If you live in the Midwest, you may have noticed that it’s been raining an awful lot this summer. Typically, we hear more complaints from farmers about not enough rain while obsessively checking the radar and tracking any green speck that may be moving into the region. While drought can be devastating, too much rain…
Why Do We Have Strawberries in the Winter?
I was really disappointed when I opened my daily news email theSkimm this morning. There’s always a feature at the end, which often defines a common acronym. GMO is a pretty commonly used acronym and many can’t explain what the letters stand for, so it was bound to come up some time.
Why Do Farmers Use Pesticides?
The term “acre” is said to have been derived from the amount of land one man was able to plow with his yoke of oxen in a single day. An acre measures out to be 43,560 square feet, or about the size of a football field. Times have changed since the word was first coined….