North Dakota pheasant hunting gone awry
It's autumn up here in North Dakota, but not the chilled air, colorful trees, gray sky autumn all North American hunters look forward to each year.
Python Challenge open to fearless hunters
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is looking for a few fearless hunters. But if you’re afraid of snakes, stay home.
Harvesting crops isn’t the only thing you should be doing this fall
The costs of having a forage analysis are well worth the expense and effort when feeding, selling or purchasing forages.
Flexible cash farm leases offer advantages
Cash lease arrangements often create a negotiating environment where there is asymmetric information.
Harvesting (and marketing) grain in hope
More than any other time in recent memory, farmers this year are harvesting in hope. That is, their collective marketing plan is to hope that prices get better.
How to put pick-your-own apples to good use
Pick-your-own operations are a great way to get your family active outdoors and enjoy the fall colors.
I’m having a senior moment
Sometimes the strength of a true leader is to be humble. Columnist Kym Seabolt has watched her shy little boy grow into a young man that other men look up to. 'His senior year, we celebrate that.'
Ask FSA Andy about marketing assistance loans
Corn, soybeans, and wheat are just a few of the crops available for a program called Marketing Assistance Loans.
What was making news in America in 1939
October 1939: Poland was desperately fighting the German Wehrmacht in the west and the Red Army in the east, vestiges of the Great Depression lingered in this country, FDR was well into his 2nd term as President and your author was in his second month of 1st grade at Court School, a one-roomed frame building in western Pennsylvania.
Tweet, tweet: It’s the sound farmers are hearing through the USA
According to U.S. Department of Agriculture data, this year's 36 percent fall in net farm income is the biggest drop since the bad year of 1983.
