On the farms of our youths, the dog days of August featured actual dogs and not a whole lot of anything else. Given the unsettled state of today’s growing season, commodity markets and politics, maybe the best way to get through this August is to slide back to that era and just not say or do much else. For example, let’s talk about July’s late news that Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue’s plan to sweep 3.1 million people out of the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, could purge as many as 500,000 children from the free school lunch program.
