Friday, December 26, 2025

Yearly Archives: 2015

Soil sampling

WOOSTER, Ohio - A soil fertility specialist with the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State University is looking to...
graduation cake

Sometimes the strength of a true leader is to be humble. Columnist Kym Seabolt has watched her shy little boy grow into a young man that other men look up to. 'His senior year, we celebrate that.'
hops plant

Ohio hops production is making a comeback as the craft brewing industry grows and demand for a locally grown product rises.

Greg and Claudia Shaheen of Beloit, Ohio along with Randy and Brenda Reed, of Homeworth, took their Farm and Dairy and clebrated the 90th...
corn kernels and dollar bills

Corn, soybeans, and wheat are just a few of the crops available for a program called Marketing Assistance Loans.
American farmer cartoon

October 1939: Poland was desperately fighting the German Wehrmacht in the west and the Red Army in the east, vestiges of the Great Depression lingered in this country, FDR was well into his 2nd term as President and your author was in his second month of 1st grade at Court School, a one-roomed frame building in western Pennsylvania.
dollar sign and chart

According to U.S. Department of Agriculture data, this year's 36 percent fall in net farm income is the biggest drop since the bad year of 1983.
corn silage

So for the feeding program on the farm, it's the time of the year when we need to do a checkup on the corn silage.
Morgan Weingart

Morgan Weingart killed this 8-point buck opening night of bow season with a compound bow.
FFA logo

This week's roundup includes news from the Minerva, West Holmes, Crestview, Smithville, Black River, Northwestern and Fort Frye FFA chapters.