Yearly Archives: 2008
Weather woes: The other shoe dropped
In the column for the Sept. 11 edition, I wrote about all the scary storms everywhere else and hoped the other shoe would not...
Power to the people: My so-called pioneer life
By Day Two, when the power company was reporting that it might be a WEEK until we got power -- plucky and intrepid had morphed into a deepening sense of dread.
Duncan’s Story Part I
As Kathie and I left my brother Tom's house one Sunday night, on our way to our old Voyager van, we were met by...
Outside markets dominate grain prices
Based on the fundamentals and the technicals both, we should have been lower Sept. 22. What happened? Outside markets happened, with a vengeance.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Sept. 25, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
A roundup of FFA news for Sept. 25, 2008
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio — Zane Trace FFA chapter held a rib-eye sandwich sale at the first home football game Sept. 5.
The students set up...
Vacation with us…Jablonski
Paul Jablonski, along with his wife, Lynda; daughter, Terra; and Farm and Dairy, traveled to Maui, Hawaii, all the way from Carnegie, Pa.
A roundup of 4-H news for Sept. 25, 2008
BURTON, Ohio — The Swingin’ Hams 4-H club met Sept. 9. This was the first meeting after this year’s great fair, and members reviewed...
Pigs have feelings, too
A reader — an actual pig, in fact — sent the following e-mail:
Sir: Recently you, others in the media and several politicians referred...
A new direction for direct marketing
LONDON, Ohio -- Fresh Fork Market in Cleveland, Ohio, is changing the rules of direct farm marketing.
Fresh Fork isn't a farmers' market...
