Wednesday, April 24, 2024

March is certainly being March, at least in my area, where there is great bluster with huffing and puffing and white-outs one minute, benign sunshine the next.

About the time I broke the cotton shackles of my mother's apron strings for the glorious freedom of my father's farm fields, a technology wave hit the southern Illinois farm of my youth.

Last week I did my best to think spring by suggesting that it was time to put up a few nest boxes for cavity-nesting...

USDA planting report afterglow: Unless there are amazing discrepancies from the expectations, the market spends one day reacting, then we go back to business.

Short week, but lots of activity still happening in the markets.

Each week, Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.

Each week Farm and Dairy takes a look at what was making news in years gone by.

The 2002 farm bill calls for research into the levels of carbon in soils and some of that research is under way in eastern Ohio.

Previously, I was pretty sure that Mr. Wonderful was my Knight in Shining Armor. I know in my heart he'd give up a kidney if I needed one. Then I asked if I could have a wee bit of parking space in his garage and all bets were off.

When mad cow test alerts hit the airwaves, Dusty and Cheryl Sonnenberg were worried they wouldn't be able to market their dairy beef products.