A crucial national holiday is looming on the horizon. Ignoring this holiday could imperil your current and future happiness, especially if you’re a guy. Valentine’s Day is a boon for the greeting card, floral, and jewelry industries. Sales could be tripled if their stores’ sound systems ...
NEWS *Tyson Foods is paying $48 million to settle a class-action lawsuit. The allegations were that Tyson and other pork processors conspired to fix prices from 2009 to 2018. Earlier this month, Tyson paid $55 million to settle a similar lawsuit in its beef business ...
If growing corn is a religion among Midwestern farmers, its Vatican is somewhere in central Iowa. That fact was confirmed in late January when a Des Moines-based ag consulting firm released a report that predicted dire consequences for Iowa farmers, its ag economy and the nation if Congress ...
I did participate in a demonstration, so to speak, at the Iowa State Capitol. I joined ethanol and CO2 pipeline supporters who were lobbying against an Iowa House Bill that would bar use of eminent domain for virtually anything. That was overkill. It was no surprise that the bill passed in the ...
It’s hard to believe we’ve reached the age where getting out of here for a few days in the winter seems like a really good idea. We did it last year for the first time, since I had a January speaking job in Florida. We packed for January Florida weather; but our job of it exposed the fact ...
I recently stopped at the post office to mail a few packets. This is something that would normally take only a few minutes, but it consumed nearly half an hour and caused my wife to suffer some undue alarm. It wasn’t the post office’s fault. As I approached its exit, a vaguely familiar ...
NEWS *CHS is reporting first-quarter net income of just over $250 million. That’s up from $245 million one year ago. Record premium diesel fuel sales helped push performance in its refined fuels division. The grains business was hurt by weak soybean crush and spring wheat margins, a ...
As has been noted here before, I don’t eat today what we ate every day on the dairy farm of my youth. Back then we worked like plow horses so we ate like plow horses: five times daily with a noon dinner as the big table-bender. How we ate all that food–hefty pork and beef roasts, buckets ...
There is no military in the world as advanced as the U.S. military, but China is close enough to being second to make them a serious threat. China would have to be given the edge militarily if the battle is fought in its home court region where they have the supply line advantage in any ...
After the chaos of Christmas breezes by and we’re left to sit in the quiet with only the soft glow of Christmas tree lights, the familiar warmth of holiday music and a bottle of wine, it can bring a lot of memories to mind. This Christmas as I did that, I noticed our Christmas tree skirt. ...