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Ranches work to recover from Ike
ANAHUAC, Texas — Almost two weeks after Hurricane Ike struck the upper Gulf Coast of Texas, shock is being replaced by worry, fatigue and nagging questions among ranchers in Chambers and Jefferson counties. Massive efforts are ongoing to find and care for surviving domestic livestock, dig out from under debris and fallen trees and rebuild
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.
Quiet, hard work leads to good things
Judith Sutherland contemplates how some people find a way to quietly build a thriving life with so little.
Increase in benefits not what it seems
A 25% increase in SNAP benefits sounds like an absolute windfall until you do the math. Alan Guebert explains.
Deer smarts: Intelligence or instinct?
Deer often sense the presence of hunters long before hunters sense them. But is it intelligence or instinct? Actually, natural selection is responsible.
June hogs and pigs report shows slight expansion, low prices
Swine numbers show modest increases, but profits are still falling.
Putting the ‘con’ in econometric
While American farmers and ranchers were eyeball-deep in spring planting and first-cutting hay, their commodity groups and federal government were knee-deep in narrowly-focused studies.
Review offers fully before signing up
Some interesting offers may be showing up in your mailbox. Our “opt-out” period must have expired for receiving offers for credit cards, mortgages and other types of credit as more are showing up each day. Seed offers The ag community has certainly picked up the ball in this game as two recent mailings indicate: The
I’ll be thinking of Uncle Honey July 14
As the end of June edges into sight, my mind floats back to those hot, long days on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth when noon dinner brought everyone together for the day’s big meal. Afterward, all the adults napped until precisely 1 p.m. Uncle Honey, my father’s uncle who spent 20 of
Livestock grazing from winter to summer to spring
Winter I try to start grazing as early as possible in March. When the snow melts, I will try to feed stockpiled fescue which also provides a clean field for the cows to have calves. This year, when we moved cows to start grazing March 3, grass had already started to grow and some fescue
