One devil’s advocate thoughts
If idle hands are the devil's workshop, idle thoughts are, what, the product of a devil's advocate? Maybe, but one election result from early...
Critical responses to mandatory national service
Last week I suggested that mandatory national service in one of many different fields would be a good way to bridge the gap between...
Life puts us where we are supposed to be
"The bright sun filtered through the clouds, warming the fields of alfalfa that my father was mowing. Within a day or two it would...
School trip is growing experience — for me
Our sixth-grade son, Wonderboy, has gone to camp. Camp being yet another thing the school district cooked up specifically to test me.
Much like...
Where do these people come from?
I'm not a Scrooge, really, I'm not. So I can't blame it on the upcoming holiday season. Maybe it's just because I'm getting old(er)....
Crop harvest drags into Thanksgiving
USDA released the Sunday night Crop Progress Report Monday after the close, and it was not pretty. Harvest still drags on, and rain coming...
Put more black ink on your bottom line
If Walmart were in the cattle business, it would probably serve as an operating definition of "least-cost producer." People might refer to its cowherd...
Did you blink? It is indeed all gone
Somebody -- was it you? -- really, really blinked from the time you were warned that if you did it would all be gone!...
HSUS trash talk? Bring it on!
We need to get ready for the coming HSUS battle. Their war chest is deep and their p.r. machine is slick. Issue 2 was a cake walk compared to what's coming.
FSA Andy for Nov. 12, 2009
Hello Again!I know you have been working hard to finish harvesting, but now is the time to plan ahead concerning your 2010 crops. At...
