You know the farmers are still making hay while the sun shines during these beautiful fall days. No doubt this will be the last cutting of h...

Our spring wheat harvest has been delayed due to rainy weather. It has been our plan to have the wheat chopped for silage but with the rainy...

Fall has arrived! Just in the last few days, we are wearing jackets  in the morning and sweating in the late afternoon. That's how it is...

In a year of extreme rain during the spring that delayed planting and growth that has occurred in a  drought, we are thankful for this corn ...

Thanksgiving has come and gone but it has left a great appreciation for all the blessings  we enjoy on the ordinary days down on the da...

We were happy to see Gittlein's custom chopper pull into the first corn field yesterday.  Harvesting of any crop is a big deal but ou...

Even though we had our first freeze of the season, we're still working  to finish cutting hay in a few fields.  It will take a few ...

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...

We're rolling up October in the hay field. Even though we haven't had a killing frost yet,  the grass has stopped growing and...

It's a race to the finish when you are raising a crop that will be fed to your dairy cows.  The cows are counting on us!  Each phas...

Harvest  sometimes feels like a very long marathon... we wait to plant, we wait for the crop to grow, we wait for harvest. Li...

                                                          Happy Fall,Y'all!                                               ...

A lot happens from the beginning of harvest until the last load of chopped sorghum  crop is on the way to the silo. Weather changes  and ...

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

Watching the boys chop the silage for our dairy cows when everything goes well  is much like listening to three part harmony--it's harm...

I decided after this week of perfect October weather down on the dairy farm, it must be time to fill the kitchen with the aroma of fall. Aft...

 We've been moovin' into fall for the past week...                            as we harvested  a field of Bermuda hay for small  ...

  During last year's drought, we were praying for rain and  irrigating this Bermuda grass field located close to our dairy barn lagoo...

After last week's freezing temperatures, I'm sure this is probably the last rose of summer in my garden. It's a perfect reminde...

This year's drought has created a severe shortage of hay and pasture grass for our dairy cows and calves. Harvesting every bit of hay a...