We scoped out social media and found that Elf on the Shelf isn’t always just lying around waiting for children to find it, some farms have been putting the scout elves up to work.
It’s hard to jump into the tractor and get to work when the battery has been stolen. Now imagine trying to work around the farm when nine other pieces of farm machinery are also missing batteries. That’s just what happened to this Magna, Utah farm over the weekend. The owners of 3P Farm and Ranches […]
One dairy worker has been released, while another remains hospitalized following a plane crash last week at a dairy farm in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin. On Friday afternoon, a vintage plane flown by Martin J. Tibbitts, from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, crashed into a farm building at Fly By Acres LLC shortly after take off from the […]
A New Jersey peach farmer is asking for the public’s help after finding thieves had stripped his trees bare last week and made off with over $1,000 in produce. On Tuesday, Tom Holthauzer walked over to his 144-acre orchard in Mullica Hill to discover every tree was bare. Some peaches were not even ripe yet. […]
In 1975, almost ten years before Muhammad Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, he bought an 81-acre property in Berrien Springs, Michigan, insulated from city noise and crowds by the St. James River which surrounds the lush green fields. It was where he spent his summers and a portion of his retirement years until his […]
No one knows how an exotic East Asian tick arrived on a farm in New Jersey, but it looks like the pest has taken up permanent residence. Following initial identification by the Center for Vector Biology at Rutgers University and the Hunterdon County Department of Health, the National Veterinary Services Laboratory (NVSL) in Ames, Iowa […]
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New England quarterback Tom Brady said he is excited to return to the state of Minnesota for Super Bowl 2018 since he is “part Minnesotan.” Brady’s mother hails from Browerville, Minnesota and the young Brady would often return to his grandparents’ farm to milk cows. Brady told ESPN following the AFC Championship: “My grandpa was […]
A farm accident in northeast Iowa last week took the life of one man and seriously injured another. According to KWQC, Richard Weber, 55, was doing maintenance work on a forage wagon Thursday in rural Allamakee County, when he became caught in the machine. He died on the scene. Christopher Weber, 52, also got caught […]