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Ohio’s water nutrient issue is true balancing act
Last weekend, I attended a daylong workshop on water nutrient management at Maumee Bay State Park. The event was a follow-up to a weeklong session I attended last spring, with an organization called...
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Niagara Falls: a treat for the eyes
At the beginning of August, the Farm and Dairy sent some staff to the Ag Media Summit in Buffalo, N.Y. Before the summit began there was trip to Niagara Falls, N.Y. (the American side). I had never...
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Due East … for Ag Progress Days
I’ve attended a lot of farm shows over the years but this year’s Ag Progress Days near State College, Pennsylvania was my first. The Farm and Dairy staff has covered the event for decades, but we’ve...
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Cooking the ‘flavors of fall’ at Certified Angus Beef
I attended a cooking class last week at Certified Angus Beef’s Education & Culinary Center in Wooster and one of the things that caught my eye right away was the fact I didn’t have to do any...
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Ohio has many ‘great’ county fairs
My home county fair ended Thursday — the Wayne County Fair in Wooster. It’s a great fair, billed as one of Ohio’s largest junior fairs with the most junior fair exhibits. And it’s also known as “the...
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Tuscarawas County Fair antique tractor pull 2013
It took nearly five hours to sell all of the hogs at the Tuscarawas County Fair Sept. 19. So, after I took pictures of the champions, I made my way over to the antique tractor pull. There were a lot...
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Like farming, ag reporting is a diverse science
I recently told a friend that my job requires me to be an expert in something new each day. I was half-joking, but in truth, that’s also half right. The past few weeks, especially, I’ve been juggling...
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A successful ‘early’ deer season in Ohio
I got one of my fall to-do’s accomplished this weekend; I harvested next year’s meat supply. I hunted both days of Ohio’s first-ever two-day early muzzleloader season at my grandmother’s farm in Wayne...
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Some thoughts on paying to hunt
I took my hunting beagles out for our first official rabbit hunting trip of the season Sunday afternoon. They’re still a bit slow and not quite keeping the track the way I would like, but it’s only the...
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Are grain and ethanol farmers crying over spilled corn?
In the world of grain farming, you’d almost think the sky is falling right now. Prices have been in a downward spiral the past several months. Most recently, the The Environmental Protection Agency...
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