My best Thanksgiving choice
Forty years ago, 1975, a relatively mild central Illinois fall ended with a sledgehammer of a snowstorm the night before Thanksgiving. I remember it well because, as both a student and farmhand at the University of Illinois that year, I spent Thanksgiving Day milking Holsteins and pushing snow off the cow lots.
A life’s story worth telling
An interview with a blind man and respected broom maker changed Sutherland's approach to writing narratives. It was a story worth telling in her hometown.
Beware of toxoplasmosis in venison
A recent study in the journal EcoHealth connects white-tailed deer and free-roaming cats to the disease toxoplasmosis.
I am not immune
Like most insufferable people, I tend to think that perfectly common things that happen to everyone else will never actually happen to me.
Happy Thanksgiving from the FSA family
The FSA family would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.
Ten hunting tips for getting that buck
These tips will help hunters get one step closer to filling their deer tags.
Foreign news, holiday week are grain market price movers
The grain markets are concentrating on South American politics and weather, and on the Thanksgiving holiday. These dominate prices in the absence of other, more direct, news.
How to make homemade spice blends
Homemade spice blends make great gifts, and they inspire home cooks to try new recipes.
Coaches turn boys to men
For four years, Coach Jon opened team texts with the salutation “Gentlemen …” until one day, in a blink, our boys grew into the young men he helped assure they would be.
Co-ops like CHS at tipping point
Ag co-op giant, CHS Inc. says it needs to update bylaws to ensure locals “operate on a cooperative basis or be an organization primarily owned and controlled by a member cooperative."
