Yearly Archives: 2010
Hazard A Guess: Week of April 1, 2010
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget (or at least 'hazard a guess' as to its use).
A roundup of 4-H news for the week of April 1, 2010
STRUTHERS, Ohio -- The Steel Valley K-9's 4-H club is hosting a motorcoach trip to The Ohio State University Veterinary School April 17. Also...
Knox County farmers reflect on nearly five decades of no-till
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio -- There are few tools as important and symbolic to farming as the plow.
In one form or another, the plow...
The Ohio Barn Conference and Tour makes its way back to Wooster
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Although Charles Whitney, known as the Barn Consultant, has passed, his enthusiasm and spirit continues to live through the current Friends...
The building blocks of our youth
The first sunny day of spring on the farm always found us kids fighting over the pedal tractors, remembering that some were old reliable...
Can we help the next generation of farmers?
We could all name names.Good farms that have no one waiting in the wings to take over the business. Farmers whose sons and daughters...
Dairymen, don’t shoot to be ‘just average,’ even by DHI standings
It is always important to monitor the yield of milk and the composition of milk, especially for the individual farmer, because the income of...
Cowboy checkoff fight grows: Ag groups blast NCBA effort
Of all the political hot rocks farm groups are juggling now in Washington, D.C. -- cap-and-trade, cuts in crop insurance, shrinking farm program budgets...
Spring miracles arrive as winter ends
No matter how many Easters, each with The Promise, no matter how many springs, each with its moment-to-moment magic, one never fails to be...
A roundup of FFA news for the week of April 1, 2010
JEROMESVILLE, Ohio -- The Hillsdale FFA chapter placed second at the district agricultural mechanics skills contest March 18 at Lorain County JVS. The team...
