Crop Planning

It is a new year following a year many of us hope to forget as our way of life was altered on many facets. Life for a high percent of the populace changed as the media focused 1,000 % of their time on creating fear and criticizing state and national leaders when they...

Merry Christmas

The last month of the year is nearing the end and then it’s on to 2021. We will be glad to see it over with. From the drought and the Derecho that hurt many towns, buildings, crops and trees, not seeing another big windstorm like that in our lifetimes could be okay....

Planning for 2021

The last month of the year is here as I sit writing this article. Dec, 7th is commemorated each year as it marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It was the event that pulled our country into WW2, which they had hoped to avoid. The blatant, dawn...

Grain Markets

Sunday was November 22nd, the 57th anniversary of the assassination of JFK. I know that every person who were in any grade at school, even kindergarteners, remembers that day and of being told what had happened in Dallas early that afternoon. When discussing it with...

Fall Harvest Still Progressing

November is here and we have gotten the first tastes of winter of winter with a killing frost and a skiff of snow. Having a week or ten days of temps 20 degrees below normal was a shock at first, but they were not killer temps like we have had in recent Dec and...