Tag: Farming
For area farmers, summer rain is great. But this much?
London-area vegetable farmers are facing delayed harvest and lower yields after the rainiest July on record.
Mahon: Is it time for farms to start tracking invisible assets?
For all the experience that we may have, maybe we don’t even recognize the worth of things on our own farms.
Owen Sound Regional School of Nursing’s last class marking 50 years
A group of classmates who share a lifelong bond as the final class of the Owen Sound Regional School of Nursing are gathering together for a major milestone. Members of that 1974 class – the last for the hospital-based regional school and the first for the Georgian College Nursing Department – will descend on the […]
Oberlin Food Hub brings fresh produce to Ohio’s food banks while supporting local farmers | Great Lakes Now
By Zaria Johnson, Ideastream Public Media
This story was originally published by Ideastream.
One in seven Ohioans faces food insecurity, according to Feeding America. This story is part of a “Sound of Us” series in partnership with Lorain County’s Second Harvest Food Bank.
Cattle Production That Enhances Water and Environmental Quality | Great Lakes Now
By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue
LAKE CITY, MI – Two facts about Michigan agriculture are scarcely recognized outside the fences and beyond the drainage ditches of the state’s 45,000 farms. The first: farming is among the most technologically sophisticated industrial sectors in Michigan and every other state.