Snapshots on the Farm
My ongoing series of smart-phone enabled photo posts. For our family, August means a series of days sweating in a hog barn. First up for us is the Ohio State Fair followed quickly by the Indiana State Fair and our county fair over Labor Day weekend. No matter how hot the people get, [...]
Continue Reading →Farm Photo Friday!
A big thank you to Norma Nice for sending in this great picture of planting corn!
Continue Reading →AgBoards Announces #HayTalk Chat on Twitter
Attention forage producers and consumers, make room in your Wednesday schedules for an hour of hay, forage, and grazing discussions on Twitter. Starting Wednesday, August 10th, at 8:00 p.m. EST, AgBoards brings you #HayTalk Chat using the Twitter hashtag, #haytalk. The AgBoards Network (@agboards) creators of HayTalk.com and RanchingForums.com, amongst other farming sites, have teamed up with social media [...]
Continue Reading →How California Kids do Dairy
Last week, I had the wonderful privilege of being a guest presenter at an event known as “Cow Camp.” Held by the California Junior Holstein Association, it puts young dairy enthusiasts in a concentrated area to spend a few days learning, growing, and bonding. I happened to be invited to the event as a representative [...]
Continue Reading →Terms in Ag Sound Funny to the Consumer
“Let’s go round up that pen of steers from the backgrounding lot to process.” To the average person, this sentence probably sounds like another language. I know sometimes there are even terms that farmers and ranchers use that I’m not used to. It can become confusing when you really don’t know the meaning. I know [...]
Continue Reading →Farm Photo Friday!
Thanks to Norma Nice for sending in this weeks farm photos! A country sunflower. How hot do you like ‘em?
Continue Reading →Will Grow Food for Rain
Drought is something farmers and ranchers deal with from time to time, though it can vary in degree. This year, in some parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas the degree is high. Our family has a farm in SC Kansas. We grow corn, soybeans, wheat and milo. About half of the farm is irrigated, the [...]
Continue Reading →A Recent Farming and Food Perspective
I recently attended a Saturday luncheon party in Manhattan’s Upper West Side — it was a very unlikely and, needless to say, very diverse group of people hosted by my friend Jeff Stier (he writes at jeffstier.org). Excellent food and fantastic conversation! Earlier in the day I visited various butcher shops and other specialty food shops [...]
Continue Reading →Kansas Represented at Corn Congress in D.C.
Six Kansas Corn Growers represented the state at Corn Congress this week in Washington, D.C. The Corn Congress delegates included Ken McCauley, White Cloud; Brian Baalman, Menlo; Charles Foltz, Garnett; Roger Pine, Lawrence; David Studer, Atwood and Bob Timmons, Fredonia. Identifying what policy corn growers need to supply a world with a growing demand for [...]
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