Drought---it's defined as a prolonged dry period in the natural climate cycle that can occur anywhere in the world. It's happening i...

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...

  Farmers talk about the weather a lot. That's an understatement. It's a topic of conversation everyday. As we watched the ponds get...

Pictures don't always tell the whole story.  After the first cutting of hay this spring, we were faced with drought conditions. What hay...

Just before Labor Day, the square baler was pulled out of the shed, greased and oiled, and sent to the field for what almost seems like an o...

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...

It's a dreary, chilly last day of 2020. Today we received a load of oat hay from somewhere in Kansas to add to the dairy cow ration.  We...

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...

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...

To cut or not to cut?  That has been the question most discussed  during this season of rain not only down on the dairy farm but by...

There's no other month quite like May down on the dairy farm. All of a sudden, everything  needs to be done at once. Everything inc...

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...

We're not so happy about ninety plus degree weather in August even  though it's expected , but  the farmers are smiling about all...

                                                          Happy Fall,Y'all!                                               ...

Question:  Why do you wrap hay ?                                                                                                 ...

During the drought of 2012, feeding hay on the ground was a common scene because there was absolutely no pasture for dairy cows to graze. ...

               If baling hay is done best on a hot August afternoon in Arkansas, yesterday was perfect! Most of our hay is baled into...

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...