Yearly Archives: 2015
A roundup of FFA news for the week of April 30, 2015:
A roundup of news from Northwestern, Waterford and Minerva FFA chapters.
Kicking grain trading down the road
Confession time: Over the last three years I often have referred to the 113th and 114th Congress as either “do nothing” or “doing less than nothing.”
No substitute for quality forages
Forage quality has a huge effect on your cows' health and productivity and is arguably the single most important factor to dairy profitability.
Emergency assistance available for livestock producers
Options available for livestock, honeybees and farm-raised fish.
Join the race to help save monarchs
The monarch butterfly is now in great decline and its main . . . well, only sourcing of food; milkweed is just about as scarce as the butterfly itself.
State-sponsored shows now in line with federal traceability standards
Cattle or swine at this year’s three state-sponsored livestock shows must be identified with radio frequency or electronic identification (RFID) tags that meet recently-tightened federal traceability standards.
Courtship is in the air for many birds
Turkeys aren’t the only birds with courtship on their minds. With long days and warmer temperatures, song bird nesting season is also underway.
Surviving the threat of catastrophe
This neighbor came face-to-face with the robbers and complained that they were taking all of his money.
When launching your boat, be courteous
Launching your boat can be hectic, but just be patient.
Changing English language without trying
Today, autocorrect on most devices has made it easy to pretend that spelling (and proofreading) doesn’t matter.
