Fair time is upon us once again and there was fun to be had! Some of that fun was brought to the fairgrounds with Minute to Win It Farm Edition hosted by Ag in the Classroom. Of course we cannot … Continue reading Saturday at the Story County Fair
Continuing the fun with National months! Continue reading National Turkey Lover’s Day
May has ended and with it so has National Beef Month and National Egg Month. Looking at June there are plenty of agriculture based things to celebrate! I will start off with one that happens to kickoff the month. We have passed it, but June 1 was World Milk Day. However, the entire month of June recognizes the dairy industry for National Dairy Month! National Dairy Month or what was known as, National Milk Month in 1937 as a milk promotion. Milk contains essential nutrients for the body: calcium, protein, vitamin D, phosphorus, vitamin A, riboflavin, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, … Continue reading National Dairy Month
The harvest season has been an interesting one this year. Continue reading A Look at Harvest
Let’s celebrate all things pigs and pork because it is National Pork Month after all! Continue reading National Pork Month
September 16-22 marks another National Farm Safety and Health Week! This year has the theme: “Cultivating the Seeds of Safety.” Farm safety and health is extremely important throughout the year for our farmers. This week as they continue harvesting the … Continue reading National Farm Safety and Health Week
We’ve had sunny skies since Thursday, which after all the rain we were receiving is really nice! We are closer to autumn as well and reaching cooler mornings. View this post on Instagram Finally a day without rain! Passing by … Continue reading Corn Harvest is Back
Rain, rain, go away. I believe recently the storms have brought enough rain, but the forecast for the week does not look promising for anything else. Some fields were getting closer to harvest in the area and now water is in the field. View this post on Instagram We do not need more rain in the fields. Unfortunately, the forecast does not look too promising this week. #toomuchrain A post shared by Agriculturalists Today (@agriculturaliststoday) on Sep 2, 2018 at 5:23pm PDT Any farmer who was hoping to get back to the fields this week may have to wait a … Continue reading Waiting for Harvest Season
An adventure starting Friday headed to Dyersville and enjoying the differences in agriculture’s scenery. I must say there are more crop fields around where I am from versus northeastern Iowa’s livestock farms. A vast sea of harvest gold and some … Continue reading Northeastern Iowa Ag
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