FEATURES: Can you handle soft IP? The market for identity-preserved crops isn't all a zero-tolerance game. By James D. Ritchie
Credit crunching farm style Able to stave off the early rounds of economic downturn, will the ag economy follow commodities on a slide? By Nancy Jorgensen
Energy, where is thy sting? Rural commmuters, mobile-home dwellers, manufacturers and fresh food producers pay a stiffer penalty for high energy costs By Amy Glasmeier
Longer life for perimeter fence A strand of electrified high-tensile wire can make your fence last a few more years. By Allen Huhn
COLUMNS: Country Corner Bailouts go to the most noisy, and the responsible suffer By Steve Fairchild
Crops Agronomy 2008: The year in review By Dr. Paul Tracy
Viewpoint MFA increases credit reserves, strengthens its finance arm By Don Copenhaver
DEPARTMENTS: UPfront • Correspondence - Hurst could be more modest • A stop for energy • Missouri enterprise goes green and yellow • Today's Farmer contributor wins Missouri Govenor's award
Markets Corn has strong link to overall economy By Dr. Robert Wisner
