Fresh Country Air
By Matt Reese
When families visit local pick-your-own farms for some summer entertainment and tasty fruits and produce, harvesting crops can be fun in small doses. But, anyone who has frequented a berry patch or sweet corn farm to "pick-your-own" knows that there is a fine line between a fun way ...
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Strength in numbers
By Steve Suther
Every decision is a really an opinion, but there's probably a wide range in your comfort zone based on the amount of information behind the choices you make.
If you have to guess on nothing but intuition, the decision might come out all right if you've had enough experience in ...
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Fresh Country Air
By Matt Reese
Once the faint glow of the laptop battery died and the coffee grew cold, a recent winter power outage forced a certain busy agricultural journalist to pause and ponder our precarious dependence on energy. In the absence of a generator, we are just one blast of winter weather away fr ...
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Fresh country air
By Matt Reese
One only needs to watch a few of those TV informercials before it becomes clear that a lot of effort and money is spent convincing consumers that they're getting more for less. "This is Craaaazzyyyy Jim here and I have an offer for you. In the store, this would cost $300, but I am g ...
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Fresh country air
++++++By Matte Reuse
Those who love Ores may not be too interested in the fact that the Ohio wheat breeding program just got a grant for new harvesting equipment, but they should be -- it could lead to improvements in cookies and the other wheat products we enjoy.
Ohio is recognized around the ...
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Fresh Country Air
By Matt Reese
The blazing fire indoors kept us warm, but it was cold outside. In fact, I think it was probably the coldest day we've ever been open for business at the family Christmas tree farm in Hancock County. The thermometer told us the temperature was well below zero, with a wind chill of a ...
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