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    I am sincerely hoping that fate puts a hold on a monsoon and month long flu for me during this calving season. Last year nearly killed me, I don't want to test the theory that it only made me stronger.

    This year I hope that we are calving in the south pasture at my husband's Grandpa's farm. Grandpa John is 89 and a retired farmer. He taught Terry most of what he knows and gave him his old 1968 David Brown 990. He has taught me a little about calving over the last 2 years. I…

  As I sit here using my husband's teeny tiny little netbook to add a blog entrry to my page, I sip my coffee and reflect on our past cattle working experiences here at Hollman Farms.

.  Just 2 weeks ago we vaccinated the calves and gave the cows injectable wormer.  My husband is always so eager to get the show on the road ASAP and there were a few things not quite in order when we began. I was completely flustered and annoyed with vaccinating and couldnt figure out why. 4 shots for…

    **Please keep in mind while reading my blogs, I am a beginner in farming... my terminology may be quite "crude" and cause me to sound ignorant -  I am a work in progress!**

 Corn chopping went a lot smoother this year at our farm. No mud! Hooray! I definitely have to say I didn't miss pulling the 8560 out of the muddy ruts with my tractor or seeing a full chopper box tipping so far to one side bogged down in mud.

     2011 has brought a lot of knowledge to us in both the…

I grew up in the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, St Paul, MN) on a 10 acre hobby farm with horses, cats and dogs. No tractors, no crops, no big round bales of hay. The most I had to do was haul water in buckets for the horses in the winter, clean barn and help load and unload square hay bales. This was my only experience in livestock handling coming into this. I had pretty much everything happen to me via horses... bucked off, bit, kicked, rolled on and run over etc etc so…