Blogs

I recently got a call from a landowner west of McPherson asking me to trap some beavers in his pond. It’s been a while...

By Sandra Pugh Rural Messenger Columnist Lost Words from our childhood: Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the...

It was a harbinger of things to come that my wife and I started our beef herd in 1974 which was one of the...

“WE ARE NEVER DEFEATED UNLESS WE GIVE UP ON GOD.” What you are looking at is the Red Sea in front of you, and a fire...

Scones, glorious scones! One of my all-time favorite baked goods. Any time I am near a good bakery I always try to sample their...

I'm ashamed to admit that I was once an arbitrageur. Sounds likes a French doorman at Arby's doesn't it? An arbitrage trader is someone who...

For those readers that follow my column, its no secret by now that I love raptors, and as far as I’m concerned, Kansas may...

Just about everything anybody would want to know about horses is set for Salina. It’s the 24th annual Equifest of Kansas, according to Justine Staten,...

“Fence will not last forever regardless of how well it’s built.” Not much thought was given to the remark from a Greenwood County Angus breeder...

When a horse crazy girl marries a motorcycle riding boy, it requires some convincing that the family needs a horse. That’s the way it was...