Monthly Archives: July 2008
Milk goes green: Cows fed rbST reduce agriculture’s carbon hoofprint
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Producing milk uses large quantities of land, energy and feed. But cows that receive a biotech product called rbST give more...
Vacation with us…Wilson
Well, it wasn’t exactly a vacation, but state Sen. Jason Wilson (right), D-30th, shared a recent issue of Farm and Dairy with Ohio Gov....
Vacation with us…Ahart
Farm and Dairy enjoyed the view at the Heisey Glass Museum in Newark, Ohio, when we accompained David and Judy Ahart of Berlin Center,...
Checking out the corn
Analese and Gidget Marrison checked out this corn field July 4. It belongs to their great uncle -- Robert Marrison of New Lyme Township...
My Farm Bureau doesn’t represent me
Editor:On a day when we celebrate the founding of our democracy, it is sad that Farm Bureau still is trying to prevent us from...
JBS beef buy is bad for everyone
If JBS Swift's buyout of National Beef, Smithfield's beef slaughter operations and Smithfield's massive Five Rivers Cattle Feeding LLC, the nation's largest cattle feedlot with one-time capacity of 811,000 head, the three remaining firms will have over 80 percent market share of U.S. steer/heifer slaughter.
Unwanted horses: Who wouldn’t want Black Beauty?
Last week, the Bureau of Land Management announced it was exploring options to decrease the number of wild horses and burros in the nation's...
FSA Andy for July 10, 2008
Hello again,The start of July doesn't seem to have brought much help to us in the hay making department. Thank God for Sunfilm and...
TV’s Masterpiece
When a good thing doesn't come to an end, it is still ever subject to change. In 1971, the fall I went off to...
A day of child’s play is magical
“To be with a child is to become a bit of a child again, for that magical moment.”
— Anonymous
For one wonderful day...
