We spent considerable time and effort this winter cleaning up and out the home where we raised our children. It was time to let the house become “home” to another generation. Anyone who has moved can relate to the way every room in a home comes alive with memories. A farm parent might ...
I’ve discovered that some things age better than others. Bourbon and cheese are examples of things that improve with time while bread and my short-term memory have fleeting … um, what are the words? Oh, yeah! Expiration dates. Many things are deemed useless once they attain a certain age. ...
It may be a surprise that last year’s biggest ag story — tariffs — was swept off today’s front pages by even bigger news: a Middle East war, its sharply higher fuel and fertilizer prices, and the near certainty of another multi-billion dollar farm aid package. Then again, it’s not ...
Early in this nations’ developmental history, as they shaped where they thought that U.S. boundaries should be located, presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Monroe all envisioned the shared opinion that the inclusion of Cuba was “indispensable.” This was back when founders ...
NEWS *The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands, that operates the KuCoin exchange, for allowing ...
Our little granddaughter visited us not long ago. It’s an hour’s time or so between our driveways, so drop-in visits don’t happen very often. Still, we are grateful no one has to board a plane for a visit. Connecting flights confound me at times — in the same way that finding only ...
None of this would have happened were it not for cable TV. Like many guys, I’m a skilled — one might even say professional — channel surfer. I’m not interested in what’s on so much as what else is on. Some years ago, during one of my surfing sessions, I stumbled across a show ...
March Madness has begun, and I can truly say this is my favorite time of the entire year. I grew up with a love of basketball that began in the early 1970s on our small hobby farm located 30 minutes south of the state capital in Madison. Our large gambrel style barn was a working barn that ...
There’s a line spoken by Harry Potter, the literary creation of author J.K. Rowling, in the film “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” that many in U.S. agriculture can relate to: “I don’t go looking for trouble,” the budding wizard notes, but “trouble usually finds ...
The Mideast is a tough community. Most of the enmity is between the Jews and Muslims, but not all. There are two kinds of Muslims, the Sunnis and Shiites. They hate each other too. They are represented by Saudis and Iranians. This ingrained culture of hate goes back before Jesus Christ. They ...
