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All you can do is sigh as you drive…
I have been on assignment three days this week and I have passed through several counties in Ohio and even made my way into Pennsylvania. I know it has been talked about it on here and yet we can’t...
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Adding it up could spell disaster
A wildfire took more than 100 acres out of use May 9, 2011 in Brazos County in Texas. (Courtesy of Texas AgriLife Extension Service photo by Kathleen Phillips) A farmer from western Pennsylvania texted...
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Wet ground is statewide issue, Ohio officials meeting today
One of the good things about the daily rain showers we’ve been getting for the past month and a half is the media’s response. All across Ohio, large and small newspapers and television stations have...
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Sometimes you just can’t get it out of your blood
Floyd Davis, owner of Red Basket Farm, shows off some of the lettuce he is growing in his high tunnels. Some say ink runs through the veins of journalists and once you get bit, you are hooked on...
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Five lessons learned from my visits to farms
This picture is from a sunflower field last year I passed by while driving. It shows no farm is like any other! I was thinking about some of the things I’ve learned while visiting farms since joining...
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Prepare yourself and your animals for a hot week
If the weather forecast is right, we’re in for a very hot week. Ohio and western Pa. could see daytime highs of 90 or higher for at least the next five days. That will likely make for the hottest...
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A drive can be a story all of its own
With this job, I drive a lot. I mean a lot for stories. That’s part of the responsibility. Sometimes I love it and sometimes not so much. I have to say that sometimes the drive to the story is a story...
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Operation Haylift springs into action
A group of volunteers from Ohio and Pennsylvania spent the morning of Nov. 30 doing something for the people of Bastrop County, Texas, and the livestock living there. They spent an hour loading a...
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Call it spring fever!!!
It’s the first official day of spring! It’s close to, if not over, 80 degrees, here in northeastern Ohio. And no one can deny that the entire country has enjoyed beautiful weather for the past week....
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Please don’t say the “d” word, for everyone’s sake
Oh no! That’s what comes to my mind. It is so scary for residents that they can’t even say the word out loud. They whisper it. The “it” is drought. It is feared that Texas is entering a drought again....
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