My sister lives in Colorado, where the sun always shines and the air is always fresh and the temperature is always just right. So when sh...

Amy Grant may think that Christmas it the most wonderful time of the year, but at the dairy, we think silage chopping time is actually the ...

Let's not get into a Donald Trump vs. Hillary throwdown. That ship sailed November 8. But let's do talk about the shout-out...

We could say something profound and heartfelt this Christmas Eve, reminding you that a farmer has to "get up before dawn, milk cows, w...

  Rural life isn't for everybody. And it's not meant to be. Some people are made for eight lanes of traffic, Trader Joe...

  I'm apparently stupid because (a) I'm rural and (b) I have no idea who Taran Killam is, other than that he's a former SNL ...

The poor weather around here can't make up its mind if it's August or November.  One day it's 80. The next it's 60.  ...

That's my go-to phrase regarding our garden pretty much every year: This is going to be the year!  Let's just say: Hope s...

You know those pictures of rows and rows of colorful tulips in Holland? This is like the Missouri version of that. Except it's ra...

Adapted from after-dinner remarks by Purdue University President Mitchell E. Daniels Jr.at the Agriculture Department’s Agricultural Outlook...

I'm a firm believer that children need a mom and a dad.  Certainly there are cases where the mom is left on her own, or where the d...

It turns out that our Great Pyrenees - Petunia - has been, uh, KNOWN.  In the biblical sense.  Ahem.  To make this e...