Yearly Archives: 2001
Hazard A Guess: Week of Oct. 25, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Read it Again: Week of Oct. 25, 2001.
Each week Farm and Diary takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
An American “POP” Culture
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb confides some insight into the quentessential query about that perfect companion for just about everything, popcorn
Future value? As much of a chance as stock market
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about the vast world of pure enjoyment in collecting that lied somewhere between the pack rat and the forced decisions on what to discard.
Want to start farming? Forages are key
Michael E. Haubner, ag extension agent in Clark County, explains why he sees a future in agriculture for those who wish to do something other than sit on the seat of a big machine.
Three enter Natural Resources Hall of Fame
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has honored Ralph Cobey, Frances Kitchen and Roger Conant with its highest honor.
Taft’s ethanol plan political hype
A reader says the legislation Taft plans to support seems a token gesture rather than a plan.
Rural Ohio enduring conflicting trends
Today, 34 percent of Ohio's 11.4 million residents live in townships, outside the boundaries of a city or village. That's 3.86 million people, up from 2.7 million in 1960, when it was 12 percent of the state's population.
Prion diseases: clues found for jump to new species
Scientists have found the adaption is a prolonged and subtle process, and the early stages of it are very difficult to detect.
Plants as weapons: Be aware, not alarmed
OSU plant-disease specialist says anti-crop bioterrorism is a threat to the United States but not a "gigantic" one.
