There is no military in the world as advanced as the U.S. military, but China is close enough to being second to make them a serious threat. China would have to be given the edge militarily if the battle is fought in its home court region where they have the supply line advantage in any ...
After the chaos of Christmas breezes by and we’re left to sit in the quiet with only the soft glow of Christmas tree lights, the familiar warmth of holiday music and a bottle of wine, it can bring a lot of memories to mind. This Christmas as I did that, I noticed our Christmas tree skirt. ...
NEVADA — When the weather’s gloomy with snow blanketing the ground and temperatures dipping close to freezing, Amy Cox and her mom and business partner, Robin Collins, are dreaming of a vividly bold and brilliantly hued flower garden that provides the base for their on-farm flower ...
MILFORD — A group of Dickinson County farmers are banding together to raise awareness about payment shortages from the 2024 federal Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) program in regard to their corn crops. Scott Titterington is a concerned Milford-based farmer looking for answers and helping ...
Cleaning out an old family farmhouse is an exercise in conundrums. As you sift through all the stuff, you have to constantly ask yourself, “keep or crap?” Many of the decisions are easy. It’s unlikely that anyone will want a yellowed feed store calendar from 2013. Ditto for the rubber ...
NEWS *The North Dakota Department of Agriculture is seeking to recover a $778,000 surety bond in the Hansen-Mueller Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. A motion has been filed in U.S. bankruptcy court to have these funds put into a trust fund to be administered by Ag Commissioner Doug Goehring. The ...
EARLHAM — In October 2019, 80 people gathered together on a main street in a rural Iowa town, seated at long tables to dine together on locally grown, chef-designed meals as part of the Harvest Gathering farm-to-table dinner. The fundraising event has grown from its inaugural 80 people ...
One of the most under-reported stories of 2025 — the departure of more than 20,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employees — finally surfaced just before the quietest, most unwatched news periods of any year, the week between Christmas and New Year’s. Still, USDA losing 20,300 ...
“I have never had a bad Christmas.” That thought struck me this Christmas. I have been lucky. Christmases past have always been good memories for me. When growing up, we lived on a farm less than three miles away from my grandparents’ farm. We went there for Christmas. Their house was one ...
There is little comparison to the evolution of Christmas and all its wonder. Growing up, how fun it was to drive to Sioux City as a big family to pick out a Christmas tree every year. (Dad may have had other thoughts about that obnoxiously loud trip.) I can’t say we ever got the hang of ...
