Remember that post I wrote a few weeks ago about why we were planting pink soybean seeds? Here’s some of the “blue” corn we planted. The blue color simply comes…
Planting is one of the busiest and most important times of the year for a farmer. It’s the start to a new growing season and holds promise for a good…
Planting: sowing the seeds for this year’s crop. It seems like the growing season is just beginning, but planning started even before last year’s harvest began. I’d like to introduce you…
Don’t worry, your eyes aren’t tricking you. Those soybean seeds in the photo are really pink. Yes, pink. No, they didn’t come off of the soybean plant that way. And…
Wow, Thanksgiving sure came up quickly this year! 2015 is quickly winding down and harvest is finished or coming to a close across the United States. Now comes the season that reminds…
November is here and with it comes fall baking. My parents had an abundance of apples this fall from the three apple trees in their orchard…which means I was sent…
If you live in the Midwest, you may have noticed that it’s been raining an awful lot this summer. Typically, we hear more complaints from farmers about not enough rain…
I was really disappointed when I opened my daily news email theSkimm this morning. There’s always a feature at the end, which often defines a common acronym. GMO is a…
The term “acre” is said to have been derived from the amount of land one man was able to plow with his yoke of oxen in a single day. An…
If you’ve checked out my blog or follow me on social media, you’ve probably figured out that I have a passion for agriculture. I’m a farm kid, but moved to…