The writer Arthur Brooks recently penned a column about a dinner party he and his wife attended with several other long-married couples. After some requisite social niceties, the hostess posed a question that sparked an evening of fascinating discussion: have you ever had a major crisis in your ...
The first day of spring brought one of God’s chosen ones to the first day of her new life. This hard-working neighbor lady would have (at one time) loved nothing more than to step out into the spring sun, feel its warmth and anticipate all that was to come before she had to trudge through ...
Family lore has it that sometime in the pre-refrigeration days of the late 19th century, my forefathers dug a small cave into a steep hillside on their adjacent farms to store several barrels of home-brewed beer. Like the family’s suds, the cave was cool, dark, and prized. This being ...
If this was expected to be a typical market correction or deviation from what has been a trend for world events and economic repercussions, I would not have bothered to turtle-up. The 1980s were tough because I did not have anything and was vulnerable. The goal was to survive, and I did. The ...
NEWS *The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association and North Dakota Stockmen’s Foundation delivered nearly $1 million to victims of the October 2024 wildfires. These two organizations started the Out of the Ashes Wildfire Disaster Relief Fund with their own $50,000 donation and invited others ...
NEWS *President Trump signed an executive order allowing products traded under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to be outside of the 25 percent tariffs announced previously. That means products, including Canadian potash imports, will have a reduced tariff rate of 10 percent. The Fertilizer ...
In the seven weeks that global markets and U.S. farmers have been living in the uncertain trade world of the Trump Administration, prices for most American ag exports have headed south faster than a Canada goose in late October. In fact, futures prices for most key ag markets — soybeans, ...
In my turtle analogy of adopting a defensive investment strategy, my turtle will stick his head out of his shell to see if everything is all clear and his eyes will immediately fix on the acrimonious exchanges of tariffs. That will cause him to pull it back in and squeeze his eyes shut hoping ...
In Memoriam Longtime Farm News columnist Robert “Bob” Streit passed away earlier this month, and we felt it appropriate to publish his obituary where his column has appeared the last several years. He — and his wisdom in all things ag — will be sorely missed. Robert (Bob) Allen ...
Dorothy Gayle was right. There’s no place like home. That is, unless you get home from work and all the kids are fighting in the house. Then there’s no place like a locked car, some coping music on the radio, some chocolate, and a beverage of my choice — all pulled from wherever it’s ...