Posts Tagged ‘farm’
Separating the Sheep from the Goats
This week, we’re going to cover Chapter #5 of Julia Rothman’s book, Farm Anatomy. It is, at 64 pages, the longest chapter in the book. This chapter is all about animals, covering: animal terms parts of a rooster comb styles chicken breeds fresh eggs duck and goose breeds heritage turkeys parts of a beef animal…
Read MoreYoung Farmers Conference 2012
Matt & I went to the 2012 Indiana Farm Bureau Young Farmer’s Conference in Indianapolis last weekend. It was a lot of fun! This year was another record breaking year for the conference with 631 registered attendees and 100+ kids. The conference started on Friday night with fun and games. There was a cornhole (bean…
Read MoreRaised in a Barn
This week we’re reviewing the second chapter of Julia Rothman’s book Farm Anatomy. Raised in a Barn covers: Barn styles Timber construction Trusses Barn doors, bracing, and hardware Barn cupolas Barn birds Farm buildings Animal housing Feeders Fencing This particular section of the book is full of beautiful illustrations of farm buildings, along with all…
Read MoreBreaking Ground
Today I am bringing you the first Chapter of Farm Anatomy by Julia Rothman. As I mentioned last week the entire book is full of beautiful and useful illustrations (or infographics) to help explain the basics – and not so basics – of farming. The first chapter in Julia’s book is titled “Breaking Ground.” This…
Read MoreThe Stacker Saga
For those of you who have been following my descriptions on facebook about the Stacker, here is a more detailed story. This tale goes back many years when some evil ag engineer at Hesston KS decided that baling hay was too complicated with all those strings, wires, needles, knotters etc. He thought loose stacked hay…
Read MoreLong Weekend
I feel like my weekends are way too long and way too short all at the same time anymore. I’m always running around doing things, which takes forever. It makes my weekends go by so fast, that I feel like I didn’t get a weekend at all. But, I guess that will just have to be ok, because I…
Read MoreTrip to Frey’s Produce and New Generation Dairy
Matt & I went to Frey’s Produce and New Generation Dairy with the District #9 Young Farmers yesterday. It was a good trip. Though, I would have liked to have seen more people come. It would figure that the lack of rain would put people in the fields early. Our first stop on the trip was…
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