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Organic goodness

June 15, 2006

CADIZ, Ohio - Instead of asking Mick Luber what he grows at Bluebird Farm, it might be easier to ask him what he doesn't grow.

What does it take to farm? Numbers

Susan Crowell -

June 8, 2006

"What does it take to earn a living on the farm?" Good question. What's the answer? Actually, the question was the title of a report from a Minnesota Extension educator (we used to call them 'agents,' remember?).

Diagnosing rattle fatigue on the farm

Judith Sutherland -

June 8, 2006

Do you know what rattle fatigue is? There are no Census Bureau statistics available regarding this, but I'd be willing to bet that nearly 90 percent of all farmers have experienced it at one time.

My summer as a kitchen migrant

Alan Guebert -

June 8, 2006

Sometime in the early summer of 1965 I migrated from my mother's hot kitchen and the family's enormous garden to our farm's sweltering hayfields and crowded milking parlor.

Land use debated in Columbiana Co.

Dairy Excel -

June 8, 2006

A recent article in another farm publication reminded me of some of the issues facing Columbiana County land owners.

Angels with Plastic

Laurie Marlatt Steeb -

June 8, 2006

Our family had a good laugh recently. Several of us allowed ourselves to be prospective credit applicants when Josie's college friends did a fundraiser for an on-campus organization.

Can’t stand the heat? Stay out of summer

Kymberly Foster Seabolt -

June 8, 2006

Summer is a favorite of so many for one obvious reason: it is the one season when total disintegration of social mores is completely acceptable.

Ohio State names new rural-urban chair holder

Other News -

June 8, 2006

COLUMBUS - Mark D. Partridge has been named professor and holder of

Ohio corn crop showing promise

Other News -

June 8, 2006

COLUMBUS - Despite a myriad of localized problems from ponding to hail and frost damage to soil crusting, Ohio's newly planted corn crop is on its way to a promising growing season.