Presidential election: We are deep into the rabbit hole now
When moderator Jim Lehrer asked presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama Sept. 29 what budget 'priorities' each would 'adjust' because of the pending...
The stranger in school photographs
I thought we had a deal, fifth grade and I. I had accepted our school district puts fifth graders -- mere infants -- into...
Dairy ride getting wilder by the minute
I recall just a few months ago when the whole cottonseed market jumped above $250 per ton. I received numerous phone calls and e-mails...
Market Monitor: Harvest pressure and strange dreams
When a grain trader talks about harvest pressure, he is referring to the effect on the futures markets on the Chicago Board of Trade...
Hummers, those mighty migrants, can still show up in winter
Mid-October marks the end of the ruby-throated hummingbird migration season, so it's time to take down nectar feeders, clean them thoroughly, and store them...
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...
