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Larry Dreiling

Larry Dreiling is a senior field editor from Hays, Kan. He has been with the Journal since 1989. He can be reached by phone at 785-628-1117, or by e-mail at ldreiling@aol.com.

Retailers offer views to TCFA

The 2009 annual convention of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association was held recently at Amarillo. About 500 persons in attendance heard from various speakers on several issues. Perhaps tops on the list was a discussion on the retail sector of beef sales.

NOV 9, 2009 —High tech research seeks climate change answers down on the farm

While Congress and the Obama administration consider climate change legislation, a group of researchers labor quietly at field test plots and on computers across the country in work that may offer answers for those decision makers in Washington and assist producers in making smart decisions to mitigate climate change on their own operations. One such effort is the Greenhouse Gas Reduction through Agricultural Carbon Enhancement ... [Read More]

OCT 19, 2009 —Colorado Wheat, ConAgra launch new program

The desire by Americans for additional whole grains has spurred ConAgra Foods, Inc., to join with Colorado Wheat in developing a new program to spur increase in hard white wheat (HWW) production. The program is considered a win-win solution as ConAgra gains additional tonnes of hard white flour and producers gain new premiums--and added income--for producing quality wheat. Dubbed the Ultragrain Premium Program, it's the brainchild of the Colorado ... [Read More]

OCT 12, 2009 —Cool summer weather means fall harvest is behind normal

Cooler than normal temperatures during the growing season has resulted in slower than normal crop development. What that means to fall harvest is the possibility of some crop losses as normal freeze days occur. In addition, many areas experienced delayed planting and replanting issues during the wet spring, resulting in later than normal crop maturity, according to Dr. Mary Knapp, associate professor of agronomy and state climatologist,... [Read More]

SEP 14, 2009 —AGCO adds five new RoGator models while Spra-Coupe goes for gold

AGCO's Application Equipment Division showed off its newest products during a recent media launch day at the division's main plant at Jackson, Minn. First, AGCO debuted five new models of the company's RoGator high-clearance, post-emergence applicator. While RoGator's name has been nearly synonymous with the custom application industry, these new models are being considered by company brass as the first in their lineup to be ... [Read More]

SEP 14, 2009 —Taking action against TIME

Like everyone in production agriculture, I was incensed by the recent Bryan Walsh opinion piece, "The Real Cost of Cheap Food," in TIME magazine. Allow me some space to join the chorus in derision toward the lack of facts Walsh has in his tome. We need to look closer, however, how general interest media covers the industry. [Read More]

AUG 24, 2009 —Main Street banks teach Wall Street how to do business

In the waning days of the Bush administration, as Wall Street came to Washington asking for bailouts of their banks that were "too big to fail," Main Street bankers, those in small town America, kept asking the facetious question, "Where's my bailout?" While the financial capital of the world reeled in the mess of its own making, the community bankers of America were keeping on keeping on. That is, they were doing what they've done best ... [Read More]

JUL 13, 2009 —DJ is one-man big band for farm products

---> By Larry Dreiling Rick Crandall loves the big band sound. [Read More]

JUN 29, 2009 —Farmer, physician, soldier donates land for wildlife

Southeast Russell County, Kan., around the township of Dubuque, is a part of the world where arid short grass and lush tall grass meet. It's this little piece of paradise where the Dubuque Land & Cattle Co. operates and where Wallace Weber, M.D., resides. Along with his sister, Cheryl of Topeka, Kan., Weber last December donated the 1,700-acre operation to Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, the largest single land donation in the ... [Read More]

JUN 1, 2009 —Please, bankers, no repeat of the 1980s

By Larry Dreiling The headline says it all. American agriculture can't stand to have a repeat of the 1980s. [Read More]

JUN 1, 2009 —Please, bankers, no repeat of the 1980s [Read More]

MAY 25, 2009 —Bank failure fallout is topic of Vilsack stop [Read More]

MAY 18, 2009 —Hays is a best place in so many ways [Read More]

MAY 18, 2009 —See, we aren't so darned idiotic, after all! [Read More]

MAY 18, 2009 —Wheat tour guess pegged at 40.8 bushels [Read More]

APR 20, 2009 —Intensive early stocking helps season-long pastures [Read More]

APR 6, 2009 —Irrigator switches on to energy efficiency [Read More]

MAR 30, 2009 —Producers share views in Classic general session [Read More]

MAR 30, 2009 —Sorghum is the "comeback kid," NSP chairman says [Read More]

MAR 30, 2009 —USCP taking the bull by the horns, chair says [Read More]