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.
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.
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.
Not knowing beans about seed corn
Love him or hate him, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore has his self-described "America's biggest slacker" act down pat.
Gift anxiety: Present and accounted for
Let me be the first to gleefully - and with a certain amount of malice - point out to you that there are only 63 shopping days left until Christmas.
Getting The Picture
Hearing a television in another room leaves a lot to be desired since the sound was meant to accompany a picture in order to get the full effect.
True confessions: I started out ‘numbers challenged’
This is going to be a "confessions" column to try to lure all those folks who love or hate working with farm bookkeeping, records and finances into really enjoying themselves at the From Bookkeeper to CFO workshops this fall.
Few fan-o-grams in columnist’s mail
It's been more than a year since readers have had their say in this weekly space, so, in the spirit of this election season - warning: mudballs ahead - here's their take on my take of agriculture.
