It’s crazy how quickly time is flying by. And even more crazy is how quickly the days are become so short! It sure makes a difference with drying time. Even the slightest amount of rain makes a big impact and you are off the land a lot longer than our […]
Kim Jo Bliss – Moo’s From The Herd
Well, the change in weather will have slowed down all the grain getting combined and the hay getting baled. I think we may have been fortunate since I only received just over half-an-inch at home. But as we were travelling into Winnipeg on Sunday, they were getting hammered by rain. […]
Well, another busy weekend is in the books. Our first cattle sale of the fall season was held Saturday at the Stratton sales barn, during which 631 head sold for $830,211.03. Despite cattle prices lower than last year, we still saw some decent prices. In fact, the auctioneer made a […]
Well, another Emo Fair is behind us. We certainly ended up with a pretty decent weekend. The rain could have passed us by Saturday night but like many said, “It wouldn’t be an Emo Fair without rain!” I was happy that it didn’t rain enough to cancel the stock car […]
Here we are the week before the Emo Fair week! Yikes! So much to do and little time to do it. I ended up taking last Friday off and having the girls out to work on “Fair Stuff.” I can honestly say they have trained their calves on their own. […]
I can barely believe it is already August! Time just slips on by. This month started out with an inch of rain but I hope that it will hold off now for a while! Many are finished haying and many (like me) are so close! We lost some time on […]
I know you shouldn’t complain about all the wrong things in your life because I do realize how much good I have. But seriously–this year really has been a tough one! We’ve lost some good people in our district, this weather, and personally I’m just having a tough time with […]
Sadly, Rainy River District lost one of its strongest supporters last week. I received the sad news late Friday night that Linda Armstrong had lost her battle to cancer. Linda loved agriculture and her community. She had great passion about the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and was a part of […]
As much as this weather is driving me crazy, I’m trying to refrain from stressing about it too much. I have some hay that’s cut and getting washed but there’s not much I can do about it. Our family had a very nerve-racking week so I realize that not having […]
We certainly were fortunate to have a great long weekend here in the Rainy River District—and I was hoping it would continue on for the rest of the week. I cut hay . . . now if I can only get it baled . . . This is the first […]
This rain! We have had just over six inches of rain this month alone, with two of that falling over the weekend. It is starting to really get to me. It affects my work and my farm—and we have no control over it! I wore rubber boots all weekend just […]
I am writing this “Moos” column by candlelight Sunday night since our hydro was out for the second time that day. We certainly saw some crazy thunderstorm activity over the weekend. Luckily, we seemed to be on the edge of the hail earlier Sunday and I drove as fast as […]
