by Ken Root (In Memory of Emil Vorel)I?ve always known him. His family was well established when my parents moved to the farm across the road to the east in the mid 1940?s. His parents were well worn from the depression of the 1930?s. They were frugal and had managed...
by Ken RootOn January 20th, there will be a presidential inauguration and a big party in Washington, D.C. It will be the most unlikely set of circumstances and characters since Teddy Roosevelt assumed the office at the beginning of the twentieth century. Donald Trump...
By Ken RootThis fall I had the opportunity to travel to St. George, Utah to speak to the Utah Association of Conservation Districts. There was a High Plains Journal Connection. Bob Barry is president of the UACD. He hails from the four corners region which sits about...
by Ken RootI was fooled by the rhetoric and assumed Hillary Clinton would handily win the electoral votes to become President of the United States. I was wrong. My reaction is realization that committed voters make more difference than vocal influence groups. It also...
By Ken RootThis is a time of great uncertainty in Rural America as we assume the new administration will modify policies that impact people who live or work on farms or in rural communities. Polls show that most rural people are unhappy with the current condition of...
By Ken RootI want to propose a way to make businesses more competitive. I want to have more workers in private industry and less on the government payroll. I want start-up businesses encouraged but I want companies to have a steeper hill to climb as they grow large...
by Ken RootMillennials Love Organic Food. A study by the Organic Trade Association says 52 percent of household heads that buy organic food are millennials in the prized 18- to-34-year-old age group. That compares to 35 percent of GenX?ers and only 19 percent of Baby...
By Ken RootIt was sixty years ago when the interstate highway system was legislated by Congress. It was initially touted as a post war defense system and a civilian jobs program but the network of highways turned out to be a highly successful rewiring of America from...
by Ken RootLast weekend?s earthquakes in Oklahoma startled a lot of people in the state and the surrounding region that felt the 5.6 tremor on Saturday morning and aftershocks later in the day. Deep earth events, either seismic or volcanic, are the least predictable...
by Ken RootThe rapid consolidation of agri-business is making many people bite their biscuit a little harder and wonder what in the world is going on! The hard reality is that farming and business, at every level, has been merging since the 1800's. It seems there are...
