Yearly Archives: 2009
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.
Vacation with us…Hopkins
Holding their weekly copy of Farm and Dairy on their August vacation to Alaska are Sam and Dotty Hopkins and their friends Larry and...
Vacation with us…Bliley
Bill and Becky Bliley of Waterford, Pa., took Farm and Dairy along with them to Bliss, N.Y., to see the wind parks developed by...
Ag makes social media presence known; farm speaker a Mashable award finalist
Farm community propels professional ag speaker Michele Payn-Knoper into top five finalist spot for Mashable's Twitter User of the Year web award.
