Ethanol article misses the mark
Editor:
Your article on the ethanol blending barrier (Blending wall hinders ethanol industry growth, Jan. 8, 2009) was misleading on two counts.
It is true...
The grain market’s new news is bad news
Prices crashed and burned Monday, and mostly are showing follow-through Tuesday. This is the biggest correction in a long time, and it is unwanted by anyone trying to buy grain or anyone trying to sell grain.
Reader sees glimpses of Lincoln in Obama
Editor: On Jan. 20, Inauguration Day will go down as a milestone in history. We will put into office our 44th President, Barack Obama,...
Predicting the grain market is like checking the chicken entrails
Everyone expects me to tell them the future of the grain markets, and the future is murky to me.
Livestock producers should embrace premise ID
Why is Ohio so afraid of a premise identification program?
Start the Year Health-Smart
Several nights during our busy holidays, Kathie popped a frozen, self-rising pizza in the oven and we called it supper. We tried to balance...
Ag impact is more than economic (or what farmers never get paid for)
Last September when I solicited responses to the question "What I learned on my first job", one of the people I contacted was Pike...
A new secretary; another governor
If conventional leadership and bureaucratic competency had a face, it would look exactly like Thomas J. Vilsack: round as an apple pie, chin disappearing...
January is the beginning of nesting season for birds
On the afternoon of Dec. 26, the thermometer on the back porch read 73 degrees. Carolina wrens, cardinals and white-throated sparrows sang as if...
Support your local Humane Society
Editor:No doubt if you watch television, this holiday season you have seen the commercial for abandoned shelter animals featuring Sarah McLaughlin on behalf...
