Truth or Dairy

Breathe a sigh of relief...the corn silage is done!  We hire Eric Miles and his team to do our chopping now. Eric very kindly sent me a vide...

"You look at that field that you tilled. You planted that seed, you watched that crop grow - there's no feeling of satisfaction lik...

On Friday we were supposed to go to our friends' house for fireworks with a bunch of other friends. I was talking to them in the morning...

  The corn popped up! My entire youth I said I would never have a job that depended on the weather, because my family spent so much time hop...

What a busy, busy month on our farm. Yesterday we were at dinner with friends and one said, "I have no idea what it's like on a mod...

We're snapping corn, which means we put a corn head on the chopper.  Instead of chopping up everything, like with the other head, t...

I got a handout from the Corn Marketing Program of Michigan all about GMOs.  It made me want to give one to everyone as Kris is out cho...

We rented a roller to help compress the pile of corn silage.  It's really heavy and it has the nubs on the roller and it vibrates.  ...

Seriously, what’s going on with GMOs?  What are GMOs, anyway? GMO stands for genetically modified organisms.  If you’ve ever grown a ga...

It's been a stressful week around here ... First of all, a cow died.  We asked the vet to do a necropsy that night to find out why.  I...

This morning it turned dark - like it really wanted to storm. I did with my kids what I always did with my mom ... sat on the front porch a...