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Crop returns growing as production costs rise, specialists say
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Farmers will spend more to produce their 2011 crops but they’re likely to make that up — and then some — from higher grain prices, say two Purdue University Extension specialists. Crop decisions Which crops farmers choose to plant this season also will play a factor in the returns they’ll earn,
Tried and true truck is family
“You can set my truck on fire, and roll it down a hill, But I still wouldn’t trade it for a Coupe DeVille — Joe Diffie, “Pickup Man” We came to truck ownership in the usual way. We had stuff we needed to haul and no way to haul it. Thus we bought a truck.
Back to school: Supplies and demands
I support schools, staff, and students every day. I am also very much a “suck it up buttercup and do what the teacher says” type of person. Nonetheless, sometimes I have to wonder, if only for a moment, if many of our public schools are TRYING to shoot themselves in the foot or if that
Priorities on ice
One minute you are a capable, intelligent person fully able to function in polite society. The next you have forgotten the recipe for ice cubes.
A good woman is rare gift
Other things may change us but we start, and end, with family.~ Anthony Brandt I find it sad as I age that I meet so many interesting people at funerals. Why is it that we all too often don’t take the measure of a person, or their unique attributes and place in this world, until
Memories and traditions are what make Christmas, not the tree itself
The Feisley Tree Farm includes 300 acres of trees.
The pros and cons of Christmas pro shopping
In life there are two kinds of people: those who start shopping for Christmas Dec. 26 of the previous year, and those who wait until Black Friday (or later) to even think about crossing anything off their holiday shopping list. Many people delight in having their shopping “all done” prior to Thanksgiving. They are at
But wait! There’s not more
Remember when the news was newsworthy? News, of course, is anything you learn that you didn’t know before. Using that definition almost anything is technically “news” if it’s new to you. Researchers at Georgetown University, for example, found that caterpillars can “shoot” their feces a distance of 40 times their body length. See there? News!
Carrollton farmer strives to find the right grazing balance
A Carrollton farmer finds a balance between keeping the soil healthy and creating a profit.
And the walls come tumbling down
I think what keeps you young is learning a little something new about yourself as you age. I, for example, have discovered my inner four-year-old (boy). I am a construction junkie. Behemoth of a building I came by this knowledge quite by accident. For many years now I have begun many workdays staring at the
