Ronnie Kirk, we barely knew you … but we remember
On Feb. 27, the eve the Great Sequester, President Barack Obama left the Oval Office and its byzantine game of federal budget chicken to...
Winter grain markets still hiding secrets
The middle of March is a hard time to plan grain marketing. We are in the dark about actual planting plans, spring weather, and the results of the winter weather we are now experiencing.
Squeezing the energy out of your grain!
Some things were tolerable with $2 corn that are out of the question now that we deal with $7 corn. Undigested grain in the...
Walleye are this young man’s business on the lake
The Gribble gang may be Lake Erie’s hottest walleye fishing crew, knocking down approximately 600 charter trips last summer, a carefully planned and orchestrated...
Everyone is waiting for spring to arrive
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they moved,...
You light up my life
When Mr. Wonderful came home and lit a candle before we sat down to eat, I was noticeably touched. Such a romantic!
Scratch that. False...
Today
My friend, Jan, often quotes Psalm 118:24, “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
How...
Sky dance: The woodcock’s courtship routine
In his classic, A Sand County Almanac (1949), wildlife biologist Aldo Leopold described the male American woodcock’s courtship display as a “sky dance.” I...
Could we handle another big flood?
As I sit here writing this article, the weather has been less than pleasant. I watch it transition from rain to snow, to sleet,...
Loan programs for socially disadvantaged and beginning farmers
The Farm Service Agency has loan programs to assist members of socially disadvantaged groups and beginning farmers to finance agricultural enterprises. Under these designated...