You want a farm future? Speak out
Farmers can’t assume their story is going to get out there if they don’t tell it, because it won’t.
Commentary
Get obsessed and practice success
Donald Trump is obsessed with real estate. Howard Hughes was obsessed with aircraft. Calvin Klein was obsessed with fashion. Bobby Fischer was obsessed with chess and Tiger Woods is obsessed with golf.
That obsession led to their success.
Obsession means eating, sleeping and drinking your passion. You train, you read, you study, you experiment, you fail, you […]
Farm future: We are not the enemy
Agriculture received interesting attention recently as the cover story in Wired magazine, the recognized voice of new technology.
Wait a minute. Farming in a geek publication that last month featured the electric car? Yep.
The headline? “The future of food: How science will solve the next global crisis.”
It is a graphics-rich, text-minimal atlas presentation, laying out some […]
Let’s hope California’s Prop. 2 goes down
A ballot win for Prop. 2 in California would have ripples in other egg-producing states, and certainly in Ohio, which ranks No. 2 in the country in egg production.
Farm country rides economic wave
Remember the 1992 presidential campaign that pitted Bill Clinton against Bush the Elder? It gave us that wonderfully pithy saying, “It’s the economy, stupid!”
The bail-out heard ’round the world
It is difficult to think about anything but the U.S. banking sector implosion these days. Even though Wall Street is miles from your home or farm, and we often tune out the intricacies of global finance and its impact, we can’t ignore the situation at hand.
Monday afternoon’s news was all about the failed House vote […]
‘It’s morphin’ time’ for agriculture
There are no super powers out there to magically whisk your farming operation safely into the future, so I gotta tell you: It’s morphin’ time!
Support of 4-H, FFA youth is priceless
The small signs were plastered throughout the barns at the Ashtabula County Fairgrounds: “Who will buy the million dollar steer?” and “Who will buy the half-million dollar hog?”
The signs made sense when sale officials announced this would be the year that the total for the steer sale would pass the million dollar mark (at least […]
Pay attention to farming’s long view
It’s easy to get caught up in this season’s crop, this summer’s pasture growth or this fall’s corn prices. It’s not so easy to stop and take a look around at agriculture in general and at what’s coming down the pike.
What the heck, Google yourself
I’m an attorney in San Bernardino, Calif.; a staff software engineer for IBM; an art professor at the University of Michigan; and the CEO of HealthFirst in Santa Fe.
My husband is a Century 21 real estate agent in Burlington, N.J.; a recruiter in the greater Philadelphia area; a manager of EarthLink’s call center in San […]
