Yearly Archives: 2015
Your health starts here: Reading nutrition labels (Infographic)
A lot of information is packed into a nutrition label, from serving size to percent daily value (% DV).
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Jan. 15, 2015:
WEST SALEM, Ohio — On Jan. 6, several members of the Northwestern FFA Chapter participated in a Christmas Tree pick-up for the community. Members...
Dairy farming helped prepare Farnsworths for careers
As a boy, he pretended to sell the family's cows. But auctioneer Russ Farnsworth and family still have a solid dairy farm in Medina County.
Patterns: Welcome back, foodie
We didn’t know it back then but everyone on the big southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth was a foodie.
Pennsylvania can claim first covered bridge
The first covered bridge in America is believed to have been the High Street (later, Market Street) Bridge across the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.
Bird-eating hawk doing what comes naturally
Whenever I find a bunch of feathers in the yard, I’m confident a sharp-shinned or Cooper’s hawk has probably visited.
Does priority count? New Year’s Day event beginning of show season
We are starting out the new year with some material on show schedules, not necessarily steam, but engines none the less.
It was a cold day
It was 9 balmy degrees. This was up from the low of zero midday.
Ohio salutes its bicentennial and centennial farms
In 2014, the Ohio Department of Agriculture recognized 104 new century or bicentennial farms owned by the same family for at least 100 or 200 consecutive years.
Ask FSA Andy about farm loans for youth
Youth loans can be used to finance many kinds of agricultural projects.
