Ag General
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How Many Tons of Stuff do we Produce
The USDA just recently produced their Crop Production report for 2009. Being a stats nut, I always like to look through the report. This time, I thought I would share with you the total amount of food that the US produces in metric tons. Lots of food items are counted in bushels, bales, tons, etc. […]
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Comments, Comments, Comments
Important Message to Readers In the last few days, it has become apparent that I was not setting up the comments section for my postings. In most cases, this probably means that you were either unable to make a comment or could not find where to comment or it was just too confusing to post […]
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How’s the Local Economy
I was at a local two hour seminar this morning on how the banking and real estate economies are doing. Our area here is very much like most of my readers I am presuming. It is very much agriculturally based and when the boom times in the housing market in 2002-2006 were going on, we […]
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Trip to Kansas City
I just got back from spending about three days in Kansas City. During my time there, I was able to get in about 6 hours of driving a John Deere 9660 combine. It took until about noon for the soybeans to dry up enough to be able to harvest them. I know when I was […]
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Say “Thank You” and “I’m Sorry”
I was reading a good book by Mark Reiter called “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There” . Mark is a consultant to many Fortune 500 companies on how to get their key employees to overcome thier worst personailty traits. In the book, Mark pinpoints 20 traits that almost all people in business and in life […]
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Ask Paul
I would like to get some interaction going with my audience. I would appreciate any questions that you might have about farm taxation, operations or any other questions that you might have. Please feel free to send me a quick or detailed e-mail to paul@hansenneiffer.com. I will promise to try to get an answer to […]
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Go Tom Watson
This is another one of my posts that is not directly related to farming. When I was growing up on the farm, I was a great fan of Arnold Palmer in my very early days, however, when Tom Watson came on the scene I became a great fan of his. He is from the Kansas […]
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Global Warming – Its the Sun
At the Leading Edge Farm Conference held in Des Moines, Iowa this week, Drew Lerner of World Weather, Inc. gave a very informative talk on the current and future weather trends. Some of the discussion focused on the Sun Spot activity over the last several hundred years. In periods of lots of Sun Spot activity, […]
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Farming Videos
I was in Walla Walla, Washington with my cousins yesterday. I helped them move their Case 4 Wheel Tractor and Case IH 2388 combine to get ready for wheat harvest. After doing that, we went to take a look at the green pea harvest that is just about to finish in the Walla Walla valley. […]
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Congratulations to My Childhood Hero
Jim Rice, an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, was finally voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today. I was in high school in the mid to late 70’s when Jim Rice was playing for the Red Sox and he was by far my favorite baseball player of that era. He retired almost 20 […]