Private water supplies can include wells, springs and cisterns. The home owner/well owner is responsible for assuring the water...

I’ve done a lot of looking at farm ponds this summer. Thankfully, we haven’t seen too many harmful algae...

After Allen Arnold taught me about the signs of the moon, we decided to wean in the “right sign.”...

“A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare had the right idea; a name is just...

These days, we are in a quandary – do you hold a public meeting or not? When we are...

For decades, I’ve lived with a person that always says, “90 days after a fog, it will rain.” One...

Area cattle owners have probably noticed some funny spots on the head or neck of their cattle from time...

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just use the computer’s search engine to get answers to important questions?...

As the summer grazing season winds down and the time is getting near for cow-calf producers to wean calves,...

So this week, I took a vegetarian to lunch! It was about mid-way through the event that I noticed...

I guess 2020 is the year of viruses. Unfortunately, Vesicular Stomatitis (VS) has made its way to Kansas. This...

With everything else we need to think about, here’s one more. When the pandemic shut down happened, people stayed...

I recently did a farm visit for some new residents that are new to the country life. They had...

June is Dairy Month. I’ve celebrated by making two batches of homemade ice cream! National Milk Month was established...

The flies of summer. I’ve been battling flies ever since we raised hogs. I cannot go to bed at...