Sometimes I just get lucky. Like a couple of weeks ago when I boarded a 5 A.M. bus for the Denver airport. Whodathunk that the nice pleasant lady who sat next to me would want to talk GPS tractors for the hour? Imagine my surprise when she told me she was headed to China and [...]
Yesterday’s Sunday Parade Magazine included a feel-good cover story about Warren Buffett’s 57-year-old son, Howard G. Buffett, a farmer who farms 1,400 acres near Decatur, Illinois. He grows corn, soybeans, and wheat. In addition, he helps his own son farm 400 acres in Nebraska and his foundation has 9,200 acres in South Africa, 2,900 in [...]
Mammals are the dominant terrestrial vertebrates of the Cenozoic. Photo: Wikipedia. Because long-time reader, Steve, a wheat farmer in Washington State who grows wheat for Shepherd’s Grain, tipped Harper’s off to this site upon their publication of the July issue that contained two articles about agriculture, an editor there contacted me and asked if I’d [...]
