Dairy Excel: Attract, then keep good employees
After you have gone through the recruitment and hiring process, how do you develop a working relationship that will encourage your employees to stay...
On My Mind: Paying respects to the good times
It usually began this time of year.
On my every-Saturday-night telephone calls to my sister in New England, I would ask, “When are you coming?”...
Farm and Food File: Time is money and money corrupts
History doesn’t record who first uttered the ageless business maxim that “Time is money,” but a good bet might be a meatpacker because minutes...
To fertilize or not? Penny-pinching may lead to trouble
Spring is just around the corner and the time to get serious about pasture and hayland planting or reseeding is here.
With memories of...
Hearth to Heart: Winter’s Final Throes
We can never be sure how long and hard we’ll be blasted with cold days at any time of year, but the hope of...
U.S. medical care can’t get worse
Editor:
In the recent past, we have been overwhelmed by activists, the media and political leaders concerning the 50 million people in this country who...
Agenda against religion
Editor:
No organization in America discriminates against religion more than the American Civil Liberties Union. This infamous group has launched a systematic war against...
Managed grazing the only way to go
If you have not yet adopted management intensive grazing, you should now. At the end of 2007, I figured I would be spending my winter talking about how to evaluate and renovate pastures after the drought. Boy, was I wrong.
Having My Bowls
When I first did the math concerning Super Bowl history I was confused. I learned that the first championship game between the NFL and the AFL was played in 1967.
Family meetings just make sense
Regardless of the size of your dairy farm, if there are family members involved - directly or indirectly - with the business, it is important to conduct regular family business meetings.
