Silo Skies

Should cows have super powers ? If they had them would they use them for good or evil? We had three heifers answer those questions thi...

Time To Fetch The Cows By four a.m. each morning I am driving out to the pasture making sure all the cows have come in to be milked. Yes, ...

With an upcoming cold spell coming we are trying to get things ready for ourselves and the cows. While it won't be as bad as last year...

Moments before I took this photo Fred contentedly sat on the post warming himself in the sunshine. As I clicked the shutter he dove for a mo...

Two bent corral panels and one dented truck later, we were finally able to move ten heifers from field A to field B. The last three of the g...

Every year we plant corn to harvest as silage for the cows. This year's crop is growing well and so were the weeds. A few days before I ...

Feeding the world one day at a time might sound like a great super power, but deep down inside every farmer would like to be able to do a li...

This calf had outgrown her stall today She needed to move to a bigger place to play When we passed the silo All she did was go go go And...

Most of the time the cows are on a good schedule. They come in from the pasture, eat, drink, get milked, eat again, and go back out. Twice d...

Dear Diary, I am very thankful that we finally made it above freezing today and practically over 50 degrees. Let me tell you, I am done wi...

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

The chain is a pain when it stretches in the rain --My Fair Conveyor  We have silage conveyors that carry the silage from the silos to a...

This morning from the warm confines of my coat and coveralls I gazed out onto the first big frost of the year. A cold frost.  Every...

Harvesting our corn had been going well until I kept stopping up the pipe that the silage is blown through to the top of the silo. The kern...

While scraping the lots today... I momentarily gave thought to the idea of potty training our dairy cows. Maybe it was from lack of sl...

Last week I posted this photo to twitter and got a comment. http://t.co/LcqEIwWtQQ - "Oh waiter, another round of silage and a buck...

What a difference a year makes. Last June we were enduring hot, dry weather and I was even on the news talking about how bad it was for fa...

Yesterday's fresh cow turned into today's downer cow. Sometimes cows that have recently calved get what is called "milk fe...

Warm weather and beautiful skies are finally making it to the farm! Today has been the first day in a while that I could send the cove...