What foodbanks really want from your food donations
An estimated 14 percent of American households were food insecure at some point during 2014. Your donations to local foodbanks are needed now more than ever.
Farm and Dairy’s week in review: 11/28
This week’s top stories include a Wooster-area Christmas tree farm that’s been in business for 60 years, Ohio ag easement funding, pie baking tips, how to make homemade spice blends and Wayne SWCD conservation award winners.
Smartphones enlisted to battle crop disease
The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates crop diseases annually reduce potential yields by as much as 40 percent. A new photo database, 'PlantVillage', will help.
Deck the halls: Christmas tree buying guide
Whether you visit a tree farm or a local lot to purchase your Christmas tree this year, these tips and tricks will help you select the best Christmas tree for your space.
USDA report: Farm profitability weakens in 2015
Farmers are pinched this year. A 38.2 percent drop in U.S. net farm income would be the largest single-year decline since 1983.
Farmers leasing more equipment
Farmers are jumping to the leasing arena because so many manufacturers, like John Deere, New Holland and Case IH, are offering aggressive leasing options.
My best Thanksgiving choice
Forty years ago, 1975, a relatively mild central Illinois fall ended with a sledgehammer of a snowstorm the night before Thanksgiving. I remember it well because, as both a student and farmhand at the University of Illinois that year, I spent Thanksgiving Day milking Holsteins and pushing snow off the cow lots.
John Deere sales down 20 percent in FY2015
Weakness in farm and construction equipment leads to decline in John Deere sales and earnings for year. 2016 forecast calls for sales decline of about 7 percent.
Farm and Dairy’s Field Notes: Episode 4
This week, Farm and Dairy reporter Kristy Seachrist tells us about a Christmas tree farm in Wooster, Ohio, bills introduced to amend Ohio's CAUV tax formula, what Thanksgiving dinner will cost this year, plus stories you may have missed last week.
Dush family has made Pine Tree Barn a Christmas tree destination
The Dush family has been growing Christmas trees for more than 60 years in a very unique place.
