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Moving straw: If I only had a brain
Hard work is good for the soul. Hard work builds character. Hard work makes you tougher. Hard work teaches you things you don’t even know you are learning.
Small swine breeders should vaccinate
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Commercial swine producers are not the only producers who should be concerned with diseases entering their herds.
Farmers question milk price volatility
SALEM, Ohio – Ohio and New York farmers visited the Chicago Mercantile Exchange April 18 and demanded greater transparency into who is trading in the market and how it’s affecting dairy prices.
Biodiesel found in more and more tanks
In the past year, as pure soy biodiesel licensed to a number of manufacturers by the National Biodiesel Board has gained more general acceptance, the amount of soy oil being burned as automotive fuel has skyrocketed.
Rural hunger: West Virginia braces for federal program changes
Rural hunger has been on the decline. West Virginia researchers, families and food banks say upcoming changes to federal programs might put any progress at risk.
A man and his machines
Charles Gander, of Stoneboro, Pa., has turned his “big toys” into a booming business, turning a lifelong love affair with machinery into a custom farming sideline growing as fast as corn in July.
Farm bill still brewing in the House
House Speaker John Boehner says he will vote on the bill.
We need sustainable tax, farm policies
If only the New York Times would let the dog days of August pass quietly so all might nap in blissful ignorance until Labor Day. But, no, the Times asked a couple of big dogs to get in the game mid-month and now we can expect a few weeks of loud barking from Big Farm
The aggies to Obama: No!
Of the many talents Americans — and especially American politicians — have acquired in the last 25 years, coupling fact with fiction to create baloney might be the most creative. For example, in 1996 the Republican-led Congress created Freedom to Farm, that year’s farm bill, to decouple farm programs from set-asides, a grain reserve, taxpayer
Average Crop Revenue Election awaits
On Jan. 8, 2008, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs predicted crude oil prices would top $200 a barrel by summer, then slip lower but remain well above $100 through 2011. What looked smart then looks ridiculous now. Today, crude prices are far closer to zero than $200 and the spectacularly wrong investment banker, like
