“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.”

—Exodus 20:12

This is an old recipe of my mother’s. I had not made it for ages, but I came across it recently.

Since we lived in potato country and potatoes were plentiful, you can guess we had them about every meal.

They were good for filling up my 4 younger brothers.

The dairy environment for wheel loaders is extremely harsh and provides some unique challenges.

To ensure a long working life, there are some characteristics you should make sure the loader you choose possesses.

And like any machine purchase, there are also some recommended options that will best tailor your loader for its work.

I find it especially annoying when someone tells me to consider myself lucky and then names a far-away country they know little about. (While I hope, growing up, I had sufficient empathy for the children of Mozambique, I was able to realize that whether or not I finished my vegetables was disconnected from their fate).

When I’m asked where I get ideas for this column, I explain that in my travels among the agricultural masses, everyone has a story to tell … and they tell me. Almost always, they include getting bucked off, run over or humiliated in some form by large domestic mammals.

The cattle business today has evolved into several distinct segments. Each draws certain people whose personality, skill and savvy make them best suited to that segment.

In a society adrift on a raging sea of changing values and uncharted permissiveness, we must take time to teach our children that freedom is not free or they will be lost with proverbial chains around their necks.

Correct principles and laws that govern freedom are being trashed and replaced with nonsensical platitudes of political correctness.