The Social Silo

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 announced that it is scaling back something called the Renewable Fuel Standard, a federal law that requires a minimum amount of ethanol be blended into gasoline....

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 first week of season and things will...

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 County.
The season was for antlerless deer only, and although I hate to shoot does, they make for much better eating than the bucks....

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 so many new topics and learning so many new things. It started with a feature story I wrote in September on giant miscanthus — the biomass crop being grown for ethanol and fiber production...