Monday, December 22, 2025

Yearly Archives: 2007

WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. - When planting season rolls around, one of the most valuable tools a farmer needs fits right in his shirt pocket.

WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa. - More than half of Ohio and Pennsylvania farmers bring in less than $10,000 a year from their farms.

One of the great advantages of growing up on a large farm is the thrill of being surrounded by all of God's creatures.

As the roaring combine sawed through 30 feet of soybeans at a fast-walk pace last October, a farming friend, through the convenience of his cell phone, sold 160 acres of still-standing corn for a couple or three nickels over $3 per bushel upon harvest.

Apparently, my children are attending spy school. That is the only explanation for why I, the consummate prying parent, am so completely in the dark about what it is they DO all day.

It just doesn't seem possible that so much water could fall from the sky, day after day after day. But it does.

Who knew? Who knew that a bigger air compressor could change a life? Or that a simple pair of pruners designed for lefties made such a difference? You knew.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Weather in the Midwest has been anything but normal this winter, with above average temperatures and seemingly endless rainfall.

WASHINGTON - The 2006 average annual temperature for the contiguous U.S. was the warmest on record and nearly identical to the record set in 1998, according to scientists at

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has intervened in the national debate over the UglyRipe tomato, freeing the heirloom beefsteak variety tomato from the shape restrictions imposed by the Florida Tomato Committee.