Agriculture
Must Read Money Stories, Monday, Dec. 22
Hitting the roads with cheap gas. AAA’s winter holiday travel season officially starts Tuesday, and motorists are hitting the road with the gift of cheap gasoline. GasBuddy says 24 states now have stations where gasoline is selling for less than
Read MoreCat cafes: the latest trend in food and philanthropy
Coffee, tea and adopt a cat. That’s the mantra at the latest trend in cafes that are beginning to spring up across the United States. Cat cafes are already popular in Japan, where there are also cafes featuring owls and
Read MoreBusiness training for chefs is on the menu
Restaurants are notoriously unsuccessful businesses. Two-thirds don’t make it to three years, and many cafes and bistros find that profit margins are notoriously thin. But on the flip side, successful chefs have become business moguls in their own rights. Think
Read MoreChocolate, your favorite comfort food, could be running low
Chocolate covered marshmallow trees have already appeared at See’s. No doubt chocolate Stanley Cups are on the shelves of Canadian supermarkets, or soon will be. Now comes news from the Washington Post’s Wonkblog that the world may be running low
Read MoreQuicktips: Manure expos, funky funerals and travel deals for single parents
Maybe this column should be called “quirky tips” instead of “quick tips,” because I can’t resist sharing some of the interesting and offbeat jottings from my notebook. Hopefully you can embrace the oddities and spin an idea or two into
Read MoreFourth of July stories sparkle on any business beat
Already 2014 is about half over and the Fourth of July holiday is speeding toward us like a runaway locomotive. It’s the make-it or break-it bellwether for many summer tourism businesses and particularly interesting this year because the Fourth falls
Read MoreBig beef recall and other woes kick off food-safety season
Well, it’s rather a downer for the industry-led National Hamburger Month that there have been a couple of major ground beef fiascos in the past few days, including the news that meat tainted with the e. coli bacteria may be
Read MoreAs World Cup excitement mounts, find local ties to Brazil’s economy
Only a few weeks remain until the kick-off of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil – and the much-watched football (or soccer, to those of us in the United States) tournament will bring all eyes to South America’s largest
Read MoreKick off spring by digging into lawn and garden industry trends
March 20 marks what might just be the most eagerly anticipated first full day of spring in memory, as the majority of consumers nationwide look forward to the end of a very rough winter. So in a nod to the
Read MoreFrom plumbers to bird-seed sellers, who gains when sub-zero temps hit?
It’ll take something pretty amazing to compete for headlines with the extreme weather outbreak ongoing this week across much of the United States. When people are trying to make it through the daily commute and other activities despite zero-degree temperatures,
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