Yearly Archives: 2009
Ruffed grouse, masters of disguise
Finding an ovenbird nest is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Unless you follow this drably colored warbler to its domed, oven-like...
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of May 28, 2009
NORTH BENTON, Ohio --The Mahoning County Goat Herders 4-H club had a goat meeting May 18 at 7 p.m. at O'Brocks Farm in North...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of May 28, 2009
BEVERLY, Ohio -- The Fort Frye FFA attended the National Soil Judging contest in Oklahoma.
Team members Josiah Fryman, Heidi Heiss, Greg Heldman and...
Reader welcomes HSUS to Ohio with open arms
Editor:As a Farm Bureau member, the victim of one of the six Park Farms broiler grow-out operations now unable to sell my home for...
Dump your milk: California dairymen say two-day dump would help market
California milk producers trying to increase market prices are encouraging dairymen to dump their milk May 31 and June 1.
Vacation with us…Trapp
Vic and Paula Trapp of Ravenna, Ohio, traveled to Las Vegas and took Farm and Dairy on a day trip to the Grand Canyon....
Advice for life: Listen to your coach
Dear Jon,Coach T. was right: Every game, every football season, has peaks and valleys. You heard it in the locker room every Friday night...
A little bit of everything: Ohio farm goes for different breeds
JEFFERSON, Ohio — Diversity, sustainability and self-sufficiency are words to farm by for Ralph and Connie Rice of Jefferson.
From sheep without wool to...
Globalized agriculture requires regulation
The food chain goes well beyond the farm, so get ready for more regs.
Happy cows, as ankle bracelets prove, like to relax
You know a barn is full of happy cows when you see them all lying down.
