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 Hi.   It's been a long time since I posted anything.
Lets see; 2020 was probably the best, most profitable farm year I've ever had.  Which is odd to say because of a global pandemic, but it was true.
So I paid off debts and invested in some new equipment, and put myself into CDL school so I could get licensed to drive a semi truck, and i purchased a semi truck, mostly to haul huge quantities of stuff for my farm....

I've gotten 6.75" of rain in the last 10 days; the amount of rain on this property is taking some getting used to.  The weatherman says that the next 5 days are going from our usual refrigerator-temperature 40 degrees to fairly cold in our region.  In...

I purchased my first farmland in 2006; 12 acres on the flood plain of a local river, with about 4 usable acres, the rest was very wet ground.  I purchased that land because it was cheap; roughly $6k/acre, which i considered cheap at the time.  The area...

Picture courtesy of WCAX, Vermont.  https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Vermont-farmer-recaptures-almost-all-runaway-pigs-558851501.html
Walter Jefferies has been having a pretty hard time over in Vermont.  You know it's bad when the local television station puts out a story with this headline:...