Francis Thicke, with his wife, Susan, is owner and operator of an organic dairy and crop farm near Fairfield, Iowa. They process their milk on…
Although some people prefer the same foods every day or must eat the same items daily because that’s all they have available to them, most of …
The very first column I ever wrote was about a retired U.S. Navy fighter pilot who was shot down over Vietnam at age 24. After 75 combat missi…
History has a way of repeating itself. That’s especially true when it comes to ag equipment company mergers and acquisitions.
What family traditions do you have? Did your grandparents pass down traditions to your parents that you now follow? Have you started some of y…
DENVER, Colo. — The speed of the economic recovery will largely hinge on the availability, dissemination and reach of COVID-19 vaccines, pushi…
Reflecting on the holidays and the upcoming new year feels a little different this year as COVID-19 remains a primary force in our lives.
If I were to describe this past year in one word, I would have to say “difficult.”
Few things in our lives are so deeply steeped in tradition as our observance of Christmas. At a very young age, we become accustomed to Christ…
This holiday season stirs farmers to reflect on this year’s productivity and to consider if there are good reasons to be optimistic about the …
As farmers, we prepare for next season through the winter months. We prepare for tax season by deciding how much income to defer and discoveri…
Zippy Duvall is the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Duvall is a farmer from Georgia, where his family has a 400-head beef co…
Editor’s note: This a continuation of the previous Money Today column.
Sometimes, time and labor savings don’t come from equipment, but rather how and where you store and maintain that equipment, along with parts …
Michael Mackey’s column (Oct. 17, 2020) about the dairy industry points out the problems repeatedly, but his solution is only for government a…
My maternal grandfather, Opa Gelder, was a teenager when he came to the United States from East Friesland in northwestern Germany. Although he…
Last month, two military veterans wrote to me. The first asked me to write about the origins of Veterans Day; the second professed his appreci…
Father Matthew Flatley is a former pastor of four small Catholic rural parishes in Vienna, Brinktown, Koeltztown and Argyle, Missouri. Flatley…
Doug Wilson, Illinois state director of USDA Rural Development, knows firsthand about the needs of farmers and rural America. He lives in nort…
Not every piece of ag equipment is going into hibernation over the winter. Utility tractors, scrapers, snow blowers, skid steers and trucks ar…
George considered himself a good farmer, or at least better than most of his neighbors.
One of the most important concepts in understanding relational struggles, and how to overcome them, is the concept of attachment.
Many years have passed since my John Deere 4X2 Gator utility vehicle sat new at a dealership, ready to become a go-to machine for carrying bru…
As a non-partisan organization, you might ask yourself why the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) would wade int…
President Trump’s re-election prospects still look good — in rural America — but do his agriculture policies justify rural votes?
Ben Franklin might just as well have been talking directly to today’s farmers when he famously said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be…
In 1941, farm prices were all controlled by government, and things we purchased were also controlled with war stamps and coupons. The farm pri…