Spring is a busy, beautiful time on the farm. However, along with the beauty comes muddy messes, a zillion supply runs and all around chaos. When I shop for farm gear, I…
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Learn how to read minds and become a master interpreter of hand signals for the sake of your farm and all who grace it with their presence during the blessed season of harvest.…
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Fall has arrived which means things are about to become quite busy around here. Fall is my favorite time of year because: grain harvest. Grain harvest means family time, quiet tractor time…
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Check out these foolproof tips on how to execute your role as “Grain Cart Driver Extraordinaire”. Number 9 on this list is especially helpful but will require a trip to the bank…
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Ready or not: it is time for county and state fairs across the good ‘ol U.SA. The question we get a lot is “What To Pack For County Fair?” Families will descend…
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This is Drew. Drew is my brother-in-law who lets me write about him. Drew is an Iowa cowboy. Not the fake-hat, fancy-shiny-boots cowboy that you see at Florida Georgia Line pop-country concerts. A real one,…
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If you ate school lunch back in the day, when school lunch cooks could bake a bit more than they have the freedom to now… you may have been served “Wacky Cake”.…
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Check out this detailed farrowing guide from my best friend and Day One Farrowing expert, Erin Brenneman. I’ve asked Erin to share with us the tools she uses to get brand new piglets off…
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Here are eight things that mothers of farm kids who have livestock, would like to share with you. From the reasons why despite being clean, they smell vaguely like a farm animal…
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Texas doesn’t have all the cowboys, or Oklahoma, Nebraska and so on. Here’s the second part of my tell-all interview with my favorite Iowa cowboy. If you missed Part I Newsflash: There…
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Let’s get something straight: Texas isn’t the only state you’ll find cowboys. They might be the top beef producing state, but Iowa is also in the top 10. Trust me when I say……
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Do you know someone who tiptoes on the verge of being downright intolerable during harvest? Well I put out an S.O.S. call to my friends, guys and gals, young and old to put…
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If you are reading this little cowboy prayer, I hope all of these things are true for you. Cowboy Prayer Short on words today. Harvest is coming (and I want it to,…
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Cheese + Bacon + Corn + Pigtail Shaped Pasta + More Cheese = Mike’s Mac N Cheese My husband, Mike is often caught in the crosshairs of my humorous Snapchats and other…
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If you think about it, we’re asked quite frequently, “What do you do?”. I assume this to be regarding employment, and when I worked in media and events, it was easy to answer.…
