Animal ID and animal welfare: Strange bedfellows
Editor:We are opposed to a mandatory National Animal Identification System, NAIS, because it will be financially devastating to the small farmer and rancher. Such...
Where should I direct my anger?
Editor:Forgive me if I sound angry -- but as I read your article, "Farmers face uphill climb in D.C.," I have a hard time...
Stop working, buying and selling on the Lord’s day
Editor:The question arises as to what the ordinary citizen can do regarding the economy, etc., realizing that the majority cannot comprehend the billions involved...
Hazard A Guess: Week of March 12, 2009
ITEM NO. 858
Hello from Hazard!Wow, after bragging on the volume of mail in the Hazard-ous mailbag and in-box, we received nothing but silence on...
A Mystery, a Myth and More
Looking for this week's recipes, I ran across Geraldine Duncann's beautiful Web site thequestingfeast.com. Described as "a Web site for and about food and...
We are frugal to a fault
If you spend your life trying to impress and keep up with everyone else, you are not living your own life -- you are...
It’s time to get with the times
It's the 1970s. An air-dried Polaroid shows your leisure suit and platform shoes, just before you hop into your pickup and check the CB...
You can’t keep a good farm man (or woman) down
Hamilton County's Bobby Burwinkel has some fun behind a podium at the USDA. A future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture perhaps?
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With all the economic doom...
Virginia Myers Patterson will be missed
For those of you who have read this column for a number of years, stories of my great-grandpa Charlie are familiar fodder. It is...
Dairy farms are in the limbo line
If you have ever taken a small child to a roller skating party, sooner or later some energetic teenagers corral the troops and organize...
