Disaster relief an ace in the ag hole
About 10 seconds after the Democrats reclaimed the House of Representatives last November, Collin Peterson, the Minnesotan who would lead the chamber's Ag Committee come January, began to think about the 2007 farm bill.
Why the weather makes us worry
It's a good thing we humans don't get to run the weather or we would be living on one mighty, mixed-up planet.
What if FMD hit the U.S. today?
We Americans are a cheeky lot. We've built this nation on independence, courage and true grit. We're rags to riches, Don't Tread On Me and don't tell us what to do.
Silage values aren’t a magic number
Regardless of the weather, there is always a need for a reasonable estimate of the price of corn when used for silage.
The case for farmland preservation
Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot - Lyrics by Joni Mitchell Ten farms in Adams County.
Fiesty wren rules the Jenkins roost
To think I am being held hostage by a half-ounce bird! Outside the kitchen window, the wisteria vine is headed for the roof, hulls from oil sunflower seeds are piling up, venturing to the trash can elicits a loud scolding, and even filling the bird bath is a challenge.
Making time for celebrity crime
I can't even get arrested in this town. Well, OK, technically I could probably get arrested, but what I probably wouldn't get is a CNN ticker and headline news.
Your Ticket To Bali Ha’i
"Step, kick, kick, cross-back, step, step; repeat, kick, kick, cross-back." I heard my daughter practicing in her room.
Farm bill is first step in long process
If the writing of federal legislation is, as often described, a kabuki dance, then the farm bill passed by House Ag Committee July 19 is only the first, essential step of a complex drama that has two more months of rewrites before its scheduled Oct.
A little teamwork goes a long way
"Until that time, he hadn't given money much thought. They'd never had much, but neither had anyone else they knew.
