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Weather drives record grain market
Continued flooding, especially in Iowa, has the market focusing on the size of the corn crop and traders taking prices to new all-time highs. Once more, we talk about history being made before our eyes. The December corn contract on the Chicago Board of Trade has made eight consecutive all-time highs. This is beyond amazing.
Even without WTO free trade deal, U.S. ag export surplus evaporates
For nearly two years, U.S. farmers and ranchers watched as the second shoe grew bigger and bigger.
On Nov.
Have you ever seen boiling manure?
We needed frozen ground. Mud was getting old. Nonfarm types complained about the cold, those whose manure storages were over-full were glad to see sustained temps below freezing.
‘Water, water everywhere … [not] any drop to drink.’
My feet splashed through the couple inches of water that covered our basement concrete. Where should I start to clean up? The narrow path through the stuff piled everywhere overwhelmed me.
Mend Fences or Tear Them Down?
Although it might be time to check fences and make repairs, there is another way to look at them. This was sent in to family life editor Laurie Marlatt Steeb by an anonymous reader:
The ‘S’ Curves of Spring Thaw
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb looks forward to “more slushy, sunny days.”
Not all ‘painted ponies’ were ponies
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about the evolution of the carousel.
Religion may lower blood pressure
Even when controlling for variables such as age and body mass index – two risk factors for high blood pressure – among African-Americans, those reporting higher levels of religious coping had lower blood pressure.
Rehabilitating pond scum may be boon for U.S. energy
AUBURN, Ala. – A term typically reserved for society’s worst miscreants may soon undergo a radical transformation.
Ohio pork council salutes Bayes, Ott and Strickler
COLUMBUS – The 2006 Ohio Pork Congress held in Columbus, Feb. 8 attracted many visitors and honored Ohio’s pork industry standouts.
