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New life in our barn for Christmas
Just when they thought Doris would be packing her bags, she brings a gift of a fine Christmas ewe lamb to Sutherland’s farm. Doris the Dorset has done it again.
October brings bittersweet memories
“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop your story.” — Orson Welles By JUDITH SUTHERLAND Farm and Dairy Columnist The steel gray skies of autumn have most definitely arrived with the turn of the October calendar. The once-green fields of endless soybeans of early September slowly turned golden, and now
The father of the Green Revolution
If pushed to guess, I suspect that few of the lengthy, laudatory obituaries published the week after his Sept. 12 death would have pleased Norman E. Borlaug, the Iowa farm boy turned hunger fighter. Borlaug, after all, wasn’t into flowers or flowery words. He was a plain-spoken, dirt-on-the-shoes plant breeder whose semi-dwarf and rust-resistant wheat
Is it Decoration Day or Memorial Day?
A dear young friend — she is 45 and to me that is young! — and I were discussing the upcoming holiday weekend and I asked if she had any plans for Decoration Day. “For what?” she asked. “What’s that?” and I corrected my question to Memorial Day. Which got me thinking about the last
Elections do matter to everyone
Whoever said elections don’t matter was either a royalist or a royal idiot. Of course elections matter. For proof, ask Robin Hayes, Marilyn Musgrave, Randy Kuhl or Tim Walberg. All are Republican members of the House Ag Committee who, on Nov. 4, were fired by their constituents in, respectively, North Carolina, Colorado, New York and
Arctic seed vault offers long shelf life
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened recently on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries.
One more full pull: Friends help ailing farmer
A legend in the tractor-pulling community, Don McCarthy, will climb aboard his 1957 John Deere 620 for the last time July 19 during the classics pull at the Mantua Ox Roast.
Spring can’t come soon enough
“In February a farm is like a child’s hand, opened and held palm up to show that nothing is concealed in it. Without leaves to veil the farm buildings and fields, the naked facts of a farmer’s work habits and holdings are revealed even to the casual traveler passing along the road. Did the farmer
Shakespeare: To ride, or not to ride?
Actually, it was Shakespeare who made the decision whether or not I would ride a borrowed horse on my 85th birthday.
Life with Channing is better than ever
Ever since the summer day that Channing arrived on our farm, things have seemed a little brighter around here.
