QUESTION: How do dogs know what you’re saying when you’re training them?
Spring bull-buying season is an exciting time because cattle producers select bulls that they hope will improve the genetic composition of the…
OPINION False prophets are not just a phenomenon of ancient times. In April 2020 experts predicted that as many as 60,000 people might die fr…
Living in the country means glimpses of wildlife are an every-day occurrence, but I never grow tired of observing.
OPINION We filled our tubs with water so we can wash our hands and flush toilets. Our 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son have lost intere…
DEER PARK, Wis. – The Wisconsin Outstanding Young Farmer Awards program honors young farmers for achievements in farming as well as in agricul…
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“I wouldn’t have done it any other way,” he would say after telling me stories of hardship and trials.
OPINION It’s difficult to fathom what Wisconsin just did to its endangered wolves. After a brief but confusing legal fight – where the Wiscon…
Methodists, who trace their lineage back to John Wesley, are all about perfection. According to our Book of Discipline, “Sanctifying grace dra…
Editor's note: This is the conclusion of a two-part article. The first part was published in the Feb. 18 issue of Agri-View.
QUESTION: What would happen if you put a DNA sample from a human into another creature?
If I were a bumper-sticker guy, which I emphatically proclaim I am not and never have been, my bumper sticker would say, “Have I Told You Late…
These days many folks on the land are feeling isolated. Country life can bring serenity but it can also bring loneliness, especially during a …
Two friends from what Tom Brokaw called “The Greatest Generation” tested positive for COVID-19 in late 2020. They live in nursing homes in Wau…
The community of Westby, Wisconsin, has celebrated its Norwegian heritage for almost 100 years by holding an annual ski-jumping tournament at …
Editor's note: This is part one of a two-part article.
Information regarding “America’s Diverse Family Farms” is now available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
One of the reasons we chose to raise our family in an agricultural setting was to teach them the value of hard work and manual labor. Their tr…
QUESTION: How much does a full milk can weigh?
I once wrote an homage to silence in a poem about a lost shoe on a remote country road. The shoe lay there unmoved while I rumbled past throug…
During September on the farm my dad would begin checking the field corn to see if the ears were in the milk stage, and thus ready for the corn…
Listen for connection first
Travelers driving along U.S. Highway 53 through Ettrick, Wisconsin, are greeted by a welcome sign adorned with a majestic eagle that reads, “W…
Question: How is a COVID-19 vaccine made?
I cook when I’m angry, I cook when I’m sad; I cook when I feel the whole world’s gone mad. I cook when I’m troubled and disgusted by lies. I c…
The Welsh Prairie Livewires 4-H Club completed a bi-annual Adopt-A-Highway trash pickup in October 2020. Six families participated in cleaning…