http://www.thelandonline.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:20:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_059120647.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_059120647.html Country people think that since they know pretty much everything they need to know about fences they can just skip paragraphs, or entire sections, of “How to Build and Repair Fences and Gates." Think again. Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:02:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_347114150.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_347114150.html What machine is tough, quick and agile, and can turn 360 degrees without moving forward or backward? If you answered, “It’s a Bobcat,” you’re right. Being the sort of person who knew the right answer you probably will enjoy reading Marty Padgett’s “Bobcat: Fifty Years.” Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:55:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_040111204.html http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_040111204.html I thought that a city girl who married a farm boy and went to spend a few years on the farm had nothing to say to me. I should have realized that the Minnesota Historical Society Press does not print cute or sugar-coated books. As is so often the case, the MHS Press has joined with a capable author to tell a story that is both historically significant and a pleasure to read. Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_348153406 http://www.thelandonline.com/l_readret/local_story_348153406 "Why, in the face of falling farm prices and declining gross incomes, do farmers persist in adopting new technologies and thus expanding output? Why, in the 1950s, have farmers pushed aggregate output ahead of demand through widespread technological advance and thus driven down the prices of their own products? And why are they likely to keep right on behaving in this seemingly irrational manner?"