Here’s a short write up I contributed to the local Conservation District newsletter this month. It’s just a brief overview of forage management in Arkansas but thought I would share anyways. Maybe…
Pig Farmers Care For Their Animals
Another Animal Rights (Mercy For Animals) group is at it again; releasing videos of animal cruelty on their labeled “factory farms.” This time it’s a swine farm in Iowa that…
Wordless Wednesday: No Satisfaction
It’s been an unsettled Summer so far. An entire month without rain has left our pastures looking a little brown. With daily temperatures in June just below the century mark…
Wordless Wednesday: Traveling Times
There are have been a few travels on the ranch this week. I had to find a backwoods tractor and equipment dealership on Saturday for some new brush hog blades….
Vote for my Photo #ACFC11
The AgChat Foundation is hosting a photo contest. Winning photos will appear in a 2012 calendar and the top photo will receive a trip to the 2011 AgChat Foundation Conference…
Order Up! Scattered, Smothered, Covered
Some say it’s a Southern Icon, some have never heard of it. It’s only the best late night franchise dinner. Waffle House. If you haven’t eaten in one lately you…
Photo Friday: Hay Season Fun
Not much of a Photo Friday this week. There’s been some long hours in the hay field and a bit of time on the brushhog as well. Unfortunately this has…
National Geographic Preview: Food Ark
A crisis is looming: To feed our growing population, we’ll need to double food production. Yet crop yields aren’t increasing fast enough, and climate change and new diseases threaten the…
Wordless Wednesday: Courting Cattle
Do cattle still court like people did back in the day? Either way I found this couple off to themselves in the pasture this week. I turned bulls out with…