Let’s put knowledge to work: Support land-grant mission
We are in an atmosphere of questioning spending, taxes and finding ways for all levels of government to live within its means. But cutting investments in agricultural R&D, innovation and education is like eating your seed corn -- and next year you'll go hungry.
What the written word can do
I wish I had a nickle for every time I have been asked, “how do you find something to write about every single week?”...
New conservation loan program offered
Hello Again!The Farm Service Agency (FSA) has added a new Conservation Loan program. The Conservation loan program provides farmers with the credit necessary to...
Benefits of tile drainage are inarguable
Hooray for tile!Now that's something you don't hear too often from people these days. Seems over the last decade or so in certain quarters...
The circus comes to town
As has been noted here before, most journalists get into the writing game because they cannot do math. I don't mean the hard stuff...
Where there’s smoke
All things considered, I think that the moment you are shouting "fire" is not likely to rank among your finest culinary accomplishments. Although you...
Rally returns with a life of its own
Even one of the strongest of chart signals did not permanently break the corn rally last week. This market has not been shot, stabbed,...
Can lesson can be learned from past?
Have you noticed a trend in the American work force? It seems that everyone I talk to is either being worked to death with...
Let’s take a meeting at the USDA
On Dec. 20, 17 people from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, including Secretary Tom Vilsack, 10 from non-governmental organizations, 10 from seed and food...
Old newspaper gives glimpse of farm life in 1800s
The state of agriculture in this country was still quite primitive in 1840, but many farmers were beginning to realize the farming practices of...
