Sunday, May 5, 2024
Item No. 1246

Keith Greathouse, of Uniontown, Ohio, submitted Item No. 1246. The jaws open up and clamp down when contact is made.
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The grain markets are up, at least for now.

Friday's USDA report did not have a lot of news, but what it had caught the market leaning the wrong way. The result, eventually,...
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Kymberly Foster Seabolt combats her empty-ish nest by spoiling her two tiny rescue dogs.

Traders have focused on exports, transportation issues, South American weather, and politics as reasons for the decline in grain market prices.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Since our move this past summer, I now live much closer to my sister Debi.

Before the cheerless rush to abandon Washington, D.C. hits, here are a few suggestions for our hired hands in Congress on what they should not give farmers, ranchers and the rest of us in rural America this holiday season.

There are two reasons to keep up-to-speed on the fast pace of events in what would seem to be the very dull world of...

It is always difficult at best to forecast prices more than a couple of months ahead, but judging on current Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) cash and futures prices, dairymen should be enjoying a pleasant pre-Christmas season.

Last week, I wrote about Ralph Kohler, a lifelong waterfowl hunter who continues to host paying guests at his Missouri River pit blinds, something...