Tell a farmer ‘thank you.’ Today.
Above: Note from a Farm and Dairy reader
North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler was eating lunch with some staff members at a local restaurant...
You can’t keep a good farm man (or woman) down
Hamilton County's Bobby Burwinkel has some fun behind a podium at the USDA. A future U.S. Secretary of Agriculture perhaps?
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With all the economic doom...
Farm stress: Your today will define tomorrow
Even on the most difficult days, farmers need to step up to the plate believing that what they do matters, because it does. That belief, that optimism, and even a little forced enthusiasm will be enough to lift you.
When will you tire of the other voices and speak out for agriculture?
The horn of plenty needs tooting. And you are obligated to do some of it.
I guess I’ll have to send myself flowers
My husband and I don't take much stock in Valentine's Day cards and such. One year, I shamed him into getting me a heart-shaped...
We all need ag diversity training
We cannot be so narrow-minded to think that there is only one way to be successful, to be sustainable, in farming today.
Knee jerks and collateral damage
Biotechnology can feed the world, save lives, protect the environment, and improve human and animal health and welfare.
Look around you. Yep, life is good
National Cattlemen's Beef Association president-elect Gary Voogt (he takes office Jan. 24) made some good, salt-of-the-earth comments at last weekend's annual meeting of the...
Let’s hear it for the Patz 1000 Alley Scraper 4-H Style Revue
Those folks at Purdue University are sheer genius.No offense to my friends at the fine land grant universities in Ohio and Pennsylvania, but in...
Ag impact is more than economic (or what farmers never get paid for)
Last September when I solicited responses to the question "What I learned on my first job", one of the people I contacted was Pike...
