Fence: July 26, 2012
Coming home last night from Marysville, via Frankfort, I could see it raining and I could smell the rain! I’m happy that someone is getting rain. Our gauge registered zip.
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Fenceline: July 19, 2012
by Jody G. Holthaus Meadowlark Extension Agent Livestock & Natural Resources This morning, I woke up to the sound of thunder, and I saw lightning. The western sky was dark and then I saw a beautiful rainbow, that meant someone was getting some rain. We seem to be living on the wrong side of the [...]
Fenceline: July 12, 2012
Well, the rains are eluding us! Farmers and ranchers have some serious decisions to be making. Some of the corn is hanging on, other fields are not going to make it and have started dying.
Fenceline: July 5, 2012
by Jody G. Holthaus Meadowlark Extension Agent Livestock & Natural Resources I have a small herd of cattle that sit on a shelf in my office. A collection of very colorful ones. Our custodian must think the herd needs to be thinned. This Monday I found a smashed cow, with a note she’d left on [...]
Fencline: June 28, 2012
Failure to get enough water will reduce animal performance more quickly and more severely than any other nutrient deficiency.
Fenceline: June 21, 2012
Early weaning beef calves is one drought management strategy. Research suggests spring-born calves consume significant amounts of native range forage at 45 days of age. Weaning beef calves as early as 45 days of age is early enough to encourage the cows to cycle and rebreed.
Fenceline: June 14, 2012
by Jody G. Holthaus Meadowlark Extension Agent Livestock & Natural Resources My neck of the woods has bountiful wildlife. So bountiful that at 5 p.m. or thereafter we have a lovely chorus of coyotes. Sometimes the howling comes from all around our house, like a symphony! They are really getting brave. Our neighbor shot seven [...]
Fenceline: June 7, 2012
by Jody G. Holthaus Meadowlark Extension Agent Livestock & Natural Resources I often wonder what my grandparents would think of today’s world. The changes they saw in their lifetime were incredible, going from horse and buggy, Model A’s and then the more modern automobile. They saw everyone having their own milk cow, milking by hand, [...]
Fenceline: May 31, 2012
by Jody G. Holthaus Meadowlark Extension Agent Livestock & Natural Resources Drought strategies: It’s overcast, the radar shows a few blips of green lines coming our way! I’m hoping writing this column will make it rain. The drought continues. I wish I could make it rain, but none of us can. The only thing we [...]
Fenceline: May 24, 2012
by Jody G. Holthaus Meadowlark Extension Agent A farm or ranch business is more than only the farm assets. The farm business includes people, the assets and liabilities of the farm finances, the day-to-day operation, the marketing and purchasing as well as the labor, management and decision making aspects. Owners of a farm business make [...]