Boaters: Follow the rules for licensing and flotation devices
A car or truck has a VIN — a Vehicle Identification Number — and a boat must have a HIN, a Hull Identification Number....
Weather market: Hold onto your hat (and call your grain buyer ASAP)
Two weeks from now we may know more about this grain market, but it may be too late. Catch this market while there is fear in it.
Retaining an interest in your cattle
I never thought I would feed cattle, until I got to know more than a few cattle feeders. Some were all about buying low,...
Food Dialogues spectators as feisty a rivalry as OSU-Michigan (maybe)
Food is now prime-time. That's right, food fanatics around the country have turned food into fodder for water cooler, as well as kitchen table, conversations.
Timber sales require education, caution
If there’s one thing that most Farm and Dairy readers have learned in the past couple of years, it’s that when you deal with...
Back in time, back to school
“She is four years and 364 days old and she is spinning away from me like a leaf on the breeze.”
I wrote that nine...
More than meals served at the last supper
The weekly newspaper from my hometown bring news that the small, rural Catholic church near the big southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth...
How many engines is enough at a show?
This topic has come to mind in discussions at our show and perhaps several others. More is usually better, but there are other considerations...
Harvesting stockpiled fescue and improving forages and soil health
Stockpiled fescue is forage allowed to grow and accumulate for future use, often during a forage deficit. It is common practice to harvest and...
Will we go the route of Racine County?
My parents were born and raised in “America’s Dairyland.” As a child, we drove back and forth to Racine County, Wis., at least twice...
