Breaking It Up

This time of year, we are preparing for winter. Hay is in the barn and calves are hitting the ground. But, of utmost importance is the planting of winter pastures. Our cattle do their best growing on winter rye grass during the cooler temps of winter in the south. So it’s time to start breaking it up!

Some of the pastures can be “over seeded,” which means they are planted by the seed drill and no other work is needed. But for some of the fields, the prep work is more intense and takes longer than the actual planting.

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New life

a brand new baby is new life on the farm

It’s that time of year, fall calving season has started! We are anxiously waiting and watching for all the new babies to arrive. It’s an exciting time to see if the planned matings will bring heifers as hoped, and to see the much anticipated new life running and playing on the farm.

I sat in the pasture and watched a birth this week. I’ve seen it before many times but this time God spoke as I watched and anticipated the arrival. I haven’t written in a while. Life has been extremely busy since late spring and most weeks I’ve barely gotten the have to’s done. My “real” jobs have had to come first and even some of them have lacked due to just not enough time. So for Him to speak and say, “Write this” was long overdue!

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A Sacrifice For Me

the first calf- the would be sacrifice

That little cutie was the first calf born of our calving season. We generally prefer fall calving. Cows and calves grow well and rapidly on hay and winter rye over the winter and into early spring around our part of the world. So that little fella was the 1st calf of the year. If we were still living under the Old Testament laws, we would have needed to bring our “1st” as an offering, a sacrifice.

I have been thinking about the sacrifice a lot lately. We, even as Christians, don’t think about the sacrifice very much. Yep, it was required by Old Testament law and we don’t live under that anymore, so who cares right?

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