Reserve Your Springtime Dexters Now We have 3 cows who will deliver in the next month or two. One of them is “Girlfriend.” She can no longer nurse her calves, so I get to bottle feed it. Bottle feeding a calf twice a day is a chore. The benefit to...
Mastitis problems in Grazing Cattle. Cassidy is one our best cows. I measure that judgement by temperament. Because she is so amiable, we nicknamed her girlfriend. If I were not emotionally attached to her, she would be on the harvesting schedule because she has a...
Local Food Growers in Alabama Studies have shown that local food can help with locally developed allergies. This idea is revised for publication 04/28/2013 We have had a few problems getting Facebook to accept the blog posts, so some of our friends have asked that we...
Cheap Food Is Not Cheap When You Count the Medical Bills It Entails One of the paradigms of American farming is that the farmer has always been grossly underpaid. The people who buy the foods produced do so on a wholesale basis. They contrive artificial ways to...
Local Food Growers in Alabama Revised for publication 03/23/2013 We have always thought that the watermelons, tomatoes and other foods from local food growers in Alabama tasted better. Perhaps it’s because our taste buds are seasoned that way. Recent studies...