Farming on a prayer.
It was dark when we pulled into the driveway. I saw my brown-eyed farm girl’s eyes fill with tears. I took a deep breath and let her know that we would start looking again first thing in the morning. We had spent the past five hours driving and walking the 6.1 miles between our farm and a neighbor’s home. Earlier…
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A cow has to give birth to produce milk. When does a cow give birth to her first calf? It varies from farm-to-farm, but on our farm, a heifer—young female that has not yet given birth—will calve around 24 months of age. During her pregnancy she will be on her first “lactation,” which simply means time producing milk between each…
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This October our daughter will be enrolling in 4-H for the first time. Growing up, I was not involved in the local fair or 4-H. I did however have many friends that were. It seemed as though they were always doing something 4-H related from being in various competitions to volunteering. I always admired the things they were doing and…
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I see you. You swerve back and forth. You lean against the window. You shake your head and throw up your hands. You swerve again to see if you can pass by. You go. You go on a double line. You go on a corner. You go when another car is coming. Meanwhile, a farmer is driving as close to…
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I didn’t grow up on a farm. In fact, the closest I had ever been to a dairy farm was driving past one on the bus on my way to school as a kid. We liked to call it the “stinky old dairy farm”. I will be honest, until I met my husband, I never gave farming a second thought. I…
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On average, a dairy cow can eat up to 100 lbs. of feed a day! On our farm, our cows get a TMR also known as a “total mixed ration”. All that means is that all the ingredients for their diet are mixed together and fed to the cows. I am sure by now you may have heard that dairy cows…
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