This video has been shared on a number of other farm blogs in the last few days but for those of you that don’t frequent these other blogs I wanted to make sure you saw it. The video was done by the Wall Street Journal. (They’ve done a few nice ones lately) It’s a [...]
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We chose to raise Irish Dexter cattle for a number of reasons. They are small, efficient, great foragers, docile, easy to handle, easy calving, dual purpose, and have great quality meat and milk. All these things things are easy to say or write about an animal but until we experience it ourselves we don’t really [...] Local sea food in Southeast Missouri? “Hey! Come quick! We have a new calf!” yelled Steven as he dashed in from the grassy pasture to the garden where we, Steven’s sisters and families and I, his wife, were gathering the kiddos for an evening picnic. The shock of this good news delayed the family’s stampede only for a moment. We were [...] So, our entire farm is being based on perennial grasses, legumes, and other plants that people may consider weeds. These plants feed the cows, hogs, and chickens to some degree and for the cows it is 100% of their diet. Our overall philosophy is that the more greens we can get the animals to eat, [...] |
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