Monthly Archives: March 2001
Pork producer supports checkoff
A local pork producer take the opportunity to share a few facts about the recent settlement agreement reached between the USDA and the National Pork Producers Council.
Politics, not producers, steering agriculture
A reader stresses that agriculture is no longer a profession of farmers. It is a government institution fraught with bureaucrats, lobbyists and all the mud and muck of politics.
Dairy Channel: Setting the record straight: mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease
Columbiana County agricultural extension agent Ernie Oelker takes the opportunity to provide further clarification about cattle diseases currently in the news.
Hazard A Guess: Week of March 29, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Read it Again: Week of March 29, 2001
Each week Farm and Dary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
15, 16, Maids In The Kitchen
Home Living columnist Laurie Mariatt Steeb writes about the problems and rewards of cooking with the kids.
Wayne Co. 4-H volunteers recognized
Miss Ohio 2001 told advisers and other volunteers attending the 4-H Volunteer Recognition Banquet that 4-H taught her life skills and it gave her a career.
USDA removes sheep from Vermont farms
The quarantined sheep, imported from Belgium and the Netherlands in 1996, were placed under certain federal restrictions when they entered the country. They will now be euthanized.
To Bt or not to Bt, that is the question
Corn growers who pass up genetically modified hybrids to plant conventional varieties this spring may be better off in the long run.
The 1040 blues: Tax time brings out the procrastinators and evaders
While procrastinating may cost many taxpayers who receive refunds, even many of those who owe tax upon filing fail to act "penny-wise" by doing just the opposite - not procrastinating.
