Monthly Archives: March 2009
Biotech drought-tolerant corn coming
ST. LOUIS — The Monsanto Company has completed regulatory submissions in the U.S. and Canada for the world’s first biotech drought-tolerant corn product developed...
A Mystery, a Myth and More
Looking for this week's recipes, I ran across Geraldine Duncann's beautiful Web site thequestingfeast.com. Described as "a Web site for and about food and...
Auction Roundup — Zero no-sales amazes auctioneer at draft horse auction
- Owner/auctioneer Pete Howes of Bloomfield Livestock Auction experienced something very rare at his Feb. 28 special draft horse and draft pony auction in...
4-H Proclamation Ceremony
Ashtabula Co. 4-H youth visited the county commissioners recently to participate in 4-H Week Proclamation Ceremony. Harley Buckley and Dawnelle Corron shared their Saddle...
We are frugal to a fault
If you spend your life trying to impress and keep up with everyone else, you are not living your own life -- you are...
It’s time to get with the times
It's the 1970s. An air-dried Polaroid shows your leisure suit and platform shoes, just before you hop into your pickup and check the CB...
You can’t keep a good farm man (or woman) down
Hamilton County's Bobby Burwinkel has some fun behind a podium at the USDA. A future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture perhaps?
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With all the economic doom...
Virginia Myers Patterson will be missed
For those of you who have read this column for a number of years, stories of my great-grandpa Charlie are familiar fodder. It is...
Dairy farms are in the limbo line
If you have ever taken a small child to a roller skating party, sooner or later some energetic teenagers corral the troops and organize...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of March 12, 2009
MARIETTA, Ohio — The Washington County office of Ohio State University Extension held its annual 4-H Camp Counselor Assessment Night Feb. 23 at...
