America is old enough to dress the part
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt reflects on American fashion. We have certainly grown as a nation in since 1776, but unfortunately, our clothes have gotten smaller.
Exciting, confusing weekend hits grain trade
Price revisions from the Chicago Board of Trade, a surprising end of week USDA crop report, and a holiday shortening up early week trading made for an exciting and confusing weekend in grain trade.
FSA accepting applications for rural youth loan program
The Farm Service Agency has a loan program to assist rural youth to establish and operate income producing agriculture projects. The youth loan program is connected to participation in 4-H or FFA.
Grain markets: Little to gain from long weekend
The fond hope of the Labor Day weekend was that, with an extra day of mystery and no trading, we might see some gains...
Food chemist Lloyd Hall changed the industry
Hello again!The other day my wife asked me to retrieve some canned goods from the basement cupboard and I was reminded of the many...
Nature’s Art Magnified
This January's unseasonably warm weather left our snow shovel resting by the back door. It's great, because unless I'm pulling a sled back up the hill below the farmhouse at Dad's, I don't much like tramping through the white stuff, scraping off my vehicles, or driving on slick roads.
A good defense is the best offense
Lately I have been working with the Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency to formulate plans for dealing with animal disease outbreaks such as foot-and-mouth disease and other natural or man-made threats to agriculture.
Surely I’m not the only one who’s been tripped up by that time change...
Last month when we were all still enjoying it getting cozy and dark shortly after lunch, I hopped in Mr. Wonderful's truck, a vehicle...
Killing GIPSA makes us worse
Sonny Perdue killed the GIPSA rule, a complicated but crucial market reform aimed at leveling the meatpacker-dominated livestock and poultry markets.
Got debt? Milk giant downgraded
The finances of Dairy Farmers of America are souring faster than cream in a July sun, according to a May 9 Moody's Investors Service report.
