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The soybean harvest is going full speed ahead. Getting them in the bin is a good thing. A bi-product of the harvest are the millions of Japanese beetles. They are not a good thing. They were imported to help control aphids in the beans. Now they are...

The sun is now unofficially halfway back on its march back south. From its northernmost point in June to southernmost in December, it travels a little over a mile and a half on the section line to the east. With three months to go until the shortest...

The school buses are back on our roads once again. They are carrying our countries most important and prized possessions that represent our future. It has been fifty-three years since this old coots last first day of school. This student was never...

Waking up in the morning is almost always a good way to start the day. Another day living the dream has totally different meaning to some than it does for others. Living the dream for what is now estimated as many as twenty million invaders that come...

While sitting on the porch at the shack up at my dad’s the other day I heard what sounded like the hum of a very large plane off in the distance. The hum turned out to be a huge hornet. It flew in just a few feet from me, grabbed a fly out of midair...

Here we go, it is the start of another day living the dream. We have got to the point where you have to ask yourself, would you hire a person who hates animals to care for your dog? Then why elect people that hate our country? I don’t know who w...

It is just another day in our world of “you can’t make this stuff up”. The democrat socialist party is not only the nastiest, laws for thee but not for me, party in our countries history, but maybe also the most predictable. Those nasty conse...

The fair has came and gone one more time. After more than sixty years of attending it is sad to say that most of the thrill is gone. Bah humbug if you will. None the less there are a lot of people that put a lot of their heart and soul into it. That...

The longest day of the year or official first day of summer is now three weeks in the past. The Fair will be here next week and fall will not be far behind. Sunrise sunset swiftly go the days. One season following another if you will. With life...

To say our moisture so far this summer has been sporadic is maybe an understatement. It is kind of like Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. “Are you feeling lucky?” Some have gotten too lucky and are almost floating when a few miles away their nei...

Our political world has gotten to be way too predictable. Every time something starts to go down on any of the crooked far left, liberal fire up the smokescreen called Trump. The Main Stream Media drools all over themselves one more time and say,...

Complaining seems to be one of humans more common chronic habits. Not long ago we were complaining about how many days since it got above forty degrees. For the few of us that pay attention to history the sad fact that the colder the winter, the...

With the combination of smoke from Canada and the peak of the pollen season the people with allergies are having a tough go of it. Being lucky enough to not having to experience the problem but only listen to and observe others the only comfort is...

Our neighbors to the north are our closest and probably best neighbors we have. This is in spite of the fact that for the last six months they were where all our cold air comes from. Now the fires raging in Alberta are smoking us out. That too will...

Spring has finally sprung! The trees are starting to bud, the perennials are up, the snow is almost gone, and the dog had the first woodtick. Watching our world come back to life after a long winter’s sleep gives us reason to believe in the p...

This old farmer is still in a bit of a state of shock after seeing a 25% increase in property values in one year. If property taxes go up proportionally it could be a deal breaker for many. In conversation with a friend fifteen or twenty years ago...

If spring was a baseball game, we would be in the seventh inning stretch! And still no sign of global warming! Climate change or whatever the politicians call it on any given day continues to feather their nests. Rumor has it that there is a bill to...

We in the great northland are finally in the “tween” times. That is the short break between snow removal and lawn mowing. Every season and every year seems to bring its own challenges. This spring makes this old cattleman glad to be retired and not...

Our country tis of thee. Sweet land of liberty. The way the liberal left democrats are leading us at breakneck speed, liberty will not be ours much longer. There still are some that say “That will never happen here.” It almost or maybe already has...

After a lifetime of observing all species of wildlife, the common denominator is that they all take time out to play. The Sharp-tails that stop in for the free food are no exception. There is an eight to ten foot tall snow pile on the edge of the...

Apparently some Times-Region readers have a few things fly a little high when they go past them. The guy’s parents that voted democrat did so after being dead. There are many many things about the 2020 election that have been proven and with the r...

The Super Bowl is now a done deal until next year. It seems that in today’s sports world whether football, hockey or whatever sport, when the teams are well matched the game is decided by a ref’s call. #57 was just another example. The Eagles on pape...

A while back on channel 8, John Wheeler, the weatherman, talked about the snow buntings coming down from the arctic to spend some of the winter between Winnipeg and Grand Forks. One of this old farmers more enjoyable things in this short lifespan is...

This global warming AKA climate change is sure looking a lot like nothing has changed a whole lot. We usually can count on a short January thaw but January and February used to have a lot of days of “good limbing”. Good limbing usually meant tem...

This old farmer is in no way, shape or form putting anyone down for having a love of ice fishing. But, are the what was once dozens, hundreds and now thousands of wheelhouses crippling what is probably our states best walleye fishery? When you can be...