This past week WorldNetDaily had a very interesting article on the problems that have been seen with food imported from China. The article is here. The article title is “Is China Trying to Poison Americans and Their Pets?†According to the article the FDA has found shipments of food from China where the food is [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve been on here but the results are all the spring work is pretty well done and over with and there was plenty of it. Dry here with all the upper Midwest rains missing us entirely, sometimes it gets a person a little down but that’s the [...]
This past Wednesday and Thursday we were blessed with around 2 inches of rain. The rain was much needed and I am very grateful God graciously sent this rain. The rain started out as some heavy thunderstorms and then progressed to a steady light rain that continued through Wednesday night. Even before the rain started [...]
“Low Impact†Farming
This article is probably going to make you think. I hope it does anyway. As grass farmers, we feed our cattle and our sheep only grass and hay, no grain. And, while our pasture-based production system means we feed FAR less grain than commodity pork and chicken consume, our pigs [...]
My off-farm job has once again sent me on a trip to get more training. I am currently in the D.C. area. Yesterday I discovered that a Whole Foods market is within walking distance from the building where I am during the day. During lunch I have made a couple of visits to this Whole [...]
The current May weather is beginning to feel like last May – dry and warm. It was 93 degrees and windy today. Yesterday a farmer at church was saying that it was already getting too dry and that the subsoil is lacking moisture. He said that the first crop of hay will be short [...]
Was working in the back forty today plowing all afternoon, wow what a nice vacation! I tell you, when a person is always working doing manual labor a day plowing is just what the doctor ordered! The old 4320 was just a purring along pulling those four 18s. It could pull a [...]
A little change of pace here cause this concerns me more than a bit and, well I’ll say something about then. Just think how close the day is when what I say here will be illegal. As far as I’m concerned it will come but hopefully it can [...]
This is one of those Praise the Lord evenings on the farm! Spring work can be a crush, in fact it almost always is, but things worked out this week just perfect right to the very minute! Was working the fields all week, planting oats, brome grass and orchard grass all together. [...]
The oats is in the ground as of this evening. Now just to go over three oats fields with a Brillion seeder and seed alfalfa and some birdsfoot trefoil. The Brillion seeder does such a superior job seeding those small seeds so shallow that that’s the way we go. We just rent it [...]