Monthly Archives: December 2013
Gingerbread farmhouses and barns (Photos)
Here's a few of the best gingerbread barns and farmhouses from around the web.
Nation’s supplemental poverty rate went unchanged between 2011 and 2012 (Chart)
The nation's poverty rate was 16 percent in 2012, unchanged from 2011.
That's according to a supplemental poverty measure released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Big Ag, big data and big money
Big Ag — John Deere, Dow, Monsanto, Pioneer, and Syngenta — are “on the verge of going ‘all in’" on big data collection, analysis and operational planning.
Undercover film producer one of four charged in Colorado animal abuse case
An undercover animal rights investigator who spent four months producing a video documenting alleged abuse to cattle on a Colorado farm is herself being charged for animal cruelty.
Quietness
The holiday season is upon us now, and many people will entertain family and friends in their homes. With much company comes much noise.
It’s...
Good time to update farm operations for 2014 crop year
Hello again,
I am sure most of you are reading this as your fingers are thawing and you are drinking your second cup of hot...
Little one makes farm work more fun
Farming with the littlest farmer yields some dandy bonuses that glitter more than gold coins from a banker’s vault.
My nephew and wife were invited...
Out of sight, out of mind: Solar power makes sense on some Ohio farms
Farm-based solar power is catching on in Huron County, and across the state.
Deck the halls with gravy boats
Someone shanghaied my gravy boats. In the wee hours of Thanksgiving morn there must have been a wee gravy mutiny, because I realized I...
South Dakota’s pheasant numbers dwindling
Last week, I wrote about Ralph Kohler, a lifelong waterfowl hunter who continues to host paying guests at his Missouri River pit blinds, something...
