Monthly Archives: December 2007

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - For Carol Goland, it's about a consumer's right to know. For Brenda Hastings, it's about not misleading those who buy dairy products.

SALEM, Ohio - Carroll County farmers will be driving farther to visit their Farm Service Agency next year.

WASHINGTON - The Senate reached an agreement late last week to consider 40 amendments - 20 from the Democrats and 20 from the Republicans - to its version of the farm bill.

Ohio State's Normand St-Pierre hits the nail on the head with an observation in this week's Dairy Excel column: "The environmental freight train has left the station.

Once upon a time, there was a little boy and girl who loved sitting on their mama's lap and reading picture books.

American humorist Will Rogers once cracked that Americans are the only people in the world to drive themselves to the poor house.

Surprised by a large animal trotting rapidly in front of my van when I turned in our driveway, I slowed to get a good look.

I've long said that I'll be darned if my children are going to go running off spending good

By now, you're getting a bit panicky. When you put last year's Christmas "away," where did you put the list with all the names of friends who get cards or gifts or coffee cakes? And what about the red and gold banners you stick on the pasture gate and the cemetery fence with green duct tape (which gives you a fit when you try to remove it come summer)? At least you remember where the rolls of red plastic ribbon are that turn the porch's white pillars into candy cane look-alikes when it is spiraled around them.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - It is that time of year when people start developing symptoms of a cold. Many reach for vitamin C supplements to help prevent or combat symptoms of the common cold.