Monthly Archives: October 2009
Web site shows how wheat works
PARKER, Colo. -- The Wheat Foods Council is launching How Wheat Works, an interactive, online multimedia program that delivers a farm-to-fork education on wheat,...
For farmers, driving a semitruck is harder than just grinding gears
Commercial driver’s license laws in Ohio include exemptions for farmers.
New Web site helps producers prevent the biggest cause of calf deaths
ROSELAND, N.J. -- Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has launched its new Guardian vaccine Web site, www.guardianvaccine.com, which provides the latest information to help producers and...
Let’s get out of this hole
Editor:When you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop digging. The hole here is caused by a faulty applied...
American Cancer Society supports levy
Editor:The Columbiana County Health Department Cancer Detection Clinic Levy is going to appear on the ballot Nov. 3. This .2 mill replacement levy is...
Hazard A Guess: Week of Oct. 29, 2009
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget (or at least 'hazard a guess' as to its use).
Obama, Congress approve $350 million for farmers
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Dairy farmers weathering one of the worst milk price fall-outs in recent history should soon see some relief in the form...
But wait! There’s not more
Remember when the news was newsworthy?News, of course, is anything you learn that you didn't know before. Using that definition almost anything is technically...
Blink and it will all be long gone
Don't even blink, or everything will be gone.That fire-red inferno of a maple tree now ablaze in the front yard will be naked.That birch...
More Astroturf on global warming war
If the generals and admirals within the concentric walls of the Pentagon -- hardly a bastion of greenie weenies -- view global warming as...