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Retirees overestimate Social Security benefits
Future retirees expect to receive $1,805 a month in Social Security benefits, but retirees currently collecting only receive $1,408 a month on average.
Wildlife habitat 101
A lot goes into setting up and managing a wildlife habitat. Jim Abrams provides tips to help landowners get started.
After USDA Reports, market searching for harvest lows
Marlin Clark weighs in on the grain markets with corn and soybean harvest underway.
How to reduce hay loss on your farm
Learn how to reduce the cost of feeding your livestock by reducing hay cutting losses due to storage and feeding.
Hurry up and wait: Use rain delays to make planting and crop decisions, experts say
SALEM, Ohio — Rain showers. Tile washouts. Mud. Thanks to Mother Nature, you’re already falling behind schedule with spring tillage and planting. In the past week, farmers have been spotted chisel plowing, planting oats and making progress across parts of the Farm and Dairy coverage area. It’s been slow going, though, with USDA data showing
Recalling adventures in livestock and the kindness of strangers
Judith Sutherland recalls the way passersby were enamored with the dairy farm of her youth.
Keep your heart open to possibilities
Judith Sutherland received a surprise visit from a loyal reader with an unexpected gift. Read her story and remember to pass along kindness wherever you go.
Summer of squalor revisited
Every once in a while I receive a note asking about something I wrote about some time ago. This time it was a sweet email asking about how things went with the Summer of Squalor.
Pa. fire department rescues life of Erie County farmer trapped in bin
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The proper response to farm emergencies is often a bit different than that to other crises, and Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences offers a special training course to prepare likely responders. Recent training That ag-rescue training recently was credited with saving another life — the fifth in recent years —
America the big takes on foreigners’ fat
There is a reason I have no desire to travel the world, see exotic places, and meet new and exciting people and it is this: new and exciting people who live in other places are strange.
