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Lightning round lambing ends 2022

Food fight: Who’s to blame?

Susan Crowell -

April 10, 2008

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many headlines about farming and food prices. “Food crisis,” declares a Washington Post editorial. “Why are global...

Visit www.farmanddairy.com

Susan Crowell -

April 3, 2008

My first few years at Farm and Dairy, when I entered the building from the rear, I had to walk by two mammoth Linotype...

Fiscal imperative: Oversight, insight and foresight

Susan Crowell -

March 20, 2008

Around Farm and Dairy, it pays to listen to Rilla Gruber

Will luck of Irish be with farm bill?

Susan Crowell -

March 13, 2008

What's up with the farm bill? Why is it taking so long to finalize? Why is the president threatening to veto it?

OSU Extension loses a good one

Susan Crowell -

January 24, 2008

At last week's retirement open house for Jefferson County Extension Director Ken Simeral, OSU Extension retiree Joe Pittman observed, "I've always said there are good agents, there are average agents and there are those who should be working someplace else.

Don’t just sit around this winter

Susan Crowell -

January 17, 2008

When I opened the computer file that holds the farm calendar of events we print each week, I glanced at the little numbers that tell me how long the file is in column-inch terms.

It can be a small world, after all

Susan Crowell -

January 10, 2008

Entrepreneur and author Seth Godin calls himself "an agent of change." His books on marketing are as thought-provoking as their titles are entertaining: Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? is his most recent effort.

Bionic farm resolutions for 2008

Susan Crowell -

January 3, 2008

Television in the 1970s gave us The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors. As the show's opening announcer told us each week, Majors was: "Steve Austin, astronaut.