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Joel Gruver stood in front of a packed house at the Western Illinois Museum and talked about apprenticing with an old farmer in the hilly countryside of…
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Jeff Siegfried knows just about anything you'd ever want to find out about a 50-acre corn field in northern Colorado. The 24-year-old easily rattles off…
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Kendra Lawson doesn't have the typical schedule of a nine-year-old. With just a week of summer left, she spent her days working with her dad and mom on…
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The Matthew family farm, M&M&m Farms, outside of La Harpe, looks different from the farms surrounding it in western Illinois. It's not filled with neat…
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Show day at the Pierce County Fair in Nebraska starts early and goes fast.I arrived around 9 in the morning, but Emily Lambrecht had already spent an hour…
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Farm dog? Check.Barn cats? Check.Muddy work books lined up at the back door? Five checks.We kick off our fourth season of “My Farm Roots” with the Renyer…
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Every year on my birthday I know there’s a thin, flat package waiting for me to open. It’s wrapped with neat corner folds and held together perfectly with…
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Farmers are used to waking up with the rooster’s crow. But having grown up a suburban kid, John Curtis was used to a more conventional alarm clock.As a…
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Emily Robbins is a city girl now.Well, I’m using that term as a cliché. Robbins, 27, lives in Kansas City and works as an engineer at a large firm. She is…
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When they heard Dan Hromas’ truck rolling in, the chickens came strutting. The auburn-feathered Rhode Island Reds stood out, even in the tall, green brome…