Monday, April 6, 2026

Yearly Archives: 2002

Mike and Theresa Estock received the Columbiana Soil and Water Conservation District's Cooperator of the Year award.

Financial and milk price situations lead farm managers to the unexpected conclusion that they owe taxes. Ernie Oelker wonders how can this happen when everybody knows farmers aren't making any money?

Take a look back on the historical background of a carriage barn in Lorain, Ohio, and read about moving it to a new home.

When Larry Sulzer first saw the carriage barn it was severely overgrown with vegetation and sinking into the ground, yet it still had a "commanding presence."
Sulzer shares thoughts of his barn discovery and its subsequent relocation in this week's "Let's Talk Barns" column. You'll find it and other regular column features here.

Columnist Judith Sutherland reflects on the simplicity of farmers' thinking places.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.

Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt reflects on holiday shopping and stampeding toy riots.

Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb explains why she dreads election time each year.

Antique columnist Roy Booth writes of early settlers' first meeting houses and the traditions of those structures.