Yearly Archives: 2021
Buy better bulls
In this week's Black Ink column, Miranda Reiman advises readers, "if you want better cattle, buy better bulls."
Roundup of gardening news for March 25, 2021
Catch up on local gardening news and events in Pike, Stark and Summit counties in Ohio.
The odds on Prospective Plantings
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.
Start of spring only comes once a year
Judith Sutherland shares some special moments from the first day of spring this year.
Time to check your fence line
Keeping nuisance weeds out of the fence line is valuable to the structure of the fence and keeping the livestock safe.
New administration, new challenges for oil and gas industry
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.
DeWine picks former Franklin County judge to head PUCO
Gov. Mike DeWine announced Jenifer French as his choice to succeed Sam Randazzo, who resigned Nov. 20 after the FBI raided his home.
Marlin: Spring markets looking for news
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?
Shell’s Falcon pipeline under investigation by state, federal agencies
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 researchers concerned about ‘rural’ definition changes
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.


















