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Monthly Archives: November 2004

COLUMBUS - The Ohio Sheep Improvement Association will be holding its annual Buckeye Shepherds Symposium Dec.

SCOTT and Tammy Carle walk out of their home in darkness Monday night. Behind them three towers stand tall.

SANDY LAKE, Pa. - We're not talking your average salad here. Darrell Frey puts in the good stuff, 10 to 20 ingredients like watercress, mustard greens, spinach, kale, endive, arugula, 10 lettuces, nasturtiums, other edible flowers.

Growing up, my sister Carol and I turned just about every corner of our parents' 98 acres into our own personal playhouse.

There is nothing quite so delightful as a child at play, imagination at full mast, evoking our own childhood past.

Just as the noisy presidential campaign reached its October crescendo, the biggest, most bitter issue in farm country - Rabobank's bid to buy Omaha's Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA) - skidded to a quiet end.

Financial management of dairy farms is one of the biggest challenges of today's managers. Like raising heifers and spreading manure on the far-away fields, financial management often gets relegated to the bottom of the to-do list.

Halfway through high school, I often came home to find my younger brother happily engrossed in the flashing, fast paced editing of the Sesame Street phenomenon.

Ask any three adults you know, I'm talking even the brilliant, highly educated ones. The ones who can't even match their shoes or tuck in their shirts, they are that smart.

URBANA, Ill. - Two recent announcements should translate to price benefits for the cattle industry, said a Purdue University Extension marketing specialist.