Agriculture
- Farm Safety
I'v been working with show cattle for over 30 years. The first weekend in April I was helping one of our kids with their heifer in the wash rack to get all the winter grime off. This heifer had been shown last year at State Fair and our...
- Its A Boy!!
This morning as my brother was driving me to school, I was pondering about what to write today! I started think about my parenting class at school, we where talking about how much it cost to have a baby. To be honest, I wasn't surprised on how much...
- Their Agriculture Stories... Aaron
My grandparents bought 320 acres of pasture and farmground in 1948 just north of Rushville Nebraska. This piece of land is just across the road from 640 acres that my great-grandfather homesteaded in 1918 when he immigrated to the United States...
- Stauffer Dairy
Please welcome Krista & Brandon on the blog today from Stauffer Dairy in Washington! Brandon & Krista have a small family farm where everyone helps out to make their dreams come true! Hello, we are Brandon & Krista Stauffer of Stauffer...
- Kris And Carla Wardin
Meet Kris and Carla Wardin. They were just a couple of farm kids working in the corporate world who found their way back to the farm. They now own and operate a dairy farm in Michigan Here is their story... After college, my husband Kris and I were...
Agriculture
Different Path, Exciting Life
I didn't start out on a farm. My poor parents ended up with a little one after I brought home a couple runt pigs and lambs for FFA/4-H. I had livestock flowing thru my blood since the day I was born. I was suppose to be the 6th generation of butchers in our family. Sadly, I lasted 4 days and am on the producing end now. My greatgrandfather was a butcher in PA, he also logged in the mountains there. My grandfather as a little guy often rode the draft horses down the mountains with the logs. He came to Ohio when my mom was very young. He was the head kill forman at Sandusky Dressed Beef were he retired. He was also a horse trader (yeah he had a line let me tell ya lol).
I always thought horses would be my passion, but it didn't end up that way. Met a guy that was a dairy farmer on the way to the National FFA convention in 1986, what a girl will do to impress a guy lol. I started showing for them and helping him milk when I got a chance. My love of cattle started there. Went to OSU/ATI thought about Dairy (the guy didn't work out lol) and new it was impossible for me to start my own so I went to beef reproduction and management.
Thru that dairy guy, and playing mud volleyball I met my husband. Boy, I'm glad I ended up with him lol. We did row crops and had a small feed lot of dairy steers. Land values and rent went sky high and knew we had to do a change if we wanted to continue farming. We bought our ranch in Missouri in 1999. We now run 30 cows, no row crops, and are doing grass fed lamb.
Funny how life gives you twists and turns and how it all turns out!
I always thought horses would be my passion, but it didn't end up that way. Met a guy that was a dairy farmer on the way to the National FFA convention in 1986, what a girl will do to impress a guy lol. I started showing for them and helping him milk when I got a chance. My love of cattle started there. Went to OSU/ATI thought about Dairy (the guy didn't work out lol) and new it was impossible for me to start my own so I went to beef reproduction and management.
Thru that dairy guy, and playing mud volleyball I met my husband. Boy, I'm glad I ended up with him lol. We did row crops and had a small feed lot of dairy steers. Land values and rent went sky high and knew we had to do a change if we wanted to continue farming. We bought our ranch in Missouri in 1999. We now run 30 cows, no row crops, and are doing grass fed lamb.
Funny how life gives you twists and turns and how it all turns out!
- Farm Safety
I'v been working with show cattle for over 30 years. The first weekend in April I was helping one of our kids with their heifer in the wash rack to get all the winter grime off. This heifer had been shown last year at State Fair and our...
- Its A Boy!!
This morning as my brother was driving me to school, I was pondering about what to write today! I started think about my parenting class at school, we where talking about how much it cost to have a baby. To be honest, I wasn't surprised on how much...
- Their Agriculture Stories... Aaron
My grandparents bought 320 acres of pasture and farmground in 1948 just north of Rushville Nebraska. This piece of land is just across the road from 640 acres that my great-grandfather homesteaded in 1918 when he immigrated to the United States...
- Stauffer Dairy
Please welcome Krista & Brandon on the blog today from Stauffer Dairy in Washington! Brandon & Krista have a small family farm where everyone helps out to make their dreams come true! Hello, we are Brandon & Krista Stauffer of Stauffer...
- Kris And Carla Wardin
Meet Kris and Carla Wardin. They were just a couple of farm kids working in the corporate world who found their way back to the farm. They now own and operate a dairy farm in Michigan Here is their story... After college, my husband Kris and I were...