Do you remember the day you left home to strike out on your own? I do. It was in October 59 years ago.
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Though it was nearly 40 (gulp) years ago, I still remember the lesson well.
This column responds to a common complaint of women married to work-driven farmers who neglect important family responsibilities in their quest to make their agricultural enterprise successful.
- By Kim McMichael
Our eyes are something a lot of us take for granted. We get up every morning, expecting to open our eyes with clear vision, with very little consideration toward how vulnerable our eyes can be throughout the day.
This column responds to a common complaint of women married to work-driven farmers who neglect important family responsibilities in their quest to make their agricultural enterprise successful.
It is surprising to me that there are only 12 notes in music. Every song you have ever heard is an arrangement of those same 12 notes. The difference of each song is the songwriter’s expression of those limited notes played in different combinations.
Editor’s note: In the first column in this series, Val Farmer wrote a fictitious letter created to summarize a common complaint attributed to a rural woman called “Carol.”
It should be no surprise that I love words, especially unusual words. Years ago, I came across the word “anachronism.” I was not familiar with the term.
Twenty-five years ago, our nation mourned as nearly 3,000 Americans, including 400 firefighters, police officers and emergency medical personnel, perished in terrorist attacks on our own soil.
This is a fictitious letter I created to summarize a common complaint. I attribute it to a rural woman I will call “Carol.” These thoughts capture the distress many women feel about the quality of their marital relationships in farm and ranch family business operations.
As I write this, farmers here in north-central Montana are sidelined from harvest by rain. A few overnight showers turned into true rainfall by mid-morning, dashing hopes of being in the field for the next several days.
It was so hot the other day I saw a funeral procession pull through a Dairy Queen. OK, that’s an exaggeration, but it was really hot.
- By Steve Bohr
In this life, one of the best things we can strive to be is a good steward of the land. Our ownership of land is temporary. The legacy we leave behind can last long past our time here on earth, and the land can be a hallmark of that legacy.
Editor’s note: This column was originally published February 17, 1997. We’re running it now in honor of all the hard work that has gone into county fairs this summer and as a guide as you plan for next year.
One keystone principle of our constitutional republic is the freedom to make our own choices. We’ve just celebrated 250 years of a Constitution and Bill of Rights where our founding fathers ensure us important rights within mutually agreed upon laws made by the representatives of the citizen…
Some Americans wrongly think we’re better, smarter or even more sophisticated than citizens of other nations.
Editor’s note: This column was originally published on March 3, 2003.
In America, we can always count on exceptional summertime fairs across the Midwest. These fairs display the best that our industry has to offer — 4-H and FFA competitions, foods for all tastes, agricultural and home life exhibits, carnival rides and a wide range of entertainment.
- By Benjamin Herrold, Missouri Farmer Today
Arti Singh is an associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State University with more than 15 years of plant breeding experience. She leads a crop breeding program focused on bringing new food-grade crop opportunities for Midwest farmers. Singh also works to develop new artificial intelligence…
Editor’s note: This column was originally published on March 3, 2003.
- By Jenn Patterson
Summer only arrived a few weeks ago, but extreme heat and storms have already taken a toll on many Iowa farms. Corn fields are uneven. Soybeans are patchy. Some fields will recover; others won’t.
- Bayer News Release
LEVERKEUSEN, Germany — The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 7:2 landmark ruling in the Durnell Roundup case June 25, affirming that the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) expressly preempts state-law-based failure-to-warn claims when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agen…
- By Dean Frazer, Iowa Pork Producers Association
As a fifth-generation Iowa farmer, I understand the importance of making decisions that sustain a farm for future generations. My family has been farming and raising pigs in central Iowa for more than 155 years.
- By Krista Swanson and Sean Arians, National Corn Growers Association
America celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. And if we’ve learned anything in the last 250 years, it’s that America is really good at growing corn.