Monthly Archives: August 2001
Hazard A Guess: Week of Aug. 2, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Read it Again: Week of Aug. 2, 2001.
Each week Farm and Diary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
Go mad for mustard
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes about mustard and National Mustard Day.
East Liverpool: Pottery queen
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about East Liverpool and the yellow ware and Rockingham finish wares produced by migrant journeyman that made it famous in the 19th century.
Wheat acres fall while yields increase
While yields per acre are up, production is down, primarily because most farmers can no longer afford to grow wheat.
Spider mites attacking soybean fields, creating double whammy
Dry weather is bringing two-spotted spider mites are moving into northeast Ohio fields. Some fields with areas of large egg populations are about ready to have the population explode.
Religion may lower blood pressure
Even when controlling for variables such as age and body mass index - two risk factors for high blood pressure - among African-Americans, those reporting higher levels of religious coping had lower blood pressure.
Piccolo pain: The perils of band life
There are about 25-30 common injuries that can occur to members of a marching band, and one of the most dangerous instruments to play is the piccolo.
Pa. feeder calf pool auction ups prices for small producers
Calves consigned to the pool are vaccinated, weaned, wormed, and graded. They are then sorted into lots, and sold in late September. Consignment forms are due.
Ohio soybeans are dry, but crop could recover
Seventy percent of the soybean crop has bloomed and 20 percent of the plants are setting pods. With timely rain the poor condition of the crop could recover.
