Agriculture plays role in job creation
This article was written by Jay Akridge of Purdue University’s College of Agriculture in West Lafayette, Indiana and published on pal-item.com. With job creation one of our nation’s biggest concerns, it is encouraging that the approximately 3,300 undergraduate and graduate students who are just beginning or continuing their studies in the Purdue University College of [...]
Continue Reading →Farm Photo Friday!
A big thank you to Norma Nice for sending in today’s farm photo!
Continue Reading →A Sample of Perspective
My report is all about perspective. Ummm, let me back up a bit first, which isn’t exactly easy for a 1200 lb four-legged bovine, but I can do it. I was on barn watch this morning when I saw a car stop. A man exited the car and put little plastic booties over his shoes [...]
Continue Reading →Hot Time Fair in the City
Our family spent the first week of August making multiple trips to the Ohio State Fair. Along the way we picked up a number of ribbons and sweated out the armpits of a dozen shirts. Like last year, Morgan and I snuck away to see some of the sites of the fair that weren’t within [...]
Continue Reading →Social Media Friends
Social Media Friends- James Decker It is amazing the number of people that I have connected with via my blog, Twitter, social media. People that I call my friends, yet we have never met in real life. I wanted to do a Q&A with a few of them. Not only because they are really interesting [...]
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Farm Girls and the Winery
Drink up. The wine glasses we made before heading out on our tour. The other weekend I jumped in a limo with a dozen other girls and headed towards wine country. Ok, it was actually only Missouri’s wine country, which means North of Kansas City in the Weston/Platte City area of the state. We were [...]
Continue Reading →Employee Break Time
Everyone needs to take a break sometime, even secret agent cows. It gives you a chance to pause, think, and chew on your food again. I’ve found my agents always do better work when they are refreshed. The Farmer must feel the same. Every afternoon I notice he pauses between chores to get something to [...]
Continue Reading →You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Irene
The hopes for finally getting the “rain with a name” seem to have been dashed. Farmers are telling me we are about out of time to get that general rain. Some farmers are thinking harvest is pretty close now and that they will have to get what they have. We had hoped Irene might come [...]
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