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Taking a knee on farm policy

Thursday, October 12, 2017

If the USDA’s forecasts are right and the nation’s politicians continue their feud, football players won’t be the only ones on their knees in protest.

Homemade gifts from the farm

Friday, December 2, 2016

Consider giving unique and thoughtful homemade gifts from the farm this Christmas.

The bird that would not cook

Thursday, December 3, 2015

It’s easy to get testy when your endless time in the kitchen making sides has been overshadowed by a stubborn bird.

A roundup of FFA news for the week of Oct. 1, 2015

Thursday, October 1, 2015

News from the Zane Trace FFA, Crestview FFA, Miami Trace FFA and Fort Frye FFA.

Rainy days had their charm

Thursday, June 19, 2014

On the big southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth, a rainy June day was a treat almost as great as homemade ice cream.

Teachers may be real people after all

Thursday, February 2, 2012

There is no other relationship quite like those of teacher-student, and the shadow of some of those connections follow the student for a very long walk in to adulthood.

‘An inordinate fondness for beetles’

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Over time, quotations can acquire legendary status. So it is with some words attributed to British evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964). It’s said that when asked what he could infer about the Creator from his career in biology, he replied that God must have had, “an inordinate fondness for beetles.” Whether or not

A new generation learns the hard way

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Does the word “relief” bring anything special to your mind except a slogan for an anti-acid? Probably not, unless you grew up in the Great Depression, and there are getting to be fewer of us as the years fly by. “Relief” was a government program to assist jobless families whose savings were gone, whose homes

Life is short: Go fishing instead

Thursday, April 15, 2004

Life isn’t always about what must be done on any given day, reminds columnist Judith Sutherland.

Small Farm Institute targets Appalachia

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Center encourages small farmers: “There are still options at the small farm level.”