Tag: farm

Columbus solar farm project on landfill dies before construction began

The Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio has cancelled a $70 million project to create a 50-megawatt solar-panel farm that could have supplied electricity to about 5,000 Columbus homes. That means another of the planned sources for the city’s municipal green-energy aggregation program, whose power is being supplied by AEP, has been scrapped, further delaying […]

Inaugural CheeseFest delights crowds at Farm Life Creamery in Ethan

Jun. 16—ETHAN, S.D. — Cheese enthusiasts and families alike were in for a treat this past Saturday as Farm Life Creamery in Ethan hosted its inaugural CheeseFest on their grounds just southwest of Mitchell. Farm Life Creamery, a family-owned dairy farm turned artisanal cheese producer, has traditionally held a customer appreciation day in June to […]

Why the term ‘Farm Bill’ is important to Mississippians

Like most Americans who didn’t grow up on a production farm or ranch, I didn’t know much until a later age about the term “Farm Bill.” That changed for me upon moving to Leland to operate the local weekly newspaper in the late 1970s. A gentleman farmer there — a Delta planter — advised me […]