This is my first time blogging so I thought I would tell you about our farm. Our farm is located in S.E. Minnesota. We call this part of the state Gods country, but I suppose you could say that about anywhere.
We have 350 Holstien dairy cows and about the same number of young stock. We farm 600 acres and grow corn, grass and alfalfa, which most years is all fed to our cows. with the tremendous yeilds this year, we were able to sell some of our corn this fall.
We have 6 full time and 4 part time employees. I will talk more about our employees in future blogs, but for now I'll just say they are great!
Our farm has been in our family since 1917 and there have been cows on our from even before my grandfather owned it. It was homesteaded in 1856.
Life on the farm is always interesting and sometimes a little to exciting. Like last Tuesday morning, 3:30 in the morning to be exact. Our cows got the gate open and decided they would go over to our neighbors and aerate their lawn. It has been raining also so there hooves sank in real good. Needless to say, they were not impressed but with cattle its not if they will get out, its when. They also milk cows so they kinda understand.
That's it for this blog, my first blog. I plan on writing once a week so check back.
Bill
Now I know more than when we worked for you. By the way you have a great blog. Frank/Marie
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