Thanks once again to Gene Hemphill and New Holland for making it possible for me to cover the National Farm-City Week Luncheon and get to see one of my favorite performers, Michael Peterson. Michael has a great message for anyone in our country and especially our young people. If you’ve never heard Michael then you can watch a short part …
Learn About Reining
I know a lot of you are like me, “not very horsey.” But you work at a show like the World Championship Appaloosa Show and you can get pretty horsey real fast. How many of you know what a reining competition is? Quick show of hands. That’s what I thought. So watch this video clip and then you’ll have an …
AFT Farmcast Video
In case you didn’t know it, American Farmland Trust is putting up some video content on its website called AFT Farmcast Video. The latest episode is called, “Cooking Up Local.” You can learn what it means to cook with locally grown, organic ingredients for Airlie’s Executive Chef Jeff Whitte.
Butter is Better
In fact, looking at the current crop of presidential wannabees I’d rather vote for butter. I think this is a hilarious video and thought you’d enjoy it. I fully agree with the guy in this video by Sweet Tea Films. Butter goes good on a lot of things. Thanks to Bob McCarty for pointing it out.
Driving Away the Competition
If you’ve ever been down in a hollow on a mid summer day pounding posts then you might wonder why anyone would want to do this for fun. However, at the Country Living Olympics is was cool inside the American Royal building where the Steel Post Driving competition took place. You can see that we were planting a post garden …
Let’s Move That Feed
If you’ve ever had to move a pallet of feed then you have an idea of what it was like to compete in the Country Living Olympics Feed Bag Moving competition. Imagine having to run with them for a short distance and stack them on another pallet. That’s why we had some worn out competitors. 10 bags and a short …
Corn Guy to the Rescue
Will Corn Guy.tv say the day for corn growers everywhere? Who is Corn Guy? You’ll have to watch the series to find out. It’s all part of a new program being conducted by the American Lung Association of the Upper Midwest’s Minnesota E85 Team. America, meet a new superhero: Corn Guy, now seen on his own website: www.cornguy.tv. The Minnesota …
Country Living Olympics Water Bucket Filling
Water Bucket Filling would not be my favorite chore out on the farm but it’s just one of those things you have to do. I prefer taking pictures of other people doing it for competition. I can’t even remember the exact details of how this one worked but you had to run back and forth moving water from one tub …
Country Living Olympics Hay Scramble
Not all of the competitors at the Country Living Olympics were big people. Take this competition for example. The Hay Scramble was just that and the dust was flying. These little dynamos were searching for $1 dollar coins. I think there were a couple hundred dollars worth hidden under the hay pile. They got to keep what they found. You …
The Business of California Farming
The Futures Channel has produced a short movie on California agriculture. They’d love your feedback. Thanks to Jenna who’s in charge of their distribution for the alert to it. It’s meant to be an instructional video for classroom use. Do your students know where their food comes from? There are more than 350 different commodities grown in California, including rice, …