Happy 2015 to everyone! If nothing else, 2015 has brought us some very winter-like weather with both snow and cold reaching us. We seemed to coast right through December but now the normally-long month of January is proving to be a little more stubborn. I found 2014 to be a […]
Kim Jo Bliss – Moo’s From The Herd
It seems as though our warm, wet days may be behind us! It was a frosty day on Monday but at least with this we see the sun! During the milder weather, the cattle tend to eat less, which is nice on your hay pile. But things will change now. […]
Last week at this time, I had a visiting dog (I didn’t mention it in my column last week because I was hoping it would find its way back to its owner). I was quite suspicious that it had been dropped off but I wasn’t certain. In the meantime, I […]
Talk about crazy weather. It was Dec. 15 on Monday yet it looked like April. It is very wet, slippery, and messy, and personally I’d prefer it a bit cooler and less damp. I know it seems like we are never happy but this is crazy. My almost step-kid is […]
The Emo Agricultural Research Station will be closing for the season this week. I finally finished all my data and took it off to be copied. The reports will be available from me or Emo Feed this week. I encourage everyone to ask questions about the trials since time always […]
Most years I’m finished at the Emo Agricultural Research Station by Dec. 1, but that isn’t the case this year as I still have to finish my forage data. I think the fact that the building is not overly warm will make me work harder to complete it! I debated […]
Here we are in the last week of November! I’m supposed to have all my data finished by Friday. I’m not sure that I am going to make the deadline but I will try my best. We still haven’t finished cleaning seed. We can see the end but it’s not […]
Last week turned into quite a busy week and already this one isn’t looking much better! I still haven’t been able to figure how we have arrived at the middle of November! I was thinking that I would only have good things to report this week but I woke up […]
It seems as though we have transitioned from fall to winter just like that! These cold nights certainly have tightened things up. I think my plowing days may have come to a complete halt. I’m happy that I have the better areas of the Emo Agricultural Research Station completed but […]
Wow, here we are–November! This year certainly has slipped past (I think it’s because we always were waiting for better weather!) It was nice that Hallowe’en came and went with decent weather for the trick-or-treaters! Unfortunately, poor Marlee ended up missing all the Hallowe’en fun and spent the day in […]
Our final cattle sale of 2014 is now behind us. We sold 1,177 head on Saturday at the Stratton sales barn for a total of $1,613,231.21. Again we saw some great prices and cattle. And we certainly couldn’t have asked for better weather! Thanks to everyone for the support we […]
The weather certainly has improved for many of the fall jobs district farmers are trying to complete. At the Emo Agricultural Research Station, we finally finished combining. Unfortunately, the soybeans were the lowest yields I’ve ever seen at EARS and the seed was small and varied in size. It also […]
