Corn, soybeans sink on winter news
USDA says we may plant 96 million acres of corn. They look for 76 million acres of soybeans, although there is some thinking that we could see as much as 79.75 million acres. Last year we planted 77.198 million.
Columnist thanks readers for their “thankfulness” responses
Let every day of your life be a day of thanksgiving and praise to God. God is so good to us. He supplies all our needs.
Dress for success
You are what you wear. Our whole lives most of us who live out of uniform — and arguably those who DO — spend...
Oh, the challenges of dairy farming in the winter (ever see manure boil?)
Dairy farming is never easy, but even the simple tasks get more complicated in the frigid weather of winter.
It truly is ‘survival of the fittest’ when it comes to coyotes
It truly is ‘survival of the fittest’ when it comes to coyote populations. A few nights ago at 9 p.m., the thermometer on the...
FSA Andy
Hello Again!
As I came out to kitchen this first day of February, my wife said she was a little behind as Daisy May needed...
Sports show’s decision to pull guns sets a bad precedent
What was to be the annual big event of the year for sport show fans may be at death’s door. Indeed, the Eastern Sport...
Bees? It’s a valuable, and fun, hobby
In 2009 I started something that I never thought I would do -- beekeeping! (If someone had told me a few years ago that...
Paul Harvey’s words still ring true: God said, ‘I need a caretaker.’ So...
It was a Super Bowl ad that grabbed our attention for its shear simplicity, not its shock factor. Paul Harvey sharing his, "So God Made a Farmer" tribute.
His first locomotive hauled coal. Rest is history
In 1814, George Stephenson built his first locomotive for hauling coal from the mine where he worked.
