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Skin cancer is not glamorous
In just the past decade, the number of young women in that age bracket who have been diagnosed with melanoma has increased eightfold.
The case of the missing keys
The nice thing about marriage is that you have sort of a built in failsafe for those days when even though you love them, you really don’t LIKE your spouse very much.
Polar vortex, 1; not-to-be-intimidated hunters, 0
Can you spell Polar? Now add the word Vortex to it and you have Polar Vortex, something unheard of before recent extra cold weather driven by hard winds from the northern Arctic’s open-door freezer was given the tag.
Pastures slow to grow but much we still can do
After a cool, wet start to spring, here’s what graziers need to know.
Picky people
I’m not going to get any smarter — ever. I know this because I went ahead and picked at the wallpaper. That is always a bad idea. There is never a moment when you peel off a little bit of wallpaper and that improves a situation is there? Any rookie knows this. You don’t “just”
Copperhead or milk snake or rat snake?
Last week my wife informed me she had seen the first big black rat snake of the year stretched across the road in front of our house. “What are you going to do about it?” she asked/demanded. I answered as I always do: “Nothing. I’m not about to kill a snake simply because it has
June, farm bill could be another mess
June meant the end of school, the beginning of summer and the arrival of dairy month.Now, somehow, June has become the Golf Channel’s official Pace of Play Month, LGBT Pride Month (you can look that up) and Farm Bill Month. Little wonder rural folks are cranky; enjoying frosty bowls of vanilla ice cream on the
The farm bill gamble could be costly
A long, bitter year in the long, bitter Congressional session drifted into the campaign season with the U.S. House of Representatives unable or unwilling to butter the softest piece of legislative toast before them, the 2012 Farm Bill. Speaker of the House John Boehner attempted to telegraph that likely outcome two months ago as Congress
New Bt corn requirements used to improve refuge compliance
ST. LOUIS — As planting for the 2012 season approaches, the National Corn Growers Association notes that newly revamped on-farm refuge assessments are part of the enhanced Compliance Assurance Program implemented last year, which is designed to improve compliance with Insect Resistance Management requirements. Corn growers found to be out of compliance with refuge requirements
Managing weeds in pastures isn’t the same as managing weeds in cropfields
More than 95 percent of weeds can be controlled through good management practices.
