My brother harvested his first wheat crop this summer and finished up right before the 4th of July. It wasn't the first crop on our fami...

Flax Seed: Up close and personal. You may find flax seed in your local grocery store, check in the cereal or supplement aisle. It's...

Readers, If you haven't caught some of these posts, I wanted to make sure you had easy access to them. These are the posts that genera...

You'll remember me when the west wind moves...........Upon the fields of barley You can tell the sun in his jealous sky..................

Celebrating harvest time for some people = apple cider, football, mums, pumpkins and craft fairs. Celebrating harvest time for farmers = l...

Brandon Harder and Howard Lehner in a Kansas Wheat Field Want to know what goes into your bread? Straight from the farm, I'm bringing yo...

Have you noticed how so many critics of the food industry go on and on about how they "think" food is produced on "factory fa...

You may remember my post written this summer, The Story of Wheat: As Told by a 3-year-old. Well this fall Cameron turned 4! He also got to s...

So it’s a well known fact that this wheat:   can be made into this bread --> It’s also generally accepted that this corn is a...

I don’t like the term “factory farming”. I frankly don’t think it exists. In my mind it is nothing more than a simple-minded attempt to abol...

The air is getting cooler, the grass is browning and the mood is changing. It's that time of year. You may be thinking, yes it is footba...

It is with inspiration from an excellent article written by Marlys Miller , an editor for Pork magazine, that I write this post. The article...

Even though Kansas wheat harvest is long over and the stubble is the only remnant of this crop left scattered across fields in the U.S., th...

Corn Farmers Coalition has released a new ad. It's aim? To put a face on farmers.  Most American farms are owned by families. More spec...

When my brother and I were little I can remember our obsession with planting our own corn fields in May when dad set off in the tractor to s...

With the recent announcement of the Topeka, KS, Horizon Milling flour mill's plans to shut down, I found a few interesting websites tar...