The weather is strange, but don’t complain
It just doesn't seem possible that so much water could fall from the sky, day after day after day. But it does.
Lock-down in a worry-free world
Apparently, my children are attending spy school. That is the only explanation for why I, the consummate prying parent, am so completely in the dark about what it is they DO all day.
Play dates are all play and no veggies
As the work-at-home mom-type person, I have become quite the hostess. Granted, not for cocktail parties, holiday dinners, or any gathering involving guests over the age of 10.
Scramble at Seven-Thirty
I was up all night New Year's Eve. I've heard you can never really catch up on sleep. A few mornings into the year, I sprang up in bed and blinked in disbelief at the digital clock on the television across the room.
Weather changes affect calf demands
We'll go on the assumption that by press time, our weather will change dramatically. In other words, it will stop raining, the grass will stop greening up, and the temperature will drop below 30 F and stay there.
The missing word rule applies here
A college friend once noted that everyone is missing one word from their personal vocabulary. "My missing word is modesty," he pronounced.
There’s nothing quite like a snow day
I couldn't help but laugh one day last week when a high school girl told me she was praying for a snow day just in time for semester exams.
Strap in, if you’re riding the e-wave
I can't open the mail, or another farm publication, or my e-mail without reading the word "ethanol." We're riding the e-wave right now, bobbing along on high corn prices and floating on renewable energy currents from Washington.
Setting your 2007 farm budget by the numbers
Lower fuel and nitrogen prices in the last half of 2006 have signaled trends that should hold throughout 2007. The outlook numbers laid out...
Farmers shouldn’t confuse concerned people with radicals
Editor:
I recently read the article about the Wayne County hog farmer accused of animal abuse (Hog farm investigated for abuse, Dec. 21, 2006). I...
