by Jill | Dec 16, 2014 | Farm
In November, I attended the Agriculture Excellence Conference in Winnipeg, MB as a guest of Farm Management Canada. I was one of three winners of the “Y We Farm” video contest. I received email updates from Farm Management Canada, and the video contest kept coming...
by Jill | Dec 4, 2014 | Farm
Yesterday was a bittersweet day, I had to sell one of my favorite cows. I loved her markings on her face. It reminded me of a rodeo clown (she had a triangle below her eye) and we called her Clownface. She didn’t breed back over the summer so we sold her, as she...
by Jill | Nov 29, 2014 | Farm
Since my last post, it has been a busy month on the farm. After the cows come home from their various pastures we usually begin feeding them hay. Hay is fed to all the cows in large bale feeder that hold between 3-6 bales each. We also have a bale shredder that we use...
by Jill | Oct 26, 2014 | Farm
Two weeks ago we picked up our first group of cows that we pasture on a Provincial Grazing Reserve an hour and a half west of us. It is an action packed busy day that starts very early in the morning and usually doesn’t end until early evening. All the patrons who...
by Jill | Oct 15, 2014 | Farm, Harvest in Pictures 2014
Harvest 2014 can only be described by “Hurry Up and Wait”. It seemed when the weather was decent enough to harvest we were go-go-go, and there was always rain lingering in the forecast. At times there wasn’t rain in the forecast, yet we got rain....
