Equipment problems, and obviously weather. We applied most of our nitrogen fertilizer last fall because harvest was quick and the weather was suitable. Only a few fields remained to be completed this spring. Well, we headed out to the field Wednesday hoping to finish up with fertilizer in about three days. To start the day we couldn’t get […]
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If your vision of a farmer comes from what you’ve seen in movies and television, that’s not who I am. I’ll bet that’s true for a lot farmers because there are many types of farmers with various backgrounds, but I thought I would make a list of things farm-like that I either have not or […]
I’ve only been blogging a few weeks, but one of my main concerns was how to reach out to people who aren’t involved in ag but want to know more about where their food, fuel, and fiber come from. Over the past few days I’ve read a few tweets saying we need to put ourselves […]
Update November 13, 2013 What’s become of Dr. Huber and his claim of a new organism that causes trouble for seemingly every living thing on the planet in the nearly three years since I published this post? The latest news is from Dr. Kevin Folta who I’ve had the privelage of meeting over dinner while […]
Here we are on a recent family trip to visit relatives in Hawaii. They have a 20 acre farm growing lettuce, romaine, cabbage, and onions. It’s only 20 acres, but there is a lot of hand labor involved especially at harvest which is done 3-4 days per week 52 weeks a year. Everything is loaded […]
A bad apple that is. Obviously I’m here to promote the virtues of modern agriculture, but I won’t pretend that we don’t have problems. This is a bad one and the state is going to have come up with a solution quickly. Things like this make the rest of us look bad and hurts everyone […]