MANSON — For Doug Gaul, becoming an ag teacher and FFA advisor just made sense. “My dad was a farmer; my mom was a teacher,” said Gaul. He grew up attending school in Harlan, where he was involved in the school’s FFA program, then went on to get his bachelor’s degree in ag ...
JEWELL — With genetics procured from France and New Zealand, and a climate-controlled cave for aging award-winning cheeses, Lost Lake Farm in northern Iowa is a family-run farmstead creamery that honors its past while focusing on the future. Located outside Jewell, Lost Lake Farm’s ...
I recently stopped at the post office to mail a few packets. This is something that would normally take only a few minutes, but it consumed nearly half an hour and caused my wife to suffer some undue alarm. It wasn’t the post office’s fault. As I approached its exit, a vaguely familiar ...
NEWS *CHS is reporting first-quarter net income of just over $250 million. That’s up from $245 million one year ago. Record premium diesel fuel sales helped push performance in its refined fuels division. The grains business was hurt by weak soybean crush and spring wheat margins, a ...
As has been noted here before, I don’t eat today what we ate every day on the dairy farm of my youth. Back then we worked like plow horses so we ate like plow horses: five times daily with a noon dinner as the big table-bender. How we ate all that food–hefty pork and beef roasts, buckets ...
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 ...
