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 ...

The 2025 fall All-State Barn Tour runs Sept. 13-14, and featured on that tour will be an iconic dairy barn — easily seen from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During the winter months Father kept the big barn door closed. It was rolled back only when our horse, Prince, entered or went out of the barn. We children were expected to use the shed door when we ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers in Muskingum and surrounding counties are now into the haymaking season. You can see the modern equipment in the fields cutting, raking, baling and hauling the various sizes and shapes of ...