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This time of the year, it’s hard to tell where the smoke is coming from – there is just so much of it. Given how…
Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger. $0.75 per board foot.
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For many years, the Census differentiated between Germans and Germans from Russia. While there were significant historical differences between the two groups, by the time I was doing the demographic work for South Dakota, the largest difference I could…
What is a Farm
A dozen years ago, I wrote “What is a Farm” and now I have one. The bottom line that defines a farm is production. “The current definition, first used for the 1974 census, is any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year. (1992 Census of Agriculture).” It’s kind of fun to be able to quote myself, and find that the commentary is still accurate 12 years later. This July, I harvested 275 little round bales of grass hay, and stored them in the log…
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Wild Geese Have Flown
Another hatch of goslings have taken flight from the pond. In the flyway we saw huge numbers of Canada geese – here, we see a single pair, year after year, who are our Summer neighbors, and traffic slows to watch them. Gander seems as strong and youthful as ever, but the years are taking a…
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Alumni Magazines
As a young man, MSU’s alumni magazine occasionally brought information about classmates, but was by and large an irrelevant publication. Adding a couple more degrees brought more alumni magazines – and the deaths column became something I watch more. Not sure why – perhaps to make sure I’m not there. Today, STATE listed Jeeta Kant and Bob Mendelsohn. I met Jeeta when she was unable to get into the sociology Master’s program, and couldn’t understand why her 35 year-old bachelors in Soc didn’t punch all the buttons – she had good grades, but lacked the research. A colleague in geography…
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