Yearly Archives: 2012
‘Everything is bigger and faster’: Three farm machinery dealers look back at changes in...
SALEM, Ohio — Since the Farm Science Review is celebrating its 50th year, we started thinking about all the machinery and equipment changes the...
Corn maze honors John Glenn
MANTUA, Ohio -- Derthick's Corn Maze and Farm Experience will feature John Glenn and his decades of space flight as the theme of the...
Some days are meant to last forever
Someone -- my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone -- told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a...
Beef Products Inc. sues ABC News over ‘pink slime’ coverage
The makers of lean finely textured beef, Beef Products Inc., are suing ABC News for coverage that triggered market loss, the closing of plants and layoff of 700 workers. The complaint seeks $1.2 billion in damages.
Miss America 2009, a dairy farm native, shares life lessons at Ohio’s Wayne Co....
WOOSTER, Ohio — Royalty are a common sight at county fairs, as most tap a king and queen every year, and sometimes a prince...
Our world needs more benevolence
A few weeks ago, the children of our church had their summer vacation Bible school. Keri, the director of the Bible school, challenged the...
I can’t deny it — the Internet has everything
My sister says everything is on the Internet. It hurts to admit this, but she's right. I hope she doesn't read this. According to...
Buy hay by weight, not by bales
Recently, a local hay producer asked what hay was worth. Of course, each forage producer will have a different cost of production.After he told...
Attention birders: Fall migration is beginning
The fall bird migration actually begins in July. Along East Coast beaches, shorebirds that nested in the Arctic begin showing up along coastlines in...
Now is the time to calculate the cost of production for your crops
We were inches away from an entirely different set of crop and feed prices. Inches of rain that is. During the Ag Outlook Meetings...
