“Her grandparents were Robert and Mary, right?”
A survey of 2,000 Americans, who represent a sample of the U.S. population that opted to respond to a national poll, indicated that spiritual fulfillment may be the key to happiness. The poll was conducted in November 2022 by the market research company, One Poll.
Dear Michael: I have had to retire from farming due to some health issues – although I still like to go out on the tractor. I just can’t keep up with it anymore. I have a machinery line which is worth about $3 million. None of my children farm and the only advice my CPA has given me is to se…
The 37th annual Dakota Cowboy Poetry Gathering is scheduled for the weekend of May 27 and 28 at the Medora Community Center, Medora, N.D. I founded the gathering in 1987.
By the time you read this column, I will have just passed a milestone birthday. I am now 70 years old. That sounds old even to me. The clock is ticking and I can’t even hear it very well.
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2016.
Dear Michael: We are thinking about retiring due to my husband’s health. None of our children live nearby and none have an interest in farming. We have set our farm up in a life estate evenly divided between the children – as evenly as we can.
Our ranch headquarters is located on Wanagan Creek where a natural spring-fed side draw joins it. Most all the older ranches in the North Dakota badlands were established where there was good, fresh, easily available spring water other than those chosen on the lush river bottoms along the Li…
After having two years of COVID hair plugging the bathroom drains, I have been having my hair cut regularly. Well, not regularly because I have trouble committing to something planned six weeks in advance, but often.
A new Farm Bill is being developed by federal legislators in the House and Senate, along with input from lobbyists and the Biden administration. The current 2018 Farm Bill expires at the end of 2023.
Dear Michael: We have heard recent reports about land sales which, if applied to our land, would mean we may be looking at estate taxes. The exemption per person is still over $13 million dollars, but that does not add up very well for us as we are well more than this. Are we going to be loo…
A good friend and very good operator that farmed out on the fertile flats south of Beach was one of North Dakota’s pioneer producers in the new innovating of no till seeding. In fact Bob Ekre received many awards and citations for his ingenuity. I received a couple citations over the years, …
Maybe I have heard too many urban legends about tourists waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing, but I’ve always had a fear of needing medical help when I’m away from home. Recently I had to face that fear. It wasn’t an extremely serious medical need, but I had to take action quickly. …
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this Dr. Rosmann column from 2016.
Dear Michael: Years ago, my wife and I put together a simple will.
Do coyotes kill calves? I’ve been a personal witness on this debate most of my life. The brutal truth is NO – they simply “eat them alive.” Too many times, way too many times I’ve had to euthanize newborn or young calves that were maimed and partially devoured by a pair or pack of coyotes.
We all want a happy life. We seek ways to be happy by observing happy people or reading self-help books or watching television shows like Dr. Phil. I’ve always suspected the elusive happiness magic button might be singular, simple and obvious, but I just could not get a grasp on it.
Editor’s note: Please enjoy this past column of Dr. Rosmann’s from 2016.
Dear Michael: I am on a second marriage of 30-some years and we raised kids of mine as well as children of her own. We did not have any children together. My son has followed me into the farming business but the rest of the children have not.
New Town, N.D., came to be as a direct result of the newly constructed Garrison Dam, completed in 1953, as its backwaters flooded out a total of nine little river bottom towns in its wake. The rich, fertile soils of the lowlands, today is drowned by 60 to 90 feet of water over the likes of S…
My car talks to me more than my husband does. This is no exaggeration. I have a new car and it interacts with me on so many levels that I kind of feel like I am cheating on my husband when I drive into town to get groceries.
Most farmers and ranchers I talk with these days are pretty happy about how things are going for them. The high prices paid by farmers for additional farmland and expensive farm equipment bear out their optimism.
Dear Michael: We have built up a nice little nest egg on the side. One of our children farms with us and will likely receive all our farm assets – land, machinery, etc. – while the other two children will receive our savings, life insurance, Roth and any other non-farm assets.
It's basketball tournament time again.
I should have followed the bear’s example. I should have crawled into a deep hole and slept all winter without eating. Sure, people would avoid me in the spring because I would have lost all my social skills and I would be so hungry as to be dangerous, but I wouldn’t find myself in this pred…