Reduced production, record prices dragging down pork trade
USDA is forecasting 51-52 percent lean hogs will average close to $77.60 per cwt. of live weight this year and between $63 per cwt. and $68 per cwt. next year.
The mostly cool and moist summer enabled my turnips to grow bigger than softballs this year. They would fill our basement storage area if I harvest and store all that I plant. Marilyn would have a fit.
More of the political lawlessness of today surfaced, as the long-running cover-up and death of a beloved meteorological marmot was recently revealed. The cover-up goes all the way to the top of New York’s political machinery and involves top Staten Island Zoo administrators.
Fords headlined at Illinois’ 2014 Historic Farm Days
“We are proud to host Ford, New Holland and Versatile. This is the 75th anniversary of the 9N Ford Tractor,” John Frederickson, president of the I&I Antique Tractor & Gas Engine Club, wrote in the introduction of the show book for the 2014 Historic Farm Days, held in the small town of Penfield, Ill., July 10-13.
Here’s to the FFA workers who helped to furnish two houses
The clean-cut boys and girls in their blue and gold FFA jackets make me so proud to be a former member. That was certainly the case when I saw on the front page of my weekly copy of the Voice News of Hickman, Neb.
The show ring is far better than any Washington venue
As I write this, I’m sitting ringside at looking at Jersey cows parade across hot pink shavings at the “Big Dance” – otherwise known as the World Dairy Expo.
