With 2025 half gone, the cautious American ag economy, like the slowing U.S. economy, now tiptoes into its second half. Key U.S. ag markets quietly survived the raucous first half. For example, November soybean futures opened January near $10.28 per bushel and closed June at roughly ...
Is the NH3 pipeline going through one of my farms public or private? It is privately owned but serves the need of providing farmers fertilizer. Wasn’t the Dakota Access pipeline a private project? But we all need oil or what it does for us. How about powerlines? Warren Buffett’s ...
This ordinary, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety farmer was anything but ordinary. He was a math genius whose education began and flourished at a country school — Henry Township No. 8, in fact. He was no stranger to hard times as a kid, and he knew what hard work on the farm was from the time ...
Legend has it that an urban congressman decided to visit a dairy farm. “How often do you milk your cows?” asked the congressman. “Twice a day,” replied the dairyman. “So, ten times a week,” said the congressman. “No, twice a day.” “That’s ...
There is hardly a holiday that fits into a farmer’s schedule better than that of our nation’s Independence Day. It could seriously disrupt his schedule if there is some kind of family or neighborhood roundup during the day — so if the person running the smoker and concocting and ...
NEWS *Dustin Echelbarger, a former salesman for TTG/Truland Equipment in Swayzee, Indiana, was charged June 11 with 17 felony counts involving alleged corrupt business influence, fraud, and forgery in connection with sales of farm machinery. According to an affidavit filed by the Grant ...
If you’re in charge of reversing American agriculture’s three-years-old-and-growing trade deficit, your list of options is as limited as it is unworkable. You can, for instance, blame it on your predecessor, as Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins did while talking trade with Italian ...
Excerpt from the June 12 Commstock Report: “Closing the border and deporting actual criminals is widely supported. After that there is a pause for reflection before going further. Most realize the degree to which our food supply chain is dependent on undocumented or falsely documented labor ...
“I just need to toughen in!” So said Old Frank, my new landlord at the time. I was 21 in the winter when I rented a small dairy farm, sight unseen, from Old Frank. Old Frank was several years past his 80th birthday when he and I first crossed paths in a waiting room. Frank was ...
Despite all his accolades and achievements, Dwight D. Eisenhower remained modest and plainspoken. “The proudest thing I can claim,” he noted after his triumphant return to the U.S. from World War II, “is that I am from Abilene.” He was clever, too; he made that statement in a speech ...