Sometimes alot gets done checking cattle and fencelines. In the heat we’re getting and dry conditions we have to check the five different pastures at least twice a day. Mostly to make sure our solar powered watering systems are doing their job. It would be a quick disaster if they were to run out of [...]
I thought I’d publish my protest of Big New World Order Multi National Seed Companies. This is a 4th of July photo of my open pollinated corn. In Minnesota the old saying is knee high by the fourth of July but this stuff isn’t taking a back seat to any hybrid.It was waist high. As [...]
Sometimes we have these moments in life that are awesome. When the way a person looks at everything in a whole new light. A few weeks ago it happened to me, before I got this blog going regularly. In the mornings around 6 AM I drive around the country side checking different cattle pastures and [...]
We’re in the middle of a heat wave here. It was still 90 at eight PM. Good time to be in the basement on the computer.I see in NorDakoda,( I’m talking upper midwestern here), some thunderstorms are forming. Hope they make it here. It’s been browning up all week with the mid 90s hanging [...]
Since starting this blog it has me thinking about so many subjects that never really crossed my or I haven’t truely dwelled on for years. The one that sticks out the most is the sincerity of people wanting to farm and live an agrarian lifestyle.This is in some ways surprising to me after all these [...]
I was just reading last night about how with every action comes a reaction. It was about the New World Order agriculture that’s on the rampage at this moment. These companies don’t seem to want to stop until they have it all. My grandfather whom was born in Poland back in the 1880s warned me [...]
As another Sunday is coming to an end around here I’m rested up from all the world can throw at a guy. Went to church this morning to the early service. I always wonder how the farmers can all get done with their work and make it to early service in such numbers and the [...]
A couple of days ago when I was finishing up cutting hay for first crop I was deep in the meadow and the haybine lost a tooth from the sickle. A willow was a little to tough and off it came. Most of the time I repair them in the field with tools and parts [...]
This morning was the one day a year when the work was not what you’d call exactly family friendly. It’s the day we load our angus bulls on the trailer and take them out to their pastures.First we have to get them to the barn and corral system that we have for loading. Those guys [...]
Today was the last day cutting hay for a few weeks around here. Finished the last couple of meadows and we hope to be done baling on Friday. The Minnesota State Birds, “Skeeters” are well fed with a generous amount of my blood.
This past winter one of my reading projects was researching agrarian writers and [...]