Tight enough to hold, but not so tight it breaks – that’s the art of a mechanic’s touch.

Winter Sundays after church often found our family gathered around the ice cream bucket, cranking fresh cream into a tradition that blended labor, laughter and lasting joy.

May your holidays be peaceful, and your new year full of promise – in the field and beyond.

Even before the ink dried on his driver’s license, Dean was restoring life into unwanted machines.

Barn Gothic explores how my dad, my grandfather and I tried to be fathers and sons to each other while our livelihood fell apart, including the times that we failed. It chronicles the specific dramas of our farm, from dealing with accidents to the sinister actions of banks and other institutions trying to take the farm. It recounts the extraordinary lengths my father went through to keep farming, as well as how we tried to figure out who we were and what redemption there might be in what we were doing.

Gratitude is more than a feeling – for many, it’s a way of life.

A quiet fall morning on a southern Idaho ranch turns unexpectedly luminous as a rancher stumbles into a moment of natural wonder.

The driveway became our culinary kitchen, far from anything flammable. What could possibly go wrong?

Discover how predictive analytics and deep-learning weather forecasts are helping farmers and ranchers outsmart nature’s toughest challenges.