How to attract hummingbirds at home
Male ruby-throats usually return about a week before females. If you haven't yet hung a nectar feeder, do it today.
Ask FSA Andy about filing a notice of loss
Filing a Notice of Loss, CCC-576, is used to report failed acreage and prevented planting and may be completed by any producer with an interest in the crop.
Give the crappie fish some love
Indeed, largemouth bass and walleyes are the headliners, but the fish that ought to considered for a least a share of the popularity contest is the crappie.
Small-town writer challenges agriculture, gets Pulitzer Prize
Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times won journalism’s highest honor for a series of 10 editorials on why Iowa “has the dirtiest surface water in America.”
A hard-working man who made a lasting difference
Bob Gibbs or "Gibsy" always worked a full-time factory job but helped area farmers "just for fun" at the end of sometimes grueling double shifts.
A new term for adulting
There is a certain relaxation in leaving legal adults home alone.
Dairy farmers deserve our respect, gratitude
The American farmer is expected to feed, fuel, and clothe the world, take all the risk with no guarantee of receiving fair compensation for their hard work.
Homestead bill introduced to the Ohio Legislature
House Bill 175 permits residential property owners to keep birds, rabbits, goats and other small livestock. Learn how to raise them on five acres or less.
The things we really want are free
The climb to attain what seems to matter is set to music by the group Little Big Town in a song titled Free.
Use it or lose it
Antique values are not "ever rising." They peak and then backslide as the people who have a collective memory of that item fall away.























