It's a heat wave here today - 56 degrees! We spent the entire day outside. We met with a wonderful lady from the local USDA office. She came to the farm and evaluated the place for cross fencing, ponds, and pasture rotation, now called "prescribed grazing". We spent several hours with her and learned a lot. Since I am a woman farmer, and under served by the government, I was able to get free pasture insurance, which pays me for the loss of pasture should here be a drought this year. I
Joe and our son-in-law cut a fallen tree off one of the cross fences. We now have firewood stacked on the porch for the next cold spell. It felt good to cut our own firewood from a fallen tree on our property.
We are considering buying between 15 to 20 bred cows to get our little cattle operation up and going. I think we will try red angus or black angus cross cattle. Those seem to sell the best back here. We would like to sell grass fed beef to individuals as opposed to selling the calves at auction. We will see how that goes as it will take marketing on our part.
With the cold spell, we have just been working in the addition where we have the fireplace blazing and occasionally turn on the blast heater for a shot of extra warmth. Joe and I are the only ones working so progress is slow, but everyday we make progress. Half the addition is drywalled! Joe just finished blocking for the cabinets. I need to start cutting and hanging insulation so we can get more drywall up.
Having the big TV and the fireplace make it a lot nicer to work in the addition. Of course we watch DIY and HGTV.
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