Despite the fact we have been experiencing beautiful weather these past few weeks, the fields are pretty darn wet! The heavy rainfalls we’ve been receiving, coupled with the shorter days, don’t allow for things to dry up too quickly. I still have water standing here at the Emo Agricultural Research […]
Kim Jo Bliss – Moo’s From The Herd
And just like that it’s September! Our late spring, coupled with not the greatest of weather, certainly has been the cause of a summer that disappeared much too quickly. Both my students are now officially gone and back to school. Lucas and Nick were super students and I’m hoping they […]
The Stratton sales barn held another successful cattle sale on Saturday. Despite selling only 546 animals, the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association still grossed $594,566.62, which is a great average across the board. Due to the lack of feed last spring, there were fewer people feeding back grounding cattle this spring. […]
Whew—another Emo Fair is behind us! Mother Nature came through for us and we had beautiful weather. Fortunately, the heavy rain, hail, and wind held off until Sunday night. Of course, most of my time during the fair is spent in and around the beef barns. We had a great […]
The Emo Fair week has arrived much quicker than I would prefer! I am still much unprepared and am hoping for some good cattle behaving days this week. I really can’t blame it on the cattle; with still trying to make hay I haven’t spent nearly enough time with them. […]
I hope everyone was able to enjoy the long weekend—even though I just cannot believe it already is August! This was the first weekend in forever that I was home and was able to just be a farmer for the entire three days. Unfortunately, the weather changed for Monday and […]
I survived my trip last week to southern Ontario—but barely! My plane was very late leaving Winnipeg and when I arrived in Toronto and rushed to my next flight, I saw my plane backing away from the terminal. You would have thought they could have waited a few more minutes. […]
Well, I spent most of last week in our nation’s capital. Ottawa is such a beautiful city. Many of you know I am a horrible traveller and don’t like to be away from home for more than about “two sleeps!” It proved true again on this trip as I began […]
Here we are the middle of July, when we should be nearing the end of our first crop of hay. Instead, most are struggling to make hay. I remember a few years ago someone saying to me that we pretty much need to cut hay in the rain in hopes […]
The crops are progressing nicely and many of our cereal plots are heading out. I was concerned last week that they were going to be rather short, but they seem to look pretty decent. It is difficult to get right in the plots since things are pretty darn wet (with […]
I’m hoping everyone was able to enjoy a very beautiful Canada Day! Those of you who know me well know I’m a huge fan of our great country—and my office is themed after it! I likely have as much Canadian collectibles now as I did cows! • • • My […]
Wow, here we are in the last week of June. Summer is sneaking past us rather quickly. Many of the dairy farms have competed their first cut of hay while we beef farmers are just thinking about getting started. I hope to start this week–so I likely will make it […]
