Monday, June 22, 2026

Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt reflects on American fashion. We have certainly grown as a nation in since 1776, but unfortunately, our clothes have gotten smaller.

Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.

Columnist Judith Sutherland remembers the days when walking the fence on the dairy farm in search of too-tall weeds was a fun event.

Dianne Shoemaker writes about the importance of getting immunity to calves through the first colostrum.

This reader says farmers helping with research to avoid lawsuits is blackmail.

One reader says the EPA will work for instead of with livestock groups to conduct on-farm research.

Columnist Alan Guebert watches the Bush administration renege on soil and water programs from the 2002 farm bill.

Managing grazing can have a greater effect on the pasture than any other part of pasture management.

Columnist Alan Guebert asks, "What would you call a hugely successful USDA program whose biggest threat is the USDA?"

Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb continues the saga witha bathtub surprise.