From GENE LOGSDON After the conversations we had here recently about old tractors, I began to hear about a problem that really does affect their longevity. Ethanol in gasoline is not the wonder fuel it has been made out to be. It is causing problems when used in off-road vehicles— lawn motors, chain saws, boat [...]
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Gene Logsdon: Maybe Old Tractors Do Die
Posted January 5th, 2012 by Admin. Comment (0).
Gene Logsdon: My Search For the Imperfect Christmas Tree
Posted December 16th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON I used to think a lot about starting a Christmas tree farm. Hilly cheaper land could be used and I had some, machinery investment would be low, or so I thought, and the customer would maybe do the work of harvesting. What stopped me was what I took to be the insane human [...]
Gene Logsdon: Old Tractors Never Die
Posted December 8th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON On the subject of old tractors, I am as garrulous as an old soldier recalling his army days, only old tractors are not past history but very much a current event. Most of us ramparts people depend on them. I own a 1948 WD Allis Chalmers and a 1972 John Deere 2010, both [...]
Gene Logsdon: Sanctuary
Posted December 1st, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON The breathtaking photo accompanying this blog post shows a grove of young black walnut trees growing above a lustrous carpet of wild hyacinths in late spring. But what the picture does not show makes it even more wildly beautiful. I would bet that very few readers can guess, in environmental or geographic [...]
Gene Logsdon: Economic Awakening — Corn Can’t Grow Like Money Grows
Posted November 24th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON Judging by the large number of thoughtful comments that followed my claim two weeks ago that farming is not a capitalistic venture and never was, I’d say more and more people are realizing how that boring old subject of economics rules over us all. While that remark echoed my opinion, it was almost a direct [...]
Gene Logsdon: Harvesting Crops in the Mud and Snow
Posted November 24th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON One of my favorite people has farmed, with her husband, in both Ohio and North Dakota and lived to tell about it. Growing corn commercially in Ohio is hard enough but in North Dakota, it takes an infinite capacity for pure and undefiled optimism to make a go of it. She summed [...]
Gene Logsdon: Economic Awakening — Corn Can’t Grow Like Money Grows
Posted November 18th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON Judging by the large number of thoughtful comments that followed my claim two weeks ago that farming is not a capitalistic venture and never was, I’d say more and more people are realizing how that boring old subject of economics rules over us all. While that remark echoed my opinion, it was almost a direct [...]
Gene Logsdon: The Myth of the Self-Made Yeoman
Posted November 2nd, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON No figure is more endearing and enduring in agriculture than the lonely plowman out there on the horizon who raises himself by his own bootstraps to financial success. Only problem is, there is no occupation more dependent on the cooperation of society and nature to achieve success than farming. We like to say [...]
Gene Logsdon: Pretend Jobs
Posted October 27th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON It says here in the paper that it takes 125,000 new jobs every month just to keep up with population growth. No wonder we have so many people holding down unnecessary jobs. There aren’t enough real jobs to go around and besides, we are replacing people with machines as fast as we [...]
Gene Logsdon: Pope Mary and the New Wave of Food Hubs
Posted October 18th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
From GENE LOGSDON When I wrote “Pope Mary and the Church of Almighty Good Food,” I thought I was proposing a rather preposterous idea. In my fictional story, the congregation of a church that was closed much against its will decided to turn their property into a sort of food center to grow and process [...]