The writer Arthur Brooks recently penned a column about a dinner party he and his wife attended with several other long-married couples. After some requisite social niceties, the hostess posed a question that sparked an evening of fascinating discussion: have you ever had a major crisis in your ...
SIOUX CITY — Sioux Honey Association Co-op of Sioux City and American Farmland Trust (AFT) have announced the joint launch of U.S. Farmed certified honey. U.S. Farmed is a standard for consumer-packaged goods proven to contain at least 95 percent of its ingredients grown in the ...
SPENCER — The Clay County Fair will have a new CEO/manager as of April 19. Jason Brockshus has replaced former CEO Jerome Hertel, who came to Spencer from the Alaska State Fair to lead the CCF for the last two years, and who has spent the last 25 years in the fair industry. Brockshus ...
The first day of spring brought one of God’s chosen ones to the first day of her new life. This hard-working neighbor lady would have (at one time) loved nothing more than to step out into the spring sun, feel its warmth and anticipate all that was to come before she had to trudge through ...
Family lore has it that sometime in the pre-refrigeration days of the late 19th century, my forefathers dug a small cave into a steep hillside on their adjacent farms to store several barrels of home-brewed beer. Like the family’s suds, the cave was cool, dark, and prized. This being ...
DES MOINES — “Bacon Buddies,” an event that made its Iowa debut at the 2019 State Fair, was recognized by Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig as one of four leadership causes worthy of statewide recognition. The program was honored in late March at an awards ceremony in Ankeny ...
If this was expected to be a typical market correction or deviation from what has been a trend for world events and economic repercussions, I would not have bothered to turtle-up. The 1980s were tough because I did not have anything and was vulnerable. The goal was to survive, and I did. The ...
NEWS *The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association and North Dakota Stockmen’s Foundation delivered nearly $1 million to victims of the October 2024 wildfires. These two organizations started the Out of the Ashes Wildfire Disaster Relief Fund with their own $50,000 donation and invited others ...
NEWS *President Trump signed an executive order allowing products traded under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to be outside of the 25 percent tariffs announced previously. That means products, including Canadian potash imports, will have a reduced tariff rate of 10 percent. The Fertilizer ...
As farmers prepare to grow the 2025 crop, there’s renewed focus on a critical link in the global ag supply chain — the Panama Canal. Millions of tons of grain pass through the Panama Canal each year. “About 70% of all freight passing through the Panama Canal is going to or from ...
