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Harvest is here, prices are not
I am having trouble coming to terms with the idea that we are still not to the last week of September and we are well into harvest, even here in the frozen north (Ashtabula County, Ohio, if you are not a regular reader).
Ah, the farm boys of summer
No July passes without baseball’s All-Star game and no All-Star game passes without most middle-aged farmboys recalling childhood dreams of playing professional baseball.
Bless this wondrous mess
The entire eight days GirlWonder was on vacation I prided myself on how well I was handling her absence.
First World Problems of the scratch and dent variety
We have recently been beset by a plague of First World Problems. First World Problems are defined as issues that arise from living in an industrialized nation that pale in comparison to the real troubles of the inhabitants of less industrialized cultures. (Example: If you are living in a mud hut on a war torn
Magazine column shows how dating has changed
Not long ago I bought a bound volume of Successful Farming magazines from 1939 (the year I started first grade). Each issue contains a monthly letters column titled What do you think?, where readers sounded off about many subjects. I reckon the following exchange in the columns could be called “Love on the farm.” Starting
2013 ag outlook includes farm bill, food price issues
Economists, ag policy experts take a look at where the new year is headed and where 2012 will end.
Unusual spring, unsettled market
Marlin Clark reacts to recent market fluctuations and discusses what’s ahead in the future.
A roundup of FFA news for the week of Dec. 15, 2011:
OBERLIN, Ohio — The FFA parliamentary procedure teams of the Firelands FFA would like to dedicate their best performances to date to Mr. Muth. Muth is an FFA alumni and one of their biggest supporters. Muth spent some time working with one of our junior teams. He was recently in a terrible accident and remains
‘Family’ antics fill the long, summer days
Usually the big calendar hanging on the kitchen door is filled with all kinds of squiggles and notes about birthdays and birds and reminders of anniversaries — the reality days of life — but so far July’s page is comparatively empty. I should write that, as of the 14th, the four baby barn swallows which
Economist: Corn prices increase, wheat and soybeans fall flat
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — While prices for the 2009 corn crop may continue to slowly climb as corn demand increases in 2010, soybean and wheat prices have a slightly more dismal outlook, said Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist. “As we look down the road to 2010, demand is going to continue for corn,” Hurt
