Yearly Archives: 2012
Five more minutes? Alarming idea (to the folks who bring you The Most...
It's like this: I'm adrift in dreamland, when I'm rudely startled awake by the "Bleet-Bleet-Pounding-In-Your-Brain-Bleet-Bleet" of The Most Annoying Alarm Clock In The History Of the World (Patent Pending).
A roundup of FFA news for the week of April 12, 2012:
PLYMOUTH, Ohio — Trevor Arnold, Zac Arnold, and Adam Predieri represented the Plymouth FFA at the Agricultural Mechanics career development event March 22.Leonard Felty served...
FSA Andy: Eating that milk chocolate Easter bunny and thinking about MILC
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the Milk Income Loss Contract will kick in for February, the first time there has been a payment for MILC since April 2010.
Conservation starts in your backyard
COSHOCTON, Ohio -- Do you ever remember mowing your lawn in March? Due to the warm weather this year many of us did just...
Farmers help neighboring farmers with Indiana tornado recovery
The March 2 tornadoes across the Midwest caused loss of life and extensive damage. Now, farmers are helping each other recover.
The Bluebird Effect explains uncommon bonds
The backyard nesting season is well under way here on the ridge. The first complete bluebird nest held five eggs on March 26. As...
Spring: Easter, birthdays and new life
Remember when old ones died and new were born. And life was changed, disassembled, rearranged. Remember when 30 seemed so old. Now, lookin' back...
Checkoff oversight virtually nil
More and more, the federally-mandated, non-refundable commodity checkoffs resemble something out of a Charles Dickens novel. Most feature huge casts, complicated plots and, to...
Vacation With Us… Nutter and Conrad
Recent Kent State University graduates Marc Nutter and Brit Conrad hiked the Appalachian Trail last May. They began at the southern trail head in...
Vacation With Us… Ketring and Vohnout
Best friends Amy Ketring, of Dun Deal Farm in Newbury, Ohio, and Emily Vohnout, of Rock House Farm in Valley View, Ohio, recently enjoyed...
