I recently attended the funeral of my cousin Francis 鈥淢ac鈥 McDonough, at the United Methodist Church in Lime Ridge, Wisconsin. I had served briefly there as an interim pastor in 2014. The church was packed for the funeral service. Our voices swelled upward to the heavens as we sang the old f…
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The farm financial outlook is mixed for 2026, with livestock producers seeing strong prices while row crop producers are facing challenges.
IOWA CITY, Iowa 鈥 Farmers prepared for the next growing season at a series of January meetings covering a broad range of topics.
Eighty years ago, Ralph Hammons bought a cracking machine for his store in Stockton, Missouri, and started buying black walnuts from people who collected the wild crop.
Taya Feldmann, a high school student in Beach, N.D., and a member of the Golden Valley County FFA chapter for four years, has a story to tell.
BILLINGS, Mont. 鈥 The 2026 Montana Agri-Trade Exposition (MATE) will be held Feb. 12-14 at the MetraPark in Billings. MATE Show hours on Thursday and Friday are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
鈥淲hy was it that people worked so hard to stay on a bit of land? What was it in us?鈥 Bruce Roseland asked himself after making it through the 1980s farm crisis. His answers became poems.
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You should never count your chickens before they hatch, but as poultry superintendent Rhonda Meyer was counting entries at the Antelope County Fair, she knew there was a problem.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. 鈥 With last year鈥檚 export volatility for soybeans still affecting prices, market development was a hot topic at this year鈥檚 Illinois Soybean Association Soybean Summit in Champaign Jan. 27-28.
HETTINGER, N.D. 鈥 Are farmers in the western and south central North Dakota receiving a return on their investment when one bag of hybrid corn seed could cost between $270 and $350?
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Michigan State University Distinguished Professor Rufus Isaacs and College of Agriculture & Natural Resources alumna Gabriela Quinlan, now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, recently collaborated with researchers from 19 countries to develop a framewor…
The Iowa Pork Producers Association elected Dean Frazer of Conrad, Iowa, the next president of the association during the organization鈥檚 2026 Annual Meeting held Jan. 20 in Des Moines.
HAZELTON, N.D. 鈥 At Kalberer Farms, Jesse Kalberer, who operates a seedstock and commercial Red Angus business with his wife, Susan, is already making breeding and grazing plans for the following year while buttoning up decisions for the upcoming season and making plans for his April bull sa…
A huge row recently erupted regarding beef imported into Ireland and other European Union countries from Brazil, because part of the shipment contained banned growth hormones. It鈥檚 been confirmed that 128 kilograms of the beef was from animals that had been treated with oestradiol, a growth-…
Wine Glass Ranch in Imperial, Nebraska, is the 2025 Environmental Stewardship Award Program (ESAP) National winner, the National Cattlemen鈥檚 Beef Association (NCBA) announced Feb. 3. The award, which annually recognizes the outstanding stewardship practices and conservation achievements of c…
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The annual cattle inventory report and the monthly cattle on feed report, both released in late January, provided a look at national cattle numbers and trends.
BERTHOLD, N.D. 鈥 With temperatures plunging well below zero, Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager at Arrow L Ranch are ensuring everyone stays warm and cozy at the ranch. After a few days of mild weather in mid-January, the weather turned bitter cold with some extreme wind chills across the state.
SINSINAWA, Wis. 鈥 Rick Bieber reached into the soil, pulled out a handful and took a sniff. Around him stretched fields of green 鈥 an unusual sight for late October in Wisconsin, when harvest is ending and farmers are preparing for winter. Oat and barley grasses, sunflowers, purple-top turni…
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The canola market received welcome news recently as Canada came to an agreement with China to reduce tariffs on canola. The agreement states that by March 1, China will allow canola meal in duty free, while reducing its tariff on canola seed to 15 percent. There was no announcement for canol…
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The crash between a regional jet and a military helicopter left 67 dead, including three students and six parents in Fairfax and multiple former students of Loudoun public schools.
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