Monthly Archives: March 2001
Antique tool price guide issues new edition
A third edition of A Price Guide to Antique Tools has been expanded to factor in prices realized from tool sales on the Internet.
Medina County Fair trying to regroup in wake of E. coli panic
The 155th Medina County Fair will be held at the same location it's been held since about 1920, even after the E. coli outbreak at last year's fair.
Charges pending in dairy cattle abuse case
An Ashtabula County barn was seized by officials when diary heifers found knee deep in manure and walking on animal corpses. The cleanup has been completed.
USDA on top of potential disease risk
In this week's commentary, Editor Susan Crowell comments on rumor and fact concerning mad cow disease and cattle quarantined in Texas.
51 Ohio counties are eligible for USDA Emergency farm loans
The designation of disaster county makes all qualified family-sized farm operators in both primary and contiguous counties eligible for low-interest EM loans from the Farm Service Agency.
Hazard A Guess: Week of March 22, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Read it Again: Week of March 22, 2001
Each week "Farm and Dairy" takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Of Socks and Spring
Home Living columnist Laurie Mariatt Steeb writes about sock eating plant and the angle of the sun.
Spotlight shines on early lanterns
Antique columnist Roy Booth recounts the history of the development of portable lanterns from candle to oil to kerosene, from barn to carriage.
Outsiders raiding F.O. 33 milk pool
Cameron Thraen, dairy marketing and policy state specialist with Ohio State University Extension, writes about milk check revenue that should have been paid to Order 33 milk producers, but was siphoned off to the pockets of producers in areas that do not normally share in the Mideast Area revenue pool.
