JIMMY’S PETS: Compassion and Care for All
There's a life lesson in each creature, whether great or small, shares Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb.
The great acreage race of 2007 is on
As the roaring combine sawed through 30 feet of soybeans at a fast-walk pace last October, a farming friend, through the convenience of his cell phone, sold 160 acres of still-standing corn for a couple or three nickels over $3 per bushel upon harvest.
Your Ticket To Bali Ha’i
"Step, kick, kick, cross-back, step, step; repeat, kick, kick, cross-back." I heard my daughter practicing in her room.
Hazard A Guess: Week of August 1, 2001
Each week Farm and Dairy challenges readers to identify a small tool or gadget.
Getting The Picture
Hearing a television in another room leaves a lot to be desired since the sound was meant to accompany a picture in order to get the full effect.
Angels with Plastic
Our family had a good laugh recently. Several of us allowed ourselves to be prospective credit applicants when Josie's college friends did a fundraiser for an on-campus organization.
FSA Andy for Sept. 24, 2009
Hello Again!
It seems as though “going green” is all the rage. More and more people are looking for environmentally friendly, sustainable and all natural...
Balancing ‘free trade’ with free facts
During a long-ago interview, the great grandson of a Kansas homesteader noted that only a handful of the 40 or so families who staked out farms with his family a century before remained after three years of disease, drought and death.
FSA Andy advice on marketing loans
Hello again!The Wayne County Fair starts Sept. 11. It remains the largest Junior Fair in Ohio, with over 350 dairy projects, 350 swine projects,...
Read it Again: Week of June 19, 2003
Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.
