Hey yall pray for Jewel please. Im waiting on the vet to call back. We may have a weekend after hours vet farm visit. I think she has bloat

If you are looking for a good short read, I recommend "The Secret Life of Cows" by Rosamund Young. She is a long time farmer and gives you her perspective on animals as individuals with their own unique personalities. It's sometimes humorous and sometimes sad, but gives a great insight into the minds of the critters she loves and has spent many years observing. I can see these things in my own animals and you probably do too ❤️

I voted for the 100 fully wild. In my mind if I can afford 100 acres I am obviously rich so I can stay on farm. So I would have the time to make the 100 into exactly how I wanted it.

I don't even know how to vote on this one. They both appeal to me 😂

Praise the Lord! I finally got my first usable milk. It's been a battle between ketosis and mastitis for Jewel. Lots of work on both of our parts and lots of prayers and we are grateful to all you who joined in prayer with us and rooting for her recovery. You are greatly appreciated. Please continue to pray that I can keep her healthy. I have learned so much through this and thank the Lord for the knowledge.

So for the 3 votes on no. Would you care to share your thoughts

The game warden last night

4 companies control almost the entire US crop seed market
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2 companies, Bayer and Corteva alone account for over half of corn seed sold
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American farmer shows “this one box of corn seed cost me $17,000”

This is a problem. Not only the cost but the monopoly on life. No one should be able to have a patent on seeds.

Yall ever hear the old adage that the road to hell is paved with good intentions? Well thats GMOs. They aren't inherently evil. The first genetically modified organism was insulin. You see in the west we have a problem with diabetes types 1 and 2. Yes a big portion is due to bad diet but that doesn't mean we let people die from lack of medication. Life is precious to God and as such should be to us as well. Insulin is found in sheep stomachs and there is no possible way that the farmers of the west could raise and slaughter enough sheep to harvest the insulin. So a group of well meaning scientists set out to solve the issue and genetically modified yeast to produce insulin instead of alcohol.

Good intentions

My point is that it isn't necessarily the GMOs that are evil. It is who is behind it and their intentions. Bayersanto is the biggest perpetrator here. When we condemn people who grow these or people who eat or feed these things we must remember that some things in this life aren't black and white there are certain things that fall into the gray spectrum. Be graceful and forgiving of people try to teach them and help them rather than condemning. There is enough of that in the world already.

Rainy day here on the farm. Thank the Lord because we need it. It looks like a desert wasteland. I got Jewel milked and back up to the house just before it started.