Do you cut hay first or get the crop planted? The hay and corn crops are both important to our beef cows daily diet. No matter what decision...

It's corn  chopping time! You may not get all excited when you see this picture but to the family farmers and our dairy cows, harve...

We couldn't have asked for better hay baling weather this past week. It was hot and dry and the last bale was rolled up before the ra...

Farming is dangerous business. It seems especially dangerous when moving large,wide equipment from field to field when it requires movi...

It was  a date with the farmer... the Sunday afternoon crop check. Our date time was spent driving  to different fields that are grow...

It's milo chopping time down on the dairy farm. I made it to the field just in time to see  today's last load of chopped milo hea...

                     Although spring has barely started, our warmer than usual winter weather                                    has give...

Harvesting any crop can be challenging  but it seemed totally unfair  with six or seven loads of silage  left in the field that we had a ...

Harvesting any crop can be challenging  but it seemed totally unfair  with six or seven loads of silage  left in the field that we had a ...

It's never too hot in the garden when you are thinking about  eating corn on the cob  with a lot of sweet butter! I'm t...

As the days grow shorter and cooler, the fields of sweet sorghum  (also called sorgo)  are calling the dairy farmer to prepare for  harvest...

On the way to our friend's house, we stopped to check the status of the milo crop that we plan to chop for silage.  While I was getti...

It's not unusual to have mechanical failures when farming but it seems to happen at the least convenient times. Monday's task was t...

We're rollin' on  the dairy...spring harvest of rye and wheat has begun! Part of the crop is being chopped and hauled from the fi...

With silage harvest complete, it's off to the next farm task---planting for spring crops! It was a perfect weather day for getting star...

I really can't imagine Labor Day without labor on the dairy farm and   our cows and calves expect it!  It might not make any sense, but ...

  There was little moisture for crop planting in the first week of July     but God provided a little over three inches of rain...

Although we can't change or  predict the weather, we do like to measure the rain when we receive it on the dairy farm.  When the TV weat...

Even though winter isn't over yet in Arkansas,   it's easy to feel a touch of spring fever when I look across the lush green rye gr...

                                                                                     Even though we desperately need rain and  would welc...