This last weekend, my farmer’s pickup pulled into the driveway on a Sunday afternoon. Unannounced to me, he flew in the house and asked if I wanted to go check fields with him. Immediately this made my heart swell because…
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Growing up in Northern California, specifically our little farming town of Durham, it was a joke that the mosquitos are as big as dogs. Thanks to all the flooded rice fields and the irrigated almond fields, there was plenty of…
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Did you know that two different pieces of equipment are needed for us to get all of our planting done? Choosing the right piece of equipment for any given farming job is not always easy. Soybean, small grains (like wheat),…
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There seems to be a consensus going around that farmers have no choice when it comes to the seed they choose to plant. Or if they do have a choice, large corporations like Monsanto force it upon them. And…
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This week marks the week of our local county fair back in my hometown in California. And I am feeling kind of nostalgic about it as I realize this will be the first time in probably 16 years that I…
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Old Man Winter really got to me this winter… But it’s not because I wanted to be warm or that I was particularly sick of the snow. It is what it is, but what I really wished is that I…
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