Outdoor artist Kevan Crouse finds inspiration today, yesterday
Award-winning artist Kevan Crouse never wants for inspiration.
A morning person by nature, Crouse wakes each day with a mind full of ideas, images, and...
Renovation junkie
Recently I wrote a series of columns detailing our upstairs bathroom renovation. It was a long and painful process (the bathroom — not the...
Help our veterans
A while back on a Saturday morning, I was setting up for the Farm and Dairy news inside in the grill area of the...
Plan to add value to your pasture
Pasture is a valuable forage resource. Like any resource, it responds to management. What is your plan to add value to your pasture in 2013?
Heifers: Keep the best and sell the rest
We all know that a heifer is a female bovine animal that has not yet had a calf, well at least those of us...
U.S. Supreme Court to decide seed case
The stakes are high in the dispute over rights to genetically modified seeds. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today (Feb. 19, 2013).
Grain markets: Farmers bullish, but traders’ thrill is gone
The traveling experts are worried that we are going to raise a big crop and have $4.50 corn. The farmers don’t believe it.
Life would be better if we’d all just say, ‘that’s a good thing!’
Helen Keller once said, “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.”
Livestock and machinery filled 1840s fairgrounds
How about that Dodge Ram ad at the Super Bowl? It’s not often that the advantages and benefits of farming are placed before such...
To love and to cherish, even in manure
“Romance is not dead, it just looks different on our farm.”
— Mae E. Smithhisler, 1900
