It is obvious to everyone in Eastern Corn Belt agriculture that we are in the midst of a natural disaster. Torrential rains, widespread flooding and hundreds of millions of dollars in crop loss in the past six weeks across a wide area east of the Mississippi River qualify this spring’s weather as a natural disaster.
Freedom ensures voice will be heard; no guarantee of wisdom
It’s an almost poetic coincidence that the day after Greek voters loudly told European technocrats in Brussels and German bankers in Berlin to stuff it, the futures trading CME Group quietly moved its last, open-outcry commodity trading pit from Chicago’s Loop to the perfectly technocratic, globally homeless electronic market.
Prolonged rainy spells, high real estate taxes and $3 corn might have deterred some buyers from digging deeply into their wallets at the June 27 vintage farm equipment consignment auction on the De Kalb County Fairgrounds in Illinois.
NRCS funds offered for installation of edge-of-field monitoring systems
Looking for a little extra cash? The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has $2 million available for farmers willing to have edge-of-field monitoring systems installed on their property.
This time of July optimal ripe time for apples and peaches
As July comes to an end, a subtle change takes place in weather history statistics. The chances for highs in the 80s or 90s fall slightly from 90 to 75 percent.
After a long day, nothing makes you feel better than music – especially when you pair soft tunes with a hot bath and solitude. You might even add a glass of something tasty and a novel you’ve been dying to read. But in the new book Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, the only thing able to sooth is forgiveness and restitution.
Head transplants could be hope or hazard for society
I don’t know if you saw the article about head transplants in The Wall Street Journal, but I was astonished to learn that a Chinese surgeon, Xiaoping Ren, has done more than 1,000 such transplants in mice since 2013.
