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Dad’s legacy lives on in memories
“My father asserted there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment. There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.” — Bill Vaughan
Farm Credit System wants favors
Some things are more reliable than even death and taxes. Take the Farm Credit System for example. Since it’s farm bill-writing time again, the giant, government-sanctioned, cooperative ag lender is again asking Congress for favors to boost itself in the farm lending marketplace.
Learning to let go is a hard lesson
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt lost two of her pets this month. Telling her two children was the hardest thing she ever had to do.
Study shows that SAF means ‘Sacrificing Affordable Food’
Alan Guebert weighs in on the four-page executive summary of the November-issued report on sustainable aviation fuel.
Winners, losers and eighth place
Blue for first, red for second, third is white, fourth is yellow and fifth is green. By the time they blow past the primary colors and into the decorator shades of award ribbons, it’s fair to say you probably didn’t exactly excel at whatever it is that you’ve done. Burgundy may, in fact, be the
Draft dodgers
“I’m excited about insulation.”Who says that?I do. I uttered that very sentence the other night as we were preparing for bed. I have spent enough years with Mr. Wonderful to know that sentence is akin to whispering sweet nothings in his ear. Over the years we have tried to find every last nook, cranny, and
Korean free-trade agreement could open market for U.S. agriculture
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — American agriculture should benefit from a pending free-trade agreement between the United States and Korea, according to an expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
Hope you’re hungry for a harvest
On the southern Illinois farm of my youth, the beginning of summer marked the kick-off of a season of great food.
Ohio leads the way in no-till beans
The Tri-State Conservation Tillage Conference continues to be a source of good information for area producers, extension educators and agribusiness professionals.
Walking with giants in our Capitol
This Thanksgiving day, like the previous three November holidays, will find the lovely Catherine and me about as far east from the harvested Illinois fields as one can get and still be on American soil. In fact, we’ll be on federal soil, just seven blocks from the U.S. Capitol, at daughter Gracie’s place in Washington,
