Some states call it Super Tuesday because of politics. Here on the farm, it was Super Tuesday too. But not because of Donald Trump's in...

I'm a firm believer that children need a mom and a dad.  Certainly there are cases where the mom is left on her own, or where the d...

It turns out that our Great Pyrenees - Petunia - has been, uh, KNOWN.  In the biblical sense.  Ahem.  To make this e...

We have four dogs -- four -- which is roughly three more than I ever planned on having. Chris takes two of them with him to the dairy...

"Hard work, honesty, integrity, faith, family, love, forgiveness."  That's what we're about . . . and something tells...

    One of the things you may not know about farm folks is that sometimes we name our animals; sometimes we don't. I was home...

Blackjack may be my farmer's number one farm dog, and Wally might have come in a close second, but Petunia is rounding third base...

This week, we are: Focusing on all things silage.  Silage time is kind of like Christmas on the farm, but you have to replace the p...

When I lived in St. Louis, my morning consisted of a twenty-minute commute through eight lanes of traffic. After I learned that the key to ...

Colt - half Shar Pei, half lab  Just a few weeks ago we suddenly found ourselves in THAT category: the one that includes people who ...

Remember that time that we conned our little nieces and nephews into thinking that coming to our farm is tantamount to summer camp? (You ca...

We're just one day away from spring, but here in Missouri, we've already enjoyed some seriously warm weather.  Give us a couple...

Chris is a sixth-generation farmer. I'm a fifth.  You might say things have changed since our ancestors first started farming.  ...

Women love little, bitty tiny things: babies, mini quiches, puppies.  Sure you could have a regular-size quiche, but who wants that w...

We had a lot of snow last year. Like, the kind where my car couldn't always make it over the drifts to get into town kind of snow.  T...

Chris is a practical kind of guy. He sees a barn, and he puts things in it, like, you know, tractors and sprayers and lawn mowers. I se...

On our way to visit family in Illinois this weekend, I devised a great plan. "You're driving! I'm just sitting here! We should...