Growing Green By Robin Trott, Extension Educator It’s easy to see why the tomato is a top choice among gardeners. These plants adapt well to most soil conditions, they are perfect for small garden spaces and the tomato itself has many uses. One plant is likely to yield a high number of tomatoes, so just a… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist As I am one of the 316,000 corn farmers in the USA, the latest USDA/NASS forecast of the 2023 crop is supposed to be around 94 million acres, with an average yield of 177 bushels per acre. On my farm, the forecasted average yield of 177 bushels per acre,… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist I was thinking of him today as I got out of bed. One more day. Without him. I go to therapy now to help me. Not to get over my grief of losing my son. It will never be over, but I have chosen life for myself and… Read More

From Where I Sit By Pat Spilseth, Columnist Do you watch the Friday night TV program Blue Bloods where the family has a weekly dinner with prayers and no cell phones? I like it. I hate the disruptions of bells ringing and people tuning out, even leaving the table to answer the call. And I like the… Read More

Publisher’s Perspective By Tim Douglass, Publisher of the Pope County Tribune This newspaper has published news stories in the past about Wood-n-Hearts, a local organization that provides furniture to persons who served in the U.S. military and are in need of assistance to improve the quality of their lives. It is a registered 501(c) (3) non-profit… Read More

Reader adds information on the electric car debate From Ginger Beck, Glenwood Piggybacking off John Stone’s column in the July 10th issue of the Tribune questioning the pros and cons of electric cars, I’d like to add something most people are unaware of.  Electric cars run on lithium batteries, with cobalt being used in the… Read More

Stoneage Ramblings By John R. Stone Many of you may have heard of LaVyrle Spencer, a romance novelist who was very popular in the 1980s and 1990s. She’s a Minnesota author and was born in Browerville, lived a couple of years in Alexandria, and started her writing career while living in Stillwater. I met her about… Read More

View From The Cab By David Tollefson, Columnist Many of you readers have heard about Farm Rescue, the group founded by Bill Gross of North Dakota. Bill founded the group in the year 2005, to help farm families who have suffered a variety of issues of health, injury or weather-related disasters to prevent these farm families from… Read More

The Outdoors By Scott Rall, Outdoors Columnist If you are a regular reader of my columns, you will certainly know by now just how much of a public lands advocate I am. When I was 11 and my parents got me a new bike, I was a roving fisherman. I rode that bike all over my… Read More

View From a Prairie Home by Hege Hernfindahl, Columnist Most days for me just go. Sometimes I am in a fog and just let things happen, other times I realize that time is passing. Time without Erland. And I am overcome. But chores have to be done. Some are easy. Like laundry. I have my laundry room… Read More