While American fields lie dormant each winter, the seed that will be planted the coming spring is often already growing somewhere in South America.  We…

Last planting season as I poured a bag of corn in our planter, I noticed the seed originated in Chile.  I wondered what that farm…

Imagine growing up on a farm and then in your early twenties traveling on your own a half a world away to begin a new…

In the early 1980’s, the United States put its first woman into space, a full two decades after space travel began. So why didn’t women…

The first man in space? The first man to orbit the earth? The first man to walk on the moon? You may know those pioneers…

Mention the name William Quantrill in Kansas or Missouri, and you’re likely to get stories of Quantrill’s Raiders sweeping into Kansas to burn cities and…

When you think of fertile farmland, you probably think about rich, deep soil in the heart of the Midwest. But to find the land growing…

In Salem, Illinois you’ll find a library named for a man who never set foot in this town. He simply admired the man who was…

A doctor is expected to wear a white coat. A policeman is supposed to have a badge. A cowboy, of course, must wear a cowboy…

When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happen to find in his high school ag classroom, Herman decided some of…