Market Monitor: Ugly transitional year defines market
For the last month traders, processors, and farmers have been frozen by our limbo market, wondering how low we can go.
Farm Bureau and big ag misrepresenting EPA water rule
The stark differences between what EPA proposed and what farm and ranch groups believe the proposals mean.
Milk margin protection sign-up begins
Mark your calendars for milk margin protection sign-up.
Go jump in the lake
Summer, as we know it, has come and gone.
Market Monitor: Ugly transitional year defines market
For the last month traders, processors, and farmers have been frozen by our limbo market, wondering how low we can go. We have focused...
Predator problems: Protect your flock and livestock this fall
Coyote are active in fall, when grown pups break away from the family unit to hunt and stake out their own territory.
Education divide must be bridged
Editor Susan Crowell urges readers to see education as a public good. "Our future depends on how well we educate all of our children. As one education researcher put it, you 'can run from public education, but you can’t hide from its consequences.'"
Futuristic Oliver, built on shoestring, still head turner
On February 23, 1929, Charles City, Iowa, residents read startling news in the Charles City Daily Press: There was to be a $50 million merger between the Hart-Parr Company, one of the city’s major firms, the Oliver Plow Works and Nichols & Shepard Company.
This Sept. 11, take time to reflect
This Sept. 11, remember the things that really matter.
Winter kills wildlife, or does it survive the cold?
Last winter many readers wrote to ask how wildlife could survive the frigid polar vortices.
