Sunday, March 15, 2026

Yearly Archives: 2021

bull

In this week's Black Ink column, Miranda Reiman advises readers, "if you want better cattle, buy better bulls."
gardening news

Catch up on local gardening news and events in Pike, Stark and Summit counties in Ohio.
corn and soybean fields

One of the biggest make-or-break days of the year for the ag markets looms: On March 31, the USDA will issue its Prospective Plantings report.
wren

Judith Sutherland shares some special moments from the first day of spring this year.
fence

Keeping nuisance weeds out of the fence line is valuable to the structure of the fence and keeping the livestock safe.

The Biden administration’s actions around oil and gas development, the environment and the climate have created a lot of uncertainty for the industry that employs tens of thousands of people in Ohio and Pennsylvania, oil and gas industry leaders say.
power lines

Gov. Mike DeWine announced Jenifer French as his choice to succeed Sam Randazzo, who resigned Nov. 20 after the FBI raided his home.
a wet crop field

With spring comes the traditional spring factors to influence grain prices. How many acres of corn and soybeans will we plant? What is our spring weather?

According to documents acquired by the environmental group FracTracker Alliance, a whistleblower contacted the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration in 2019 with allegations that the pipeline may have been built with a defective corrosion coating.
rural farm scene

The White House Office of Management and Budget is considering a recommendation that would expand the definition of rural to include larger areas. But rural researchers say the changes could make it harder for rural communities to get funding and for researchers to track what is happening in rural areas, and that they’re based on an oversimplified view of what metropolitan means.