Farm Credit bought a market steer, a dairy feeder steer and a lamb during Tuesday's event. But it's hard to find the time just to do that regular stuff. Megan West had the reserve champion market steer with a weight of 1,268 pounds that brought a price of $1. Young county fair exhibitors get their payday. Brandon McAfee s 486-pound reserve champion dairy feeder steer earned $2. She can stand in the field and pet any one of my cows. Hague noted that sheep-raising also takes some doing. By...

Life on the farm for Bode proved difficult, for she was a lousy working dog -- she didn't take commands well and had a habit of biting the sheep she was supposed to herd. Now, if local dog trainer Gail Brown were sitting in front of you, she would place her hand atop yours and hold it in place. She once swore to never use clicker training, in which a clicking device is used to home in on a desired task, but Brown enlisted the method to train the dog soft as sheep's wool. One night in 2004,...

She saw tapestries and rugs made with natural fibers and transformed into vivid geometric designs in bold colors by women in disadvantaged conditions. That impulse comes to fruition next week, with two local presentations from Vida Nueva, a weaving cooperative of Zapotec women from Teotitl n del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico. Cooperative member/founder Pastora Gutierrez and translator will present a dazzling collection of 100 percent wool, naturally dyed, handwoven rugs and tapestries on Thursday...

But while those big names from Sheboygan, Milwaukee and Dane counties may be the stars of the grilling and meat snack world, there are scores of other Wisconsin gems well-known locally but without the massive marketing budgets and distribution systems of their larger counterparts. But while those big names from Sheboygan, Milwaukee and Dane counties may be the stars of the grilling and meat snack world, there are scores of other Wisconsin gems well-known locally but without the massive...

Should this not mean that the billion $ suprplus be given back to taxpayers as unfarily and unlawful tax collection that is above and beyond the government's needs? Second personal note: I will vote in the future for the party that will continue to lend weight to Canada's presence on the World scale. Should this not mean that the billion $ suprplus be given back to taxpayers as unfarily and unlawful tax collection that is above and beyond the government's needs? Second personal note: I...