Monthly Archives: March 2008
Dairy Excel: Attract, then keep good employees
After you have gone through the recruitment and hiring process, how do you develop a working relationship that will encourage your employees to stay...
ODNR hopes to protect farms from natural gas pipeline
COLUMBUS -- David Hanselmann, chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Soil and Water Conservation, signed an Agricultural Impact Mitigation Agreement...
Friendly Trapper puts advice on CD
SALEM, Ohio -- The Friendly Trapper has compiled his best tips, tricks and time-honored advice on a 75-minute CD.The CD has 49 tracks focusing...
Portage Co. farmhouse set to make TV appearance
SALEM, Ohio -- The Ravenna-area farmhouse whose renovation turned up historic artifacts and a rich family history will be featured on Home & Garden...
On My Mind: Paying respects to the good times
It usually began this time of year.
On my every-Saturday-night telephone calls to my sister in New England, I would ask, “When are you coming?”...
Climate change: Cotton crop may be possible in Ohio
Expert says crop suitability will change in Midwest in our lifetime.
BSE confirmed in Canadian dairy cow
OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a 6-year-old dairy cow from Alberta, Canada. The animal's carcass...
Farm and Food File: Time is money and money corrupts
History doesn’t record who first uttered the ageless business maxim that “Time is money,” but a good bet might be a meatpacker because minutes...
To fertilize or not? Penny-pinching may lead to trouble
Spring is just around the corner and the time to get serious about pasture and hayland planting or reseeding is here.
With memories of...
Hearth to Heart: Winter’s Final Throes
We can never be sure how long and hard we’ll be blasted with cold days at any time of year, but the hope of...
