Ask FSA Andy about farm loans for youth
Youth loans can be used to finance many kinds of agricultural projects.
Ag’s budget math favors crop insurance
Claims of food stamp fraud just don't match up with reality.
Good comes from difficult, trying times
Some events in life are so incredible that they are emblazoned on the memory like a wonderful keepsake, no souvenirs required. We just recently...
Scythes gone, but not forgotten
Antique columnist Roy Booth writes about the rarely used, but never forgotten scythe.
Pocket Panache
Struggling in my handbag is an almost daily experience for me. Oh, I made sure to choose a bag with all the organizer pockets including one for a cell phone.
Ask FSA Andy about FSA loan funds
The Farm Service Agency continues to have loan funds available in all categories of the loan programs.
What is holding you back on your farm?
“What is holding you back?” A popular statement five years ago when we first addressed this topic in this column.
The seatbelt safety campaign...
NCBA reaches for more checkoff cash
When the cowboys of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association ride into San Antonio for the Cattle Industry Annual Convention and NCBA Trade Show Jan....
Barnyard notebook is better than a time capsule
The notebook we kept in the dairy barn was a way of communicating with one another from one milking to the next, but it makes me laugh out loud to read some of the zany things we shared.
Traveling journal: Wagons go west
In the traveling journal of Laura Ingalls Wilder, it is interesting to read not only of their daily trials and tribulations as they headed west in their covered wagon, but of the local farming struggles in the barren soil of 1894.
