Duncan’s Story Part II
I’ll continue the account of the dog the size of a small deer that strayed onto my brother’s place.
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In the process of transferring the Farm and Dairy archives to our new Web site, some articles were not completely uploaded. If you find an article that is incomplete, please contact us with the title and date of that article and we will fix it. Thank you for your patience.Hazard A Guess: Week of Oct. 2, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Fall: It’s not the end of the grazing season, it’s the beginning
October signals the coming end to our pasture-growing season. In some cases the growing season equals the grazing season. When pasture growth ends, so does the grazing.
However, for those graziers who have managed their pastures and watched over pasture health, the grazing season extends beyond the growing season.
Let’s blame it on the bossa nova
Last week in this space we looked at the “outside markets” as an effect on our grain markets. Recently, they have been a dominating reason for volatile prices. Trading on Sept. 29 put an exclamation point on the effect non-agricultural, non-supply and demand factors can have on markets.
On Sept. 29, Congress did not pass […]
Weather woes: The other shoe dropped
In the column for the Sept. 11 edition, I wrote about all the scary storms everywhere else and hoped the other shoe would not drop.
Well, didn’t it drop! When our area received microbursts and wind gusts upward of 60 miles per hour (or more some say), it is really frightening. And the odd part was […]
Power to the people: My so-called pioneer life
By Day Two, when the power company was reporting that it might be a WEEK until we got power — plucky and intrepid had morphed into a deepening sense of dread.
Duncan’s Story Part I
As Kathie and I left my brother Tom’s house one Sunday night, on our way to our old Voyager van, we were met by two stray dogs wandering toward us from a neighbor’s yard. The smaller of the two dogs, a shepherd-type variety, came right up to us, ready to make friends.
The other dog had […]
Outside markets dominate grain prices
Based on the fundamentals and the technicals both, we should have been lower Sept. 22. What happened? Outside markets happened, with a vengeance.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Sept. 25, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Pigs have feelings, too
A reader — an actual pig, in fact — sent the following e-mail:
Sir: Recently you, others in the media and several politicians referred to “pigs on Wall Street.” I write to question the appropriateness of the phrase because, well, I’m a pig. My name is Carl.
Let me be plain. My friends and I are deeply […]