Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Yearly Archives: 2005

SALEM, Ohio - Several years ago, Susan Prokop paid $125 for a pony for her daughter to ride and show.

As the journey by covered wagon unfolds for Laura Ingalls Wilder, her husband and young daughter, Rose, it becomes apparent that the travelers will be glad to settle down in a new home.

Presidential budget proposals usually are about two things, politics and mathematics. Both elements carry equal weight.

In a dairy farm's employee break room, I saw the following posted: "Our employees are our most important asset.

At 30, I left the home where I grew up. Though not posh or extravagant, it was a place that afforded more comforts than I could have ever enjoyed on my own.

Someday your prince will come. Sadly, if you're Camilla Parker Bowles, he'll come with some serious baggage.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns released details Feb. 7 of President Bush's fiscal year 2006 USDA budget, with little change predicted from fiscal year 2005 levels.

LITITZ, Pa. - Whether milking in a tie-stall or parlor system, large herd or small, "we still milk our cows one cow at a time," said David Reid, director of milk harvest technologies for Bou-Matic.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Bradford County farmer Ralph McNeal received a $5,718 fine from the Pa. Department of Environmental Protection for polluting the French Run Watershed last spring with runoff from his farm in Burlington Township.

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - Corn stocks in all positions in Ohio on Dec. 1 totaled nearly 422.0 million bushels, 12 percent above the 376.