My dad, Clifford H. Christl, was placed in an orphanage at birth, adopted by Peter and Martha Christl of Appleton, Wis., and served in World War II. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and then ...

By the 1950s, the self-propelled combine harvester began gaining traction. Even so, many farmers still picked ear corn, stored it in cribs and processed it through portable belt-driven shellers. The ...

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President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are on a dairy kick. That's big news for California. One in every five glasses of milk that’s drunk in this country comes from California dairy companies.

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