Yearly Archives: 2009
Ohio involved in multi-state salmonella investigation
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Department of Health is participating in a multi-state investigation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to try to...
Extension to hold program on income opportunities
MONACA, Pa. -- Penn State Cooperative Extension will hold the program "Income Opportunities in Agriculture" from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 24 at...
Keeping the holidays happy
Rhonda Farmer, secretary of the Columbiana County Farm Bureau, presented all the fixings for a Christmas dinner to Fleming House residents Lori Zimmerly and...
Predicting the grain market is like checking the chicken entrails
Everyone expects me to tell them the future of the grain markets, and the future is murky to me.
Livestock producers should embrace premise ID
Why is Ohio so afraid of a premise identification program?
Start the Year Health-Smart
Several nights during our busy holidays, Kathie popped a frozen, self-rising pizza in the oven and we called it supper. We tried to balance...
Ag impact is more than economic (or what farmers never get paid for)
Last September when I solicited responses to the question "What I learned on my first job", one of the people I contacted was Pike...
A new secretary; another governor
If conventional leadership and bureaucratic competency had a face, it would look exactly like Thomas J. Vilsack: round as an apple pie, chin disappearing...
January is the beginning of nesting season for birds
On the afternoon of Dec. 26, the thermometer on the back porch read 73 degrees. Carolina wrens, cardinals and white-throated sparrows sang as if...
Support your local Humane Society
Editor:No doubt if you watch television, this holiday season you have seen the commercial for abandoned shelter animals featuring Sarah McLaughlin on behalf...
