April 2012 Blog Posts (13)

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One of my favorite hobbies and interests is cooking.  I know I've shared about cooking a little in my blog before and today my post will be about a recipe I created.  I produced my "Cardinal & Gold Cream Cheese Burger" by modifying and coupling a couple other of my burger recipes together.  I created the burger for a Pinterest contest for Iowa State Athletics.  There contest is called Cy's…

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Most beginning farmers state this question incorrectly! "What products does the market want?" is a more appropriate form of this important question. All too often, farmers produce what they enjoy producing without sufficient consideration of market opportunities and market demand.

The "how to market" question breaks into several sets of decisions. One has to do with searching for marketable products, which drives many other farming considerations. You need to match up the product with…

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Dear Jeff

Thanx a lot for the encouragement.

Iam called dr Patrick Sekimpi m a farmer and orthopedic surgeon. I was born and raised in Uganda in a small town near the capital Kampala with six siblings 2 boys and 3 girls. I am at present practicing at the Makerere university college of health sciences as a lecture and operate on many victims of road traffic accidents weekly ,as I do farming on days aim not in theatre, but would like to develop into full time farming in the next five… Continue

Since spring field work is in full swing this week, I figured I'd start up my Farm Friday segment to give everyone an update on what we are doing on the farm.  I'm going to continue to give a Farm Friday update throughout the rest of the growing seasoning and one feature I'm going to do is show photos of the field around our acreage each week.  This will give everyone an idea on how the corn is progressing.…

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Today is Earth Day.  For some this means they might clean up a ditch or plant a tree, but for me, it makes me think of all the things my family and I, as well as other farmers, do every day to keep my family, my community, and my environment healthy and strong everyday.

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A guilty pleasure of mine is watching the Today Show in the morning and earlier this week there was a piece about a new children's book that will be released on April 24th called Vegan is Love.  The Today Show piece discussed the book's topics from animal testing to eating habits.  It also questioned "is a vegan diet healthy for children".  In the end the…

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(NaturalNews) NaturalNews can now confirm that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has, in total violation of the Fourth Amendment, conducted two armed raids on pig farmers in that state, one in Kalkaska County at Fife Lake and another in Cheboygan County. Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DNA conducted unconstitutional, illegal and arguablycriminalarmed raids on these two farms with the intent of shooting all the farmers' pigs under a…

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iam a young farmer doing it part time in hog farming, corn and pinnaple here in Uganda. I have learnt a lot from the forum and enjoyed the discussions much as some technology is too advanced.
My primary occupation is orthopaedic surgery but I have a great desire to feed the starving populations here home Continue

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Today was our first day planting corn this spring!  This is an exciting day every year, but it was especially exciting this year, as we have a new 24 row planter. 

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