It is the beginning of the dog days of August where the night time temps are dropping below 50 degrees and a lot of the corn fields are acquiring more yellowing leaves. At this point any additional field applications have to be made by high clearance sprayers, airplane, or now an increasing ...
Rain makes grain, and two mid-August Department of Agriculture reports offered this year’s first in-the-field look at just how much corn, soybeans and wheat — as well as other crops like sugar and cotton — American farmers will grow this wet, grain-making year. On Aug. 12, USDA estimated ...
Capitalism can be brutal. One study found that of all the companies started in 1998, only 31% of them remained just seven years later. It is likely much less than that today. Another report showed that over half of Fortune 500 companies disappeared in the last 20 years. Another comparison ...
I have a deep and abiding apathy for golf. I don’t know why. I guess it’s because the whole idea of grown men and women whacking a little ball and then chasing it around on a field of grass simply strikes me as wasteful and ridiculous. “Just look at those silly people hitting ...
It was hard to be happy. Until it was hard not to be happy. We met a man a few years ago — someone unlike anyone else we know — who taught us about what true faith and devotion to God and family really is. He came to do a job for us one winter, and was there for a couple of days. We ...
NEWS *NFA has ordered Richard Alexander Acosta to not apply for NFA membership status for five years and not to act as a principal of an NFA Member for seven years. Acosta is a former NFA Associate and a previous associated person and principal of Bit5ive Mining Fund Advisor, LLC (Bit5ive ...
We are in a very important month for people raising several of the major Midwest crops. Now is when the plants have to extract minerals and water from the soil and recent rains, CO2 from the atmosphere and gather photons from the sun to create photosynthates which get sent to the kernels or ...
Nearly 45 percent of all agricultural workers in the U.S. today — 950,000 of an estimated 2.2 million farmworkers — are “unauthorized” migrants working illegally on American farms and ranches. All would be deported under the plan former President Donald Trump has been trumpeting ...
The widely anticipated announcement that the Iowa Utilities Board had approved the permit for the Summit Carbon Solutions CO2 pipeline, as well as their use of eminent domain to gain easements from landholders holding out, finally came through. Opponents said that they were not surprised and ...
I had some new, very personal plumbing installed recently. And no, I’m not talking about a bidet. I wish it had been as simple as choosing chrome or brass fixtures. My new plumbing is so personal that you can’t even see it. Part of preparing for my cancer treatments included the ...
