Silo Skies

Saturday I had the opportunity to do something a little different. I was invited to attend the American Farm Bureau Fusion Conference and pa...

If you are looking for another way that the internet can change lives then you can look no further than former NFL player Jason Brown. You s...

The Farmer's Wifee and Nurse Loves Farmer are the two blogs that brought the drone campaign to my attention. I wrote earlier about pri...

I wrote last in Part 1 about a Kickstarter campaign to get drones to investigate farms. Here's a link to the main guy being interviewe...

Imagine an afternoon when all the stars have aligned, you have completed all your work, you're alone, and have nothing to do. I know it ...

I read a letter to the editor of my local paper last week and it really made me think about people and food. Now I don't want to ...

The week before Thanksgiving I attended a meeting for PlanET and the Knoxville Metro Planning Board that hosted  Randall Arendt to speak o...

I usually dislike the term "factory farming." No matter what type of farm you are operating caring for the animals is your number ...

Friday I dvr'd the Today show so I could watch a story on the Hobbit movie. Little did I know that another fantasy type story would foll...

I've often said if they, whoever they are, had just come to me first I could've told them how they should have done the thing th...

Whenever I am in need of an icebreaker to start a conversation around some new people I tell them that I am a farmer. This usually elicits m...

It is nice to get away from the farm once and a while, and even nicer to hang out with fun people. The last two days I attended the Dairy...

Lots of things happening on the farm this week. The one I'm most proud of is that we finally got one group of calves moved. We have diff...

Much Cleaner Than Mine They say you can tell a lot about a woman by the contents of her purse. The make up she has, the type of wallet, ...

Working with animals and being outside are some of the things I enjoy most about farm life. Growing up I can't say that I fully a...

Thursday on my lunch break I watched the first panel of the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance's Food Dialogues .  I thought it was a g...

A recent article in the American Farm Bureau newspaper made me think about what I call the "Farmer Jed Syndrome."  The repor...

Some of us have a lot of hats that we wear.  Mine, in no particular order, include father, husband, son, friend, farmer, and a few more....

I was conversing the other day with another farmer on why he sometimes doesn't  know why he does what he does for a living.  I repli...

VS While changing my 2 month old son's diaper the other day, I thought to myself that I never have to do this to calves.  An...