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Jean Bahr a University of Wisconsin professor of geology and environmental studies and an international authority on ground water, has installed an affordable, practical system into her Wisconsin home that transforms light from the sun into electricity, enabling her to meet a significant portion of her own electrical needs and to feed excess electricity into the Madison Gas and Electric power grid.

Jozi Best of Litchfield, Ohio, wants to bring the national Tunis sale to the Great Lakes Sheep and Wool Show and Sale in Wooster.

Parents must develop strategies for successfully negotiating issues, such as guidance and discipline, respecting each other, and keeping children out of the middle.

"The Art of Humane Propaganda: Photographers of the Farm Security Administration During the Great Depression," is a photographic documentary on exhibit at the Columbus Museum of Art through Sept. 2.

New solution proposed in "ecoagriculture" to save biodiversity and to feed hungry populations is based on a new understanding of wildlife biology and ecology, on-the-ground experimentation, and major scientific advances in genetics, remote sensing, and other fields.

Some grasses can be grown so as to optimize the uptake of a nutrient such as phosphorus from the soil.

Every small fruit and commercial vegetable grower should have at least one complete plant tissue nutrient analysis from each field for each crop before harvests begin, said Virginia Tech horticulturist.

A record tree planting in northwest Ohio this spring will help reduce farmland soil erosion.

The market never really forgets about the demand side of the price equation.

New soybean crop is headed toward setting a record production.