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Heads Up Ohio Agriculture
By Ty Higgins As if feeding the World wasn’t enough to keep you busy, Ohio Agriculture, wait until you see everything else you need to concern yourself with in 2012. This realization came to me last week as I travelled to a couple of speaking engagements centered around crop insurance. I was very fortunate to [...]
Are you a Barbie girl?
I am guessing that you have never seen a promotional video for an agricultural commodity quite like this. At least I haven’t. This is lesson from the folks in Australia on how to generate interest in your products. Let me tell you, lamb has never looked quite so good. You may want to book some [...]
The most important thing I learned from Dale
I first met Dale Minyo when I was a senior in high school serving as a state FFA officer. Even though it would be seven years before we would begin to work together I ran into him quite a bit in the interim. One such time was when he was filming one of the last [...]
Mike Zuzolo Market Update – January 29th, 2012
JANUARY 29, 2012 GCAC WEEKLY MARKET OVERVIEW Weekly Review-Much News & Similar Overall Trend. It seemed as though a lot of extra data and information hit the markets this week as I was logging 974 miles in traveling this past week, doing very interesting and well-attended meetings and panel discussions (My thanks to all of [...]
FFA receives confiscated drug equipment
This is certainly one way to turn a bad situation into a good one. The Sidney-Shelby County Narcotics Task Force confiscated a wide array of equipment when they arrested Gregory Barlow for growing marijuana. In lieu of destroying the equipment Shelby County Sheriff, John Lenhart, who is also a farmer and Sidney Police Chief Kevin [...]
Rock ‘n Roll and PJs all day: Three days of Daddy in charge
By Matt Reese My wife was gone for the latter part of last week on a trip to Washington, D.C. with the AgriPOWER Ohio Farm Bureau program. This left me in charge of the house by myself — not a small task with two young children and a barn full of animals to care for. [...]
Animal rights activists are all law-breaking terrorists
By Kyle Sharp Animal rights activists are all a bunch of law-breaking terrorists who blatantly abuse the animals they profess to care for. Yes, that’s right good people, don’t believe the rhetoric they put out about caring for animals and trying to make the world a better place. In reality, they’d be more than happy [...]
Mike Zuzolo Market Update – January 20th, 2011
JANUARY 20, 2012 GCAC WEEKLY MARKET OVERVIEW Weekly Review—Signs of Life Appear In Commodities. With the Dollar breaking about 2% from its highs and the S&P 500 moving to new 7-month highs, and back above the 1300 level, the commodity sector started to see a glimmer of the “Risk-On” trade again this past week. I [...]
Brown box of treasured iron
We have a special box at our house. Everything else in my home is neatly organized in plastic containers and precisely labeled, but this one box doesn’t need a label. Zach and I discussed getting a bigger or nicer box, but decided it would take away from the aura of the special box. It’s well [...]
Ag needs to be a squeakier wheel in farm bill debate
By Matt Reese The squeaky wheel gets the grease, they say. And, right now, the wheels of federal farm programs are running smoothly, which may not bode well for the farm bill and agricultural funding amid the tight budget situation. Agriculture is one of the few areas that has been proactive in light of the [...]
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