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  • Finish the job

    Saturday, December 12, 2020 11:42 AM
        Finishing some things are easy, like eating all the pie and ice cream on your plate. Finishing harvest or completing silage chopping is not so hard because it’s the all-important No. 1 thing on your to-do list.
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  • There was a tree of three

    Monday, October 12, 2020 10:16 AM
        What a strange title for an article. Those three words, there, tree and three, have pretty much summed up what has been occupying my very limited downtime during this busy harvest season.
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  • Buy that new pickup

    Monday, September 14, 2020 9:01 AM
        This morning, I made my every-other-day run with my 1998 GMC shop truck to the local implement store to fill the 120-gallon DEF tote so the fuel guzzling chopper could keep running.
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  • Baling hay

    Monday, August 10, 2020 9:17 AM
        After 20 years, we finally succeeded in baling a significant amount of dry quality dairy hay.
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  • We had COVID-19 at Ocheda Dairy

    Monday, July 13, 2020 1:40 PM
        Sonia has milked weekdays morning shift for 14 years. Her husband, Robert, has worked for us for 17 years. They live in their paid-for house on a quiet street in Worthington with their three daughters and one son.
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  • Free dirt

    Monday, June 15, 2020 9:28 AM
        Last year, I wrote an article about how a few local businessmen and I built a convenience store/gas station on the south side of Worthington.
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  • COVID-19 for a 14-year-old farm boy

    Monday, May 11, 2020 12:54 PM
        We are paying super high real estate taxes on our land to support the local public school system. That could be another story all by itself, especially in Worthington
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  • Let not our hearts be troubled

    Monday, April 13, 2020 2:45 PM
        We think we have it so bad. We worry about the world-changing virus, we worry about our aging parents, we worry about our busy adult kids, we worry about our free-range, not-in-school grandkids, and we worry about our crashing milk prices.
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  • Emergency road trip to southwest Kansas

    Monday, March 16, 2020 10:30 AM
        It is a beautiful February Sunday afternoon, and instead of enjoying the day outside playing with the kids, Joe and I are on the road to look at baby calf ranches in southwest Kansas.
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  • I’ll come back next week

    Monday, February 10, 2020 2:14 PM
        Twenty years ago, when I was looking for a proper site to build a new dairy complex, Joe suggested I talk to a close neighbor whose farm was on a black top road.
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