Harvesting this crop can require months of time.  A new harvest is ready every six to eight weeks requiring another pass through the fields to…

You don’t often think of planting a tree as a way to draw tourists.  But that was the idea these residents had.  However, there weren’t…

What is the tallest mountain on Earth?  Most of us would probably say Mt. Everest.  However, today’s guest and many scientists will tell you the…

James lives in a land of water and fire.  That may sound like an oxymoron, but it’s true – his home can experience 200 inches…

Imagine farming in a place where a break down could cost you not hours, but weeks to get repairs.  When some parts are thousands of…

When farmers put seed in the ground each spring, there’s a good chance that sometime during that corn hybrid’s past, it was growing here…

If you happen to be a corn or soybean farmer, perhaps you look forward to the warm Spring days when the seeds begin to emerge…

Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the senate just two years prior…

It is a factory that began operation over a century before England’s colonies became the United State of America.  We go to a place where…

George Washington’s birth date was always clear–February 22, 1732.  The location of his birth though was difficult to pinpoint.  It’s still a mystery to most…