Who likes to go grocery shopping? Not me. A few years ago I found a website that I could order groceries online with free shipping. That was heavenly, while it lasted. Click on a few items and nonperishable goods show up at your door a couple days later. It sure beats hitting the grocery story on a Friday afternoon.

I don’t…

The mission kicked off with an afternoon in Tacoma, visiting the…

Day Two:

Immediately after arriving in Washington D.C., participants started digging into the current issues, and by the end of the day, had a deeper understanding for how issues are shaped and how regulations, such as the Farm Bill, come about.
From the get-go, the participants realized just how important their trip out to Washington…

Day One:

On Thursday, eight producers from around Nebraska gathered in Omaha to partake in the Nebraska Soybean Board’s first    See For Yourself Regulatory mission. The program is designed to give farmers an opportunity to see firsthand how their soybean checkoff dollars are being invested and to share…

The website offers a unique gift. It’s “the last calendar you’ll ever need.” If you haven’t heard yet, you will. December 12, 2012 is when it’s all supposed to come to a screeching halt. It’s all made plain in the ancient Mayan calendars, which come to an abrupt end on December 12 of this year.

Some Mayan experts say that…

Please click here to print an application form to this year's See For Yourself program at Grays Harbor.

Please mail application to:

Nebraska Soybean Board

Grays Harbor Trip

3815 Touzalin Ave. Suite 101

Lincoln, NE 68507

Interested in Learning More About the Soybean Checkoff? Come See for Yourself this year!

The…

I miss silos. There are new shiny grain bins popping up across the countryside like milkweed but you don’t see anyone putting up a concrete silo anymore.

My dad had a Hanson silo on our farm, which I was proud of all my childhood. We could see the top of that silo when we pulled off the highway onto gravel headed to our farm…

The machine shed is the hub of our farm. That’s where the tools, the bench where Tom fixes things and farm equipment storage is located. This week, though, our machine shed is a dance floor.

It’s our third daughter’s sweet 16-birthday dance and we’re trying to make our shed to, well, look like it’s not a shed. We had to hide…

A few years ago, I discovered provolone cheese. There it was in the deli case on sale next to the tried and true Colby Jack. Bold shopper that I am, I had a half-pound sliced and bagged for my family. It’s a regular purchase now, right along with extra dark chocolate and vanilla bean ice cream. Thanks to the wide offerings of…

This time of year my days are consumed with last minute projects – those dastardly deeds, which have been put off all spring and summer but now, winter looms on the horizon. Most of my last minute projects are outdoor projects that need to be completed before the snow flies.

So just like the farmers who are combining with a…

Lots of times we take into account one thing when harvesting soybeans – yield. And why…

Fall is a wonderfully relaxed time of the year on the farm. Most of the work is done. Most haying crops have been windrowed and baled for the last time. Farmers are just waiting; waiting for the soybeans to drop their leaves and stems to dry out so the crop can be run through the combine; and waiting for the same thing to…

Each day after school our 11 year-old son, Matt, trudges outside to feed ten head of cattle that he and one of his sisters own. Matt’s anxious for the volleyball season to be over when his sister can hoist a few buckets, too. Another sister bailed out saying she didn’t want to risk losing money on a cattle venture. She may be…

It’s August in Nebraska, which means the humidity is still high and that is never comfortable for farmers of any age but for our corn crop, that’s good. The humid and hot July we just sweated through is a necessary evil for growing corn in the Cornhusker state.

School is underway and that always brings out a couple days of…

There's nothing like Nebraska sweet corn. We bought an old four row planter just for planting our favorite summer delicacy. In February we special order, from a company in Illinois, extra sweet corn with names like "Sugar and Gold" and "Dynamite Duo" because we like the kind with both white and yellow kernels.

The sweet corn…