Plan now for your winter feeding
Winter is here, are you ready? The single largest expense of keeping livestock is winter feeding costs. Winter feed costs will be expensive this...
Winter from the window
Short snaps of deep cold were not rare but all were deeply unwelcome. The cows, the hired men, the plumbing, the shivering calves, the machinery—everyone and everything—moved slower or not at all when temperatures fell to zero or below.
Crops are getting ugly out there
Ohio’s corn condition declined 19 percent for the second week in a row. Our fearless grain commentator, Marlin Clark, can't remember ever seeing that before.
How We Behold
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb writes to encourage readers to live in the moment yet remember the past.
Don’t forget commodity program deadlines
Hello Again!With all the cold, windy, and wet weather we have felt lately it’s hard to believe that April is almost over! Hopefully very...
Foodservice giant: Save the farmers
When Rick Schnieders was 10, his first job was bagging potatoes at his father's small grocery store in Iowa.
A view from above shows the true landscape
Last week I flew from Pittsburgh to North Carolina via New York City. I took the scenic route and got to see lots of...
Whoa, Dude! Don’t Strain the Brain
I posted the Web site Braingle on my online home page because, like the site says, you exercise your body to say physically fit, so why not exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? It suggests using the Phonetic mnemonic system as one exercise to boost memory.
Think about it! What is wealth?
WHAT IS WEALTH?
When you stop and think about it, one of the highest goals of mankind today is to become wealthy. Have we allowed...
Too much silence about merger
The weakly regulated, wild west show that has been the Chicago futures markets is poised to become a wilder, more global show now that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced it was purchasing archrival Chicago Board of Trade for $8 billion.
