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Volunteers earn 10 Star awards

September 6, 2007

DOVER, Ohio - Ohio Farm Bureau's Director of Local Affairs Larry Gearhardt warmed up the crowd with a series of humorous slides illustrating "why isn't Larry's farm profitable.

Carroll County hosts ag and natural resources expo Sept. 15

Susan Crowell -

September 6, 2007

CARROLLTON, Ohio - If you want to attract wildlife or want to control nuisance wildlife, or if you want to learn about windmills, pasture management, meat goats or cut flower production, you can grab all sorts of information at the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Conservation Expo 2007 Sept.

United States building highway to socialism

Farm and Dairy Staff -

September 5, 2007

Editor: At a time that we are being drowned in a sea of illegal aliens and at risk daily from Islamo-fascist terrorists, the Bush administration is quietly advancing the construction of a massive superhighway that will all but obliterate our borders with Canada and Mexico.

Even pets get empty nest syndrome

Judith Sutherland -

August 30, 2007

The thunder roared in the middle of the night, and suddenly I was wide awake. It wasn't the storm that brought me up out of bed, but my son's sweet dog, Spanky.

Sugar deal a sweet dream for ethanol

Alan Guebert -

August 30, 2007

In the down-is-up world of American biofuels, success carries enormous costs. The latest evidence of these costs is an amendment tucked into the House version of the 2007 farm bill: As Mexican granular sugar flows into the U.

Labor Day: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How

Laurie Marlatt Steeb -

August 30, 2007

Night sounds intensify as August draws to a close. Though a cooler night air usually means a more comfortable night's sleep, the sounds of singing crickets and katydids always wash me with a bit of melancholy since I associate them with starting back to school.

Bats hone the fine art of bugging homeowners

Kymberly Foster Seabolt -

August 30, 2007

I have probably bored you at length with my battles with bats, which are far more plentiful this summer than at any other time in memory.

Looking back on the Canfield Fair

Janie Jenkins -

August 30, 2007

Getting ready for Canfield Fair was always a rite of passage in bygone days, and it was surely less complicated then than it is today.

Numbers and quality on the rise at Holmes County Junior Dairy Show

Contributing Writers -

August 30, 2007

MILLERSBURG, Ohio - As the number of animals in the Holmes County Junior Fair Dairy Show continues to increase, so does the quality of the animals presented by exhibitors.