Friday, March 13, 2026

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

Everything off the grill is a special treat, maybe in part because a cookout usually means we're gathered with family and friends.

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.

As a trained professional in most things English (the language, not the nation), and with the Labor Day kick-off to the election season just...

Ah, Christmas, that wonderful time of year when brightly-wrapped gifts under the twinkling tree contain treasures untold.

This spring at our house, we've sampled a couple packages of shipped-in strawberries. They garnish a pretty plate, aren't bad on cereal , but we're still waiting for strawberries fresh from our local patches.

Editor: Issue 2 — What does it do? A lot of us really don’t know. Maybe no on really knows. The hope is it will...

Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.

"Step, kick, kick, cross-back, step, step; repeat, kick, kick, cross-back." I heard my daughter practicing in her room.

Farm seed prices almost tripled in four years and, unlike other big input markets, now show no sign of backing -- or even letting -- up. Columnist Alan Guebert wades in to the ag competition fray.