A Bowl a Day…
I was a volunteer at the elementary school library when I first learned of the cholesterol- lowering affects of oatmeal.
Comprehensive 2008 price outlook
Higher fuel and nitrogen prices in 2007 have signaled trends that will most likely hold throughout 2008.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
One of the oldest truisms in agriculture noted that "when farmers make money, everybody in town makes money.
Houses have their own stories to tell
A house may sometimes be more than just a home, but a tangible part of history. The house in which
Don’t just sit around this winter
When I opened the computer file that holds the farm calendar of events we print each week, I glanced at the little numbers that tell me how long the file is in column-inch terms.
You really need to do a balance sheet
Yes, it is time to take inventories and prepare balance sheets.
Happy cotton pickin’ New Year
While other prophets and forecasters fill the first week of January - and endless inches of newspaper space - with predictions of what will happen this year, permit me 600 or so words to predict what won't happen in 2008.
Junk, treasure a matter of perspective
One man's junk really is someone else's treasure. I thought of my sister the very first time I heard that statement.
It can be a small world, after all
Entrepreneur and author Seth Godin calls himself "an agent of change." His books on marketing are as thought-provoking as their titles are entertaining: Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? is his most recent effort.
Worry doesn’t get a holiday
I knew all those years of selfishly tossing aside those urban legend chain letter e-mails that warned of dire consequences if I did not forward said chain letter to dozens of my friends posthaste would come to haunt me.
