You better try to find the cutoff fork tines in the silo” Dad said as he frowned at me and looking both irritated and worried.  “If a cow s...

Dad was a Farmall tractor man all of his life.   He grew up on a farm near Barron, WI, one of 8 children, six of them boys and a father, Pea...

Finding a new born calf, hidden by her mother in the wooded cow pasture was an adventure.  Sometimes stumbling around the darkening evenin...

Since last winter we have been having furnace problems.  The Olsen oil furnace has run OK, heated OK, but since last December been smelli...

September 30, 2015 was the first frost in our area.  It arrived on the farm only in the lowest areas along the swamps; here on top of the hi...

Feeling unlike getting anything useful done today, I took a trip to St Croix Falls coming back up the River Road.  I stopped several places ...