Some time back I saw a bumper sticker that read, 鈥淚f you can read this, thank a teacher.鈥 I quietly mumbled, 鈥淎men.鈥
Editor鈥檚 note: This was originally published July 29, 2010.
Today is the winter solstice. Upon waking, Rudi, my German Shepherd, and I went outside and were treated to a spectacular eastern sky backlit with delicious orange cream, pink and lilac colors. It was an intense visual treat.
Editor鈥檚 note: The following was originally published Dec. 30, 2007.
Editor鈥檚 note: This column was originally published Dec. 15, 2005.
I just checked the weather forecast. At this next time week, the day鈥檚 high temperature is supposed to be 45 degrees cooler than today.
Take an afternoon drive around an urban or suburban area anywhere in the Midwest. Look at the houses. What is missing from these homes that would likely have been there 50 years ago?
My wife and I chose to finish my PhD by doing a yearlong internship in clinical psychology in Nebraska. After completing my professional training, we decided to stay in the Midwest.
I鈥檓 a senior citizen and I鈥檓 mature enough to admit to my faults.
Editor鈥檚 note: The first part of this column ran in the Oct. 25 issue.
- By Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is trading barbs with the Trump Administration over its response to a parasitic pest that continues to make its way north in Mexico and could potentially threaten the state鈥檚 $15 billion cattle industry if it crosses the border.
I鈥檓 a senior citizen and I鈥檓 mature enough to admit to my faults.
We gardeners hastily pick our remaining produce, watch the weather reports and wonder how many more days we can eke out until the killing frost.
Jeepers Creepers, where鈥檇 ya get those peepers?鈥 Now there鈥檚 a phrase you probably haven鈥檛 heard for a while. Perhaps you鈥檝e never heard it. The line is from a song recorded by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa 鈥 The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association participated in the Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 public hearing Oct. 1 on the proposed Renewable Fuels Standard blending rule for 2026-27. As part of that rule, the EPA is evaluating whether to reallocate 100% or 50% of refine…
- By Tom Adam
Today marks the six-month anniversary of Trade Liberation Day. Milestones are often worthy of celebration, but here in Harper, Iowa, where I鈥檝e farmed for more than 40 years, there鈥檚 little cause for cheer.
Harvest brings the unmistakable sound of a combine. Of all the machines on a farm, the combine is not only one of the most important, but its sounds are the most unique.
We are losing daylight so quickly. During mid-summer, I can leave my house at 9 p.m. to run and have plenty of daylight. Now it鈥檚 mid-September and it鈥檚 dark when I get up and dark by early evening.聽聽
I鈥檝e just celebrated my 85th birthday. I can no longer live in denial: I am officially old, even in my book.
Harvest brings the unmistakable sound of a combine. Of all the machines on a farm, the combine is not only one of the most important, but its sounds are the most unique.
I write this to my readers and my friends. You are my friends. If we lived closer and moved in the same circles, I believe an affinity would draw us to each other to share meaningful experiences from our lives.
Very few experiences have impacted my life as strongly as the Army. The Salvation Army, that is. Uncle Sam didn鈥檛 want me for the U.S. Army.
Editor鈥檚 note: This column was originally published Oct. 18, 1999.
Sitting in the grain truck waiting for my brother to offload the next combine tank of winter wheat, I looked up at the cotton-ball cumulus clouds that dotted the Lonesome Prairie sky.
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Some time back I saw a bumper sticker that read, 鈥淚f you can read this, thank a teacher.鈥 I quietly mumbled, 鈥淎men.鈥
Jeepers Creepers, where鈥檇 ya get those peepers?鈥 Now there鈥檚 a phrase you probably haven鈥檛 heard for a while. Perhaps you鈥檝e never heard it. The line is from a song recorded by Louis Armstrong in the late 1930s.
As a mere lad of 60 years with some semblance of youth, or as some would say 鈥渄enial,鈥 I wrote about meeting the challenges of growing old in a column entitled 鈥淪even Ways to Grow Old Gracefully.鈥
Fitting the pieces of a farm transition puzzle together can be challenging. Like a puzzle, you need to find the corner pieces first, then the outer straight edges to frame up the foundation.
The U.S. Supreme Court got something right (for a change) when they ruled that California can refuse to buy pork from another state if such pork is not raised to their demands.
The State Journal on March 15 reported that legislative Republicans tried to introduce a bill that would give women even fewer rights and freedoms on abortion than they had before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
There鈥檚 a great economics lesson to be learned in the front page article, 鈥淔or Sale, U.S. crops find buyers despite fewer deals.鈥 (February 11, 2023)
Republicans are working hard to make Wisconsin like Mississippi -- one of the worst educated and poorest state in the nation.
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