It’s year-end tax planning time
Can’t put it off any longer … it’s year-end tax planning time.
“One’s tax management goal should be maximizing after-tax income or wealth over...
Hazard A Guess: Week of Dec. 11, 2008
Do you know how this whachamacallit was used? Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
FSA Andy for Dec. 4, 2008
Hello Again!It is always nice to visit with our families and friends on Thanksgiving, and even better to graze on the food that everyone...
Six quick homemade holidy gift ideas
Why not give gifts that are homemade? A gift from the kitchen is twice blessed.
Taxing cow farts: The strange and true from D.C.
You take a coupla days off and the papers and e-mails pile up faster than snowflakes in Geauga County. Here's some of what greeted...
The perils of grain market prognostication
The stock market took another dive, and it took the grains with it.
Rural Americans way ahead of leaders
In a brief presentation to some 250 or so farm and small town members of Iowa mutual insurance companies Nov. 17, I asked for...
You’ll want to find these books under the tree
If you've got some avid readers on your holiday gift list, here are some titles I enthusiastically recommend.
The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters...
A cheating Channing is still charming
"Old Major completed his herding of the milk cows and somehow came to realize that he had two full hours until he was needed...
Life is full of surprises: Enjoy the good ones
I have always prided myself on being the smart, savvy sort. The type that no one can “put one over on.” The type to...
