Jason has been putting in a lot of quality time on the tractors over the last couple of weeks. As I mentioned in my last post he’s been...

Apparently Mother Nature got the memo that the spring time change was upon us and it was time to feel like spring. Over the past week...

(post by Jason) Today’s blog is something a bit different than the serving we usually dish up. I want to talk a little bit about the...

I will admit that it has felt a bit like the universe has been plotting against us lately. There have been too many goodbyes lately. In...

(Post by Jason) One of the benefits of being a farmers wife is that Melissa gets to listen to me expound on issues like nutrient...

Welcome to Part III of the Cushings/PPID primer. In this part we’ll discuss what you can do after your horse has been diagnosed with...

We get asked all the time to provide free consulting on how to start a retirement farm. By all the time I mean we are contacted on...

We had the misfortune of dealing with a couple of water leaks right at Christmas. It was really a great way to spend the holiday week...

Welcome to Part II of the Cushings/PPID primer. If you have not already read the first post on this subject it would be very helpful to...

We all hear certain things that, for whatever reason, really push our buttons. A comment I hear from time to time is something along the...

For the most part I consider myself a pretty independent person and generally view myself as a person who can handle whatever happens to...

The horses gave up almost any pretenses of eating hay in the pasture about three weeks ago. As it always seems to happen every year, one...

(post by Jason) Probiotics and prebiotics. We hear these terms bandied about fairly regularly in the equine world. Too often I hear these...

I always know that spring has really arrived when Jason and I go from “normal” busy to warp-speed busy. We’ve been warp-speed busy the...

(post written by Jason) A couple of our blog comments on my last post asked questions about the management of feeding hay, with...

(post written by Jason) This is the time of year when farmers really start to look closely at their hay supply relative to when they...

The best way to describe the last two days would be to call them an exercise in frustration. We started hearing about the snow storm we...

(post written by Jason) Lately every time I turn on my computer it seems I come across another story and embedded discussion about...

We had a 72 hour stretch that didn’t go well at all. It didn’t start off too terribly. We had a resident that didn’t want to eat Friday...

A couple of days ago Jason started cleaning out and organizing one of the sheds were equipment, tools and junk all accumulate. I thought...