Fall on the Farm

This time of the year may be the busiest time on the farm. Let’s look around. It’s fall calving time. Each newborn male calf is banded & given an identifying ear tag with a name that belongs to that calf its entire life. Females get just the ear tag.

It’s also the time of year that Kamie puts out hay every day in each of the pastures. We call this a transition time of year. Summer grasses are running out and our winter grasses aren’t ready for grazing.

We always have between 1,000 to 2,000 bales of hay for times like this. These chores are routine, just very time consuming. The one chore that can be frustrating is getting winter grasses planted and up. This is one of those years. Drought can be tough as moisture is needed to get grasses up and growing. So, Ephraim & Mitchel dust the grass seeds in the ground & turn it over to nature. Nature almost always comes through, just on its terms, not ours!

Patience is required, especially this year as we had machinery breakdowns causing even more patience. Kamie is best at handling patience in these times. We all feed off her. “Live with nature, not against it!”

Don’t squat with your spurs on!

Doug Benkendorf