The bad times are here: Evaluate now
Five consecutive months of a declining Class III price. Price moves for the two months preceding the decline consisted of two, 2-cent increases after a dollar crash.
U.S. farm groups say ‘no more’ in WTO
When the Senate confirmed Susan C. Schwab as the Bush Administration's Trade Representative June 8 - the second trade rep in just 13 months - it did so by voice vote, an uncommon occurrence for the usually-on-the-record body.
Gardener’s book offers laughable lines; waging war against ‘SuperChuck’
I have had quite a few good laughs as I have turned the pages of The $64 Tomato by William Alexander.
A perfect Father’s Day gift
Father's Day has never ranked among my top personal holidays. I got no more excited about Father's Day than, say, any holiday belonging solely to a religion to which I do not belong.
Fabulous Fatherhood
I overheard Kathie planning with her dad to watch the X-Men movies (1 and 2) before No. 3 hits theaters this summer.
Busting the great ag export myth
Former Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman couldn't stop for a cup of coffee in farm and ranch country without waxing romantically on how "1 in 4 acres of American farm production is exported.
A happy ending for a special horse
This is the story of one special horse. When my daughter, Caroline, was a little girl, the biggest thing on her wish list for several consecutive years was a pony.
Digging deep to find motivation
Baseball hall of famer Ryne Sandberg said his dad always told him, "Keep your nose clean, your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open because you might learn something.
My summer as a kitchen migrant
Sometime in the early summer of 1965 I migrated from my mother's hot kitchen and the family's enormous garden to our farm's sweltering hayfields and crowded milking parlor.
Diagnosing rattle fatigue on the farm
Do you know what rattle fatigue is? There are no Census Bureau statistics available regarding this, but I'd be willing to bet that nearly 90 percent of all farmers have experienced it at one time.
