Yearly Archives: 2008
Apply manure carefully during winter
During the past several years, manure nutrient recycling has come under scrutiny, particularly when applied on frozen or snow-covered ground.
2007 corn crop one for record books
WASHINGTON - The 2007 U.S. corn crop set a new record for acres planted and harvested, with 13.1 billion bushels of production eclipsing the previous high, set in 2004, of 11.
From pod to printer: Office puts soybeans to work
SALEM, Ohio - The Ohio Soybean Council and Ohio Soybean Association plan to move across town next week, into a brand new building built, literally, from the ground up.
Crawford Co. dairy farm: Manure in, electricity out
SALEM, Ohio - In addition to milk, a Crawford County, Pa., dairy farm will soon be offering another product for sale: electricity.
You really need to do a balance sheet
Yes, it is time to take inventories and prepare balance sheets.
It can be a small world, after all
Entrepreneur and author Seth Godin calls himself "an agent of change." His books on marketing are as thought-provoking as their titles are entertaining: Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? is his most recent effort.
Junk, treasure a matter of perspective
One man's junk really is someone else's treasure. I thought of my sister the very first time I heard that statement.
Happy cotton pickin’ New Year
While other prophets and forecasters fill the first week of January - and endless inches of newspaper space - with predictions of what will happen this year, permit me 600 or so words to predict what won't happen in 2008.
Happy New Year! Thoughts for the New Year
The sunrise lit up the bare winter branches along Route 11 for a beautiful view I would have missed had I gone home the night before and had I not been ill on New Year's Day.
Worry doesn’t get a holiday
I knew all those years of selfishly tossing aside those urban legend chain letter e-mails that warned of dire consequences if I did not forward said chain letter to dozens of my friends posthaste would come to haunt me.
