SNAP benefits for market and farm
SNAP sales at farmers’ markets will continue to climb as an increasing number of markets and direct marketing farms facilitate SNAP purchases.
Hazard a Guess on this Champion Tool
This metal tool was found in a shed but its owner doesn't know what it is or how it was used. Can you help him figure out this Champion Tool?
Feeding for every penny in the milk check
With low milk prices, it’s important, as the saying goes, to “squeeze every penny possible out of the milk check.”
Team anger management
When did high school sports games turn into opportunities for parents to let their tempers run out of control?
Where there’s a farm question, there’s a conservation answer
Conservation questions are endless, and so are the resources.
Life in an old coal town
Sutherland meets a woman from a small mining town in West Virginia like the one she enjoys reading about in a Homer Hickman novel.
Living like a good neighbor
It’s hard to think of summer without thinking of the many neighbors who shared the southern Illinois heat, humidity and mosquitoes on the dairy farm of my youth.
Look for the colorful, red-spotted newt
Drive slowly on back roads at night to see a steady parade of frogs, toads and even Efts.
To experience nature, you must be there
The outdoors experience is like none other, but you have to put in some effort.
There’s a connection between parasites and pasture management
The grazier needs to be aware of the parasite status of the herd or flock and how grazing management and pasture rotation are connected to parasite management.
