The Future is Sheep
The Blackshirt Feeders cattle yard currently holds 50,000 head at full capacity, but when fully built out it will house four times that, which will make it the largest feedlot...
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The Future is Sheep
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A Bit Transcendental
In college I took a course on Transcendentalism, and this afternoon, as I looked out the window with my daughter napping on my lap, I was struck by how very...
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Legacy
Live like you're going to die tomorrow, farm like you'll live forever This is the view from the front porch of the old house I live in. We are surrounded...
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A Working Dog?
Regular readers will remember the somewhat guarded appraisal of my dog Oban I wrote a few months ago. Specifically, I was unsure that he would ever be of much use...
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Good-bye Onions
Back in the winter I thought that May would probably be the most boring and limited month on the home-grown diet. But now that June is half-way over I can...
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Confession Time
I've subscribed to a number of different ag related magazines over the years and my favorite one, bar none, is Graze. The content is geared toward dairy farmers who graze...
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Cutting Grass
Last year I slaved over an essay that centered on how much I dislike mowing lawns. This turned out to be a really boring topic, so I ended up going...
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Beer...sort of
A couple weeks ago I posted about making beer from barley I'd malted. It seems to have worked out well enough, since I went through the usual brewing process with...
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Soda... sort of
The summer-like heat of a few weeks ago prompted me to come up with a refreshing drink. I don't have much to work with, but in the back of the...
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Pig Oil?
I’m happy to report that I had no adverse physical reactions to straying from the program this past weekend. It was wonderful, and I have no regrets. And even as...
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G-Hog
No, believe it or not pigs are not the topic today. My farm is rife with groundhogs. I don't have a major bone to pick with the rodents, but then...
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Breaking All The Rules
Later this summer Alanna and I will be heading out to Arizona to celebrate her grandparents’ wedding anniversary. Deer season isn’t open out there in early August, so I’ll have...
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In the Fall
It looks like we're going to get a good apple crop this year. There are numerous wild apple trees spread around my farm, and last autumn was abysmal. One single...
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Beer from Scratch
Until today I hadn’t brewed beer for about ten years. But last fall’s cider was terrible, and the new batch is still months and months away, so I took the...
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