Today we started field work.

We have over 150 acres of ground to prepare this year.
Deciding to plow up some of our hay and grow; oats, soy beans, and more corn.
Dad hopes to not bale any hay this year, putting all our hay acreage toward haylage.

Abby disked 26 acres of corn stalks today, and plans to disk 28 more tomorrow. Most of the fields are too wet to do much as of yet. We won't disk all our corn, we shall chop 30 acres of stalks for bedding.

I will try to give you more information and pictures later.

Posted by, Abigail

What's been happening and 'Top Dress'

Well deer Season ended, leaving us with 7 dead deer between Jake and Abby.
(We did get our corn off the day before and the first day of deer season)

Some new developments in our household, Jake moved out of our basement the first of December, then two days before Christmas Mr & Mrs. Rick Stelling moved into it, they are also expecting in September. :)

Christmas came and went, Bringing in the New year along with a missions trip to Mexico the 21st trough the 30th, for Dad and Abby. For a week the two of them were staying at a missionary's house working on maintenance in their home.(Pictures from that to come later)

It's hard to believe February is already here!


Here is what we call 'Top Dress',



It is roasted soy beans, beef pulp and Distillers (which is the byproduct of ethanol).








This is 'Pre-Heat' (We get it from T.E.N. (Timed Event Nutrition) an all natural mineral product)
it helps the cows come into heat more naturally



The Number in the upper right hand corner is for 'Fat' (Which is really dehydrated palm oil)
The star (if their is one) means give scoop of 'Pre-Heat'.
and The number in the lower left-hand corner is for 'Top dress' and how many scoops you give.







As you can see the Cows LOVE it! It's (for them) like having dessert after a meal.

Posted by: Abigail.

P.S.

Emma is expecting again! The middle of June we will have another Baby to spoil! :D