You take a coupla days off and the papers and e-mails pile up faster than snowflakes in Geauga County. Here’s some of what greeted me Monday morning:
Cow tax. The ag airwaves and Internet hotlines were buzzing last week with a last ditch plea for comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to regulate greenhouse […]
It was a story no one could write but Don Rupert.
Farmers can’t assume their story is going to get out there if they don’t tell it, because it won’t.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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!”
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 […]
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!
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 […]
