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Bring on the winter season
Fall’s first frost — usually a mid-October event in my adopted central Illinois — waited until the last possible monthly moment — deep into Halloween night — to finally show winter’s white face.
Hibernation is one way to beat winter’s chill
Animals hibernate differently, but for the same set of reasons.
Growing chestnut trees from seed
Learn two different methods for successfully growing chestnut seeds from seed.
Weather market: Hold onto your hat (and call your grain buyer ASAP)
Two weeks from now we may know more about this grain market, but it may be too late. Catch this market while there is fear in it.
Ag Progress Days unveils new ‘resource centers’
Pennsylvania’s Ag Progress Days concludes this afternoon. But research and development on the topics will continue.
Natural gas byproducts could gain as exports
The Utica and Marcellus shales are producing more than just natural gas. Some are suggesting the byproducts be exported.
Vultures have their place, and their ‘day’
On Saturday, Sept. 3, the world observes International Vulture Awareness Day. Because they are the antithesis of cute and cuddly, vultures may seem an odd choice for their very own day. The reason is purely ecological. Though the two North American species of vultures (turkey and black) are common and widespread, the same cannot be
A lesson in the sand casting process
This week I’m going to attempt to kill two birds with one bush – er, that’s not right – but you get the idea. I’ll identify an item that was in Hazard A Guess, and that has gone un-named for several weeks, as well as fill a Let’s Talk Rusty Iron column. Item Number 896,
A very good year in my backyard
It’s been a banner year for wildlife in my backyard, and each evening my wife and I enjoy the show from the back porch. Pairs of bluebirds, robins, phoebes, chipping sparrows and Carolina wrens tend to their second nests of the season, while the young of their first broods search the backyard for insects and
Record export levels continue
DENVER, Colo. — While economic caution flags are flying as we enter the final quarter of 2008, both U.S. beef and pork export levels continued to exceed expectations through the first nine months of the year. U.S. pork exports built on the record set in August, skyrocketing 61 percent in September over totals from a
