Yearly Archives: 2008
What are you reading?
Can a book titled "Love Cajun Style" be worth reading?
Hazard A Guess: Week of May 15, 2008
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Planting progress finally improves
Planting progress improved dramatically in the U.S. last week. That was the news out after the close of trading on the Chicago Board of...
Make animal welfare your business
In the 1980s, the one-hit-wonder band Rockwell rocked the charts with the song, [I Always Feel Like] Somebody's Watching Me. Turns out the band was right.
Farmers: Don’t be victims of stress
It’s that busy time a year, when trying to get the crops planted and worrying about getting the first cutting of hay off is...
Records are only valuable if you use them
Whatever activity you think of, there’s probably a world record. Somebody has licked the most envelopes in a minute, played the longest chess match...
No time for idle hands on dairy farms
“Idleness is a sign of weakness. Let no dust settle before sunset.”
— Anonymous
I grew up knowing that there would be no allowances...
Improve pasture yield with clipping
Many producers are looking for ways to improve their pasture yields. The good news is that there are several things that can be done....
Soybean farmers: Living on a prayer
As the cold, wet planting season of 2008 slips into mid-May, corn and soybean farmers are grousing about weather delays, the likelihood of reduced...
Identity theft comes with the territory
The initial impact of parenthood snuck up and smacked me upside the head. No one was as stunned as Mr. Wonderful and I as...
