Greece has become the latest country to confirm a case of foot and mouth disease (FMD) as the dreaded disease continues to spread around Europe. This time, FMD has been found on a cattle ...

Spring has barely arrived, but FFA is already blossoming in Nebraska in remarkable fashion. Consider what’s happening in Gibbon, a town of 1,878 in Buffalo County. The high school started its first ...

Aldo Leopold wrote in his Sand County Almanac, “There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.” The collection of essays first published in 1949 was accepted by a publishing ...

With all eyes closely watching weather forecasts for any much-needed moisture, early April may bring some hope for precipitation in parts of the Rocky Mountain states and the Plains. Several ...

In recognition of National Agriculture Week, here are varied thoughts that may bring a chuckle or at least a smile to ag producers everywhere. “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and ...

As a kid my grandparents took my brother and I fishing every summer and the days we didn’t fish were reserved for going to ghost towns. Even though it was considered bad luck to ...

I’ve been at this column writing bizness long enuf to realize that wisdom can come from anywhere. Similarly, humor can come from any source, too. And, frequently, both wisdom and humor can emerge from ...

We’re almost two weeks out from when the worst fire in our state’s history burned through this country. When the smoke cleared, when the ashes quit smoldering, that’s when the true character of people ...

President Donald Trump addressed a gathering of farmers and ranchers on the South Lawn of the White House during the Great American Agriculture Celebration. Trump said many groups come to his office ...

Colorado Senators debated two competing agriculture overtime bills last week in a rare double-bill hearing. Assigned to the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee, the first bill was ...

On cold spring mornings in the Nebraska Sandhills, calving season can test even the most experienced ranchers. Twenty-five years ago, a collaboration between a Sandhills ranch family, a rural ...

Within 24 hours after Incident Management declared the Morrill Fire in Morrill, Garden, Grant, Arthur and Keith counties contained, dry lightning sent Nebraska ranchers and volunteer fire fighters ...