Yearly Archives: 2025
OSU researchers look into West Nile virus cycle
A federally funded project aims to determine how West Nile virus cycles through mosquitoes and the animals they bite.
Reader: Climate policy eclipses climate science
A Farm and Dairy reader responds to an article that ran March 27, arguing that recent climate changes are not caused solely by human activity.
Adventure with a wheelbarrow
Farm and Dairy reader Gordon Meeder, of Midland, Pennsylvania, shares a story about a runaway wheelbarrow.
Asking permission — a sign of respect and courtesy
With fishing season in play and turkey hunting around the corner, Jim Abrams explains how hunters and anglers can get permission to enter private land.
Volunteers needed for Ohio’s fifth annual Sandhill Crane Count
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife is seeking volunteers for the fifth annual Midwest Crane Count on the morning of April 12.
Ohio’s spring wild turkey hunting seasons open
Spring wild turkey hunting seasons are set to begin in Ohio, beginning with youth turkey hunting season April 12 and 13.
Pennsylvania expands spotted lanternfly quarantine
Bradford, Sullivan, Venango and Wyoming Counties have been added to the Pennsylvania counties quarantined due to confirmed populations of the invasive pest spotted lanternfly.
Farmers beware: A bite from this tick could make you allergic to your animals
Alpha-gal syndrome, which comes from the bite of a lone star tick, can make people allergic to eating red meat, products derived from animals and even the animals themselves.
Of schnitz and rye straw
Paul Locher outlines the use of rye straw to make baskets and store dried apple slices, schnitz, at homesteads in the early 1800s in Ohio Country.
Game face
Kymberly Foster Seabolt really wanted her family to be a board game family; sometimes the shoe just doesn't fit.
