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 ...
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 Heritag...
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 h...
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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 ...
No winners. No fun.
There were no winners Wednesday. That is a rather bleak analysis, but no one was happy when they walked out of a General Assembly hearing room following two hours of frustration about gubernatorial cuts made in the Illinois Department...
Lehmann Presents Keynote at Annual IPSA Convention
Bill Lehmann, president of Jones and Thomas Marketing Communications, along with Irv Parker of Cornland Consulting, gave the keynote presentation at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Independent Professional Seed Association on January 23, 2008.
...Whatever happened to the Farm Bill? Glad you asked!
Out of sight, out of mind. And when nothing has been said for so long about it, the Farm Bill has become a foggy memory that causes you to think back and wonder if it was ever renewed. It has been more than six months since the 2002 ...
