Monthly Archives: October 2012
Landsat satellites find the ‘sweet spot’ for crops
GREENBELT, Md. -- Farmer Gary Wagner walks into his field where the summer leaves on the sugar beet plants are a rich emerald hue...
Autumn’s splendor restores my soul
Somehow a notice went out a week ago to all the blue jays in Illinois that the acorns on (what I think is) a...
Innovative Farmers of Ohio takes an entrepreneurial focus at conference
DELAWARE, Ohio -- The Innovative Farmers of Ohio will hold its annual conference Nov. 2-3 with the theme: "Resetting the American Dinner Table: How...
Leaders in nutrition, biotechnology, farming and ranching will assemble to discuss food issues
CHESTERFIELD, Mo. -- Americans continue to have questions about how food is grown and raised. In response, the U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance, which...
Researchers say methane emissions can be traced back to Roman times
WASHINGTON -- Emissions of the greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere can be traced back thousands of years in the Greenland ice sheet.
Using special...
What makes them tick? Not all employees motivated by same thing
Farm managers able to motivate their workers have a better chance of reducing the typical labor problems faced in today's economy (turnover, absenteeism, and...
Memories frozen in pictures
Time flies, it really does. Pictures don’t. Pictures freeze time, age, and reality. Such is the case of the pencil image that I’ve used...
So, exactly what is conservation?
So, I get this e-mail from Tracy Haney, Tuscarawas SWCD, that says would you mind writing me an article for the Farm and Dairy...
No voice in D.C., means no farm bill
While we wait, the farm bill was left lying on the floor of a bickering Congress, like a bunch of defiant kids who refuse...
Operation Evergreen provides Ohio trees to military
FRAZEYSBURG, Ohio -- American troops stationed throughout the world will celebrate the holidays with an Ohio-grown tree thanks to Operation Evergreen, an annual event...
