Scanning the globe for the perfect job...

Last week, Masaru Yamada visited Lancaster County farms, this week he's in New York, then it's on to Detroit and Chicago. Yamada is a senior writer with Japan Agricultural News, a daily newspaper with some 360,000 readers.  One would think his readers have enough time to read a daily farm paper since the average farm size is just six acres. (That's probably not a fair statement, especially coming from me, since my only crop is about half-an-acre of plantain, clover, dandelion, some kind of creeping stuff and a little bit of grass - aka my lawn - and sometimes I don't get around to cutting it as often as I should. But still...six acres.)
I think if I were an actual farmer and I could make a living off six acres and maybe a little part-time job - like blogging for a farm newspaper - I'd be having the time of my life.  Another dream job would be working for a huge farm daily and getting assignments to travel around the world and see how other people are doing things. 

Or how about working for a nice-sized farming weekly and traveling the world to see how other folks are doing things? I hear there are a lot of interesting things going on in Iceland this time of year, for example.

Boss? I hear there are a lot of interesting things going on in Iceland this time of year.  You know, like lambs and beef and dairy cows...stuff like that.  It's a small country, low travel expenses...

I could camp out.

I think those cows in the picture need to be investigated.

Boss? Boss?

Are you igno...can you hear me, boss?

Wielding hammers and saws and fueled by jambalaya, a group of Penn State ag science students spent their nine-day spring break helping to get ag education on the move again in Katrina-ravaged Louisiana. The students spent part of their time in Iberville, just outside Baton Rouge, and the rest of their stay in inner-city New Orleans. A report of their adventures is in Section B of the current issue of Lancaster Farming.

Paint your own cow. This isn't a contest. Unless I can announce the winners in a blog from Reykjavic. http://www.courant.com/news/local/photo/hc-cow-flash,0,4170321.flash