Amish children raised on rural farms in northern Indiana suffer from asthma and allergies less often even than Swiss farm kids, a group known to be relatively free from allergies, according to a new ...

I live in Princeton, Minn., a small town 50 miles north of Minneapolis. Princeton is a fast-growing bedroom community filled with families grasping a rural life for a few hours out of every day upon ...

That's it. I have been saying this for the last two years since my son was born: He should be raised on a farm. Farm kids are better than city kids. No question. Most people consider me a city kid. My ...

DAVENPORT, N.D. - Sometimes 7-year-old Wyatt Kraft will grab a pitchfork and help his older brother clean the barn. It’s partly because he wants to be just like his big brother, said Derik Kraft, the ...

Though incidents are few and far between, farm kids are more likely to be killed or hurt compared with their urban counterparts, writes Carrie Tait Connor Pearce is 13. He is a farm kid, and drives a ...

BOYERTOWN — About 60 tractors of all sizes filled Boyertown Community Park for the 3rd Annual Tractors in the Park. The Boyertown Area Historical Society and Just Farm Kids Tractor Club of Bally ...

With above average temperatures and abundant sunshine, Just Farm Kids Tractor Club ventured out for its 4th Annual Fall Tractor Ride on Saturday, Oct. 28. Before the tractor ride, Brett Beidler on ...

Creativity during hard times is nothing new to producers. For Molly Dixon, a farm wife in central Nebraska, finding a way for ...

If your summer farm help involves your child or grandchild, you can combine that hard work with a financial life lesson. By setting up a custodial Roth Individual Retirement Account (IRA), that young ...

About every three days, a child dies in an agriculture-related incident, and each day, at least 33 children are injured. During the past decade, youth worker fatalities in agriculture have exceeded ...