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Where has all the innocence gone?
“If you’re in the wrong place, the right things don’t happen.” — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1942 There are some things we are given absolutely no choice over in this life. We are born in to a certain place and time, we arrive with parents and family members already in place, and life begins for each
Watchdog bites the hands that fed it
Despite over-promised and underpaid by millions of dollars, the 100 or so producer-members of Meadowbrook Farms Cooperative said little during a recent public meeting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Grain, Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administration held to discuss the Feb. 4 closure of the coop’s Rantoul, Ill., hog slaughtering plant. Startling remarks The few farmers
The corn market downtrend continues
The corn downtrend has continued for 11 days. There is a little satisfaction in that, since in my last column I said that would be the expected trend. I would rather have been wrong, since I need some corn. Last week, we looked at the long-term seasonal trends and determined that normally we would have
Ag Progress Days: Vegetable oil looks like tractor fuel
ROCK SPRINGS, Pa. — The future looks rosy for a blue tractor that’s pulled away from the diesel fuel pump in favor of a new and experimental fuel: vegetable oil. New Holland and Penn State researchers proudly displayed their brainchild, a NH T7060 that runs on straight vegetable oil — the same kind you use
Helping hands
DORSET, Ohio — Reid Fetters had just finished helping his neighbors with chores when it hit him. The pain was so intense, so fierce, it took his breath away. “It hit me like a ton of bricks,” Reid said. “I’ve never felt such a headache and I went straight to my knees.” It was two
No surprise: Farm bill disappointing
If you tuned into the webcast debate of the Senate Ag Committee approving its long overdue 2007 farm bill Oct.
Children’s play holds silo secret
“Silos go to Preschool,” “Grown Men Get Paid to Work with Playdough,” “Where Playdough and Silo Meet” or “Dairy Farms are Future Site of World Record Playdough Production” might have set the stage for what was to come.
Christmas is Only a Dish Towel Away
Winter fast approaches and so does the Christmas holiday. I see large snowflakes blending with spattering rain as I wait to taxi my daughter Kathie and our neighbor Michael to school.
A community watches a child grow
Columnist Judith Sutherland shares the celebration of her son’s 17th birthday with his entire Farm and Dairy family.
No-good, horrible, and very bad days
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt was jarred recently into keeping her ‘bad days’ in perspective.
