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Why gay couples have more equality and less tension at home--but still split up more often than straight pairs

The performance artist and personal trainer chats about being Lady Gaga's prison yard girlfriend.

The legendary West Side Story creator continues to tell it like it is.

Like father and mother, like son. In and out of the field, Jeff and Jean Martin and their son, Doug, have a lot in common -- communication skills being the most important.

A recent study by Waterstreet Solutions, a risk-management and financial consulting company in Peoria, Illinois, explains that if producers trade their machinery every seven years instead of every 5 years, over the course of 40 years, they will save more

Ryan and Nikki Taylor gave up climbing the corporate ladder to raise three children and ranch full time near Towner, North Dakota.

A report compiled by Guanming Shi, Jean-Paul Chavas, and Kyle Stiegert, University of Wisconsin (UW) agricultural economists, gives insight into recent buying patterns. It's based on surveys (conducted by dmrkynetec) involving farms from 2000 to 2007 in 1

An air drill can be dead-on level from end to end and side to side while doling out seed with the precision of a machine gun. Yet all that accuracy can be neutralized if key maintenance chores aren't tended to prior to planting.

Buildings on the farm have seen dramatic changes over the years. What used to be a shed with large doors now looks more like an accent to accompany the house. Steve Bohlman, national sales manager with Wick Buildings, says people are really dressing up th

The yield potential on next fall's corn and soybean crop is set by how well that seed is placed in the soil this spring. The research on this topic is undisputable. Failing to consistently place seed at its ideal depth while precisely spacing seed (partic

The mood at my winter seminars changed dramatically after the bearish January USDA Crop Production and Supply-Demand reports. The most common question that came up was "can the USDA corn production number be right?" My answer is that it is expensive to be

Matt Danner, Carroll, Iowa, had what some considered a posh career -- a degree in ag systems technology and agronomy from Iowa State University and a job with John Deere that sent him around the world. But he gave it up to follow his real dream: working o

Chances are you have a natural bent or talent in those areas in which you are not only good but are really good. I'm talking about the level of good that is either clearly measurable or easily recognizable.

When the seed company Matt Gruhn grows for determined that its seed needed to be raised in 20-inch rows, he converted the 16-row, 30-inch planter he already had to make it work.

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