no-till planting wheat into sorghum regrowthWe began planting wheat for our spring silage crop on Monday. All in all, we expect to no-till drill the seed into 90-100 acres. Half of that ground is cropland on which we grew our sorghum crop this summer. ...
Heavy rain earlier this week forced us to shut down our harvesting for a couple of days, but we're back in business on two fronts: sudex and bermudagrass.We started harvesting the sudex (sorghum-sudangrass) on Monday morning, hitting the field just an ...
What is “natural” to you? If you ask ten of your friends what is natural, would all have the same perspective and answers? “Natural” is represented to be unspoiled, unconfined, unaltered,and yet that may or may not be the entire truth. For example, our chickens eat just layer pellets and occasional scraps, sometimes some...
Timely and adequate rainfall over the past few weeks really helped our silage crops, hay fields, and pastures, even while much of the country is still suffering through one of the worst droughts in many years. After a slow start, the corn and fora...
It's June, which is of course celebrated as Dairy Month all across this great land of ours! I hope each of you will celebrate daily with at least three servings of delicious, nutritious milk, cheese, or yogurt. Heck, throw some ice cream in there...
Today, I read an AWESOME article by Holly Spangler over at Prairie Farmer. It had several anecdotal stories about the disconnect between HOW our food is produced and HOW we expect it to look and taste. After reading it I though about … Continue reading →
It's been a busy two weeks, but we're nearly finished with our ryegrass harvest for this year. Our yields have been comparable to last year, and we should have enough harvested to make it our milking herd's primary forage from June until possibly as la...
I know that as farmers the weather being strange or changing patterns is supposed to be normal. That's just part of our job. The risk we take. And one of the big reasons why so many of us realize how we need to rely more on God than o...
I know that as farmers the weather being strange or changing patterns is supposed to be normal. That's just part of our job. The risk we take. And one of the big reasons why so many of us realize how we need to rely more on God than o...
I know that as farmers the weather being strange or changing patterns is supposed to be normal. That's just part of our job. The risk we take. And one of the big reasons why so many of us realize how we need to rely more on God than o...
