Monthly Archives: November 2009
Hazard A Guess: Week of Nov. 19, 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).
One devil’s advocate thoughts
If idle hands are the devil's workshop, idle thoughts are, what, the product of a devil's advocate? Maybe, but one election result from early...
Lawsuit continues for Columbiana grain elevator and former employee
A jury trial has been rescheduled in Mahoning County Court.
Critical responses to mandatory national service
Last week I suggested that mandatory national service in one of many different fields would be a good way to bridge the gap between...
Life puts us where we are supposed to be
"The bright sun filtered through the clouds, warming the fields of alfalfa that my father was mowing. Within a day or two it would...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Nov. 19, 2009
DULUTH, Ga. -- Jeb May, a 2009 graduate of Crestview High School, Ashland, Ohio, was one of 18 recipients of a $2,000 AGCO and...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Nov. 19, 2009
MALVERN, Ohio -- The Brown Frame Round Up 4-H club met Nov. 1 at Brown Frame Hall. Payton Randal conducted the meeting.
The club elected...
School trip is growing experience — for me
Our sixth-grade son, Wonderboy, has gone to camp. Camp being yet another thing the school district cooked up specifically to test me.
Much like...
Where do these people come from?
I'm not a Scrooge, really, I'm not. So I can't blame it on the upcoming holiday season. Maybe it's just because I'm getting old(er)....
Digesters big and small a topic at Ohio renewable energy workshop
If farm-based anaerobic digesters are to be successful in America, then the industry needs to look back to the beginning of the automobile industry.