All We Need’s More Rain
I can worry a lot. Seems like history repeats itself time and time again. The weather pattern in the Midwest looks a like a big repeat of a decade or so ago when no one was able to plant to corn due to high soil moisture in the spring. Mid April is the time in the central corn belt that folks plant hybrid corn seed. There is a precious small window to fit the corn in their growing season.
Life is Simple
The only times in my life when I have lived anywhere other than the wide-open spaces of rural America were the few short years I attended college. I didn't enjoy the constraints of urban life then, and I sure haven't mellowed with age, but for the past week (and probably for some time longer) I have become an urban dweller as I stay with my oldest son who is hospitalized out of state with a serious infection.
Arkansas State Building Codes & Contacts
For Arkansas state building codes and contact information, please visit http://www.co.washington.ar.us/Planning/images/ABC.pdf
What’s Wrong with that Goat?
Goats have always had a place in the meat and milk markets. Here in southwest Missouri they’re not yet as prevalent as cattle, but herds are popping up everywhere. And then there's fainting goats. Recently there has been a new rise in public interest on the species, but it’s not the Grand Champions or best producers receiving all the attention. Instead, the excitement has been over these “fainting goats.” Major media attention has won these cute and comical creatures some time in the national spotlight.
On the Cutting Edge
Monty Williamson said of his barn full of cutting horses they are “a play pretty that got out of hand.” In 1992 Monty thought he wanted to get a cutting horse so he bought a couple of fillies to raise and have trained. “There was a period there where you could sell weanlings at a nice price, so I purchased two, three, maybe four more mares,” he recalled with a smile and a sly glance at his wife, Georgia. “I had the good fortune of owning a stallion named Docs Halestorm, and the bad habit of keeping all the fillies. Most of our broodmares are Halestorm daughters.”
Cattle V. Ethanol
With the familiar economic downturn, rising gas prices and a steady increase in food and energy costs, what, if anything, is to blame? Could one of the main contributors of these problems be something so cleverly disguised as corn based ethanol? According to BJ Neill of Bolivar, Mo., the answer is “yes.”