Jordan Independent - Agriculture - Comments

Right now, the students are

Brandon — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:33:42 -0500

Right now, the students are probably getting ready for their performance, and they’ve got an afternoon of partly cloudy skies with a high of 85 degrees coming up. I love that today in Jordan is bright, sunny and clear, but where’s my 85 degree day?

It’s too bad about the

Brandon — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:34:38 -0600

It’s too bad about the car, but I guess I’m more concerned about the pickles. This post gave me a craving for Gedney Zingers or Milwaukee baby dills.

If memory serves, those

Brandon — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:49:32 -0500

If memory serves, those pheasants are now surviving and thriving in Scott County.

Fun stuff, let me tell

Mathias Baden — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:23:41 -0500

Fun stuff, let me tell ya.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

this was intense. loud and

Mz. Sasa — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:42:20 -0500

this was intense. loud and intense. i got muddy.

I had never been to the

Brandon — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:25:16 -0500

I had never been to the arboretum before I rode along with the high school Environthon team. I’ll definitely be back, though. It was very pretty there and I could easily see spending an entire day walking through the woods, marshes, and gardens on display.

R. W. Johnson In the quest

bigbobbob — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:47:54 -0600

R. W. Johnson

In the quest for journalistic accuracy, I hope the 'turkey' is clearly and accurately identified. We might not all have the same idea as to what constitutes a 'turkey'.

R. W. Johnson Years ago,

bigbobbob — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:19:30 -0600

R. W. Johnson

Years ago, living in SW Minnesota, we had a lady helping out at our house by the name of Phil Welch from Jordan. Her father, at that time and earlier, was a contract thresher (I think this was in the 20's and 30's). He had a big old steam engine, pulled a threshing machine,and went from farm to farm threshing oats, barley and wheat. Some of the grain was stack threshed and some brought in from the field by neighbors helping out with a team and wagon (with a hay rack). Morning and afternoon lunch was brought out to the field and the noon meal was more accurately called a feast. Kinda like 'Thanksgiving' every day. Is anyone, still alive in Jordan, who might remember this forerunner of 'modern' contract harvesters?