From our farm and family to yours, we wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving! This Thanksgiving, we reflect on all that we are thankful for - our family, our health, our friends and also, on how fortunate we are to be living our dream - running a cattle farm. Running a cattle farm is not always sunshine and rainbows, but we always try to find the silver lining in ALL of … [Read more...] about Happy Thanksgiving 2019!
Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 3: Receiving and Understanding your Forage Analysis Results
Welcome to the final post in our 3-part blog series on Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle's Winter Hay. Please be sure to read Part 1 - Why should we care about hay quality? and Part 2 - Testing Hay Quality In Part 1, we discuss the importance of, and the need for, testing the quality of your cattle's winter hay. In Part 2, we dive into the methodology of … [Read more...] about Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 3: Receiving and Understanding your Forage Analysis Results
Winter Comes Early on the Cattle Farm: Snow, Ice and All That’s Nice (and sometimes, not so nice!)
As it happens every year, winter has officially begun here on the cattle farm. Technically, this is still "fall-time", but mother nature doesn't pay attention to a calendar. Dreams of the snow and ice waiting until December, are just that - dreams. For some reason, I am having a harder time adjusting to the start of winter than I did last year and the year before. I am … [Read more...] about Winter Comes Early on the Cattle Farm: Snow, Ice and All That’s Nice (and sometimes, not so nice!)
Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 2: Testing Hay Quality
Welcome to Part 2 of our blog series on Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle's Winter Hay. Please be sure to read Part 1 - Why should we care about hay quality? Today's post will focus on the methodology of collecting a forage sample, the tools/supplies needed, and where you can send your forage sample for analysis. We live in Northern Maine and send our … [Read more...] about Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 2: Testing Hay Quality
Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 1: Why should we care about hay quality?
This will be a 3-part blog series on: Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle's Winter Hay. Today's post is Part 1 - Why should we care about hay quality? (Part 2 of our series is ready to read as well! Please check it out!) Forage costs are arguably the highest expense for any cattle operation, especially for those farmers whom feed-out hundreds of hay bales … [Read more...] about Testing and Measuring the Quality of your Cattle’s Winter Hay – PART 1: Why should we care about hay quality?