USDA should be honest
Editor:I would like to comment on Alan Guebert's great article on NAIS in the June 18 Farm and Dairy. His lines, "flaws are as...
‘I do.’ Marriage advice from pros
'Tis June -- the season when wedding invitations flourish and everyone gets busy pledging forever, in sickness, and 'til death do us part.
Since...
Hazard A Guess: Week of June 18, 2009
Hello from Hazard!Allan Lines, Worthington, Ohio, adds more explanation to Item No. 864, which we announced last week (thanks to Jason Michaels of Mercer,...
In The Driver’s Seat
I usually try to fit more into my days than can healthily be squeezed, thus my sleep section of each 24 hours gets short-changed....
Another citizen science opportunity — Firefly Watch
About a week ago while sitting on the back porch watching night fall, I saw the first golden flash of summer. Soon a dozen...
Why ‘trade down’ in beef selection?
Demand for beef is down. Can you blame the recession? Not entirely, but it's a darned inconvenient coincidence. It's hard to argue that beef...
Never forget what so many have given
"I stood in the national cemetery and realized, through the stony silence, that I was standing on sacred ground. I was surrounded by monuments...
FSA Andy for June 18, 2009
Hello again!If you are a taxpayer, you might want to read this article. In June 2000, Congress passed the Agricultural Risk Protection Act. This...
NAIS should be fixed or forgotten
Four days before the seventh and final "listening session" June 1 to gather producer comments on NAIS, the National Animal Identification System, U.S. Secretary...
American taxpayers are subsidizing the rest of the world
Editor:These days, the subject one is most likely to hear on the evening news is the state of the economy. The U.S.A. is a...
