My farming days are finished but a recent story made me realize I clearly left a lot of money on the table.
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- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
Responses are still pouring in to my recent column “Say It Ain’t So, Philip Yancey” about the popular Evangelical Christian author. His books, including “What’s So Amazing About Grace,” have sold more than 15 million copies. He confessed in January to a long-term affair with a married woman.
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Wildlife viewers, birders and inquisitive-minded citizens cannot get enough of seeing and learning about bald eagles, the official national emblem of United States. The founding fathers in 1782 began the process giving the eagle species that status.
- Julie Belschner
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – It was 95 degrees outside Feb. 25 in the River Walk area of San Antonio. It was almost as hot with information overload inside the Henry B. González Convention Center where the 30th-annual Commodity Classic was being held. According to the organizers, it was record atten…
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- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
The caller, Carl Bethke, said, “I have a visitation story to share with you.”
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Nina Miller lives in the town of Brigham in Iowa County, Wisconsin. She had a positive answer when asked how she and her husband, Roger James, learned the fineries of tapping, collecting and cooking sap to make maple syrup.
- Sarah Pfaff-Cavadini For Agri-View
In my previous piece, I shared that my dad, Tom L. Pfaff, had written more than 100 letters to my mom from 1960 to 1962. He had just graduated from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls and had taken a job as a hog buyer for the Wilson Meat Packing Plant in Albert Lea, Minnesota. But his d…
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
Friendship makes life better. Close relationships between people and families give meaning and richness to what we do. The comfort and ease close relationships bring can lead us to new experiences. The love and support that grows within friendship brings special flavors to life.
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- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
My heart broke when I heard the news that Philip Yancey, my favorite evangelical Christian writer, had confessed to cheating on his wife for eight years with a married woman. I’ve loved Yancey’s books and quoted him often in sermons, as well as in my books and newspaper columns. His video bo…
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Turkey hunters, trout anglers and sunrise photographers sometimes need reminding that the sun is now rising earlier each and every day. Turkey gobblers gobble before sunrise; scouting the same time every morning means missing those tree-perched sounds.
- Ellie Kluetzman For Agri-View
On the heels of Valentine’s Day, we have another day for true love – Feb. 20 – Love our Pet Day. And I love dogs.
Editor's note: Angus was chosen as a monthly winner of one of Agri-View's featured pets.
- Shelly Mayer Professional Dairy Producers
Each new year offers a quiet moment to choose a guiding intention – something that steadies the mind and shapes the months ahead. Many people are embracing a simple but transformative phrase in 2026 – let it go. Not as an escape from responsibility, but as a healthier way to move through a w…
- Jason Maloney For Agri-View
MADISON, Wis. – It’s human nature to look at the world as we see it and never question how it came to be. Often we take for granted what’s here, believing it has ever been thus. We often don’t realize when we look at things we think of as old that they only recently came upon the scene. And …
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- John Sumwalt For Agri-View
I turned 6 the winter we lived in the old military Quonset-hut house on Pleasant Ridge in the town of Willow om Richland County, Wisconsin. We were only there for a few months in the winter of 1956-1957. In March we moved to a new farm Dad had bought just a few miles down the hill along Will…
- Jerry Davis For Agri-View
We don’t usually see all the reactions and movements that wild plants, animals and mushrooms make and do, and are subjected to. So when a tree explodes from being hit by lightning it seems freaky.
