There are a few family traditions that are so sacrosanct as the Thanksgiving meal around the table with family and friends. However, this year, with the high prices and soaring inflation many traditions are being tested and altered. If you are worried about the cost or thinking about making changes, don’t worry, you are not …
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On this day in 1933, the first giant dust storm, dubbed “The Great Black Blizzard” began rolling across the Great Plains. Most Americans are familiar with the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, but the story of how we got there is rather interesting. It really begins back in the ealry-1800s when explorer and map-maker …
It was around this day back in 1785 that a Baptist teacher and preacher named Elijah Craig founded a distillery in Kentucky using corn to make whiskey. Craig has sometimes been claimed to have been the first to age the whiskey in charred oak casks, “a process that gives the bourbon its brownish color and …
As the current version of Avian influenza is gaining traction countries around the globe are announcing new biosafety measures aimed at curbing the swiftly spreading illness. There are now reports of dozens of infected penguins in South Africa, there are many cases no win South Korea, and here in the US more than +49 million …
US diesel fuel supplies are at record lows. The problem is acute throughout the entire country, though the East Coast is feeling the most severe impacts. Prices are said to be running +30-80 cents more per gallon in pockets of the East where inventories are tightest, with some fuel suppliers already rationing supplies. Across the …
It’s that time of year… Daylight Savings Time (DST) officially ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 6th, which means you’ll want to turn your clocks back before you go to bed Saturday night. The good news for the early risers is that sunrise will be about an hour earlier and there will be more light …
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In just over a year, genetically modified (GM) corn imports may no longer be allowed by Mexico, one of the biggest buyers of the grain from US producers. Under Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (aka AMLO), the country is poised to phase out GM corn imports by the beginning of 2024. Despite reassurances that …
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It was on this day back in 1952 that Clarence Birdseye marketed his first frozen peas to the public consumer. Birdseye grew up in a large family and during the summer after his freshman year, of college Birdseye worked for the USDA in New Mexico and Arizona as an “assistant naturalist”, at a time when …
The arrival of the combine during the middle of the 20th century had a dramatic impact on agriculture. The first self-propelled wheat combine was introduced in 1939, rising quickly to become the dominant way to harvest small grains in the US. By the 1960s, companies improved the technology to work for corn, and combine mechanisms …
