Tuesday, August 18, 2026

This is going to be a "confessions" column to try to lure all those folks who love or hate working with farm bookkeeping, records and finances into really enjoying themselves at the From Bookkeeper to CFO workshops this fall.

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

Your local Farm Service Agency accepted nominations for the county committee election. Each county office will host an election for local administrative areas. These areas are made up of certain townships within the county.

He stole my heart with a killer combination of dark good looks, a stunning ability to fix almost anything, and an inexhaustible instinct to take care of me when I'm moody, sick or stressed, which is pretty much always.

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

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

Don't brag about yourself, what you do or what you have accomplished. While this is surely a directive in some weighty volume of proper behavior, the referenced behavior is that of individuals - not the necessary behavior of a vital, exciting, important industry.

Columnist Kymberly Foster Seabolt does the unthinkable.

Just after I completed the previous reader-mail column in late December, a Christmas card, carrying a festive stamp, arrived.

"I spent the afternoon astraddle the ridge of the new barn-loft roof laying down a ridgecap, a course of overlapping shingles that covers the...