I suspect if farming was still done mainly with horses, and cows milked by hand, and our homes without central heat, nor ...

There is little comparison to the evolution of Christmas and all its wonder. Growing up, how fun it was to drive to Sioux ...

The population of Hatfield, Minn., located in Pipestone County, has seldom hit 100, except on Saturday nights in the 1960s ...

With record beef markets, more cattle producers are assessing ways to capitalize on these opportunities. High-tech, precision ...

Growing up on a farm in Sauk Centre, Minn., Gerry Kulzer couldn’t envision a future where he’d become the state’s pre-eminent ...

Milk production is abundant on U.S. farms and evidenced in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest data. November output ...

Mark Brakke is a retired family practice physician. He cared for patients in Coon Rapids, Minn. for 41 years during which ...

Mark Twain would have loved this.The story goes that Twain, arguably America's greatest writer and humorist, was the ...

Recently, USDA announced that $12 billion will be made available for the “Farmer Bridge Assistance” (FBA) program, which will ...

This world is moving at break-neck speed … and don’t tell me you haven’t noticed it. Every day I get up and wonder what new development I’ll need to educate myself on just to be able to talk to the ...

Perhaps no one said it better than J.B. Priestley, an English novelist and playwright. “The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and ...

To till or not to till? Some might say running the tiller in the garden is the best part of it all. Other gardens never see a ...