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  1. $320,000 Tractor Donated; Another on the Way

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/320000-tractor-donated-another-way

    Agricultural Center, home to Ohio State's Farm Science Review, near London, Ohio, to get some hands-on ... lecturer, research assistant and adviser to the Agricultural Systems Management Club, is excited about the ... about 45 or 50 students. Now, we're up to about 80. We'd like to see that number get to about ...

  2. Learn to Grow Blueberries at Home

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/learn-grow-blueberries-home

    easily incorporated into a home garden. Ohio State University Extension horticulturists will explain how ... it's done at a workshop on May 15. Planting Blueberries in the Home Garden will take place from 6 p.m. ... According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 2002 Census, blueberry acreage increased 32 percent since ...

  3. Family Fundamentals: Website helps people plan for retirement (July 2010)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-website-helps-people-plan-retirement-july-2010

    to have good pension plans, but that has made us a bit lax in studying our finances. Where should we ... work and whether working part-time makes sense. In addition, it contains information about buy-outs-- ... benefits are calculated. Home and Mortgage. If at all possible, it's best to pay off the mortgage ...

  4. Alternative Farming Opportunities Focus of Field Day

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/alternative-farming-opportunities-focus-field-day

    alternative to dogs." About 12 dozen Ohio llama and alcapa (related to the llama) breeders will be on ... largest small farm educational program in the U.S. Last year approximately 4,600 participants from 53 Ohio ... dozens of ideas in one place that he can take home with him and apply to his farm." Nearly 30 ...

  5. Chow Line: Canning complex; try freezing instead (for 9/28/08)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/chow-line-canning-complex-try-freezing-instead-92808-1

    September 19, 2008 This year I was tempted to start home canning to try to stretch my garden ... harvest into the fall and winter. But whenever I read about canning, it seems very complicated. Any ... advice? If you don't have experience with home canning, you're right-- it can be a complex ...

  6. So You Want to Eat Chocolate-covered Bugsā€¦

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/so-you-want-eat-chocolate-covered-bugs%E2%80%A6

    dessert-- is to teach about insect diversity. Most bugs around us are good, he noted. Theyā€™re part of ... Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC), the arboretumā€™s home. ā€œThe experience is ... starts at the arboretumā€™s Seaman Orientation Plaza, which is about 1.7 miles from OARDCā€™s main entrance ...

  7. Livestock Producers Encouraged to Attend Heart of America Grazing Conference

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/livestock-producers-encouraged-attend-heart-america-grazing-conference

    2012. ā€œThis is a very practical, goal-oriented conference talking about current issues in grazing,ā€ said ... byproducts; weā€™ll also talk about using cover crops and mob grazing, which are two of the newer techniques out ... road and get home at a decent hour,ā€ McCutcheon said. Along with Extension, event organizers include ...

  8. Family Fundamentals: Protect yourself from identity fraud (for November 2006)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-protect-yourself-identity-fraud-november-2006

    about identity theft. But according to the 2006 Identity Fraud Report, released by the Council of Better ... million in 2003 to 8.9 million in 2006. As a percent of the U.S. adult population, those figures represent ... Internet-related. Many victims actually knew the perpetrator ā€” often a friend, family member, neighbor or in-home ...

  9. Family Fundamentals: For health, limit kids' TV, other 'screen time' (for 12/2011)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/family-fundamentals-health-limit-kids-tv-other-screen-time-122011

    December 20, 2012 Last year when our children were home from school during Christmas break, they ... interaction with others. To be honest, itā€™s likely that most of us could benefit from more interaction with ... about 7.5 hours a day in front of a screen, with the majority (about 4.5 hours) watching TV and the rest ...

  10. Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Hey, Bu'b! Save Dough! Cut Gas! (for the Week of Jan. 21, 2007)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/smart-stuff-twig-walkingstick-hey-bub-save-dough-cut-gas-week-jan-21-2007

    old bulbs in your house with CFLs would save you about $60 a year. If every home in America did that, ... roundish ones. Or vanilla soft-serve ice cream cones. Ā  Why switch? The U.S. Energy Star program says CFLs ... in-the-dark assistant, Kurt Knebusch, knebusch.1@osu.edu. About this column: "Smart Stuff with Twig ...

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