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Farms can’t hide from odor issues

Thursday, September 30, 2004 by Susan Crowell

U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, backed away from offering a controversial ag amendment to the appropriations bill last week, but he hasn’t given up the fight.

I’m a unique mom, just ask my kids

Thursday, September 23, 2004 by Susan Crowell

I have a new name.
I haven’t heard it here at work (yet), but I hear it nonstop at home.
One day, I turned on my cellular phone and there it was, staring at me for just a second before the system booted up: Freak.

Bush and Kerry come a-courtin’

Thursday, September 2, 2004 by Susan Crowell

As November’s election nears, U.S. presidential candidates are criss-crossing the country to woo rural America, particularly Ohio.

Working farms are getting squeezed

Thursday, August 12, 2004 by Susan Crowell

In June, a statewide task force in Minnesota released its Animal Agriculture Industry Report. It’s 60 pages, but it’s good reading.