Category: Faith

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Giving the Gift

We can’t do anything on the farm in all the rain and mud! So we are taking the time to Spotlight our friends and their ministry (with their permission, of course). This is definitely a sobering topic, but we urge you to consider how you can help. Please take the time to read, share and SUPPORT!

Who doesn’t love to receive a gift? Who are we kidding? Everyone loves to receive a gift! But do you know that giving the gift is the best part? Have you ever given a gift that you knew the receiver was just going to love and you waited and watched with excitement for them to open and see? Wasn’t that the best?

two hands holding a gift wrapped with a red bow

Now think about it…..It’s that gift, that in order to give it, it will cost you dearly. It didn’t cost you time or money, it cost you your life.

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We the People

Have you ever tried to do everything right only for people to see the small mistakes you made or even make up accusations?

Have you ever tried to be a better person and leave your past behind only for people to constantly remind you of who you were and what you’ve done?

How did it make you feel?
Didn’t you wish that someone would take your side, stand up for you? Didn’t you want someone to defend you because you knew that you just couldn’t defend yourself?

Imagine how hurt you feel. Imagine how sad and lonely you feel. Picture yourself standing there under the weight of all of the loneliness, hurt and frustration.

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Making Babies

Cattle laying in a field near a pond with the blue sky in the background.

Breeding season is underway! Decisions, decisions, decisions! It is time to make babies! Lots of things go into breeding cattle around here. We don’t use a lot of natural service bull breeding on our farm. We attempt to design our babies by artificial insemination (AI). We take a lot of time choosing genetics, from a variety of bulls, and match them up to our cows to determine which characteristics we are trying to bring out, diminish, or get rid of in our calves.

Needles, medications and heat patches.
Heat patches are applied after shots are given to bring the cattle into “heat” in preparation for AI breeding.

Breeding by artificial insemination gives us a greater variety of bulls to choose from rather than keeping one bull for breeding. The hopes are also that this translates into better profits. If you make good decisions, and the breeding matches have the expected outcomes, that should bring us better calves.

Cow in the head gate ready to get her shots. Time to make babies!
Its time for breeding!

Great cattle do not normally just happen. Great cattle are made.

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