Clearing some things up
Hi again,
In last week’s article, I mentioned that qualifying for the Quality Loss Program required certain actions on behalf of producers. I wanted to...
Little less talk, a lot more action
Summertime and the living is easy? Think again.
Exactly one month into summer vacation, my ears are abuzz with the lament of parents across...
My Farm Bureau doesn’t represent me
Editor:On a day when we celebrate the founding of our democracy, it is sad that Farm Bureau still is trying to prevent us from...
JBS beef buy is bad for everyone
If JBS Swift's buyout of National Beef, Smithfield's beef slaughter operations and Smithfield's massive Five Rivers Cattle Feeding LLC, the nation's largest cattle feedlot with one-time capacity of 811,000 head, the three remaining firms will have over 80 percent market share of U.S. steer/heifer slaughter.
Unwanted horses: Who wouldn’t want Black Beauty?
Last week, the Bureau of Land Management announced it was exploring options to decrease the number of wild horses and burros in the nation's...
FSA Andy for July 10, 2008
Hello again,The start of July doesn't seem to have brought much help to us in the hay making department. Thank God for Sunfilm and...
TV’s Masterpiece
When a good thing doesn't come to an end, it is still ever subject to change. In 1971, the fall I went off to...
A day of child’s play is magical
“To be with a child is to become a bit of a child again, for that magical moment.”
— Anonymous
For one wonderful day...
That’s Mrs. Quixote to you
Et tu, Farm and Dairy? Recently, this very newspaper ran an article about the ability to have your very own windmill to create electricity...
Dairy researchers have seen the light; farmers should, too
We're going to do it. A whole column that doesn't mention the two four-letter words we are growing to hate: f_ _ d and...
