High Agency Man
Among the latest digital preoccupations is an obsession with agency, specifically, the value of being high agency. Both employees and bosses should be high agency. The most important thing you...
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High Agency Man
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The Size of a Farm and Money Matters
The list price for the above tractor and implements is probably more than your house unless you live in a very tony neighborhood. Every year more and more food in...
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New Blog for a New Year
When I quit eating only homegrown food I had no intention for my blogging to join the dodo and Tasmanian tiger in the land of nevermore. Alas, without a prescribed...
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The Goshawk and Other Birds
Our house sits on a leveled spot halfway down a small hill. Bounded by the base of this slope on one side and a stream on the other is a...
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Perception and Reality in Agricultural Marketing
A theme in the most recent issue of Graze (tagline: ‘by graziers, for graziers’) is what I view as the fundamental tension in the agricultural market. While the bulk of...
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Tick Hunt! 2017
I call this little beauty the Rope Actuated Tick Collection System, or RATCS. (The C is silent, or it's making the S sound extra long, so it's more like RATSSSSSS,...
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Our Ram Sparky is a Neurotic Mess
Our ram Sparky is deeply strange. He has a shaggy beard, and this time of year his thick winter coat is shedding out in uneven clumps that drift across the...
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On the Road Again. And Again. (And Again.)
When I was young there was a misery particular to a ride in our two tone, 1985 Ford Econoline. It was in part the conditions - as the youngest of...
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Country Folks Famous
"Hey look, it's a celebrity." This was how my vet addressed me as I stepped into his office to collect vaccination supplies for my pigs. I gave him a blank...
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Forage for Pigs
I'm on year three with my pigs. I started out copying Sugar Mtn Farm's pig feeding program pretty closely - pasture/hay + whey as the source for the vast majority...
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How Do You Eat Raw Meat?
The short answer is “don’t,” the longer answer is “very carefully.” Cooking meat has become a cultural norm for a variety of reasons. Cooked meat tastes good, and it is...
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Another Spring
One of the chief frustrations of farming is how often trying to do better must be deferred for a year. If you want to improve the farrowing structure or the...
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Late Winter Surprise
I fail constantly as a farmer. We got sheep a bit over a year ago. Last June when the lambs came Garth read about a supposedly common practice among shepherds....
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Cold Exposure
About six weeks ago Alanna and I watched a short documentary about Wim Hof. While it’s clear that Wim is considerably more open to scientific scrutiny than most people who...
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