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Striking a blow for parental unity
Columnist Kym Seabolt says its time to stand up for her parental rights: two 15-minute breaks and hazard pay for slumber parties.
Can agriculture save humanity?
Hunger, poverty and insecurity are at the core of global instability, but a 2008 World Bank report identified agriculture as the primary driver to abate hunger and reduce poverty.
How to avoid getting stung by bees, wasps and hornets
As summer dwindles down, so do the food supplies bees, wasps and hornets rely on, which makes them aggressive. Learn how to prevent getting stung.
Battling the phobia of GMOs
The opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is mounting another charge, this time through various state ballots designed to put into law the mandatory labeling of GMO-derived ingredients in food.
Gafkjen heads west to pursue dreams
Columnist Judith Sutherland tells part three of pioneering farmstead settlers in the early 1900s.
Many simply can’t afford corn prices under current circumstances
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Inexpensive and abundant corn helped move the ethanol industry onto the alternative fuels fast lane. With corn prices now at record highs, demand outpacing supply and crop losses inevitable with the Midwest floods, ethanol production could soon be stalled, a Purdue University Extension agricultural economist said. As corn prices continue climbing,
Korea lifts restrictions on U.S. hogs, pork
WASHINGTON — The National Pork Producers Council hailed the Republic of Korea’s decision to inspect only a sample of U.S. pork exports rather than 100 percent of them and to lift a ban on live hog imports from the U.S. The restrictions were put in place in the wake of the H1N1 flu outbreak. Pork
Cap and trade: Show me the money
One of the basic rules of my incredibly successful one-dog, two-ink pen operation is that if the government wants to give some of my tax money back, I take it. Depreciation? Thank you. Double declining balance, three-backflips depreciation? Thank you very much. That simple principle, however, was trampled July 22 when a Senate Ag Committee
Invention of cars link cities
During the 1800s and early 1900s, many American farmers were extremely conservative and disliked innovation and the unconventional. This was especially true when the first automobiles appeared on country roads about 1900. The first cars were bought by more or less affluent individuals who mainly lived in towns and cities and who headed for the
FAPRI report: Will livestock sector be the tide that lifts the farm economy ship?
WASHINGTON — The livestock sector can lead the agricultural economy to higher net farm income, assuming the farm economy benefits from a recovering general U.S. economy. That analysis tops a 2010 baseline report prepared by the University of Missouri Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute delivered to the U.S. Congress March 9. Possibilities, if… The
