Alternatives for dealing with down cycle
Most dairy farm businesses are not cash flowing. Some may be if they priced first half milk production using futures or options contracts when...
The Case of the Missing Keys
Dad looked frazzled. He fumbled through his winter coat pockets, then his jacket underneath, then his pants - both sides. What was he hunting?
"Can...
Hazard A Guess: Week of March 19, 2009
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
We all wish for simplicity in life
Life is filled with choices -- some of them minor, some major -- and some that just seem to put everyone in a quandary.I...
A man, a barn, and a movie
Pretty much every crazy idea Mr. Wonderful and I have ever had probably started with a measuring tape.
One moment we are sitting around,...
Hazard A Guess: Week of March 12, 2009
ITEM NO. 858
Hello from Hazard!Wow, after bragging on the volume of mail in the Hazard-ous mailbag and in-box, we received nothing but silence on...
A Mystery, a Myth and More
Looking for this week's recipes, I ran across Geraldine Duncann's beautiful Web site thequestingfeast.com. Described as "a Web site for and about food and...
We are frugal to a fault
If you spend your life trying to impress and keep up with everyone else, you are not living your own life -- you are...
It’s time to get with the times
It's the 1970s. An air-dried Polaroid shows your leisure suit and platform shoes, just before you hop into your pickup and check the CB...
You can’t keep a good farm man (or woman) down
Hamilton County's Bobby Burwinkel has some fun behind a podium at the USDA. A future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture perhaps?
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With all the economic doom...
