Monday, May 6, 2024
Chuck Defer and his hiking partner Goat

Thru-Hiker, 61-year-old Chuck Defer is just about ready to take on the final leg of the Appalachian Trail.
dairy cows in freestall barn

Life on dairy farms in the 1970s proved to be a very good time indeed.
corn kernels and dollar bills

Alan Guebert breaks down the expected amount to be paid to farmers by the government due to a poor planting season caused by bad weather.
Clardale cattle

Dairy was a data-driven industry long before any other species of livestock or agronomy crops, and it continues to implement cutting-edge technology.
corn yellowing

Market observers and U.S. Department of Agriculture specialists continue to have different ideas about the size of this year’s corn and soybean crops. USDA came out with its grain stocks report last week, which included current estimates of the crop.
man confused

To say the numbers released by the National Agricultural Statistics Service are incredible is an understatement. To say they are being met with disbelief is universal. The grain market will be shaken for much of the summer.
sheep

I’ve seen the numbers. The rain is historic. But it’s not hard to see it with my own eyes, too. With each new rain drop that has fallen, the saturated ground has spit it back out in new ways.
Ford Experimental Tractor

In his column this week, Sam Moore details Henry Ford's early years and the conception and development of the Fordson tractor.
rape field

Learn how to meet the nutritional needs of ruminants, lacking in this year's hay crop, by planting some veggies to graze this fall.
row boat

Summer storms aren't the only thing we ought to be warned about. Here are some other midsummer warnings.