilly wind and walked toward the barn bank.
Ag must reconnect with consumers
It was Larry, not Jimmy, Page that was mobbed when he left the stage in San Francisco earlier this year.
A WWI hero’s life remembered
From Washington D.C., the telegram is addressed to Mr. Harry Thompson, St. Clair Avenue, East Liverpool, Ohio.
The Great Pumpkin
I am the scourge of good editors because I tend to write about things in whatever the exact opposite of timeliness is.
Young and Old, Bright and Bold
I visited my daughter Josie at an off-campus apartment she shares in Kent. I packed several things they could use and while I gathered her mail and a book she requested from home, I threw in a couple of plastic shopping bags full of slightly used Halloween decorations that Kathie brought home from her school's blood drive for the Red Cross.
Internal herd growth equals profit
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.
No surprise: Farm bill disappointing
If you tuned into the webcast debate of the Senate Ag Committee approving its long overdue 2007 farm bill Oct.
