http://www.ohioagriculture.gov/eab Firewood Sparks Burning Issue: Buy Local, Burn Local to Protect Ohio’s Trees Firewood houses Emerald Ash Borer and other invasive pests threatening our natural resources A Guest Editorial by Bob Boggs, Ohio Director of Agriculture   Memorial Day weekend is fast approaching and many Ohioans are preparing their camping checklist in anticipation of a […]

Paul McKellips is a USDA/Department of State communications specialist reporting from Iraq on the efforts to rebuild the Iraqi agriculture industry and just sent us this letter:   Hi everybody. I’m back for my third – and as my wife likes to remind me…final – deployment to Iraq. Things are much different now then they […]

http://brown.senate.gov WASHINGTON – United States Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) released the following opening statement from today’s Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry on Challenges and Opportunities Facing American Agricultural Producers:   “As the first Senator from Ohio in nearly forty years to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee, I am proud to represent Ohio’s […]

From what I gather on the internet, today is Earth Day. I’m not typically one to get all giddy and ambitious on Earth Day, but there is one comment and one website I wanted to share.   First, to me, Earth Day has been hijacked by the wacky environmental loonies out there. I think Earth […]

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/04/is-federal-government-making-us-fat.html The indomitable Ann Althouse links to some flogic (my abbreviation for faulty logic) from the Gray Lady about the Federal Farm Program. The yarn they’ve spun goes like this: twinkies make you fat; you eat twinkies because they are cheap; twinkies are cheap because they’re made from processed corn, soy, and wheat products; corn, […]