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  • Reflections: Seek the helpers, be positive

    Saturday, December 10, 2022 2:18 PM
    The month of December can be a good time for reflection. I am inclined to think about where I have been and what is ahead as I go about taking care of the livestock and people in my life.
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  • Getting comfortable with communication

    Saturday, November 12, 2022 10:52 AM
    Communication skills have been on my mind lately. Farm meetings, texting to get bull calves sold and interacting with people as we go about our daily farm routines are some examples of how we use interpersonal skills to give and receive information.
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  • It’s a calf’s life

    Saturday, October 15, 2022 1:47 PM
    After three decades of taking care of calves, and having them right outside my window, I can tell the source of the bellering.
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  • Show cow sheen is seen

    Monday, September 12, 2022 6:02 PM
    My hobby during this season is cow shows. I love to be present at the shows or watch the live streams from the shows when they are available.
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  • The glory of peas, alfalfa, rye

    Monday, August 15, 2022 2:13 PM
    We are in the thick of the summer crop season with all of the usual drama. My position on our farm doesn’t include any kind of a starring role for the crop decisions or management nor planting, tending and harvesting.
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  • Cow people versus big data

    Monday, July 11, 2022 9:58 AM
    Cow 1440 stood on the straw pack next to where I was feeding a newborn calf and where I could easily observe her.Cow 1440 stood on the straw pack next to where I was feeding a newborn calf and where I could easily observe her.
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  • Endings lead to beginnings

    Tuesday, June 14, 2022 10:14 AM
    Farms, perhaps even more than other business pursuits, have plenty of examples of beginnings and endings. The life cycle of the crops we grow every year is continuous from planting to harvest.
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  • Milk’s new look

    Monday, May 16, 2022 1:46 PM
    Not surprisingly, I sometimes feel I am obsessed with milk on our farm and household. I haul it, pour it, feed it to calves from a bottle, watch it stream from our cows’ udders into the milking system and listen to it get pumped into a tanker every other day.
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  • Mentors make life easier

    Monday, April 11, 2022 12:14 PM
        Cheese is my cow, and I am her person. She and her twin sister, Cream, (from Bagel, of course) were standouts from day one.
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  • Mind expansion in person

    Monday, March 14, 2022 12:55 PM
    Being in the same room while talking with friends and listening to speakers in person has not happened very often over the last two years.
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