Farmers Weekly Review

It is 8:30 at night, and once again I have delayed writing my article. Not only have I procrastinated, but I am also stumped as…

Each year before Christmas, Kevin Daugherty, a former educator who works for the Illinois Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom program, gives out recommendations for…

The past spell of above-average weather to start the New Year was a blessing, allowing me to tackle some of those odd jobs on the…

Would you consider a temperature of 68 degrees to be a cold wave?  Did you know that meteorologists do not calculate a wind chill for…

I read an article several years back that now haunts me. It gives me pause whenever I perform the most simple and basic tasks on…

If you were to get a tattoo, what would it be? When I was very young, I thought tattoos were a sign of being rebellious…

There are multiple articles that try to explain the difference between price gouging versus supply and demand economics.  Now for the reason I bring this up:…

Would you bend over to pick up a penny? How about 2 or 3? Is a penny today worth as much as it was in…

Note: This column is reprinted from Oct. 15, 2014. The combine is the piece of machinery used to harvest grains.  When harvesting soybeans, the plants are…