Toothpaste and Farm Policy
Any family with a two year old child in the house knows that toothpaste does not go back into the tube, once it has decorated the bathroom. And it is the same for farm policy. When the proposed Farm Bill hit the House and Senate floor in Washington Wednesday for debate on the Conference Committee compromise, an 80 year tradition of u...
A problem without a good solution
It is too bad that Prairie Farmer magazine is not available on the newsstand, or you would be able to meet the poster child for problems that high grain prices have caused for farmers and the grain elevator industry. Manager Jerry Rowe of Heritage Grain Coop. at Dalton City is on the front cover of one of rural Illinois' most widely read public...
Not a warm, fuzzy feeling
This is amazing. You have to stop and ask yourself if you just pulled a Rip Van Winkle and somehow missed the transition from yesterday to today. Yesterday, the American farmer was revered for his work ethic, for battling the elements, and for his productive capacity that fed everyone in the US and many others around the world. Today, the Ame...
Television sets are on in the machine shed
On a day off from school many teenagers might be found at home watching music videos on the television. On a day too wet to plant corn, some farmers might just be at home watching C-SPAN on the television. They have about as much at stake financially in Washington, D.C. hearing rooms as they have on pallets of seed corn in the mach...
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Fair and 62 F at Decatur Airport, IL
Winds are West at 9.2 MPH (8 KT). The pressure is 1014.0 mb and the humidity is 80%.
The wind chill is 61.
Last Updated on Sep 3 2010, 7:54 am CDT.