Rona Johnson

1 week ago | thefencepost.com | Rona Johnson

I know this has nothing to do with agriculture, but how about Alexander Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record to become the greatest goal scorer in National Hockey League history. I am writing about this because I met Ovechkin. He played for the Russian team at the 2005 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships that were held Dec. 25, 2004 to Jan. 4, 2005, at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D., and Ralph Engelstad Arena (referred to often as the Little Ralph) in Thief River Falls, Minn.

2 weeks ago | thefencepost.com | Rona Johnson

I’m not a nutritionist but I am stumped by this argument about whether schools should allow whole milk to be served to students. I get that there is an obesity problem in the U.S., but there are also skinny kids that might benefit from whole milk. I may not look like it now, but I was one of those scrawny kids in grade and middle school who had to endure the nickname of daddy long legs because my legs were so skinny — or so I thought.

3 weeks ago | thefencepost.com | Rona Johnson

Environmentalists are licking their lips now that they are driving dairies and cattle ranches out of Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, California. The National Park Service and environmental groups claim the cattle, which have been there for more than 150 years are polluting watersheds and threatening endangered species. I’m thinking this place should be uninhabitable after 150 years of this so-called pollution. But that’s not the case.

1 month ago | thefencepost.com | Rona Johnson

March 18 was National Agriculture Day, and I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge the people who work every day to provide the world with food, fiber and fuel — and among many other things my job. I am in awe of people who survive without a steady paycheck, have no set hours, don’t set their own prices for the products they grow or raise, and are constantly at the mercy of adverse weather conditions.

1 month ago | thefencepost.com | Rona Johnson

I like many of The Fence Post readers bear no ill will to our neighbors to the north — the Canadians. But there is a reason that we must negotiate trade agreements with them and the Mexicans. Because sometimes neighbors don’t treat each other very well when it comes to trade. I personally have had some good and bad dealings with Canadians. When I was 18 years old and working on a road crew on the Canadian border near Portal, N.D., the drinking age in Canada was 18.