Yes, farming is ‘cool,’ but practices aren’t
Farm Sanctuary founder says most citizens oppose the intensive confinement of animals, and so does a new breed of farmers.
Winter management is key to protecting sod base paddocks
Livestock grazing management strategies can be used to protect those good sod base paddocks.
Ask FSA Andy: Catch up on your farm recordkeeping
Hello Again,As I drove into work this morning, I saw the woods speckled with orange in a variety of places…in trees…around abandon barns…. sitting...
A Black Friday mouse tale
"I asked for riot shields, but they wouldn't give me one, so it's not going to be that bad I don't think."-- Target employeeI...
Our youth are the future of agriculture
2010 ... It has been a "dickens" of a year! The challenge of the American job market has loomed in blogs, coffee shop conversations...
When deciding how to mount a deer, it’s wise to be picky
Whether it’s a 12- or 14-point monster, probably the trophy of a lifetime or a spindly fork horn, perhaps the very first deer taken...
Veterans’ sacrifices don’t change with times
As the holiday season approaches, I find myself thinking more and more about the families pulled apart by military service. It goes without saying...
Another first, Anna’s Hummingbird in Pa.
Finding a specific individual bird in an entire county or even state is like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack. That's what...
Hog producers not going to have a very merry Christmas this year
As Christmas approaches, some seasonal elves will shop, some will bake, some will string a couple of megawatts of colorful lights from the front...
Criticism of Milk Marketing Improvement Act is undeserved
Editor:There has been a lot of criticism, if not outright slander, leveled against the notion that dairy farmers need a farm milk price that...
