Yearly Archives: 2011
On the wheat crew: Ohioan shares experiences from Great Plains
Ohio teen Austen Shoemaker heads west to join a combine crew for this harvest season, and shares his journey with Farm and Dairy.
Vacation With Us… Mangun
We climbed high into the Andes Mountains in Chile with Lisa Mangun, and her daughter Allison, earlier this year.
Vacation With Us… Rust
Go East, young man! And so we did, with Bob, Stephanie, and Jacob Rust, all of Greenville, Pa., when they visited the eastern most point in the U.S., Point Udall, in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Nittany lion has new home at Penn State
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The "Original Nittany Lion" has a new home at the Penn State All-Sports Museum.
Dairy Excel: Feed quality critical from here on out
On June 30, the USDA issued two bearish reports: the updated acreage figures and the quarterly grain stocks report as of June first.
Horse-powered equipment makes lots of progress
Nancy and I just got back from Lancaster County, Pa., where I attended the 18th annual Horse Progress Days. This was the 16th consecutive...
If you care about the environment, then you take care of it in the...
Summertime is here, and with it comes a tradition — the Conservation Camp! Many of Ohio’s 88 soil and water conservation districts sponsor these...
Hay delays this spring cause forage quality concerns for producers
Frequent rain has delayed first cutting hay harvest this spring. Unfortunately, delayed hay harvest has a direct negative impact on the value of forages. So how did the forage change?
Ask FSA Andy by FSA Andy
Hello Again!It’s Friday afternoon and I’m trying to figure out what to write for FSA Andy. FSA stuff can be a ” little” boring...
Life Out Loud: The first cut is the deepest
My nemesis is small but stealthy. It lurks under the model of health but, in fact, it's a silent slayer of innocent flesh. I am speaking, of course, of the mandolin slicer.
