by Richard Smith, Saratoga County Extension Agent Summers bring out the best in farm youth. Many of them besides doing their normal chores around the farm spend time preparing their animals for exhibition at the county fair. The 172nd Saratoga County Fair just finished and the 4-H’ers of Saratoga Co...

Mike Pearson is familiar to viewers of Weekly Journal of Rural America . Speaking on the topic titled above at the 135th Penn-Ag annual meeting, he acknowledges that one of his guiding principles is ‘Trust, But Verify!’ Before you know where you are going in the next marketing year, you have to know...

During early 1993 a small group of ag people from the Penn Yan, NY area started talking about developing an International Harvester Club. A small ad was placed in the local paper with a location and time for this first meeting and 70 new members came. With this many new members enthusiasm and ambiti...