Yearly Archives: 2006

Do you know where your thousands - and on a national scale, hundreds of millions - of federally-mandated, non-refundable checkoff dollars go? It's a question Bobby King, policy director of Minnesota's Land Stewardship Project, asked when he viewed advertisements that attacked "anti-livestock activist groups" in the state on Minneapolis' powerhouse WCCO television station earlier this year.

According to my internal calendar, fall is about four months down the road yet. In reality, the fall harvest season is fast approaching.

(As told by Josie Steeb) I felt great picking up my repaired Escort at the garage and even better knowing that I had paid for the repairs myself.

You just never know when you'll have a brush with greatness, or in my case, great fear. As near as I remember, I was cleaning a high shelf in the bathroom when there was a flash of movement, a flutter, and my momentary thought "oh, why is there a big leaf up here?" before the "leaf" became coherent enough to make a beeline (bat line?) for my hair.

MEDINA, Ohio - After a week of unfair-like weather with heat and humidity soaring, temperatures cooled off slightly at the Medina County Junior Fair Livestock Auction.

COLUMBUS - The 39th annual Ohio State Fair Sale of Champions Livestock Auction took place Aug. 13, and buyers set new records for several projects.

SALEM, Ohio - Farm and Dairy writers placed first in two categories in the 2006