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They couldn’t be #Angiulitough without community’s support
The devastation of the Angiuli’s Farm Market fire is soothed by the community’s support in ways that the family can never repay. Learn why the family is #Angiulitough.
Spring migration and its parade of color are under way
A flash of red signals the return of a male rose-breasted grosbeak. A lemon drop bouncing across a country road means yellow warblers are back. And a patch of deep blue atop a withered snag tells me indigo buntings have arrived. Spring migration and its parade of color are under way. The colors of birds
Meadowbrook Farms collapses
A sudden surge of spring-like warmth put a hint of green in my backyard just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Whether the lovely weather lasts or if it’s just the luck of the Irish matters little because, clearly, winter is doomed. So, too, seem the hog-growing farmers of Meadowbrook Farms, the Rantoul, Ill., pork
Itching for spring, new baseball season
“We weren’t really alone, of course. Each square mile of farmland, bordered on all sides by those perfectly straight Iowa roads, was called a section. In those days, most sections held four family-owned farms….there were 17 children in our section, so we had our own baseball game. Even if only four kids showed up, we
Spring welcomed at the Gueberts’
The signs and sounds of another Illinois spring are everywhere and each one sends me daydreaming to another time, another place.
Penn State going to fly-by planting
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Seeking to be a role model for farmers in the state and across the Northeast,
One person can make difference
Judith Sutherland shares more memories of the bus driver, Vic Kahl, who was included in the hall of fame induction of a basketball team per its request.
Enjoy the special gift of October
Judith Sutherland reflects on the reasons October is a gift.
How can small businesses lure online shoppers?
LAMAR, Mo. – Shopping is shopping, right? Well, it depends on your generation. For baby boomers, shopping typically means driving to a store to buy what they want. A 20- or 30-something might boot up a computer rather than start a car. Kathy Macomber, business development specialist for University of Missouri Extension, says the way
Criticism of Milk Marketing Improvement Act is undeserved
Editor: There has been a lot of criticism, if not outright slander, leveled against the notion that dairy farmers need a farm milk price that reflects the average cost of producing milk, specifically the Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2009 (S1645). Some call it welfare. Other call it anti-competitive or un-American or complain that
