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Seasonal piles
I only clean for new people. In fact, if I clean for you, we probably aren’t that close — yet.
Long weekends trigger grain market jitters
The grain market is trying to stage a rally based on a smaller crops for this year, but the markets for next year are looking to put a cap on gains.
AQHA approves stronger fines for animal welfare rule violators
The American Quarter Horse Association has approved stronger penalties and fines for animal welfare rule violators.
Longest-serving Ohio 4-H volunteer’s experience inspires others
Today, 75 years later, 4-H remains part and parcel of Charlotte Wagner’s life, as she recently celebrated 69 years as a 4-H volunteer.
Grid marketing could reward your herd
Most cattle feeders are pretty shrewd businessmen and women. They don’t just know how to run a break-even. They live and breathe them. They study profit opportunities like their future depends on them, because — especially in times like these — it does. Talk marketing with any longtime feeder, and they’re likely to tell you
Ask FSA Andy by FSA Andy about service-oriented architecture
Hello Again! Most of us are fortunate to have missed most of the last major snow and ice storm that slammed the south and moved up the east coast. The old woodchuck certainly got it right this year. My daughter is not happy to have to make up snow days and I think that senioritis
Some days are meant to last forever
Someone — my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone — told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a century ago in the small, southern Illinois farming community where I was raised. The story goes like this: After a wedding date was set, the bride’s father saddled his finest horse
Farm and Food File: Listen up, hired hands in Congress
How do you explain Congress’ public approval rating of only 9 percent and still not one hint of any change in the collective behavior that has made the institution and its members as popular as chickenpox?
Too fat to enlist: Military recruitment hindered by obesity
By TED BOSCIA ITHACA, N.Y. — At a time when American military forces are stretched thin overseas, a growing number of potential recruits are too fat to enlist, according to an analysis by Cornell economists. In the past half-century, the number of women of military age who exceed the U.S. Army’s enlistment standards for weight-for-height
Tillage operations present options for seedbed preparation
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — After a wet fall and spring, corn and soybean farmers must decide what field tillage operations are essential before planting the 2009 crop. “Where I think things are a little bit different in 2009 compared to a normal spring is there was less tillage done last fall than what may have
