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Rainy days had their charm
On the big southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth, a rainy June day was a treat almost as great as homemade ice cream.
Why I became a young farmer
Ivory Harlow isn’t your typical farmer. She shares her reasons for becoming a farmer in her inaugural column for farmanddairy.com.
Please tell me you remember, right??
If you thought the farm bill fight was bad, you’re gonna hate the coming battle over the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). You remember the CFTC, right? Futures market regulator It’s the futures market regulator that everyone despises until some brokerage firm takes $700 million from customer accounts a day before it
Sentimental journey through old memories
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt may hoard babyhood memorabilia but she plans on keeping it all.
With a little hocus pocus, taxpayers pay for more crop insurance
Alan Guebert thinks federal crop insurance is beginning to look like federal dairy policy: arcane, costly and incomprehensible to all but the subsidized few.
After a long winter, spring has sprung
Eliza Blue doesn’t remember ever appreciating the splendor of a seasonal change more than she is right now.
Cover crops project provides fertile ground for graduate fellows
Penn State graduate students study whether diverse cover crop mixtures can enhance ecosystem functions in a corn-soybean-wheat cash crop rotation.
Making and breaking the rules
Alan Guebert reflects on recent changes to the USDA budget, and Sam Clovis’ nomination to be USDA’s undersecretary of research, education, and economics.
Let persimmon pucker you up this fall
Frosty nights signal persimmons to ripen, turn from bitter to sweet, and lose their astringent nature.
Open border likely to push U.S. prices lower
WASHINGTON – USDA officials say the border’s opening may cause a decline in cattle and beef prices.
USDA chief economist Keith Collins estimates the United States will import 2 million head of cattle in the 12 months following the resumption of trade.
