February 2012
6 posts
January 2012
5 posts
December 2011
7 posts
November 2011
5 posts
Vacation
I just returned from a vacation. While on vacation I recalled conversations I had with various farmers who said they never took a vacation let alone a day off. They work 365 days a year - doing chores by 4am and return from the fields at 8pm during the long summer days. They spoke of this with a glint of pride. One farmer mentioned they could never take a family vacation so instead they had a...
October 2011
7 posts
September 2011
7 posts
August 2011
8 posts
Weather
Irene came inland and wreaked havoc on farmers. Thousands of acres of cropland was affected, entire barns and herds in some cases washed downstream. Washed-out roads made farms inaccessible to milk trucks forcing farmers to dump milk. The effects will affect for a long time. The farmers live hand-in-hand with nature every minute through every season; they are often at the source of the enormous...
July 2011
2 posts
0 to 50 in 60
On the road in Connecticut. The farms are few and far between in this state. The farmers all seem to struggle with finding enough crop land and sometimes travel 15 miles to a corn field- trucking manure, plows, and silage to and from and holding up the many commuters that live in the fields and work in the cities. I guess in one way or another we are all an inconvenience to someone. My van shifts...
June 2011
2 posts
