Monthly Archives: December 2009
Participate in a Christmas Bird Count this year
It began Dec. 14 and runs through Jan. 5. Birders all across the Americas will gather in small groups to census bird populations in...
Social media and employee management
Have you ever been to a store or gas station and had the clerk talk on their cell phone or text a message while...
Facing hard times in December 1932
My parents, Blanche Ganoe and Sam Moore, were married in October 1931, and while I don't know how they spent that first Christmas, I'm...
Experience Christmas Eve in 1959
Once again I'm sharing with you my mother's thoughts of Christmas and even though you receive this week's Farm and Dairy on Christmas Eve,...
Remembering Christmases of the past
The chill in the air and the lightly falling snow outside my window is a wonderful backdrop to the wonder of the blessed holiday....
I am dreaming of a just right Christmas
"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." -- Erma Bombeck
Some gather on the eve and...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of Dec. 24, 2009
LISBON, Ohio -- The Rambunctious Rabbit Raisers 4-H group met Dec. 6, at the St. Jacob's Church with 17 members present.
Members were asked...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Dec. 24, 2009
SMITHVILLE, Ohio -- On Nov. 24, 10 members of the Smithville FFA traveled to Triway High School to compete in the FFA Subdistrict Parliamentary...
Legislation gives ODA more control over CAFOS
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A lengthy process of transferring the state's livestock permitting program from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, to the Ohio Department of...
300-bushel corn? Yep, we can do that
ST. LOUIS -- Advanced production techniques, informed growing practices and improved seed varieties helped corn growers achieve high yields in the National Corn Growers...
