Headin’ for the Last Roundup
While our city cousins are going ga-ga over the Olymypics on the other side of the world, we stay-at-home farmers are going ga-ga about something else, something a lot nearer to our heart, minds and check books than who can run the fastest or jump the highest.
Life Is Simple
"This one will do to watch,” Harold stated as the red bull made his third lap around the corral before loading into the trailer with his two buddies.
Across the Ozarks
I like to take my puppy, Frankie, for walks when she is staying at my house in town. She spends most of her days...
All We Need’s More Rain
Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman, has been running TV ads on how to save the world energy shortage with his plan of windmills and...
Life is Simple
Dear Sam, My wife and I have just returned from eight days out of the country, driving the entire north/south length of Mexico and...
Letter to the Editor
I would like to comment on your editorial regarding immunity and vaccinations. (Published in the June 30 issue of Ozarks Farm & Neighbor.)I raise chickens...
Across the Ozarks
I like to take my puppy, Frankie, for walks when she is staying at my house in town. She spends most of her days at my boyfriend's farm where she gets to do fun things like irritate the cows, play in the creek and ride in the tractor for hours on end – this time of year, especially.
Headin’ for the Last Roundup
Horses, horses everywhere.
Life is Simple
One of my wife’s good friends recently bought a luxury home sitting on 30 acres.
Across the Ozarks
The summer has not been what any of us would have expected with rain, rain and more rain to quench our thirsty soil. We’ve probably forgotten what a drought even is at this point. But I haven’t forgotten. I’ll take my friends and family dodging rain days to get hay put up over brown, brittle pastures and the pain of feeding hay in August any day.