Tag Archives: Livestock
The Hobby and the Farm, Small Acreage Livestock Producers

The Hobby and the Farm, Small Acreage Livestock Producers

November 1, 2011 5 Comments

Today’s landscape of the “American Farmer” changed. We see large acreage owners that plant thousands of acres across America and large ranchers that operate large livestock operations, but we often forget the…

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Hay there, Hi there, Ho there, you’re as welcome as can be—on the wagon

Hay there, Hi there, Ho there, you’re as welcome as can be—on the wagon

August 12, 2010 2 Comments

We’ve been in the time of hay for more than a month. This is the hot center cut of summer, that slab of days when each breath breaks a sweat.

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Rural America is ready to stimulate

January 29, 2009 0 Comments

Those of us who live and work in what the New Yorker might consider the muddle of the American nowhere may have once believed that life at the fat end of the Nation’s political…

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Grazing beef cattle: Happy tails to you

May 9, 2008 0 Comments

No buffalo roamed on Hawthorne Street in Pittsburgh where I grew up.

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