Aerial Application of Cover Crops

It’s a bird…..it’s a plane….it’s a plane dropping seeds from the air! After postponing the application by one day due to wind, we finally got to witness the first aerial application of cover crops at our farm. It was an exciting morning in our…

A drive through the river bottoms

These photos were taken about a month ago along the Missouri River in Glasgow, MO and in our corn fields near there by my mom, Karla.  The mighty river was flowing fast that day as Iowa had received a lot of rain pushing the…

With eagles gazing upon us…

This morning our men fed cattle with two eagles gazing down upon them. They were magnificent!   Through the winter months, our cattle are fed hay and often supplemented with silage.  In today’s photos you will see the hay bales have been rolled out…

Eating beef without going broke:

Photo above taken today on the farm. Remember those cute little bottle calves we were feeding earlier this year? That’s them! Eating beef without going broke: As beef cattle producers we are finding ourselves in an interesting position. We have cattle to sell but…

A non-traditional, but absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We had our scrumptious “traditional” Thanksgiving dinner last Sunday so today Mom and I decided to get busy making some homemade Christmas gifts! We had so much fun! I suppose we did enjoy a few of our…