Too many cooks in farm bill kitchen
If urban sprawl consumes two acres of America's finite farmland every minute, should Congress, through the 2007 farm bill, address farmland protection? If one out of three Americans is either overweight or obese, should the $57 billion the U.
Almost ready to face the double digits
Having two children less than two years apart teaches a person a lot about parenting. The problem is that the "students" will be too bone tired for the first six years to remember a single bit of it.
If you farm, be a passionate mule
An author and writing teacher recent posted a short online blog entry called, "Four Things You Need to Become a Writer.
Never too old for floor farming fun
Last night, I did some serious farming. Santa Claus had brought me a silo filled with farm animals and fencing and it had not yet been opened.
Even with $4 corn, you’re in control
Amid projections of improving milk prices, increasing feed costs have many dairy producers concerned.
The great acreage race of 2007 is on
As the roaring combine sawed through 30 feet of soybeans at a fast-walk pace last October, a farming friend, through the convenience of his cell phone, sold 160 acres of still-standing corn for a couple or three nickels over $3 per bushel upon harvest.
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.
Playing the name game
One of the great advantages of growing up on a large farm is the thrill of being surrounded by all of God's creatures.
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.
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.
