Rural Life
Compeer Financial has spearheaded pilot projects to show how collaboration can create a fly-wheel to better life in farm country.
The inescapable crop math of sustained crippling commodity prices and high input costs has many growers screaming for immediate relief. However, bailouts are Band-Aids over bullet holes, contend farmers desperate for fundamental change.
Four social media influencers who live and work on farms share how the viral #FarmGirlSummer trend is offering an authentic look at rural life — while building connections, educating viewers and challenging stereotypes along the way.
Burnout shows up when people are over extended, misaligned and are trying to carry all the things all the time without any support, even while doing work they love.
Not every youngster is playing Fortnite and dancing on Tik Tok all day. Learn about a young man out west who is keeping tradition alive, one classic tractor at a time.
We wanted to have a little ag-related fun with Teslas’ recent Optimus robot reveal, and you guys delivered the goods.
Leather work gloves are often considered “consumables” due to the frequency with which they wear out or go missing on the farm. If you know how to match glove design and type of leather to the job, you can buy fewer gloves.
In 1984, Farm Journal’s personal ads connected Pat, a farm girl from Iowa, with Doug, a dairyman from New York, sparking a love story that led to marriage and the fourth generation of Fuller Acres Farm.
Lust, larceny, and massive sheds. Steve Snow collared a ring of shed poachers red-handed.
At 96 years young, Paul Dotterer still runs the chopper during harvest season on his family’s dairy farm - and he enjoys every minute of it.
Maybe it’s because I’m a farm kid at heart, but I think the best Halloween costume ideas come straight from the farm. And I’m not the only one on our team here at Farm Journal who feels that way.
God bless grain cart drivers. They are great mind readers, understanding all those hand signals that are hard to interpret and hard to see, and the person who generally takes all the blame.
These days Keith Vodrazka works for an entrepreneurial startup with big plans and different leadership challenges than he experienced during his time in big agribusiness.
Rooted crops, dead calves, strafe-bombed pastures, and a father-son team pushed to the edge by a wild pig plague.
Norma “Duffy” Lyon was more than okay with being known as the “The Butter Cow Lady.” Afterall, for nearly a half century, Lyon sculpted the butter cow and other creations at the Iowa State Fair.
What was supposed to be an 8-min. job ended up nearly costing Doug Omer his life. Now he uses the ordeal as a warning to others who need to slow down and think before they act.
The Agri-Food Institute team at Wells Fargo collected data showing the current cost of ingredients to prepare a quarter pound hamburger at home is $2.16 per burger (which includes cheese, tomato, and lettuce).
An Iowa farmer has turned tragedy into triumph, protecting the crash site where the iconic Buddy Holly died in a cornfield.
Welcome to Wyman Atwood’s unlikely tale of obsession, deceit, and an astounding 50,000-marble haul.
Nathan Casburn tells a hellish opioid tale of loss and survival on the farm: “Never, never believe that it’s too late.”
#88 is quite possibly the most popular cow on social media right now, and it’s one post that sparked it all. Clay Scott is using it as an opportunity to educate others about ranching, growing into a global sensation.
A lone juror stood between rancher George Kelly and innocent. “It is what it is, and it will be what it will be. Let me go home, okay?”
It’s not sharks, wolves, or bears that kill the most people—it’s wild pigs, and the numbers are trending up.
Drag the planters out of the shed, fire up the seed tenders, update the field maps and start your engines. This season, as you enjoy your packed lunch at 10 a.m., ponder the lessons learned from the hardwoods.
Roger Reaves forged the most astounding farm life of modern times. Row crops to moonshine to marijuana to cocaine, he was the highest paid narco-pilot in history.
NBA superstars Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith learned how to hand milk a cow on live television thanks to a Madison, Georgia dairy farm, Big Sandy Creek Farm.
It’s important the friends, family, and business professionals close to farmers are prepared and able to effectively communicate in a mental health crisis.
William Christman, 19, saved his family’s farm and paid with his life.