Farm Blog

It is cold at the farm, and tonight is supposed to be even colder.  With highs of 0 and lows of -24 its hard to get equipment running to do the basic chores of feeding cows etc.  We've been working on our goals so that we can finalize our 2010 farm plans.  I think we know what we are going to do this coming year, but it will be nice to have a draft of our family farm goals in writing that we can run our plans against.  One of the goals in essence is to continue to improve the farm environment.  We were talking this morning about the condition of the farm when we bought it and how much we've improved it.  There was a tremendous amount of erosion and over grazing on the farm which led to deep ruts, major soil runoff, and weeds that we still struggle with today.  When we planted alfalfa, put in 3 wetlands, and started rotational grazing, we tried to attack the roots of what we saw as problems.  Now we need to move it farther and really strive for better.  That's part of the goal setting - to define more.