October 2010 Blog Posts (9)

‎"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released their winter weather outlook last week for the United States. La Nina conditions in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific ocean are forecast to continue strengthening and will have the following impacts on our winter weather:

Above: Percent chance of warmer or cooler than average temperatures over the next three months based on La Nina conditions.…

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Greetings fellow aggies! I hope this harvest season treated you well (or still treating you well) and brought you a bountiful harvest. I recently wrote a guest blog post on Michele Payn-Knoper's blog



http://www.causematters.com/agriculture/technology-in-agriculture/.



I am really interested in the groups thought on this topic. What do you see in the realm of technology that will have an impact,… Continue

Our family happily picked apples last week in an orchard 20 miles away, where we managed to taste Fuji, Yellow Delicious, Roma and Red Delicious on a bright Autumn day. We do the same with blueberries in July. We purchase eggs from our neighbor. We grow our own herbs, raspberries and vegetables – our family spends many hours in the garden to grow our own food. We also purchase beef from a local farm, enjoy pork burgers from the next county over and would love to find a lamb to buy. We enjoy…

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When you’re at the bottom of the mountain, looking up at your goals and dreams, you know there’s only one way to go. But when you’re standing proudly on top, you can either

firmly stand your ground, or fall off. I refused to let myself fall,

however it seems that God’s plan had other intentions. Maybe he was

trying to tell me “slow down my child, you’re moving too fast, it’s time

to see things in another prospective, but do not fear for I will…

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Now that I have your attention, we’ll spend the next three paragraphs discussing the merits of the USDA’s decades-long research on the efficacy of comprehensive nutrient management plans (CNMP), BMP and how it is encouraged by NRCS. That’s not exactly effective, unless you’re a farmer looking into how to manage manure to add organic material to your soil. Not of great interest unless you’re working with farm animals. Since this is less than 1.5% of the U.S. population, I might…

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Farmers and Ranchers know that their work is very busy and very time consuming. Many times they wish that they could be in two places at once. Having said this, there is an ever growing need for these farm and ranch owners to have some sort of video surveillance or outdoor monitoring cameras system available to them.

These systems are valuable on many different levels. Farmers and…

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I am going to buy a handheld GPS unit but know there are MANY of them out there. Just wondering if anyone has any input on what to look for or what to stay away from. Any certain brands anyone suggests? Thanks

The corn sure ended up as a dissapointment. No rain from Jul4th to Aug 15 just did it in I suppose. We will be lucky to make 150 bushels when the last ticket is tallied. Since I have 165bu per acre sold I will get the pleasure of buying back the difference above the 4.30 Dec futures I sold. Of course that mean todays down 30 is a good thing in some strange way.

We havent started beans but I was home and delivered a few loads of corn to the elevator. The beans in line looked…

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