Perfect lambing
This year's lambing season is running much more smoothly than last year's and Eliza Blue is grateful for the change of pace.
Beware of frost-damaged forages
When some forages freeze, changes in their metabolism and composition can be toxic to ruminant livestock, causing prussic acid poisoning and bloat.
How to build a raised bed garden
Raised beds benefit gardeners by addressing poor soil conditions, allowing them to grow plants in unconventional places and making gardens more accessible.
Is Dairy Revenue Protection for you?
Now may be a good time to look at how to use Dairy Revenue Protection on your farm to help protect against the next expected price decline.
Beaver Creek program supports butterflies
The Milkweed Mud Pies program at the Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center was a start to helping monarch butterflies survive and thrive.
Consider the bigger picture when making changes to your property
When we evaluate proposed changes to each or any of these individual pieces, we need to consider the impacts to the overall area, neighborhood, watershed or region.
How to build a simple, quality bird box
Although cavity-nesting songbirds don't begin nesting until late March or early April, there's no time like the present to build or buy a few nest boxes.
Perch season on Lake Erie
Although many savvy anglers know that yellow perch can be caught nearly year-round, it's the months of autumn that produce the most, and largest, fish.
Readers wonder, ‘Where are my birds this winter?’
Every winter I get letters and emails from readers asking why they are seeing fewer birds at their feeders. For example, Sheryll Jameson, from...
Focus: What do you want to do?
The calendar officially says December. The holidays. The pace. The weather. The end of the year. The year's 12th month is either welcome or despised: a reminder of tasks undone or accomplished, of goals unmet or fulfilled, and of plans waylaid or on track.
