Tag: Beyond the Ranch Gate
The Farmer’s Market
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor A few Saturdays ago, accompanied by my wife and our 12-year old grandson, Paxton, I perused Wichita’s Kansas Grown! Farmers
BEYOND THE RANCH GATE- ‘Dirty’ Electricity
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor Having just returned from another pilgrimage to the “Third Coast,” my travels were once again confronted by those “dirty” windmill
BEYOND THE RANCH GATE- Agriculture’s Latest Challenge
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor This past Sunday morning coffee clique’s topics ranged from the extended drought to the cost of nearly everything we
BEYOND THE RANCH GATE: Weather or Not
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor Looking across the dashboard of my “iron steed,” I discover a switch of uncertain function. Sliding it to the right,
Beyond the Ranch Gate: The Morning After
By Blaine Davis Contributing Editor Nestled in my bed with dreams of placards advertising gasoline for $2.49 per gallon, grocery store shelves stocked
The Future Mash-Up?
By Blaine Davis, Contributing Editor FROM THE INFLATION of my morning coffee to the “not-so-happy- hour” prices at the evening watering hole, the future is
A Fool’s Perspective on the Environment
By Blaine Davis, Contributing Editor AFTER COMPLETING my early morning ritual at the local coffee shop and choking down the inflationary price of a cup
What’s Next On the Front Burner?
By Blaine Davis, Contributing Editor I can’t believe that 2022 is nearly one-quarter gone and another deadline has caught me with writer’s block and indecision
Front-Page Headline
By Blaine Davis, Contributing Editor Putting another year behind us and it still seems we can’t shake this new “normal” with continuing virus cases and
Like An Old Bull, Our Work Is Never Done
By Blaine Davis, Contributing Editor Heading south, and just 35 miles into my wife’s and my fall vacation to the Gulf Coast, we encountered a