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My family and I just got back from Germany. We bicycled along raging rivers and streams on well-kept bike paths that are very common in much of Europe. On one side would be fields of…

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Last week I was down on the farm in Illinois. I still can’t get out of my mind how different the farming business is today compared with when I was a little boy. At the same time, in some…

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Wherever you look locally, nationally, or globally, there is a lot going on that we didn’t anticipate. We have tornadoes and storms ripping through the heartland of our country. Oil is…

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Last weekend, with our corn all planted in record time, I went out to Montana. My 16-year-old daughter and I went to a horse ranch – Montana Horses’ annual horse drive. Those…

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What a difference a year makes. We’re all but finished planting our corn already. We didn’t finish last year until June. We didn’t finish harvest last year until Christmas. My father…

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Walk down any street in almost any city in the U.S. and you will see too many people that are clearly overweight. Some are just plain fat. That’s not healthy. The obesity rate is up…

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I can’t believe it but we are already in 2010. We’ve turned the page. We’ve escaped 2009 – not a very good year. What does 2010 look like?

In the nation’s capital, the actions and…

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Just for a moment, let’s look back at 2009. We have to acknowledge that it was a tough year but appears to be getting better. Did the federal government do what needed to be done? History…

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This is Christmas – a time to be thankful for our blessings, to celebrate the birth of Christ. With our nation’s economy struggling to recover, families finding it hard to make ends meet,…

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How many years have small businesses and farms been trying to get the federal government to provide “death tax” relief?

We made some progress under the Bush Administration when the…

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