by Jill | Jan 23, 2015 | Farm
Let’s take a walk back in time… The year is 1950. Approximately half of Canada’s population lived on farms. The farm had pigs, chickens, beef and dairy cows, and grain. These farms were very self-sufficient, many producing everything the family...
by Jill | Jan 16, 2015 | Farm
With a foot of snow on the ground and temperatures below zero, many people often ask, what do cows eat in the winter? The simple answer is hay. Most people are familiar the a cows diet in the summer, acres and acres of lush green grass. But what is hay? Hay is...
by Jill | Dec 24, 2014 | Farm
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...
