Columns

For those of you who are linked to the Internet and receive e-mail regularly, I’m sure you have seen the rather tongue-in-cheek commentary questioning...

I think I can safely say that I join the rest of the free world in relief that the terror and unrest is behind...

After you have gone through the recruitment and hiring process, how do you develop a working relationship that will encourage your employees to stay...

It usually began this time of year. On my every-Saturday-night telephone calls to my sister in New England, I would ask, “When are you coming?”...

History doesn’t record who first uttered the ageless business maxim that “Time is money,” but a good bet might be a meatpacker because minutes...

Spring is just around the corner and the time to get serious about pasture and hayland planting or reseeding is here. With memories of...

We can never be sure how long and hard we’ll be blasted with cold days at any time of year, but the hope of...

If you have not yet adopted management intensive grazing, you should now. At the end of 2007, I figured I would be spending my winter talking about how to evaluate and renovate pastures after the drought. Boy, was I wrong.

Just think: Spring, by the calendar, is only three months hence. And isn't it sweet to have those few extra minutes of daylight each day, even though the vernal equinox still slumbers? Meanwhile, we must all endure Old Man Winter's wrath along with trying to keep warm, keep the pipes from freezing and despite having had the fireplace chimney relined several years ago, I still can't summon the courage to light a fire.

"I'm not going to vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on." - Roseanne Barr