Because farmers live and work in the same place, it’s easy to overlook how some of the greatest dangers rural youth may face is right there at home.

In an industry like moviemaking that’s full of tropes, farmers and ranchers aren’t often presented in a positive light.  Agricultural lifestyles aren’t the most picturesque of backdrops for the Hollywood limelight, nor are they mysterious enough for the gripping novel. Understandable. But whenever you see the entertainment industries try to portray the rural world, even […]

The conversations were like clockwork. “I’m studying animal science.” “Oh! You’re going to be a vet?” My tongue in cheek response was, “No, the idea of going to school another four years only to spend my career getting calls at 3 a.m. to take care of other people’s animals isn’t appealing to me.” In actuality, […]

Rural Americans — both in ag and other blue-collar industries — are keen on politics. And the electoral college is important to having a voice.

The types of barn stars appear to have changed over the years, and the barn star meanings have sure shifted throughout history, too.

Amid the pandemic, the Albers family of Nebraska added a curated meat service to their business — a local delivery subscription service known as Meat Man.

These world farming records are fun ways of examining how far ag has come and celebrating the incredible outliers who have raised the bar for us all.

As an agriculture community, we tend to do a lot of rubbernecking at days gone by. Not having quite as many decades under my belt as many of my peers, I never really understood that. That is until I started really paying some more mind to agricultural history, especially by those who lived it. It […]

Energy company bp will be adding a new renewable natural gas (RNG) to its portfolio — all made possible by poultry litter and CleanBay Renewables.

The 4-H program was born in Ohio — Clark County to be specific — under the guidance and leadership of A.B. Graham.