The success of the recent Artemis moon mission has caused many Americans to feel uplifted and inspired. Uplifted because we could all imagine leaving Earth and its countless botherations — especially the Kardashians — behind. Inspired that four brave souls managed to accrue nearly 700,000 ...
NEWS *A western Iowa hog farmer was sentenced to 13 years in federal prison last week on several counts, including crop insurance fraud and theft of government funds after he was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2025. Danbury, Iowa, farmer Tanner James Seuntjens, 33, pleaded guilty on ...
Central Dublin’s busy O’Connell Street became a parking lot a week ago when Irish farmers and truck drivers parked their tractors and trucks on its River Liffey bridge to protest nationwide diesel prices that, according to the New York Times, “hit 2.11 euros per liter, the equivalent of ...
Iran is home to one of the world’s oldest continuous major civilizations, with historical and urban settlements dating back to the 5th millennium BC. Archeologists spend a lot of time there. It appears that President Donald Trump will allow it to live a little while longer. It could be argued ...
I don’t know how much mending goes on out there in farm country anymore, but at our farm it’s a drudgery that has managed to survive decades of both marriage and farm life denial. There have been times when I have been standing on my head over the sewing machine, sweating, and wrestling ...
We spent considerable time and effort this winter cleaning up and out the home where we raised our children. It was time to let the house become “home” to another generation. Anyone who has moved can relate to the way every room in a home comes alive with memories. A farm parent might ...
I’ve discovered that some things age better than others. Bourbon and cheese are examples of things that improve with time while bread and my short-term memory have fleeting … um, what are the words? Oh, yeah! Expiration dates. Many things are deemed useless once they attain a certain age. ...
It may be a surprise that last year’s biggest ag story — tariffs — was swept off today’s front pages by even bigger news: a Middle East war, its sharply higher fuel and fertilizer prices, and the near certainty of another multi-billion dollar farm aid package. Then again, it’s not ...
Early in this nations’ developmental history, as they shaped where they thought that U.S. boundaries should be located, presidents Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Monroe all envisioned the shared opinion that the inclusion of Cuba was “indispensable.” This was back when founders ...
NEWS *The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against Peken Global Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of the Turks and Caicos Islands, that operates the KuCoin exchange, for allowing ...