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Lessons Learned on the Farm
Teresa Falk, Creator of Rural Route Ramblings Guest blog by Teresa Falk, freelance writer and creator of Rural Route Ramblings blog Growing up on the farm I was surrounded by animals. As a young child...
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Serve Up Soup for Supper This Season
Crock-pot meals are a favorite this time a year: they offer flexibility at meal time since you don’t have to worry about the pot roast burning or the soup boiling dry; you can make hearty meals that...
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Slow Down this Weekend with Pulled Pork
Beth & Bryce Caple Although October is officially 4-H Month and National Pork Month, these two are celebrated daily by this Story County farm family. Bryce and Beth Caple of Maxwell have been...
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Keeping Christmas Meaningful on the Banks of Squaw Creek
Katie Olthoff The Olthoff’s, from Stanhope, Iowa, are busy from sun-up to son-down. Caring for 60,000 turkeys and two little boys keep Bart and Katie busy. The Olthoff’s have been raising turkeys for...
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Gary Bennett Retires After Nearly 28 Years
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the spring, who reaps a harvest in the autumn. — B C Forbes Trips to Oregon and Alaska top the “top do” list for Gary Bennett, who retired in...
View ArticleDal Grooms: First Lady Chris Brandstad’s Oven Beef Stew
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View ArticleMichelle Sandven: Crock-Pot Potato Soup
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4-H Brought This Couple Together and Binds Their Family
The Sunkten family of Belmond, Iowa, gathered in May 2012 for Kellen’s high school graduation. They’re looking forward to being recognized during the 2013 Iowa State Fair for their Century Farm. Front...
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Sweet & Sour: This Recipe Describes Our Spring Weather, Too!
You might say that farming is in Ben Rein’s blood. His great, great grandfather homesteaded around Highland, Minnesota, in 1884. Farming is a tradition that has continued throughout the generations....
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Celebrate May Beef Month with Pot Roast
Every farmer I know looks forward to the beginning of a new planting season – as well as to its end! As much as Ben Jones of Spencer, Iowa, enjoys farming, he’s eagerly anticipating the end of the...
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Former FFA Officers “Exert an Influence” by Coming Home
Lisa Ahrens Peterson as National FFA President, 1988-89 Lisa Ahrens Peterson and her husband, J.R., didn’t merely recite The Creed as FFA members. They’ve been living each day, for more than a decade,...
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Get a Glimpse of “Farm Living”
Ever since the 19th season of ABC’s The Bachelor premiered on January 5, folks have been debating whether Iowa farmer Chris Soules can find a bachelorette who can become his life partner. Many experts...
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Kicking Up Their Heels for National Beef Month
Ron and Trudy McGrain It’s not only planting season for Latham® seed customers Ron and Trudy McGrain. It’s also calving season for this Mapleton, Iowa, couple. Their first calf of the 2011 season was...
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