What Important Lessons Have You Learned?
Be My Guest (Columnist) I offer this pointed article by Kia Harries in place of my own column with appreciation to her.
Which is more comfy: sand, mattresses or waterbeds?
An interesting question came in the other day. "What does Extension think about sand-based freestalls versus waterbeds?" It is fair to say that Extension fully supports sand as the platinum freestall base for a couple of reasons.
White House proposes to slice USDA
The federal government's annual game of fact or fiction - once known as the budget process - kicked off its nine-month season Feb.
Farmer’s daughter sings from heart
I spent Friday night with a singing farmer's daughter and it was the most fun I've had in a very long time.
The Cupid Wars set hearts afire
Don't you just hate it when worlds collide? My second-grader informed us, imperiously, that Cupid is "just a myth.
Primed for Puzzles
Maybe it's laziness, but when I fix on a thought process that requires a quick answer, my focus goes fuzzy.
February brought butcherin’ weather
If the weather forecast for the southern Illinois farm of my youth promised three or four cold and clear days in early February, the work forecast promised three or four days of hot and heavy hog butchering.
Addiction to oil is a slippery slope
I found out something this past week that sort of has me stumped. I am addicted to oil. Now, I am trying to figure out how this happened.
One tough cookie can shake this addiction
The first Girl Scout cookie was sold on Nov. 11, 1932 by a troop in Philadelphia. The girls baked cookies for day nurseries as a community service project.
The Eyes Have It
This paper runs some great articles on a wide variety of topics: nature, science, human interest, history, progress, and of course farm life.
