Last Saturday was the annual branding of new calves.  It was cloudy and cold! The cowboys/cowgirls in action. We have friends who come and do this because we are not as skilled! Instead we do the branding, vaccinations, ear clipping, and castrating {if necessary} Fudge watching the action from atop the corral fence. The smell […]

Corn chopping started on a cloudy, rain-in-the-morning, misty Thursday. This year we are making earlage instead of silage. What’s the difference? Corn silage is every part of the corn plant, while earlage is just the grain, cob, and sometimes husks. Both are chopped, packed, packed, This pile is only about five dump truck loads of […]

Most of you were quite correct that the photo above is of a pivot (irrigation/sprinkler system) being moved. Actually it is only 1/6 of the pivot! Pivots are made up of sections we call spans. This particular pivot has six spans. The three spans closest to the center of the pivot are each 179 ft […]

Have you ever seen anything like this before? Let’s play a little game! Make your best guess as to what this is in the comments. (Sorry neighbor lady, you can’t tell the answer!) I will randomly chose a winner from those who give the correct answer. If no one gives a correct answer I’ll chose […]