USDA report may affect baby trends
Grain market traders got evened up ahead of today's USDA report.
Talking with EASE: How to engage the public about animal welfare
It’s easy to say someone else should do the education, and Extension, Farm Bureau, private industry and others do so, but it means even more when the public can hear a farmer describe what he or she does.
Big Ag, big data and big money
Big Ag — John Deere, Dow, Monsanto, Pioneer, and Syngenta — are “on the verge of going ‘all in’" on big data collection, analysis and operational planning.
Quietness
The holiday season is upon us now, and many people will entertain family and friends in their homes. With much company comes much noise.
It’s...
Good time to update farm operations for 2014 crop year
Hello again,
I am sure most of you are reading this as your fingers are thawing and you are drinking your second cup of hot...
Little one makes farm work more fun
Farming with the littlest farmer yields some dandy bonuses that glitter more than gold coins from a banker’s vault.
My nephew and wife were invited...
Deck the halls with gravy boats
Someone shanghaied my gravy boats. In the wee hours of Thanksgiving morn there must have been a wee gravy mutiny, because I realized I...
South Dakota’s pheasant numbers dwindling
Last week, I wrote about Ralph Kohler, a lifelong waterfowl hunter who continues to host paying guests at his Missouri River pit blinds, something...
Take the time and read the directions for machines
I hope you don’t get tired of the old stories I resurrect — I find them fascinating and hope you do too, plus I...
EPA needs science integrity, yes, but…
The new EPA scientific integrity czar has spent a lifetime espousing the separation of politics and science-based policy. And she’s coming into an agency with what some would argue a predisposition for regulatory overreach and a politicization of the regulatory process.
