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Want to build a pond?
URBANA, Ill. — If you are a landowner who has always been wanting a pond, there are a number of pre-construction steps that should be done to first determine if your property will even be suitable for a pond. First step Bob Frazee, University of Illinois Natural Resources educator, suggested the first step would be
The Colors of Health: Fruits and Veggies — More Matters
Nutritional campaigns promoting good health have become necessary because we are too lazy and spoiled to think about what we are eating. Once upon a time, before phrases like 5 A Day and the eye-catching pyramids that define nutritional guidelines, people sat down to meals complete with servings of fruits and vegetables. Balancing one’s diet
Under pressure: Ag input costs continue to climb
While average crop farm incomes are at record highs, so too are total debt/equity levels.
Orchard pruning requires that human touch
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — Anybody who believes that apple or other orchard-fruit growing is a seasonal job with a winter vacation would be surprised if they went out to the orchards and saw the work going on in the dead of winter. Orchard fruit growing is about nine months of perpetration and maintenance and three
If I’m wrong, all bets are off
While researching some of the information for today’s Page 1 story on the Borden Boys and their donation to the Smithsonian, I found a picture of a “Rotolactor” milking machine.
Is that a Superfund site or a farm?
White HAZMAT suits. That’s what I think of when I hear the words “Superfund site.” White suits with self-contained breathing apparatus, gloves, boots.
Underdog gives us reason to cheer
Columnist Judith Sutherland chose an unlikely winner long ago. She’s still sticking with Smarty Jones.
Napkins? Give Me Two, Please
How do busy families instill table manners, and what happens when the mom herself is a food-dropping klutz? Farm and Family Living columnist Laurie Marlatt Steeb confesses to always needing a napking or two.
Machinery company draws stares with unusual lawn ornaments
WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa – You never know what you’re going to see in Jon Kinzenbaw’s “back yard” as you drive along Interstate 80, just west of Williamsburg, Iowa.
Four clues to what you’ll pay on eBay auctions
Is there method to the madness of bidding online for an item? Yes, according to a study of eBay coin transactions.
