TIM ZWEBER
The great Minnesota sweat-together
Last week was 4-H livestock encampment at the Minnesota State Fair, and it started off with a heat wave.
Haying with barbecues
The Fourth of July is a fun holiday around our place. Our farm is at one of the highest elevations in our county, so watching firework shows – both professional and amateur – just requires some camp chairs in a pasture.
The roof fell off
I love this time of year. It’s time to put up some hay.
So many babies
March and April are busy months around here when it comes to calving. We like to take vacations in January and February, and we don’t like fresh cows with frostbit teats.
Some days are like that
My parents recently went on a short trip to Florida with my two sisters’ families. Our young nephews and niece aren’t really the right ages to join the kind of trips we take our teen kids on, so they do their own trip to a kid friendly beach in Florida.
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Turning 40 with a Colombian vacation
Last month, I left you guessing what mountainous, warm, Spanish-speaking place we’d be visiting with dairy farms.
Free concrete
They say nothing is free, but then, maybe those people never lived in Minnesota.
Traditions
It probably seems a bit late to be writing a column about Christmas traditions.
Who owns the water?
This has been an interesting month in our small town of Elko New Market, Minnesota.
It’s that time of year
It’s an election year, which means I am forced to dislike people I’ve never met for bothering me with their nonsense while I’m trying to work or relax.
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Road trip
Our family doesn’t do many multistate road trips. We love traveling whenever we get a chance to get away from the farm, but it’s usually destinations we can get to in half a day.
The next season
Fair season ended for our family a couple days ago when Emily took the kids back up to the state fair one last time for their non-livestock project judging.
Milk inspection prep
Looking at the date on our last inspection sheet in the milkhouse, it’s time for our state milk inspector to show up again and remind us of things we probably should have fixed before he got here.
Those 6 inches
“Man – despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and his many accomplishments – owes his existence to a 6-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.”
Hay brings rain
It’s time to make some hay. I love cutting and putting up hay, especially the first crop
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