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Around the Farm

Around the Farm Lessons from the 4-H Barn This was our kids’ first year participating in the DeKalb County 4-H livestock fair. Turns out, raising a market lamb is about a whole lot more than the show ring. As soon as we pulled into the fairgrounds, countless memories from my own 4-H days came flooding back: The smell of the

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Around the Farm

Wild Spring Weather Sets Up a Busy Summer This spring has brought some wild swings in weather. April started incredibly wet and kept us out of the fields until the start of May. Usually, we like to start our first pass of tillage for weed control the last week of April, but we weren’t able to start until the end

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Around the Farm

Spring: A Quiet Kind of Progress After a long Midwest winter, it’s easy to think of spring as something that suddenly arrives: a rush of green, a burst of activity, a return to productivity. But when your co-worker is Mother Nature, you learn quickly that progress doesn’t happen on demand. It happens when conditions are right. Working with Nature On

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Around the Farm

This summer and fall seemed to fly by after we got our wheat harvested in July, finished row-crop cultivating, got our covers planted in mid-August, and finished repairing one of our grain bins, the hot dry end of the summer had the beans ready before we were. We started September 17th on our non-gmo food-grade soybeans. This is earlier than

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Grazing Smarter with Virtual Fencing

This year, we’ve added something to our farm that’s not only exciting, but it’s also helping us take our regenerative practices to the next level! We recently fitted our cow herd with virtual fence collars. This cutting-edge technology is helping us do an even better job of improving soil health on the farm. You are probably familiar with “invisible fences”

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Around the Farm

This spring has been extremely busy here on the farm. In addition to the usual work of hauling grain and repairing equipment we have been working on a construction project. We had to replace the grain bins that hold wet grain out of the field to feed our grain dryer. They were built in the early 1970s and had rusted

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Meet Our New Board Members

Josh Faivre Josh currently resides in Sycamore with his wife Mallory and is a third generation farmer. He graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor’s in Agriculture Business. Josh currently farms full-time, growing corn, soybeans, wheat, and oats, while also transitioning to organic crops. “I hope to bring a different point of view of farming to the board, and

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Spring Checklist

Setting the Stage for Success on the Farm Spring on the farm is a season of preparation and anticipation. As the days grow longer and the weather begins to warm, farmers everywhere are busy laying the groundwork for a productive year ahead. At Pasture Grazed Regenerative Farm, spring is all about setting our pastures, livestock, and fields up for success.

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What do farmers do during the winter months?

Ask A Farm Family Q: What do farmers do during the winter months? A: We have a long list of things to do during the winter months. It includes cleaning, repairs, restocking, meetings, and much more. Farm families stay busy year-round, even in the winter months. Once harvest is done and the field work is over, we start on a

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Faith, Family, and Farming – New James M. Johnson Ag Scholarship

New scholarship honors family man, James M. Johnson Faith, family, and farming were the core values of our Husband and Father, James M. Johnson (Jim). When Jim passed away in February, the massive outpouring of love and support from the memorials given in hishonor made it clear that his legacy and passion needed to continue. The farm and Johnson family