Thursday, September 19, 2024

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget (or at least 'hazard a guess' as to its use).
Angus beef cattle grazing

Alan Guebert reflects on the Biden administration's most recent ideas to combat climate change.

A reader congratulates the editor on a recent award and compliments her columns.

Columnist Judith Sutherland's life is a patchwork of songs, each tune bringing back a memory all its own.
Soybeans

Corn and soybean prices are sharply lower in early trading after the June 20 holiday for Juneteenth. marlin Clark weighs in in this week's grain report.
hay

Bryce Angell crafts a poem about the men who helped his father bale his hay.

With the mystery of our hand cranked bending roller solved, we are on to our next antique tool. Can you help us figure our how it was used?

Judith Sutherland recalls childhood memories of afternoons spent in the woods behind her family farm.
vegetables

Maybe if consumers started to see how fortunate they are and how productive farmers are, they would embrace technology and help us continue to move forward.
Jeans

Low rise? No thanks! Kym Seabolt would just like to zip up her jeans, using zippers greater than a quarter inch long.