A year ago this summer, supporters of a 75-year-old Indiana farmer received disappointing news. The Supreme Court ruled against Vernon Bowman and his fight against Monsanto. Many are already familiar with the details after the story garnered national attention several years ago. Bowman purchased Monsanto soybean seed every year for his 300-acre crop farm.

Recently, I wrote an article where I cited Hernán Cortés’ conquest and success when he and 600 men conquered an Aztec city. His strategy was simple: “Burn the boats,” not giving himself or his army a path for retreat. It was a matter of victory or death. They would conquer and return home in their enemies’ boats or they would be carrion for the buzzards.

Today’s antifreeze solutions are a sophisticated blend of chemicals specifically designed to provide not only freeze protection and enhanced cooling but protection from other dangers inherent in modern, complex cooling systems such as corrosion, cavitation erosion, etc.

• The Wisconsin Holstein Association awarded 18 scholarships to young members studying agriculture or a related field at a two-year or four-year university. The outstanding members will be recognized at the 2015 Wisconsin Junior Holstein Convention.

Man against beast is a theme in many a story, from days of yore to 21st-century wolves ravaging baby calves.It normally takes a hero to slay the dragon or sue the EPA.

The legalization of marijuana in Colorado has brought to a head a common point of contention that has happened in state after state. It is a generational change, a population shift that is the result of the inevitable roll of civilization. It also marks a shift from rural to urban.

I am working with a 71-year-old landowner. He raises horses and beef cattle on a small farm with perennial grass hay and grazing land. The farm equipment is for hay harvested as round bales. He has one small manure spreader on the back of a John Deere 2020 tractor.

A marketing campaign introducing retail-based “Seriously Sustainable Stations” for consumer education, interwoven with social media, contests and merchandise, received the finalist award in the USJersey Sustainability Marketing Contest.