Category Archives: Opinion

35 years ago (1979) Quad City Construction Company of Rock Island, IL, secured the winning bid on the paving project for the Lynnville to Taintor road. The $519,596 bid was for 4.633 miles of paving, stopping just north of the county line. The crew was scheduled to start May 1. The 22-foot wide pavement was to...

For a few days, I lost an article about numerical idioms/expressions that I wanted to share here. Accidentally, I found it again. Remember I love words and trivia and once more this qualifies for both. Here are 10 interesting numerical expressions. Some I’m sure you’ve never heard before but then learning something new keeps  your...

There is a saying that goes, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” It is a very true statement. I'm an old dog, and I can't learn anything. I have my grandchildren program my television because I can't learn how. Same goes for my answering machine. My wife bought a new car about a year...

Spring planting is in full swing in Iowa. The roads are busy and fields full of farm equipment and farmers alike. While the obvious intent is to establish the crop, there are many field operations that are misunderstood involving spray applications being at the forefront of this discussion. Each field receives multiple spray applications each year....

Spring is in the air, and Easter is just around the corner! It is time to dust off the cobwebs of winter and start fresh. Embrace the clean crispness in the air, the tiny blades of grass popping through the dirt, flowers blooming and dusting the spring breeze with their sweet scents, and birds singing....

The editor of this fine paper has now told everyone my age and bad habits. Sadly, I would say she is right. Only a perfect person like Margaret would have the right to slam an aging clutz like me. I am a geezer. I lose things all the time. I leave my keys in the...

Education is continually a controversial subject. Every person and institution has an opinion as to how tomorrow’s adults should be prepared to lead life as an American citizen. While the details can become argumentative and quite confusing on education as a whole, I choose to focus on the advancements that continue to happen in agricultural...