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Technology wave started years ago
About the time I broke the cotton shackles of my mother’s apron strings for the glorious freedom of my father’s farm fields, a technology wave hit the southern Illinois farm of my youth.
Farm bill is a wobbly effort at best
When longtime Texas congressman “Cotton” Charlie Stenholm got bushwhacked for re-election by colleague Tom DeLay’s infamous Texas redistricting plan in 2004, most ag policy hands lamented that much of the House Agriculture Committee’s farm bill experience went down with him.
Court piles on meatpackers’ power
Killed the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921. Largely gutted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s mandate to “promote fair and competitive trading practices for the overall benefit of consumers and American agriculture.
Eminent domain decision: no shock, and qualified, if you follow history
To hear the major newspapers and farm groups tell it, the world of private property rights collapsed June 23.
Dairy Excel: Working together makes employee motivation a beneficial partnership
Bernie Erven says employees wanted to be motivated.
Look out for those electric paint sprayers
Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt gives fair warning about items with no assembly required.
Teff may be a Midwest forage option
PRINCETON, Ky. – The heat of summer often leaves pastures and hayfields floundering and farmers looking for other options for livestock forages.
Rural farm income has nonfarm tie
A county’s average per capita income increases with it economic diversity.
Planting corn off to a healthy start
The sins of poor crop establishment will come back to haunt you.
Noble County Fair livestock sale tops $250,000 mark
CALDWELL, Ohio – Nearly 500 lots crossed the auction block in the Noble County Fair market livestock sale Sept.
