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Making feeders selective without unwanted visitors
If you’re bothered by pigeons, crows, or starlings at your feeders, I have three solutions.
Dreaming of new binoculars
Remember that binoculars are also an essential tool for hunters, hikers, and other outdoor enthusiasts. And I never go to a musical, play, concert, or sporting event without my bins, so this advice is good for anyone who uses binoculars.
Global markets: High speed crazies
If it’s a bad idea to play with matches, it’s an even worse idea to play with a blowtorch in a fireworks factory. And yet that’s just what farmers and ranchers do every time they price their cattle, corn, cotton and other commodities in global markets dominated by “high frequency trading,” trading driven by computers
Trade talks are stuck in past
The surest way to confirm if anyone in Washington, D.C. is telling you the truth about trade is to watch their lips: If they move, they’re stretching the blanket one way or the other. Of course, not many lips have moved on trade last year or this year. Not a priority Indeed, on the White
The unseen migration of the mature American eels
“Fall migration” conjures up images of honking, south-bound geese and monarch butterflies on their way to Mexico. Each autumn we marvel at the long distance migrations made by many other birds and animals. Some dragonflies make long distance movements, and salmon make well known spawning runs from the ocean to freshwater spawning grounds. But there
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
High gas prices lead to summer crisis
A few years ago, I wrote a column about how that upcoming summer’s gas was predicted to top $3 per gallon. At the time that seemed outlandish. Now it just sounds quaint. Gas My husband once noted, dryly, that I was less “stay at home mom” and more “gassing around three counties mom.” He had
New TV, converter box? What do I do?
WASHINGTON — There is major confusion among consumers about the looming transition to digital television (DTV), according to a new survey from Consumer Reports National Research Center. Seventy-four percent of respondents who said they were aware of the upcoming transition had serious misconceptions of its impact. The survey also found over one-third (36 percent) of
Stop ‘captive supplies’ in farm bill
Guest Commentary By George Chambers BILLINGS, Mont. — My parents, wife and I are the fifth- and sixth-generation owners of 27 Cattle Co., in Carrollton, Ga. Our young son will hopefully become the seventh. This is not inevitable. Unless we restore the opportunity for profitability in our cattle industry, our son will likely choose a
Keeping good time means regular oil changes, for your clock and your car
Taking care of your timepiece investment takes time.
