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New cattlemen essentials
In this era with inflationary money seemingly falling into folks’ pockets, quite a few city folks have made a bundle and figured that moving...
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Nervous first job interview
A recent land-grant university graduate, Miss Dee Poynt, eagerly, and nervously, anticipates her first actual real agribusiness job interview. She drives to the company...
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Story with a moral
Recently, while down-sizing my life, sorting through a stack of folders I ran across a bunch of “Ruff Times,” an economic newsletter published back...
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Round-trip to posterity
A week ago about this time in the afternoon we were pulling up to the unloading dock and greeting some helpful folks at the...
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“Newbie” farmers’ tales
A guess the inexperienced farm wife who wrote what follows must have seen my column and decided her story about learning the ins and...
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Dinosaur steak vs beef steak
The price and availability of various foodstuffs is newsworthy fodder these days. Inflation, and perhaps price gouging, is making all foodstuffs more expensive.
Parts of...
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Expensive Good Samaritanism
I learned the hard way last week that being a Good Samaritan can turn out to be expensive. Here’s what happened:
On the day before...
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A doubtful “new/old” story
This story wuz told to me as a true one. I doubt its veracity, but I don’t doubt its humor. So, here’s the story:
A...
