Wednesday, April 22, 2026

If most Americans followed commodity prices as blindly as they follow the Kardashians, the national dinner menu might well feature bushels of cheaper-by-the-day grains and teaspoons of record-priced pork, beef, poultry and fish.

Grain prices have mostly continued lower the last week, although wheat shows signs of a bottom and the soybeans have had erratic trading that seems like indecision day-traders taking profits.

Outdoor magazines are good for kids, and adults.

Deer are active in the summer, and enjoyable to watch, from a safe distance.

Storing hay in a wet year requires a lot of care.

As we enter the thick of summer I find my kids, now teens, going in many different directions. Gone are the long hours spent...

The Class III price moved from $24.31 in April to $22.57 in May followed by $21.36 in June.

As we enter the thick of summer I find my kids, now teens, going in many different directions.

To family we are born.

Outdoor magazines (the kind you get in the mail, hold in your hand, and leaf through while riding a recliner) are as popular as ever, a rare fact considering that today's reliance on hand-held devises to deliver all that is news.