‘What’s a fair price to pay to rent farmland in eastern Ohio?’ Well,...
Just because one farmer offers to pay more per acre doesn’t necessarily mean they will care for the land like someone who offers less per acre.
What makes a good livestock guardian dog breeder
Tarma Shena mulls over unexpected complications in her livestock guardian dog breeding program, as she prepares for winter.
Bush didn’t cause all U.S. problems
Reader says you can't point to the current administration for all of this country's current woes.
How to buy a farm II
Learn more about alternative ways young farmers can access land, and how formal agreements benefit both farmers and landowners.
Early U.S. tractor history: The story begins in Iowa in 1892
A book titled Fordson, Farmall, and Poppin’ Johnny, written in 1987 by Robert C. Williams, tells the history of the tractor beginning with John Froelich’s 1892 contraption, generally credited with being the first gasoline engine powered traction engine, up through the 1980s.
Tribute to Connie
Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb pays tribute to her friend Connie Smith who died recently and to the sweet and warm bit of her she keeps in her memories.
Sleeping with the fishes
If mega-biz is to be believed, the new antitrust chief in the Obama Department of Justice, Christine A. Varney, is really a hurricane whose...
Our lives: Gone to the dogs
It's hard to know when, exactly, to proclaim an otherwise beautiful family experience a disaster, but that does seem to be the way these things go.
JIMMY’S PETS: Compassion and Care for All
There's a life lesson in each creature, whether great or small, shares Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb.
In sickness and in health
So the good news is I won't die today. Probably. I have been sick for three weeks. Nothing too serious, just a run of...
