As we celebrate National Ag Week, allow me to begin and end with one simply phrase: Thank you farm and ranch families for keeping food on our tables!
Nearly 300 exhibitors. Roughly 5,000 attendees. Sixty-nine breakout sessions, one country concert and over 800 pounds of cheese served over two and a half days.
One Faulkton farm family is interseeding soybeans with a cover crop mix of oats, rye and flax between the rows of soybeans in the same pass. It's helped them on their mission of reducing reliance on synthetic fertilizer.
Bom dia! It has been around 15 years since I was last in Brazil, and I will say my Portuguese is not like riding a horse. I do remember all of the important words: hi, goodbye, thank you, bathroom, pineapple and speed bump. I’m sure the last two will have the utmost importance at some time d…
The shortage of agricultural workers in the United States is approaching crisis level.
Churchgoers at Preston Christian Church are used to sitting in chairs that overflow into the fellowship hall, but they will have new accommodations this spring.
There’s a picture of me somewhere with Gov. George Mickelson holding me in the rotunda of the South Dakota Capitol on his inauguration day.
Churchgoers at Preston Christian Church are used to sitting in chairs that overflow into the fellowship hall, but they will have new accommodations this spring.
There’s a picture of me somewhere with Gov. George Mickelson holding me in the rotunda of the South Dakota Capitol on his inauguration day.
I have, on occasion, employed the age-old adage, “I ain’t never been much further from home than my mailbox.”
People say a kid’s first playmates are cousins, but back on the farm, mine were my brother and sister.
Farm succession planning is an important topic for a very good reason.
Midwest Dairy, the checkoff organization representing over 4,000 dairy farmers in a 10-state region, has a new chief executive officer.
The North American Farm and Power Show is a great opportunity to shake hands with old friends, make new ones, and see what’s new in the agriculture industry. This year’s show is set for Thursday through Saturday, March 14-16, at the Four Seasons Centre in Owatonna, Minn.
Before attending the Farmers Union College Conference on Cooperatives, all Landen Melius knew about cooperatives was from doing business at the local grain elevator and Chelsea Cenex station.
There’s nothing wrong with these eggs, but I couldn’t even give them away. It reminds me of when I was trying to find a date for the junior prom – I felt I was a valuable commodity, but I wasn’t convincing anyone else.
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"I think the biggest struggle I deal with is the guilt. We were raised with this mindset that work takes precedence."
HOUSTON, Texas — The farm bill was the major topic on the minds of commodity group members at the 2024 Commodity Classic.
South Dakota State University Extension will offer advice on managing sheep predators during the KBJM Farm and Home Show March 8 in Lemmon, S.D.
Three South Dakota pork producers were recognized for outstanding contributions to the state’s swine industry.
I knew my dad had a good singing voice. Only after he died did I began to learn how many other people in the countryside knew it, too.
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“If producers don’t improve animal disease traceability now, they pay an even greater price later when the industry is eradicated by disease."
Q. I keep reading that aspirin is dangerous. But when I went to the emergency room thinking I might be having a heart attack, the first thing they did was give me four baby aspirin. I wasn't having a heart attack after all, but they seemed to think it would be protective if I was.
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