Thursday, May 7, 2026

What's in a "Milk-Feed Ratio - A Peek at the Future"? On Jan. 31, USDA published its Livestock, Dairy and Poultry Situation and Outlook Report.

Brazilian agriculture dramatically changed in the past 20 years. We know of the rapid increase in Brazilian soybean production.

For generations, U.S. meat and egg producers joked about the earthy aromas emanating from their farms.

I bought a new vehicle last week to appease my husband. I wanted to drive my car until it dropped. After all, it only had 103,000 miles on it.

Clearly, the problem is that I expect too much. I expect, for example, that my cellular telephone might actually make telephone calls.

My wish came true. In case some of you are cursing my proposition, a week or so ago, that we have some snow, I refuse to take full blame.

The Tri-State Conservation Tillage Conference continues to be a source of good information for area producers, extension educators and agribusiness professionals.

By tradition, an outgoing president leaves just one item - a letter to the incoming president - on the Oval Office desk when departing the White House for the final time.

In the traveling journal of Laura Ingalls Wilder, it is interesting to read not only of their daily trials and tribulations as they headed west in their covered wagon, but of the local farming struggles in the barren soil of 1894.

I am raising ingrates. My children, like so many others, are ferried about in the automotive equivalent of a living room.