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Nagging - yeah, that'll work... I am often struck by the image presented to the world of American farmers in our magazines and occasion...

Another approach... Somehow I don't get tired of Christmas music. [Thanks, Brian]

If a drought happens in a forest... And nobody is there to get thirsty, does it make any noise? It seems obvious now in retrospect, but the...

Truly Useful Marriage Advice: Exhibit A... After 36 or 37 some odd years (I'm pretty sure it was 1971 or so) of marriage, I've got i...

Seriously, how do you really feel?.. Ponder the tone of many of the headlines re: our nascent farm bill. The powerful farm lobby scores ano...

Gifts That Will Shock and Awe...(Entry #11) [More] Bicygnals: A great idea for any biker on your list. ($75) Features * Wireless ind...

When I think about how much of my life... was wasted carrying folding chairs to/from the cafeteria, or the Annual Fish Fry... Kids tomorrow...

Just doing my part... In reviewing last year's numbers, I cannot help but roughly calculate how staggeringly profitable it would have be...

It makes you wonder how long... It took before anybody noticed. Once again organic dairies (the big 'uns, of course) are being charged ...

Gifts That Will Shock and Awe (Entry #10)... A request has poured in for a serious suggestion for a wife . This is a dangerous area, but I ...

That didn't take long... While not from the Presidential Lips themselves, White House press secretary Dana Perino left little doubt as ...

Visions of sugarplums... This oughtta dry up farmer selling . The bank was positive on agricultural commodities, sharply raising its 12-mont...

Not much of a limb, actually... The abandonment of PAYGO , the defeat of the energy bill and the subsequent promise to strip new taxes , the...

Me, you, AgWeb and the future... I scanned through the comments left on the AgWeb feed to my blog , and I could not help but notice that a f...

Another campaign ad from the past... Pretty good quality for the early 1800's. [via Monkey Cage]

The last place on earth... We don't have good pictures of could be mapped using a clock . But not just any clock - atomic clocks that a...

Pressure at the plate... And it's not just the Cubs who are choking now. While it can take some time to work through our food system, in...

Quick, help me shoot my other foot... In one of his more surprising assertions to date, Rep. Collin Peterson - announced he would be trying ...

Hey, there are two of us... I was gladdened to see somebody else boggled at President Carter's glib op-ed statement that since our cott...

The competition jumps ahead... As an aging humor writer (it gets harder to do after 50, it seems), I am always half-envious, half-alarmed by...