It doesn’t take a Harvard degree to figure out that men and women think differently. And if you live and work on the farm, it only magnifies that notion. Volumes could fill presidential libraries on the ways farmers and their spouses can think and do things differently from each other to ...
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 ...
MARSHALLTOWN — Class of 2023 BCLUW High School classmates Lincoln Stover and Paul Murty have been friends for as long as they can remember, and they’ve also both grown up with a deep connection to agriculture. Stover’s father Kurt is a consultant, while the Murty family farms about ...
STORY CITY/ALTOONA — Life has come full circle for producer Aaron Holt whose farm-to-table catering and personal chef business relies on his family’s farm to grow the food he then serves to others as an award-winning chef. As a child, Holt fondly recalls learning how to cook from his ...
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 ...
DES MOINES — A new, three-year Nitrogen Soil Sampling Project will conduct nitrogen soil testing for farmers in targeted areas upstream from the Des Moines metro, according to Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and the Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council (INREC). Testing ...
The accelerating demand for protein-rich foods is opening new doors for U.S. dairy producers, as major food manufacturers increasingly turn to dairy-based ingredients to meet evolving consumer protein preferences. We’ve all heard about protein coffee, protein soda, and now the 2026 launch ...
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 ...
