There are an increasing number of farmers in this nation who also have off-farm jobs. However, the farm can be just as profitable for them as it might be for a full time producer. So how do you keep a farm well into the black even if you can’t spend as many hours on the land?
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If you’ve ever flown into the Las Vegas airport, you may have noticed a colorful Cessna airplane hanging from the ceiling over the baggage claim area. Most people think it’s just an interesting prop. However, it’s actually a world record holder, for no other manned airplane has ever remained aloft for more continuous days that this one…..
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You may recall we recently discussed a pair of brothers in Mississippi who in 1935 set a record by keeping an airplane in flight for 27 straight days. It’s an impressive feat, but in 1959, two other men more than doubled that feat…..
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The longest nonstop commercial flight in the world is currently a Singapore Airlines route from Newark to Singapore. It’s in the air over 18 hours and covers over 10,000 miles. That’s nothing compared to this flight that took off from Meridian, Mississippi in 1935. The flight was measured in days, but you could say, the flight never went anywhere…..
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For the past few days we,ve been in Greenfield, Iowa, home to the Iowa Aviation Museum. You probably never realized how many aviation firsts are tied to Iowa, including a car company that decided to try its hand at making airplanes. Its unique vision is preserved here…..
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Chalres Lindburgh was the first person to fly an airplane across the Atlantic Ocean. But lost in our history books in the name of a man who would most likely have beaten Lindburgh to the prize, if not for a court case that kept his plane from taking off from the very same airport……
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Today, aircraft carriers and the planes they transport play a vital role in country’s military might. However, have you ever given any thought to the first brave soul that attempted to take off and land a plane aboard a boat? It takes a courageous or perhaps very crazy individual to try it…..
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Willy Foote saw farmers and farmer cooperatives in developing nations often struggle to survive. What resulted was a vision that turned into a non-profit organization that’s making great strides in helping small, rural business thrive……
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Al can tell you plenty about building airport runways. Of course, most of those he helped build were on surfaces like coral under the threat of attack by the Japanese…..
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Imagine being a slave at the beginning of the Civil War only later to have an opportunity to join the Union army and fight back at those who enslaved you. It is here that former slaves joined men from the Union army to wage war in some of the most difficult terrain of the Civil War…..
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There is definitely an art to tracking and calling a wild turkey. Jerry Law had no trouble tracking this turkey. That’s because the turkey’s tracks have been here for nearly a century now. In a moment we visit those old turkey tracks and tell you why Jerry worked so hard to mark the spot so others could see them…..
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In front of the Luna Café, on old route 66 near Mitchell, Illinois, you’ll find a beautifully restored neon sign. The bright lights include a drinking glass with a red cherry that lights up. In the 1920s and 30s, this sign had extra meaning. It was a beacon for infamous characters and that lit cherry meant they were offering more that fine dining inside…..
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She was a very unlikely candidate to manage a cattle feedyard in central Nebraksa. She grew up in Palm Beach County, Florida and knew next to nothing about ranching. However it’s who she met at college that influenced her life and career–and the lives of the many she communicates with…..
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Many radio stations have interesting stories of how they were born. This station in central Nebraska was the product of one of the worst blizzards ever to hit the state. What resulted is a station still providing ag news and markets to listeners across the Midwest…..
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In some parts of the Midwest, you can buy a brand new car for the same price as one acre of farmland. That’s land that’s growing corn and soybeans, not land being developed next to a city. With so much riding on those acres it made for a unique harvest for this framer……
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Today we meet the district farmer of the year. A lady growing ten acres of corn–a farmer adopting some of the latest technology she can find to help grow a bigger crop. She shares a tractor with up to one hundred other farmers and will plant and harvest her entire crop by hand…..
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Drive through farm country and you can find plenty of shiny new grain bins to hold ever increasing yields. Drive through farm country here and you’re likely to find the corn stored under tarps or open to the elements that will spoil up to half of the harvested crop. It’s one of the many challenges these farmers face…..
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Many farm events and banquets in the US begin with prayer. This farm meeting opened with a joint prayer of Chritian and Muslim farmers. They represented farm organizations from the central region of the African nation of Ghana…..
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I always enjoy the harvest on our farm. Days spent in the combine or hauling grain to the bins are some of my favorite farm duties. I recently experienced a must different harvest though–the corn harvest in the West African nation of Ghana.
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When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book he found in his high school ag classroom, Herman decided some of the productions were still relevant today…..
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