If you are a country music fan, and I know you are, then you have to be an Alan Jackson fan, as well. I mean this guy is the epitome of what country music is all about.
Three Ohio women honored for their work in state’s agriculture
A lifetime of promoting food, farms and fun earned three Ohio women recognition as the Ohio Department of Agriculture’s (ODA) 2014 Women of the Year: Eddie Lou Meimer of Mt. Gilead, Lucille Hastings of Big Prairie and Opal Holfinger of Troy.
DeKalb County whiskey sells out its first day on the shelf
Consumers routinely want to know the origins of their food and drink. The owners of Illinois’ only estate distillery (which means growing and distilling on the same property) understand that and hope it makes their whiskey and bourbon even more attractive in the marketplace.
Technological changes have allowed farmers and ranchers to be more productive, with inventions such as tractors, irrigation and pesticides, but the innovation has not stopped there.
National Ag Day intent to alert public to vital work of farmers
There can be no argument that without agriculture, eating would be next to impossible and with a growing global population, feeding all those people becomes a challenge even for a country with the most productive agriculture industry in the world.
Farm World now fostering funny farm photo & video submissions
At the end of a long day slogging through muddy fields or slopping the hogs, who doesn’t enjoy falling into a recliner and watching mindless entertainment like “AFV: America’s Favorite Videos?”
This February in the Midwest among the coldest on record
Last month’s arctic blasts that pummeled significant portions of the Midwest and Northeast have ranked it as one of the coldest Februarys on record, according to The Weather Channel, as well as the nation’s university and state meteorologists.
