Monthly Archives: January 2011

As we head into a new year, nothing beats a good book by the wood stove on a cold winter night. Here are some...

Hello again,Did you see those two crazy women at the mall pulling the door handles off of that salt-covered gray Blazer? Did you see...

The close of 2010 saw grain farmers across the nation still reveling in near-record prices from the fall harvest. And as we enter a new year and a new decade, indications show the best is still to come. But experienced farmers know, it won't just be grain prices that go up. What will it mean for seed and fertilizer? Or how about crop insurance, and fuel? And what about food costs and livestock feed?

I admit it. I love Christmas. I'm not jaded, exhausted or "relieved that it's over." There is no bah humbug here. I'm in no...

As I sit here in front of my computer, my fingers hovering over the keys impatiently waiting for my brain to come up with...

GNADENHUTTEN, Ohio --Indian Valley FFA sold fruit including were oranges, grapefruit, tangelos, tangerines, nuts, peanut brittle, BBQ sauce, trail bologna, and apples Oct. 15...

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service recently opened the 2011 tax-filing season by announcing taxpayers have until April 18 to file their tax returns....

OLCSB gives "initial" approval of swine, distressed livestock standards at first meeting of 2011.

CARROLLTON, Ohio -- Garner Auctioneers, LLC held a dispersal auction New Years Day for the estate of Elmer Burbick of Columbiana County. Burbick was...

High feed costs will temper high hog prices toward a break-even year.