Farm Finances 101: It’s not that hard
Own vs. owe. Two three-letter words and the last letter makes all the difference.
He’s too young to be stuck in the middle
Despite my repeated attempts to make them listen to reason, our otherwise excellent school district suffers one fatal flaw: They think that 10-year-olds belong in middle school.
Gripe, then adjust grazing tactics
Everyone seems to like to talk about the weather and farmers probably lead the pack in a lot of those discussions.
It is either...
Anti-ethanol effort led by grocers
According to two documents posted on Sen. Charles Grassley’s, R-Iowa, congressional Web site, the “grassroots” anti-ethanol media blitz that’s hitched today’s climbing food prices...
Good grammar is never out of style
The extremely heavy book in my lap as I write this column is titled National Encyclopedia of Business and Social Forms and Embracing the...
Hazard A Guess: Week of May 22, 2008
Hello from Hazard!We reach back a few weeks to Item No. 832, because Mary June Crisco from Monterey, Va., just sent in her correct...
Slap Me
My mother-in-law and I spent an afternoon with my 20-year-old daughter in Kent. Josie adopted a kitten the week before our visit. I was...
It’s a double whammy for beans
Soybean prices on the Chicago Board of Trade adjusted Monday, May 19, to the Double Whammy of planting progress and Argentine news.
The great indoors no better than outdoors
If I could talk to the animals what I’d say is “Look, I don’t CARE if you never speak another word to me, but...
Cattlemen and consumers should oppose JBS purchase
JBS plan to purchase two major packers and to vertically integrate the feeding sector will give JBS an unprecedented ability to manipulate and control cash cattle prices.
