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Coping with Unscheduled Winter

November 16th, 2014 · 2 Comments · Weather

As if we didn’t have enough to do, an unseasonable blast of arctic weather has complicated matters here on the farm. We still have 50 broiler chickens on pasture that we had planned to begin processing this week. But we can’t run our chicken plucker when temperatures fall below freezing. On Friday we woke up […]

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Really?

April 16th, 2014 · 4 Comments · Weather

Better believe it. It was in the 70s here Monday but last night it snowed and this is the scene we woke up to this morning, with a couple of fresh inches on the ground. It’s like deja vu all over again. And to think, I just had the truck in the shop to have […]

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How Much Snow?

February 19th, 2014 · No Comments · farming

I just heard the local weatherman announce we’ve had 63 inches of snow so far this year, or more than five feet. That’s 23 inches more than the 30-year average snowfall for the entire winter, and we still have a month of winter left. Good thing we had a big thaw some weeks back or […]

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