Yesterday was quite the challenge – I needed to get the holes that were started NEXT to the barn dug out, trenched, connected to other trenches, pipe connected, hydrants in, tested and filled in – ALL before the expected rains hit. Not a small task under the best of conditions. So – to ensure things [...]
|
||||||
|
The weather this “summer” that caused 70 day corn to take 90 days to harvest also had an impact on the fall harvest as well. The original plan was to offer a bunch of these bright orange and very unique Cinderella pumpkins to customers with some unique decorative Indian corn, cornstalks and a bale f [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Chicken Thistle Farm - All Rights Reserved |
||||||
ANTI – animal antibiotics
Here’s a case where the media missed the mark in an attempt to elicit fear in the wrong direction. It annoys me when the press calls H1N1 flue “the swine flu” and then hog farmers see a 30% decrease in sales of pork products. Authorities have clearly demonstrated that the deadly virus is not transmitted [...]