Hazard A Guess: Week of Aug. 21, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Parents’ presence, not presents, the key
'"A mother understands what a child doesn't say."
-- Anonymous
This is a tale of two moms.For those of you who have been enjoying...
Game of farming: Decisions, decisions
If you don't make the management decisions for your farm, who will?
FSA Andy for August 21, 2008
Hello again!
It is with a little sadness that I will sit back and watch as the 2008-09 school year begins.
In September of 1996,...
Dairy cows blamed for global warming: It’s a lot of warm air
Recently, a letter to the editor of my local newspaper used data from a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report to argue that eating...
English for the English speaker
As a trained professional in most things English (the language, not the nation), and with the Labor Day kick-off to the election season just...
Inner child meets the Outer Mom
It turns out that I am an idiot.
I had no idea. In fact, I was humming along clam-happy in my (mistaken) belief that...
Life on a beach: There’s more than meets the eye
Few habitats seem as sterile as a sandy New Jersey beach.Waves of salt water constantly wash the shoreline. The only obvious indicators of life...
What the heck, Google yourself
I'm an attorney in San Bernardino, Calif.; a staff software engineer for IBM; an art professor at the University of Michigan; and the CEO...
Didn’t summer just get started?
These poignant lyrics to a sweet melody -- "Believe me if all those endearing young charms were to fade by tomorrow and melt in...













