Dropping temperatures will mean hungry birds
Weather forecasters are calling for overnight low temperatures to dip into the 30s this week, so it's time to pull out the bird feeders...
Huge crops, but not true in the Northeast
Spotty rains are not erasing the drought areas on the maps, and worried farmers say that the country may be having a big crop, but it is not happening in their backyard.
Bring back the birds and their spring songs
Bird populations have been declining for decades. Fortunately, seven simple conservation practices can help turn things around and improve songbird numbers.
The outhouse climb
Bryce Angell crafts a poem about a weekend stay way back in the Salmon Idaho forest.
Ag’s two faces in global warming debate
Once, during a friendly debate over global warming, I asked a well-informed acquaintance what the consequences were if he was wrong in his insistence...
Country cures: Concocted and kept
Columnist Judith Sutherland writes about the whisky, the salve and the good old days of medicine.
It’s everyone’s job to keep invasives out
By DAN KRAMER
Has the world really gotten smaller? Well, no, but the word ”global” is often used these days to describe how our vast...
Hazard a guess on our newest antique metal item
You are on a roll! Can you identify this antique metal item and keep the streak alive?
‘… to operate as needed’ is not what’s needed for many farmers
Farm groups, commodity organizations and most ag checkoffs have spent 25 years and billions dollars refining and repeating their modern message: American agriculture is...
Hazlett: Be of Good Cheer
BE OF GOOD CHEER“Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee” Matt. 9:2. Have you ever paused to think about the fact...
