Barring the unforeseen, Indiana is on pace for the record corn and soybean yields projected earlier this month by NASS, according to the head of the agency’s Indiana field office.
As the harvest season moves forward, the state experienced a little taste of fall weather when temperatures moved below normal for this time of the year and, once again, rainfall exceeded normal levels.
Average temperatures for the week ending Sept. 14 were below normal, with frost reported across much of Iowa, but causing little damage, according to the Sept. 16 Iowa Crop & Weather report.
Family, friends help farmers withstand modern challenges
There is no doubt that farming is one of the toughest jobs on the planet; just ask a farmer. But for those who feed the world, most will tell you, there’s nothing else they’d rather do.
Why do such little pills get such big, difficult names?
I’m not proud of this, but I take 20 pills per day to stay alive – which goes a long way in explaining why my writing may appear loopy. Every time I go to a different specialist they ask me what drugs I’m taking, which would be no problem if the drugs had simple names.
Lunch and a library all in the same little restaurant
Maybe my perspective is getting more humorous in my old age, but instead of getting spitting mad at Chipotle, I’m really quite humored by their latest attempt at helping consumers with their educational well-being.
Instead of a rose garden, God may give you a field
Background Scripture: Jeremiah 32:1-9,14,15
At first glance, it might seem frivolous for the editor of the Book of Jeremiah to devote the better part of what we know to be the 32nd chapter of this book to the story of Jeremiah’s field.