Before we did our first market we went ahead and ordered up a pair of Square credit-card readers to use …
Year: 2014
Hello Feeder Calves
The cows and bull may be gone, but they’ve made way for this big group of feeder calves. Twenty eight …
The Cow Obesity Epidemic
I’m beginning to think that there’s an obesity epidemic among the cattle here in Minnesota. I’ve spent some time at …
Farewell Cow/Calf Herd
Today was a bit of a sad day. After hearing that we’d be doing the Saint Paul Farmers Market this …
Hooray! Oh No!
We’ve been looking for another farmers market to attend next year. We were hoping to land another market in the …
Juice!
Some months ago (6 of them to be exact) a bulldozer showed up in our alfalfa field. First there was …
Advanced Craigslisting
A while back I wrote a bit about how I’m using a little web-based service called IFTTT to automate the …
Distillers Grain Handling
So we’ve got a few months experience with feeding wet distillers grain, and we’ve come up with a few things …
A Quick Illustration of the Absurdity of Commodity Markets
Lets just say you bought a feeder pig in June. That pig would have weighed about 50lbs. and cost you …
Piglet Processing
We weaned the last summer litter of piglets today. I thought I’d take the opportunity to explain a bit of …