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Mother Nature has been providing crazy weather again this year. Many areas receive rain every few days, keeping moisture levels at field capacity with only a day or two for forage drying between rains. Cool-season grass quality is rapidly declining as seed heads emerge, and alfalfa is at peak quality.

Baleage can be an excellent tool for managing challenging harvest we...


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Two weeks after the U.S. House passed its “skinny” Farm Bill — the law’s usual lard had been cut into last July’s reconciliation bill — applause is still yet to be heard in either Washington, D.C. or rural America.

One big reason might be exhaustion. After three years of pushing, fingerpointing and arguing, Republican members of the House Ag Committee found a path to p...


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I am living a lie. I pretend to be a free and easy devil-may-care sort of lady. By this I mean I am a small purse girl. I like to travel light. I do not haul around a large pocketbook or hefty handbag. I like to carry a wallet, lip gloss and a debit card. I rarely carry cash. I have a husband for that. I love a little crossbody purse that is no bigger than a pouch or perhaps ...


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The rod I couldn’t afford, a used hand-tied fly and my first salmon. (Jim Abrams photo)

Friends were telling me about their planned summer vacation and how much they were looking forward to the adventure. I couldn’t help but notice a happy urgency in their voice.

Their kids, who are young adults, are leaving home permanently. Two have completed their studies, hav...


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During the summer of 2019, I traveled west along I-70 through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas on my way to Colorado. Typically, there’s a whole lot of corn growing along that route. But the Midwest flooding that year left farm fields looking like large lakes.

It was late June, and there were very few crops in the fields. Even the sight of large numbers of opport...


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