During British rule of colonial India, venomous cobras around Delhi became a problem – there were too many. Attempting to decrease numbers, local authorities began paying a bounty for dead cobras.

Earl Creech, Utah State University extension agronomist, recently related a story you need to hear. I’ll let him tell it in his own words: When I returned to Utah, I bought some farm ground next to the farm where my parents have a small dairy. My wife and I felt farming was a great way to raise kids, and tractor time can be great therapy, and as an agronomist, it gives me a certain “street cred” when I’m working with producers, as I too run an operation.

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It turns out that trying to run over a very large snake with a riding lawnmower might not be the best plan – if you approach it from the tail end first.

Farm labor wages have increased over the past year, according to the recent USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service in a report released May 30, 2019. 

I visited with a rancher in Mississippi last month. He said the best career advice he’d been given was, “All that glitters is not gold.” He went on to say that many young farmers today in Mississippi think raising poultry will end their financial woes – in essence, it would be their gold field.

What we still don’t know, is how much alfalfa suffered winterkill. (What we hear, is it could be 50% to 70% from the Midwest through the northeastern U.S.)