The medicine cabinet was crusty and rusty, much like me. And like me, it’s old enough to be a museum piece. The cabinet was installed in my parents’ bathroom when it was added onto their farmhouse more than 60 years ago. I was just a tyke at the time, and flushing the toilet was ...
NEWS *The four major beef packers are in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration. The Justice Department, USDA and the White House were all represented at a news conference focusing on anticompetitive behavior in the meatpacking sector. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins emphasized ...
Two weeks after the U.S. House passed its “skinny” Farm Bill — the law’s usual lard had been cut into last July’s reconciliation bill — applause is still yet to be heard in either Washington, D.C. or rural America. One big reason might be exhaustion. After three years of pushing, ...
Every day that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the balance sheet of global oil supply/demand deteriorates a little further. It has now passed the point of concern to where it is becoming a major crisis. Twenty percent of the world’s oil/gas moved through the Strait, but there are some ...
Some children come to us through the wombs and labors of other mothers. And our lives are never the same. A few years ago, while our children were in high school, I began to notice a young guy hanging out with them at our farm. I had never seen him before. He was a year ahead of them in ...
My wife and I recently went horsing around. And no, it didn’t involve traveling to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby. We are much too cheap to make a special trip like that. Some years ago, when we were in Kentucky for business, my wife and I visited Churchill Downs. There weren’t any ...
NEWS *NFA has ordered Metanoeo Capital LLC, an NFA Member commodity trading advisor (CTA) in Fort Collins, Colorado, to withdraw from and not reapply for NFA membership or principal status with an NFA Member at any time in the future. NFA has also ordered Joshua David Schuler, an associated ...
You’d think that the three extra years Congress has taken to update the 2018 Farm Bill might mean it stumbled upon solutions to today’s falling farm income, sagging ag exports, the need for more federal bailouts, and the White House’s bubble-gum-and-baling-wire trade policy. Well, stop ...
I renewed a CD recently as power of attorney for a relative for 3.6% for seven months. Given that inflation is 3.3% and rising, there is little net gain in the current rate above inflation. Money is devaluing as fast as it collects interest. Yet President Donald Trump is adamant that rates ...
It doesn’t take a Harvard degree to figure out that men and women think differently. And if you live and work on the farm, it only magnifies that notion. Volumes could fill presidential libraries on the ways farmers and their spouses can think and do things differently from each other to ...