Go slow on the bull market
You wouldn’t order a new pick-up truck without reserving the right to amend—choose—how the truck is equipped inside and out.
The same goes for a...
What to do when your new neighbors have sharp teeth
Your new neighbors might not be the ones you can see, but they can often be heard after dark, singing a scary tune, a...
Beginning farmers can get loans through USDA’s Farm Service Agency.
Ohio's Farm Service Agency made 72 direct annual operating loans and 40 term operating loans to beginning farmers. Ohio FSA also made 13 direct annual operating loans, 20 direct term operating loans, and 38 youth loans to socially disadvantaged applicants.
Court: Manure is not a pollutant
Wisconsin court: "Manure in the hands of a dairy farmer is not a ‘waste’ product; it is a natural fertilizer.”
Even though it’s winter, there’s still plenty of pasture work to be done
With the colder temperatures and calving season upon us, the nutrient requirement for momma cows is soon to be at its peak demand.
Dress for success
Kymberly Foster Seabolt discusses growing up, even though she's already been through the paces.
Cash prices will barely cover direct costs of raising corn
There's been shift in profit centers on some Midwestern dairy farms for a couple years, one that is likely to shift again in 2014.
Grain prices lower after the long weekend
The long MLK weekend seemed to be an excuse for soybean speculators to rethink the bullishness that came out of the Jan. 10th USDA reports.
What we need are teachers, not statistics
Editor:
(Response to Five Innovations that Will Change Our Lives, Jan. 9 edition.)
I respond specifically to the section: “The classroom will learn you.”
“In the next...
Readers wonder, ‘Where are my birds this winter?’
Every winter I get letters and emails from readers asking why they are seeing fewer birds at their feeders. For example, Sheryll Jameson, from...
