Let’s hope California’s Prop. 2 goes down
A ballot win for Prop. 2 in California would have ripples in other egg-producing states, and certainly in Ohio, which ranks No. 2 in the country in egg production.
Challenges open our hearts to all that we have
There is nothing sweeter than a gloriously sunny October morning — a wide-open, no-demands Sunday morning — here on this beautiful farm.
I walked with...
FSA Andy for Oct. 16, 2008
Hello again, friends!
I don’t know which is crazier or more unpredictable, the stock market or the crop market. Both have taken their lumps over...
Life doesn’t always go how we plan
To paraphrase the famous lines from Robert Burns' To a Mouse poem: The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.
(If...
Think Pink In October
When National Breast Cancer Awareness Month rolls around in October, Sherry Robinson, writer for the St. Petersburg Times, rolls her eyes and wonders whether...
The grain market hemorrhage continues
The market used to be bleeding lower. The bleeding became a massive hemorrhage yesterday, Oct. 6, on the Chicago Board of Trade as the...
Farm country rides economic wave
Remember the 1992 presidential campaign that pitted Bill Clinton against Bush the Elder? It gave us that wonderfully pithy saying, "It's the economy, stupid!"
Strength through faith endures all
To describe my dear friend Karen as strong seems an understatement of epic proportions. Karen, who has made a career of helping others to...
Farm profits fell faster than Wall Street
When Wall Street stumbled, futures markets hit the floor.
Parenting for dummies
I normally make it a hard and fast rule not to make fun of other writers. I mean, it's hard, this writing gig, and...
