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Getting real with reality television
Why, oh why, do Americans like watching “reality TV?” Columnist Kym Seabolt wants to know (and to vote off the real network executives).
CAFTA pivotal to future of U.S. trade agreements
WASHINGTON – When you talk agriculture in Washington these days, you talk exports. Free
Carroll Co. fetes top milk producers
John Neider, Redien Holsteins and Red and Whites, Carrollton, received the Carroll County Dairy Promotion Board’s 2015 Distinguished Service Award.
It’s time to produce green milk!
I receive many invitations to speak at dairy conferences across the country. I try to participate in these conferences whenever my schedule allows because I learn a lot from listening to other speakers and talking to conference attendees. Recently, I participated in a dairy conference where Dr. Mike Hutjens was also a speaker. Disappearing breed
Reducing mastitis in your dairy herd
The unfortunate reality for dairy farmers is: “If you have a dairy farm, you probably have mastitis.” The good news is, mastitis cases can be reduced by using good farm management techniques.
Plan a do-nothing day
Kym Seabolt reminds readers that everyone could use a do-nothing day from time to time to remember that really enjoying summer is all about balance.
Managing vegetables postharvest provides health benefits
HOUSTON — Does your salad know what time it is? It may be healthier for you if it does, according to new research from Rice University and the University of California at Davis.“Vegetables and fruits don’t die the moment they are harvested,” said Rice biologist Janet Braam, the lead researcher on a new study this
Some days are meant to last forever
Someone — my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone — told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a century ago in the small, southern Illinois farming community where I was raised. The story goes like this: After a wedding date was set, the bride’s father saddled his finest horse
Retail staple food prices edge down
WASHINGTON — Retail food prices at the supermarket dipped slightly during the third quarter of 2010, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 food items that can be used to prepare one or more meals was $46.17, down $1.03 or 2 percent compared
Pollution regs, not love, are in the air
In this week’s commentary, Editor Susan Crowell comments on higher machinery and equipment costs due to a rule proposed by the Bush administration.
