Opinion

Trying to teach a wet hen to fly

“I’m going to stop trying to be funny,” I said to my wife. “Very funny,” she said.  …

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Tips for our northern friends Life on the Farm 

You can see them coming down the interstate, moving into our tiny piece of tranquility and blundering through…

Opinion

Now bring on 2022

One year I made a resolution that I was going to learn how to play the guitar. Being…

Opinion

When did the wheels start coming off the bus?

Those of us in my generation look at what’s happening today and ask ourselves at what point did…

Life on the farm- Larry McDermott

Banning books is a fool’s game

There are rumblings that book-banning is at the top of some people’s agenda. Certain books, they say, should…

Life on the farm- Larry McDermott

Easy solution to supply chain Christmas worries

‘Tis the season to fret about Christmas gift buying. Will Amazon or Lululemon cut through the supply chain…

Life on the farm- Larry McDermott

Putting on the memory cap for Thanksgiving

The headlines are warning us that there might not be enough turkey and fixings to go around this…

Columnists

Weather can be the nether world of farmers

Right now, everything is green because of weeks of rain, and non-farmers probably think that’s what farmers need.…

Columnists

Wearing somebody else’s jeans and loving it

If there is one thing I’ve learned about farm attire, it’s this. The best jeans are the ones…

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Who’s going to plant some mystery seeds?

So far, this year has been a rough one. It’s like snapping out of a hypnotic state only…