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I don’t play the lottery and don’t frequent casinos, but if I were a betting man I’d lay odds that sometime in the next few years I will be involved in a deer-vehicle collision.
Everyone on the family farm pitches in and does their part, including four-legged friends. That prompted the American Farm Bureau Federation to launch the Farm Dog of the Year contest five years ago – now a popular feature of the organization’s convention.
On rural Monroe County roads usually reserved for tractors, pickups and Amish buggies, an out-of-place, though welcomed, vehicle ambles through the rolling hills. It pulls into gravel driveways of preselected farms, swings its doors open, and invites the laborers — typically migrant workers …
I can recall the words of a retired lifelong dairyman, a man short of stature but long of stride, expounding at a church potluck.
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When I started collecting vision stories about 1999 I was amazed at the number of people who told me about loved ones who made themselves known after death. One of the most remarkable accounts came from Patricia Gallagher Marchant. She is a family therapist in Milwaukee and a member of Lady …
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It’s always a mixture of sadness and hope when we move past the holiday season to face the bleakness of January.
OPINION I just want to tell you that the story you had on the farms of Saskatchewan was an excellent article; I’d like to compliment you on that. (Jan. 12 issue of Agri-View)
When residents of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, discovered contamination in their private wells, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service scientists went to work to find out why.
“I wouldn’t touch that with a 10-foot pole.”
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I am blessed to live in the country, where the solitude of the woods and the wonders of nature and animal life are literally just feet from my doorstep.
The fields of January have come to Wisconsin. The once-verdant fields of late fall have relented to winter. The hum of life in mixed grasses and clovers is silenced beneath the crusted snow. The spot where the tractor became stuck bringing in the last of the hay crop is lost under a white bl…
DELHI, Wis. – Furs were piled high on a big table in the center of La Borde’s trading post along the Fox River in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. Maple syrup was available by simply dipping in the barrel with a ladle and drinking. The small town of Delhi that grew around that post lasted about …
OPINION Have you ever been called on the carpet? Let’s say you are on the job and you find yourself in a situation where you need to make a decision about serving the best interests of your customer. But it will mean breaking a company rule, or keeping the rule and leaving your customer out…
A United Nations scientific report says Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing. Scientists say the hole over Antarctica should be fully mended in about 43 years.
June 24, 1946 – Dec. 28, 2022
CHICAGO (Reuters) – The American Farm Bureau Federation and machinery manufacturer Deere & Co signed a memorandum of understanding Jan. 8 that ensures farmers have the right to repair their own farm equipment or go to an independent technician.
We had sheep when I was a kid and it was my job to feed them because they were my 4-H project. My Dad, who had shown prize-winning Cheviots with my Uncle Delmar at the Wisconsin State Fair, taught me how to show sheep. I won the blue ribbon for showmanship at the Ithaca School Fair when I wa…
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One might be tempted to quip something like “Oh, how the mighty have fallen,” but trust me, I have never been on that pedestal.
MILWAUKEE COUNTY, Wis. – Even in wealthy nations like the United States hunger stalks people. It doesn’t matter where they live, country or city, hunger often visits. Hunger is something we hear most about during year-end holidays. But it’s really a problem every day of the year. If only the…
As much water as there is in the world, only about one-half of 1 percent of it is drinkable. To illustrate, if the world’s water supply was condensed to 26 gallons, fresh water would amount to only one-half of a teaspoon. What’s worse, that half-teaspoon appears to be leaking.