Use your history to help build the future
Millie, Tillie, and Cindy; Zeller’s cow, Dick’s cow, and Wilford’s cow; Daisy, Penny and Ann.
These are the first 10 cows entered in a...
Love and family, it just goes together
To family we are born.
Farm life soothes with tedium, richness
"Whenever I have worked on farms, I have found my thoughts drifting back to the early agricultural parables, perhaps because the very nature of...
FCS plan offers more choices
The president and chief executive officer for Farm Credit Services of Mid-America writes to refute an Alan Guebert column.
It would be lovely to turn back time
“I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had...
Dairy Excel: Farmers, tax time is approaching
As the howling winds of winter approach, it is a good time for farmers to grab a cup of coffee and start to gather their income and expenses records to determine their cost of production and profitability from 2011.
At the sound of the beep
Recently, reminiscing with the children about our own childhoods where we walked 5 miles in five foot drifts to school, uphill both ways (naturally),...
Winter is made of sledding and smiles
"At the heart of the meadow, the old watering hole froze over quite nicely. We used the horse-drawn sleigh to get there and before...
Our pony Topper is a keeper
"It excites me that no matter how much machinery replaces the horse, the work it can do is still measured in horsepower...even in this...
Bring on the season of wrist flick syndrome
Get your pole and lure, because fishing time is finally here.
