Foodservice giant: Save the farmers
When Rick Schnieders was 10, his first job was bagging potatoes at his father's small grocery store in Iowa.
Rabobank isn’t out for the count
Just as the noisy presidential campaign reached its October crescendo, the biggest, most bitter issue in farm country - Rabobank's bid to buy Omaha's Farm Credit Services of America (FCSA) - skidded to a quiet end.
We’re gonna need a big combine
There is nothing quite so delightful as a child at play, imagination at full mast, evoking our own childhood past.
Renegade ATV riders just plain slobs
Growing up, my sister Carol and I turned just about every corner of our parents' 98 acres into our own personal playhouse.
Daylight saved is daylight earned
Ask any three adults you know, I'm talking even the brilliant, highly educated ones. The ones who can't even match their shoes or tuck in their shirts, they are that smart.
The Sweet Air of Sesame Street
Halfway through high school, I often came home to find my younger brother happily engrossed in the flashing, fast paced editing of the Sesame Street phenomenon.
Why you need a chief financial officer
Financial management of dairy farms is one of the biggest challenges of today's managers.
Like raising heifers and spreading manure on the far-away fields, financial management often gets relegated to the bottom of the to-do list.
Nutrients: How valuable are forages?
As the winter feeding period approaches, thoughts of my feeding program come to mind.
Speaking out on verbal abuse
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?
Speak for yourself pal. Words, when abused, give me a screaming headache.
How The Cookie Crumbles
Cookies aren't going away anytime soon since they are firmly baked into our culture. According to one food historian, "[They] mean mother, and milk, and tea.
