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Fleet named FFA acting chief operating officer
INDIANAPOLIS –The National FFA Organization announced Bill Fleet of Lititz, Pa., will become acting chief operating officer effective April 1. Fleet retired in 2006 as vice president, North America sales, for Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Johnston, Iowa. Prior to joining Pioneer in 1982, Fleet taught agricultural education for four years at the high school level
Farmers quick to offer a helping hand
Judith Sutherland finds comfort in the generally kind nature of farmers and their willingness to help those in need.
Finding balance on the equinox
Eliza Blue looks for balance in her life, reflecting on how the earth achieves it during the autumn equinox.
No news is bad news in the grain markets
Nothing exciting has sparked the markets recently, and that’s not good.
Preventing combine fires
Dry corn and soybean fields have put farmers at greater risk of their combines catching on fire while harvesting crops.
New home provides new blessings
Each day since that July morning when I took a ride in an ambulance has been interesting. Some days the earth is steady beneath my feet.
New home provides new blessings
Each day since that July morning when I took a ride in an ambulance has been interesting. Some days the earth is steady beneath my feet.
Landsat satellites find the ‘sweet spot’ for crops
GREENBELT, Md. — Farmer Gary Wagner walks into his field where the summer leaves on the sugar beet plants are a rich emerald hue — not necessarily a good color when it comes to sugar beets, either for the environment or the farmer. That hue tells Wagner that he’s leaving money in the field in
What are parents — and others– really afraid of?
Editor: In Editor Susan Crowell’s Sept. 9 column, “Obama school speech furor: You can tell it was a slow news day,” you dismissed as unwarranted the criticism of allowing the speech to be broadcast in classrooms all across America to children starting at 5. One of the spins produced by the White House press spokesman
Limbo market offers farmers little hope
Marlin Clark admits to being the bearer of bad market news recently. The only positive is that corn prices are so low, exports have increased.
