Tuesday, November 19, 2024
harvesting corn

In Marlin Clark's weekly conference call, the common opinion among grain market analysts was that harvested crops have been surprisingly good. 
livestock guardian dog with sheep

Tarma Shena takes a look at how the dogs she breeds now are better — and not better — than the ones she bred years ago.
Josh Kuszmaul

Raptor Hallow Sanctuary, located west of Alliance, Ohio, houses many magnificent creatures that came from wildlife rehabilitation centers all over the U.S.
mouse

Judith Sutherland recalls the day she and her classmates saved her first-grade teacher from the noisy, dizzying nightmare of a horrifying mouse.
Tractor applying fertilizer

Fall is an ideal time to collect soil samples, evaluate nutrient levels and develop a management plan to reduce the cost of fertilizing and liming pastures.
USDA arch in Washington, D.C.

Alan Guebert proposes putting citizens and communities at the center of ag policy instead of markets and consumers and seeing what happens.
calculator

Earning income and paying self-employment taxes as a farm manager has an impact on future social security retirement benefits. 

Can you identify this wood and metal antique tool? Hazard a guess today!
seabolt soccer team

Kym Seabolt reminds the too-intense sports parents: "We are, God willing, raising future adults. It is up to us as a society to model civilized behavior."
house cat

The four-animal cap continues to be more aspirational than actual inside Eliza Blue's house. However, she finds it adds a pinch of spice to her marriage.