Hazard A Guess: Week of Oct. 2, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Fall: It’s not the end of the grazing season, it’s the beginning
October signals the coming end to our pasture-growing season. In some cases the growing season equals the grazing season. When pasture growth ends, so...
Let’s blame it on the bossa nova
Last week in this space we looked at the "outside markets" as an effect on our grain markets. Recently, they have been a dominating...
Weather woes: The other shoe dropped
In the column for the Sept. 11 edition, I wrote about all the scary storms everywhere else and hoped the other shoe would not...
Power to the people: My so-called pioneer life
By Day Two, when the power company was reporting that it might be a WEEK until we got power -- plucky and intrepid had morphed into a deepening sense of dread.
Duncan’s Story Part I
As Kathie and I left my brother Tom's house one Sunday night, on our way to our old Voyager van, we were met by...
Outside markets dominate grain prices
Based on the fundamentals and the technicals both, we should have been lower Sept. 22. What happened? Outside markets happened, with a vengeance.
Hazard A Guess: Week of Sept. 25, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Pigs have feelings, too
A reader — an actual pig, in fact — sent the following e-mail:
Sir: Recently you, others in the media and several politicians referred...
Feeding calf brings back memories
"In the back pasture, a newborn calf arrived this morning, all wobbly-legged and glistening wet. The sun warmed us as we walked across the...
