The sun finally has arrived—and everyone is anxious to get on the land and get some seed into the ground. I was able to start cultivating Friday. And it was great for the most part! My summer students are starting this week at the Emo Agricultural Research Station—and they are […]
Kim Jo Bliss – Moo’s From The Herd
We ended up with 1,246 animals at the Stratton sales barn on Saturday, with the value in sales being $1,350,931.77. Unfortunately, prices have dropped and all indications are they will be staying this way for a long time. People selling their own yearlings or fall calves did OK, but the […]
You certainly could see the grass greening up as the temperature reached double digits on Saturday! I was excited about seeing the lawn–and then thought, oh yeah, that’s the next thing: cutting grass! I still have a few large rocks to move before that first time on the lawn mower. […]
And so winter hangs on although I’m hearing that we’re supposed to be in double-digit temperatures for daytime highs by week’s end. Won’t that be something! — Well, I ended up sick again last week and missed out on all my big plans. I understand we had a great turnout […]
Well, April seems to have come in like a Lion! And how about that snow on Friday–quite the April Fool’s Day prank but it seems to want to continue, with more white stuff in the forecast this week. We can’t complain about the yard being sloppy since it is frozen […]
I was surprised with a set of twins on Friday night. Normally you see twins from your cows calving at the beginning of your cycle, but I was lucky to get a heifer and bull from a young cow at the end of it. The heifer calf weighed 75 pounds […]
I’m crossing my fingers that we don’t get the amount of rain they’re currently predicting on my weather apps. Thankfully there is still some frost so when you are feeding cows, you are not sinking out of sight—but that will happen soon enough. I understand it is going to cool […]
I’m sure no one is complaining about these spring-like days and I’m not, either, except I worry that we will pay for it later–when we truly should be getting the spring-like days. Though I wasn’t born for the “Spring of ’66,” I’ve heard many times about the amount of snow […]
Well, it was a busy week of calves for me! I was just steady moving cattle in and out, and thankfully it was decent temperatures, so it was easier to put calves outside much more quickly than what I sometimes do. Things were going pretty good, and I planned to […]
Thankfully the rain showers have left us. What a mess! I think we all can agree we certainly don’t need that kind of weather at this time of year. I easily could skate right out to the barn and it actually might be safer than trying to walk. Then again, […]
I was lucky to spend Family Day with Maddie, Marlee, and cows calving! The timing was perfect since two of Maddie’s cows calved and so did one of Marlee’s. So they got to experience a whole lot of stuff first-hand. The day before, we had a heifer (first-time momma) calve […]
Congratulations to Joe Bodnar, who agreed to take on the position of president of the Rainy River District 4-H Leaders’ Association at its annual meeting over the weekend. It was great to see a few new faces take over some of the committees with this group. Like we say over […]
