Think About It: Cheer up
With all that is taking place in our world today sometimes it is not always easy to cheer up. About the time you think things are going well suddenly out of nowhere the bottom falls out.
Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: ‘It’s just a mile or so. You can just tow...
Over the years, I've read many sad tales in the tractor magazines of towing adventures going comically wrong (often with a real potential for disaster), and I've a few such stories of my own.
Black Ink: The ag business of social media
Farmers and ranchers tend to be on either side of the fence when it comes to social media. There are the hold-outs, the staunch supporters, the occasional users and the clueless.
It’s all right, in fact, it’s a gas
The natural gas utility doesn't give me the time of day -- until they need money. They are like big utility versions of teenagers...
I was the Lennon sister you never heard
At the ripe old age of 8, I decided I wanted to be one of the Lennon sisters. It occurred to me that I...
Being just one of the crew turns out to be good experience for new...
Steve, his mom and I drove to the airport in Cleveland June 30 with our oldest son, Austen and put him on an airplane...
FSA Andy: What you should know about the Conservation Reserve Program
It seems as though "going green" is all the rage. But did you know the Farm Service Agency has been "going green" for many years?
On My Mind: You can learn a lot from the classifieds
In Farm and Dairy's Classified Advertising section -- we used to call them Want Ads -- there are always many intriguing headings. I enjoy reading the Dogs and Dog Supplies, Horses and Ponies, Hay and Grain, Miscellaneous and Wanted To Buy.
Grassed waterways: A reminder from nature that management still needed
This is the time of year when harvest begins, and farmers become aware of where erosion and gullying is under way in their fields...
Farm and Food File: Economic woes piling up
So corn is rockin' north of $7, beans are toyin' with $14, cattle look to be headed to who-knows-where and hogs, well, bacon is sellin' for what steak used to.
