by Jake Western
If you own a horse property, you continually face pasture-management decisions that affect the productivity, persistence and appearance of your forage crops--and crops they are, whether or not you consider yourself a farmer. How many horses will you turn out in this field? Will they be on continuous turnout or be limited in the amount of time they spend on the acreage? How will you manage the manure dropped in the fields? Does the grass need fertilizing; does the soil need lime? How often should you mow? Should you rotate horses from pasture to pasture to give plants time to recover and regrow after being grazed down? Even if you've never consciously considered these questions, you've made one choice--to do nothing--from among the pasture-care options that have consequences on your finances, your horses' well-being and the "health" of your land.The greenback is enjoying a bustling rally despite a dismal U.S. employment report showing that the country’s payrolls shed 2.6 million workers last year, the most since World War II . Despite that development, the U.S. Dollar Index, which measures ...
Read moreFilm critic Peter Rainer gets to indulge one of his pleasures by watching Clint Eastwood act and direct 'Gran Torino.' As Korean war vet Walt Kowalski in "Gran Torino," Clint Eastwood seems to be playing a crotchety Dirty Harry. I never took Harry ...
Read moreAs 2009 began people breathed a sigh of relief that 2008 and the pain it brought -- business layoff, bankruptcies and bailouts -- was last year's news. If the early days of 2009 are any indication, things haven't changed with the simple turning of ...
Read moreNew York City sports columnists are among the best reads in our business. They take no prisoners, pull no punches, and make headlines, not friends. Anyway, Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post wrote the following on Dec. 29, the day the New York Jets ...
Read moreTo cast your own review of this film, go to modbee.com/movies. Harry Callahan would respect Walt Kowalski. Both men look at life through eyes narrowed in suspicion, both know their way around firearms, and both take no lip from punks. In fact, if ...
Read moreHANDLER 1: 'Brother Abdul. The media is comparing your action to 9/11. One senior police official has been killed.' GUNMAN 1: 'We are on the 10th/11th floor. We have five hostages.' HANDLER 2: Everything is being recorded by the media. Inflict the ...
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Read moreWith every new year come resolutions, and Laredo Bucks head coach Terry Ruskowski has one clear objective for his team as it carries its current campaign into 2009. He wants the Bucks to get better. Laredo (19-8-3, 41 points) started the year exactly ...
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