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Springfield
Monday, March 3, 2025

Making mistakes

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Three out of the four of our children are very sociable. When they bring their friends out to the farm, it’s like an amusement...
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Men and meat

Did you know that marketing campaigns have caused men, to eat beef because beef is what “real men” eat?  For generations, men have watched TV...

The opossum cousin

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Once upon a time I was a close cousin to a possum. Were you to come looking for me on certain days in late spring...

New best friends

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This past month, the men in our family were able to attend an Outlaw Nationals sprint car race in Knoxville, Iowa. This involved packing...
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Reasons to celebrate fall

I follow a social media page that focuses on my home county. The administrator of the page, who I went to high school with,...

A hot cup of sassafras tea

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Once upon a time in the Ozarks we boiled poison tonic in the spring and lived to tell of it.  We called it, arguably the...

Hometown pride

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In July, I had an opportunity to travel to Stuttgart, Ark. When I joined the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture Research & Extension...
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The future of agriculture

This edition of Ozarks Farm & Neighbor is one of my favorites to put together each year.  The Youth in Agriculture edition highlights young people...

Twice a hog farmer

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I’ve not always been a journalist. Twice I was a hog farmer. My first experience with hogs came when I was in junior FFA at...

Thankful for a village

What a month July was! When I started sharing stories about my family’s day-to-day life on the farm, our children were small. Stories have...
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