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Wood frog’s voice is not frog-like
It may seem a bit early to be listening for frogs, but wood frogs rush the season. They emerge from beneath forest leaf litter in late winter, and as soon as the ice melts, they sing. A wood frog’s voice is hardly frog-like. One field guide describes a wood frog chorus as sounding, “like a
I have more grain market questions than answers
So, it is a typical Tuesday morning. Here at 9 a.m., I have made the fresh-ground one-third real Colombian Supreme and two-thirds decaf hazelnut coffee. I have turned my contracts in to Bruce. I have talked to a dog food plant about a misapplied ticket and to a trucker about pickup numbers. I have talked
Confessions of true concession stand junkies
There is nothing in life my family loves so much as a $2 hot dog. Although, if truth be known, a $3 hot dog is even better. What it must never, ever be is a nickel and dime hot dog cooked and/or consumed anywhere near our home. We are concession stand junkies. You could take
What I did NOT do on my summer vacation
So I had a list. It was a very nice list. An impressive list even. On this list were all the amazing, enriching things I was going to do with the children on “our” summer vacation. Many of them were things we had done with much success and fanfare years before. So confident was I
Farm bill politics are a train wreck
In the long, glorious history of America, it’s unlikely that April 22, 2008, will be remembered as anything other than just another balmy, bureaucratic spring day in Washington, D.C. Meetings met, talkers talked and, in typical Washington fashion, the day ended with little movement other than finger pointing. Such were the outcomes of key meetings
The hardest thing is to just show up
As summer fades to autumn, if there is time in your day to pick up a good book, I recommend Heart In The Right Place, a newly published memoir written by Carolyn Jourdan.
Sir Isaac Newton meets Congress
Newton’s Third Law of Motion, “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” has direct application to the physics of farm bills.
Millions of reasons for lobbying reform
By Capitol Hill standards, $95.5 million is chicken feed; but even chicken feed has a purpose: fatter broilers, happier hens, more eggs.
The great acreage race of 2007 is on
As the roaring combine sawed through 30 feet of soybeans at a fast-walk pace last October, a farming friend, through the convenience of his cell phone, sold 160 acres of still-standing corn for a couple or three nickels over $3 per bushel upon harvest.
TV, or not TV? That’s the question
Am I mistaken, or wasn’t watching too much television once considered to be a bad idea?
Didn’t people lie about how much time they spent watching Dallas?
Can we not recall that once there was a golden time in America when “couch potato” was an insult?
Now? I’m ashamed to be among decent people because I have nothing to say about Survivor.
