The Voluntary Stewardship Program farm tour will be having lunch at HCH. Come and join the tour and see what your neighbors are doing to protect natural resources. We would love to see you! Call the Stevens County Conservation District at…
Winter triticale has been planted as a cover crop. It can be used for cattle forage or as a help for soil erosion in the fall and spring. How do you pronounce triticale? trit·i·ca·le \ ˌtri-tə-ˈkā-lē \ Which is your choice?
I dug these beautiful Yukon Gold spuds today. The best I have raised as a gardener. I don’t know what it is about digging potatoes, but I love to see what is buried beneath the plant. Almost feel like a…
Do cattle get a sinus infection from the smoke? Vote or leave a comment on our Facebook page. See poll…
It is time to clean the barnyard and manure storage facility. Using the backhoe and a tractor with a loader and scraper makes the work go faster. Everything is loaded onto the big truck and taken to the field where…
Want to catch the cow the first time? Then check out the Q-Catch 300 series squeeze chute we use. We have handled our cattle with the Q-Catch since the fall of 2013 and love it. This chute does not make…
We are offering commercial weanling heifers for sale. Check our Facebook page for more info.
Thanks to water, fertilizer, hot weather and soil sampling it is shaping up to be a wonderful crop of 3rd cutting alfalfa. These plants look healthy and have great color. Weather permitting, we are thinking the first half of September…