Saturday evening and everything is winding down here for now. Went to the south pasture today to see if it was still there and yup, it was. I haven’t been out there for over a week or so and all I can remember is brownish grey, burnt off pasture. So today I [...]
Life is coming back to the land this last week and a half! Everywhere a person looks the color green is starting to dominate the land. And it seems with a vengeance! I do believe we picked up around four inches the last week and a half and even in the deepest meadows [...]
In one of Joel Salatin’s books, he says that the weather is never “normalâ€. This idea has been driven home to me this summer. Spring was fairly dry and then beginning in June we had virtually no rain for weeks. Pastures stopped growing and hay crops were small. Corn yields will be lower than normal [...]
We have not had any rain here since about the 20th of June. As I write this, there is none in the forecast.
That said, we are actually in decent shape, all things considered. The pasture is pretty much done, with the exception of the low land area, but that is being [...]
Things are moving along around here even with the drought hammering down hard. We moved over sixty cattle home today from a pasture a couple of miles away and were done with that by noon. I couldn’t believe it that it went that fast! And no problems except for one wild calf [...]
When raising livestock and crops, it seems like there is always something new to figure out. In the last few days I talked with a neighbor, who is a semi-retired dairy farmer, about the continuous learning that farming seems to involve. He complained that, since getting rid of some of his haying equipment, he has [...]