I’m not back in the saddle again, but I’m back
It would have been much more dramatic to have fallen while putting a horse over a four-foot fence.Instead, it was a humiliating fall from...
Top grades and relationships: You have to work at it in farming, too
Nobody likes to be told that they’ve done a bad job. Think of the situation-comedy or movie scene: A junior high student has worked...
We take our well water for granted
When drilling a water well, no one can guarantee you that you will have water or how much water you will have. When you hire a well driller to drill you a well, you are paying for a developed hole in the ground -- nothing more.
Youth loan program assists aspiring farmers
Hello friends,The Farm Service Agency has a loan program to assist rural youth establish and operate income-producing agriculture projects. The youth loan program is...
Disregard robins when looking for signs of spring
When I was a kid, one of the things I learned on television was that, "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature." Apparently, however,...
Life’s too short for mindless chores
Matching up socks, I'm fairly sure, is a task they make you do repeatedly in hell. I used to carefully match and pair different...
Mother Nature is always in charge
By JUDITH SUTHERLANDFarm and Dairy columnistHoping for a little Irish luck, all I am asking is to replace the mud with a whole lot...
Will all tomorrow’s farms be organic?
Families, careers, whole lives take turns that are completely unpredictable. I mean, one minute you’re looking out the window of your third-floor college dorm...
Grain markets: The party’s getting old in Chicago
Factors outside markets seemed to be helping grain prices: the weak dollar, the high crude price, the Libyan situation were all cited as reasons for high prices. And now, the focus of the world is on Japan and the catastrophe there.
Revisiting old edition of “Farm Journal and Farmer’s Wife” Mag.
Month of magic is March on the farm. Patches of green show through the snow. Muddy water swells streams and rivers. The bottom...
