"LOOSE
YOUR HEART IN THE TEXAS HILLS"
Here is an opportunity to start 2009 with new friendships and an adventure you will always remember.
National Convention to be held in
Kerrville, Texas, Feb 19-22nd Click
here for more information
Rural Singles Group May Be What You Are Looking For We
recently received this correspondence and run it in its entirety since want to help out any way we can. Members are invited to send us pictures taken at activities that we
can run so our readers who have not yet made it to one, can get a preview and see a
little glimpse what they are like.
The Reality of the Situation, Go here
CROP WEATHER, FOR YOUR STATE.
Check out the weekly crop weather reports of individual states.
Includes
maps and graphics on corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat. Go Here
December 14, 05 Des Moines Iowa Farmland Values Increase Again, Setting New Record
Pace
The average price of Iowa farmland is at a record high for the third
straight year.
Iowa State University's annual survey shows the price jumping almost 11
percent to about $2,900 per acre.
That means the value of Iowa's farmland increased more than $7 billion
last fiscal year.
Farmland values in Iowa have been increasing since 2000,
full story go here
ONE LONE TERRORIST CAN SHUT DOWN ENTIRE CATTLE INDUSTRY
This ran in 99 USA and we started our article with it...for 1999
article click here
All farm index graph, prices received and prices
paid (updated
03/28/08), click here
Crop farm index graph update, prices received and
prices paid (updated 01/31/08), click here
Livestock farm index graph, prices received and
prices paid (updated 01/31/08), click here
New Booklet On Improving
Livestock Profits Available, click
here
Producers Say GPS Helps Get
Greater Yield with Less Fertilizer
Whether or not hi-tech tools help ag producers increase profit,
producers at a Fife Mt field day say they'd never go back to
farming
without the information they get with the help of global
positioning
system satellites.
With GPS, producers record information about almost anything --
soils,
weeds, yield and chemical history for specific places in their
fields.
They can use that information to guide management decisions or
field
applications.
The producers at Fife described very different GPS uses.....for
more click here
Tilling Soil In Darkness Cuts Weed Presence 50 To
80% 70% For Common Lambsquarters.
Night
vision glasses may hold key to a new method of farming. USDA scientist confirms results that eliminating brief exposure
to light cuts germination of many weeds. Click Here
Have A Question For The Editor?
Contact Harlan Jacobsen, click here
This Whole Concept In Brief.:
Definition of word DISEASE:
A pathological condition of an organism resulting from various causes,
Causes of Modernittis Disease: Modern Input and Environment,
Inappropriate for this model body causing body defensive action, self
damaging in attempt to "save itself".
Definition of word SYMPTOM:
indication of disorder or disease, a change from normal.
Diabetes Is a Symptom, Body disorder indication of "self defense" over
reaction to advanced accumulated Modernittis disease.
