Monthly Archives: March 2011
USDA planting projections: Corn and wheat up, beans down slightly …
Prospective Plantings report shows big trends in planting forecasts
This fickle season fools us every year
Spring has been tip-toeing behind retreating winter for several weeks. Now the troops are ready to storm the ice castle and banish the foe...
Blame game won’t feed the world
Rising food prices. Everyone's talking about them. And everyone's pointing fingers of blame.It's the ethanol industry. No, it's the processors. It's the retailers. No,...
Vacation with us…Shammo
Who doesn’t love Florida? Great weather, fun beaches and numerous places to visit and explore. No doubt the Shammo family from Louisville, Ohio, had...
ODNR accepting enrollment applications for Forest Legacy Program
Program pays landowners who seek to protect their woodlands
Vacation with us…Litman
Larry and Myrta Litman, of Washington, Pa., along with cousins Linda and Roy Ealy of West Finley, Pa., took a copy of Farm and...
Vacation with us…Seabolt
Where do farmers (and farm wives) take a break? At a farmer meeting, of course. Our very own “Life Out Loud” columnist Kymberly Foster...
Vacation with us…Murphy
Some people just love the cold weather. While Farm and Dairy is certainly tired of it here in Ohio, Dr. Linda Murphy of Clinton,...
Vacation with us…Ketring
We love national monuments here at Farm and Dairy. Turns out loyal reader Rick Ketring, owner of Dun Deal Farm, in Newbury, Ohio, does...
To NCBA leaders, silence is golden
By law and by USDA's failure "to restore operational integrity" to the checkoff, NCBA remains the single, biggest benefactor of checkoff cash.
