Itching for spring, new baseball season
"We weren't really alone, of course. Each square mile of farmland, bordered on all sides by those perfectly straight Iowa roads, was called a...
We all need ag diversity training
We cannot be so narrow-minded to think that there is only one way to be successful, to be sustainable, in farming today.
Keys to a Healthy Heart
May the force (against mindless food consumption) be with us.
Your animals on welfare
By the time you read this column, the reality of the current dairy economics will be hitting you like a brick.
The January Class...
I didn’t mean to kidnap the neighbor boy
So, I may have inadvertently kidnapped the neighbor boy.
Let me explain
As with most things in my life, there is a story here and...
Hazard A Guess: Week of Jan. 29, 2009
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Knee jerks and collateral damage
Biotechnology can feed the world, save lives, protect the environment, and improve human and animal health and welfare.
We all came together as Americans
Today's problems cannot be solved if we still think the way we thought when we created them."
-- Albert Einstein
All my life, my...
Old guard still reigns at USDA, even under Obama
Although Barack Obama has been president but a few days we can already say with certainty -- unlike before his inauguration -- he cannot...
New house people have problems, too
One of my many faults (and I surely have far too many to count in just one column) is I am a shallow person...













