Perhaps time does come to a standstill. However, if it does, it is only momentary. Perhaps the "now" does not really need to know the past. Perhaps what will be will simply be. If we really believe ...

I'm wondering if the person who made up the children's game "Chutes and Ladders" was a dairy farmer who milked cows in a large hip-roof barn where the cattle were housed in the lower level and the ...

LAWLER, Iowa — The Blazek Barn was built around 1900, and it's been going through changes ever since, said Bob Blazek, who has overseen restoration of the structure. Bob Blazek is restoring the barn ...

Fire caused by spontaneous combustion from wet hay struck another barn in eastern Lancaster County Thursday morning, a fire official reported. Roman Stoltzfoos saw smoke about 5:15 a.m. coming out of ...

Early pioneers used scythes and sickles to cut the hay and then piled it up with wooden forks. In the 1940s came the twine, automatic tie baler which was pulled behind a tractor and produced a 60- to ...

The hay mow at the Jerry and Deb Heinz farm in rural Tolono on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. Mini donkey Sammy greets people in a pasture at the Jerry and Deb Heinz farm in rural Tolono on Tuesday, June 29, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Hay that is baled and stored at a moisture level higher than recommended could heat up enough to start a barn fire, a Purdue Extension forage specialist warns. This season has ...

When I was a child growing up in Union Mills, I had a great love of horses. It started, I think, before I could walk. Some of my earliest recollections involve being placed on a pony’s back and riding ...

Little feeder pigs haven't scuttled through Allen Bush's barn in more than 40 years, but the 1930s building is still in use. Nowadays the gambrel-roofed structure built with stanchions for milking ...

ELKADER - On fishing trips to Clayton County's "Little Switzerland," Rick Dengler always thought it was the prettiest spot in Iowa. When a 6 1/2-acre farmstead came up for sale near Chicken Ridge ...

While traveling through West Virginia and Pennsylvania last month, a large part of the time on two lane highways, my wife and I began to notice the many interesting barns along the way. Many appeared ...

CHASEBURG — A Vernon County farmer was in critical condition Friday after suffering burns when his barn caught fire Thursday. Steve Humfeld sustained burns to his hands, arms and face in the fire that ...