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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day was a rare occurrence on Guebert farm
Sometime shortly after March 1, winter lost its frozen grip on my backyard and brown blotches of lifeless grass and small mats of soggy hickory leaves began to emerge from their cemetery of snow. It didn’t come as a surprise, though, because for a week the loud, love-sick calls of flaming red cardinals had drifted
Study: Price gap threatens Chicago Board of Trade’s wheat futures market
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A commodity market that has long helped wheat growers and processors manage price risks could lose its relevance unless the Chicago Board of Trade bridges a wide gap between futures and cash prices, a new University of Illinois study warns. University of Illinois economists say outdated grain delivery locations in Chicago Board
Hold on tight, it’ll be a volatile ride
A simple definition of volatility in the grain markets would be the rate of price change over time.
Farm and Food File: I must confess: I don’t have a clue
A furrowed brow and clenched teeth usually accompany the phrases “Officer, you’re right,” and “I don’t know.” The former hasn’t split my lips since, oh, probably 1974, but the latter is quickly becoming a staple of daily conversations with farmers and ranchers emailing or telephoning to ask how long today’s grain and land markets can
Wheat may be making a comeback
Ohio wheat growers may be bucking the trend of several years of shrinking wheat production.
FARM SCIENCE REVIEW: Heartland AgVenture unveiled in Ohio
New nonprofit venture hopes to generate ag ideas and more farm profit.
Lessons learned on farms are needed
From the musical, “Porgy and Bess,” George and Ira Gershwin composed the memorable song that begins with the phrase, “Summertime and the livin is easy.” I mean no disrespect, but summers on the farm are far from easy and 2012 has already given us quite enough of Mother Nature’s wrath. The heat, the storms, the
Pa. soybean growers top 100 bushels per acre in contest
Charles Farms, from Lancaster County, was the state’s top producer in the 2017 Pennsylvania Soybean Yield Contest, with a yield of 107.17 bushels per acre.
Hay mow produced its own crop
Columnist Judith Sutherland reminisces about Dr. Watson, the undercover cat.
Farmers need a cut of the dough, too
Columnist Judith Sutherland wonders what life might be like if farmers negotiated union contracts for their fair share of the pie.
