Contents
FEATURES:
For Missouri ethanol, the answer is five
A recent report set out to answer a question asked by many who grow corn: How many ethanol plants can Missouri support?
By Steve Fairchild
Dairy strategies
Should you get bigger? Should you get out? Or should you stay and milk it? The dairy industry is changing. And producers find their stage in life affects how they handle that change. The results will shape the future of Midwest dairying.
By James D. Ritchie
At weaning, Health Track keeps them healthy and strong
The measure of a calf's profitability begins at weaning.
By Dr. Alan Wessler and Mike John
Crop marketing
Large crops and price pressure on loan deficiency payments make marketing grain a challenge. Still, there are ways to cover your bets. You just have to search them out.
By James D. Ritchie
The real cost of regulation
We are blanketed in regulations designed to make the world safe and fair. But do they work? Maybe the invisible hand of free markets is more fair than we think.
By John Stossel
Ode to a truck driver
A harvest poem.
By Carol Stundebeck
Columns:
Country Corner
Public skepticism is the cure for media arrogance.
By Chuck Lay
Crops
Are your crops receiving enough magnesium?
By Dr. Paul Tracy
Nutrition
How to get through the wean times.
By Dr. Dan Netemeyer
Country Humor
Fiscal fitness By Jack S. Bray
More Country Humor
Storytellers and fast chickens By Mitch Jayne
Cranberry recipes
Viewpoint
Depressed N and P prices reflect a worldwide market shakeup.
By Don Copenhaver
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