Ozarks Farm & Neighbor Newspaper – written for, by & about farmers

I love trees and I love history. So it is no surprise that I am retelling these two great, historic tree tales.

Two subjects command attention today.
Whopping amounts of rainwater...
And the Fed rides again.

I’m a lucky guy – always have been.  I suppose I first realized that I was prone to good fortune in the third grade when everyone in the entire one-room school I attended received a spanking with the exception of yours truly.

Jerry Fancher has spent the better part of her 81 years on her family’s farm north of Berryville, Ark., in Carroll County. She shared her father’s love for raising cattle and taking care of the land. “I was a cowpoke, I never wanted to go to school,” she said about her life after high school. “I’d rather go to the cow pasture.” She did venture out to California for a couple of years to work in the Kwikset Lock factory in Anaheim, Cali., but left to come home and help on the farm after her father had a stroke. “I came back,” she remembered, “and I’ve been here ever since.”

Animal health is very important to the overall profitability of all livestock operations.  Animal health failure is a consequence of many management practices that producers take for granted or just fail to account for. Many producers believe that a good vaccination program is a good animal health program.

I’m a lucky guy – always have been.  I suppose I first realized that I was prone to good fortune in the third grade when everyone in the entire one-room school I attended received a spanking with the exception of yours truly.