Yearly Archives: 2014
Heritage Cooperative to build ag campus and research farm in Marysville
Heritage Cooperative broke ground on a major agriculture campus and research farm in Marysville, Ohio, to serve its customers in the community and provide space for educational sites and test plots.
Energy independence is at the top of the list at Pa. oil and...
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Pennsylvania is moving in the right direction — that was the feeling speakers shared at the Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas...
Pa. oil and gas conference: Severance tax and legislation are big topics
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Pennsylvania is facing an oil and gas fight over a possible severance tax and legislation regarding minimum royalty payments.
The Pennsylvania Independent...
FSA county committee members help fellow farmers
Hello Again!
As you read this, Memorial Day is right around the corner. Maybe you will celebrate with a cookout and a visit to the...
Protect our food and agriculture
I think most of us remember vividly where we were on Sept. 11, 2001.
I know all of our lives have changed because of this...
Schumman’s Water Cricket makes fly fishing easy
When it comes to the sport of fishing, Kent, Ohio, can lay claim to lots of hometown fame, but none more lasting or more significant than a small bug created by William H. Schumman.
Why brown-headed cowbirds are lousy parents
When I walked to my office this morning, I noticed a female brown-headed cowbird perched high atop the tallest tree in the yard. For 10 minutes she surveyed the surrounding area.
Fix rural broadband’s leaky, creaky ‘net
Moving just six miles from a small central Illinois farm town to an even smaller, rural enclave in 2005 took the lovely Catherine and me from a drafty, big house on a leafy, wide street to a tighter, smaller house in a leafy, wide woods. Fabulous.
Ohio Manufacturing Company built early tractors
One of the early tractor builders in Ohio was the Ohio Manufacturing Company in Upper Sandusky. In 1899, Samuel S. Morton built a crude tractor in York, Pa., with a large, horizontal, one-cylinder, hopper-cooled Otto engine mounted on a relatively, for the time, light-weight chassis with a short wheelbase.
A simple solution to plastic bags
I see farmer’s fields littered with plastic bags. Equipment gets tangled in plastic. I see bags stuck in trees. I know they get swept in creeks and streams and out into our oceans.
