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Matière à ruminer

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Matière à ruminer : Les Jeux olympiques bovins

August 8, 2023
Dwayne Faber

Quand j’étais enfant – à la ferme laitière où je vivais – une phrase en particulier déclenchait en moi une peur viscérale. Cette phrase, lorsqu’elle était criée par la porte, provoquait une cacophonie de cris d’enfants.


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Juste en passant

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Juste en passant… Placez les gens qui vous entourent au cœur de vos résolutions

September 20, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

Dès que l’horloge sonne les 12 coups de minuit, que l’énorme boule descend sur Time Square et que l’année se terminant tire sa référence pour céder sa place à la nouvelle, nous commençons inévitablement à réfléchir à nos résolutions.


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Juste en passant… Des petits cochons, des cigales et des boucs bourrus

June 26, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

Dans ma très lointaine jeunesse, les histoires avec une morale étaient courantes et les enfants les comprenaient.


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Juste en passant… Être grand-mère, c’est pouvoir voir la vie sous un plus grand angle

March 1, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

Quand vous êtes grand-mère et que vous voyez tout ce qui vous entoure sous un angle plus large, vous regardez la vie avec admiration devant la façon dont votre vous-même plus jeune voyait le monde et vous vous émerveillez devant la myriade de changements qui ont transformé votre esprit et votre cœur pour comprendre ce que signifie être mère.


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La laiterie

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La laiterie : Franchir la dernière frontière agricole

July 31, 2023
Ryan Dennis

Les terres agricoles se font de plus en plus rares. Cette rareté pousse les prix à la hausse et rend les terres exploitables difficiles d’accès pour les nouveaux agriculteurs qui souhaiteraient intégrer l’industrie. 


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La laiterie : Le parasite qui contrôle la volonté

June 26, 2023
Ryan Dennis

Récemment, ma mère a élaboré une nouvelle théorie sur les raisons pour lesquelles les agriculteurs acceptent de faire un métier à haut risque qui n’offre qu’une faible rétribution financière tout en requérant beaucoup de travail. 


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Quand les choses s’enfoncent

April 28, 2023
Ryan Dennis

Quoi qu’il en soit du monde dans lequel nous vivons, il y a un avantage à être en vie à notre époque : voyager est plus facile que jamais. Tous les endroits lointains dont nous entendions parler à la télévision lorsque nous étions enfant sont désormais à portée de main après avoir seulement passé 10 minutes en ligne à acheter un billet d’avion.


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La laiterie: La vache mythologique

March 1, 2023
Ryan Dennis

Premier animal sauvage à être domestiqué, le grand aurochs a commencé, il y a 10 000 ans de cela, à être capturé par les humains, qui l’ont élevé de manière sélective pour obtenir de lui un comportement plus docile.


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L’édito

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Notre propre potentiel de récolte

August 30, 2023
Lora Bender

Autant j’aime le temps estival, autant l’automne est la saison où je peux vraiment montrer de quoi je suis capable. C’est aussi immanquablement l’une des périodes les plus occupées de l’année non seulement pour moi, mais également – je suppose – pour vous tous qui lisez cet éditorial.


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Le goût de l’aventure

July 1, 2023
Lora Bender

Est-ce seulement moi ou notre goût de l’aventure diminue avec l’âge? Ou plutôt, est-ce juste que nous sommes maintenant à la recherche de sensations différentes?


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Les personnes influentes dans nos vies

May 1, 2023
Lora Bender

Au fil des ans, j’ai rencontré de nombreuses personnes qui ont eu d’une manière ou d’une autre une grande influence, que ce soit sur moi ou sur leurs pairs. Ces personnes, qui ont influencé positivement la vie d’une personne en particulier ou du monde en général qui les entoure, ne réalisent probablement même pas l’impact qu’elles ont eu sur les autres.


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Donner de son temps

March 1, 2023
Lora Bender

J’ai toujours aimé faire du bénévolat. Cela me rend heureuse de pouvoir redonner au suivant et de faire une différence, tout en apprenant de nouvelles choses et en rencontrant de nouvelles personnes.


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Quoi de neuf?

January 1, 2023
Lora Bender

Il peut parfois être difficile de répondre à une question aussi simple que « quoi de neuf?


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Faber’s Food for Thought

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Faber's Food for Thought: State fair shenanigans

September 12, 2023
Dwayne Faber

For a 14-year-old boy, the state fair meant the excitement of a Tim McGraw song, barbeque stains on white t-shirts, girls in miniskirts and (unfortunately) an end to summer.


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Faber's Food for Thought: Tut tut, it looks like rain

August 25, 2023
Dwayne Faber

There is something humbling about depending on forces outside of your control to make a living in farming.


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Faber's Food for Thought: Trials and tribulations

August 7, 2023
Dwayne Faber

Life in the dairy world hasn’t been fun. 


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Faber’s Food for Thought: I shot my first deer

July 19, 2023
Dwayne Faber

I’m not a hunter. I prefer eating beef; it tastes better and it is a little easier to hunt.


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Faber's Food for Thought: Milk inspectors and sisters-in-law

July 1, 2023
Dwayne Faber

There are a few things that cause a dairy farmer’s heart to jump into their throats: watching someone drop a bottle of Draxxin in slow motion, having your daughter's new boyfriend ask for a beyond meat burger at the family BBQ, and seeing the milk inspector's car come down the driveway.  


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Idaho Ag Proud | From the Editor

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The new ag threat comes from within

September 25, 2023
Lynn Jaynes

I’ve heard organization boards throughout the state talk about dwindling farms and thus farmers, and in Idaho, as elsewhere, that is true. However, in Idaho in 2014, the USDA reported there were 24,700 farms. In 2022, they reported 24,400 farms. So in eight years, 300 farms were lost (with an accompanying loss of 200,000 acres). While that is concerning, that is by no means a landslide problem.


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Off the Record: The other ag news, September 2023

September 19, 2023
Lynn Jaynes

Buffalo leather shortage, what can't you put in a tortilla and nudists in sunflowers – it's the weird ag news.


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Let’s lighten the rancor on California growth

September 7, 2023
David Cooper

We here in Idaho should stop all the anti-California rancor of late. California has in fact a lot to do with Idaho’s economic rise.


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Off the Record: The other ag news, August 2023

August 15, 2023
Lynn Jaynes

Global population growth slowing, old wind turbines, vertical farming woes and Women in Ag Act – plenty to talk about here.


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Bizzaro and nutso indexes

July 31, 2023
Lynn Jaynes

It never ceases to amaze me what economists will use to watch economic trends.


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Wipe Your Feet

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Wipe Your Feet: When things are too good, that’s bad

September 22, 2023
Michele Coleman

Is a prayer sincere if it starts with, “We are so thankful for the moisture we have received, and we know we need every drop of it, and we are not complaining, but maybe in passing you might want to know that we can’t get into the field to do any fieldwork, so uhhh ... just mentioning it in case it affects your eternal plans. Amen.”


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Wipe Your Feet: Do you know how to drive that?

August 22, 2023
Michele Coleman

Another important thing to know about Coleman cars and trucks is that they aren’t sacred. If whatever you fit out your vehicle with can’t withstand the big five, you better not go there.


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Wipe Your Feet: And what do you do all day?

July 17, 2023
Michele Coleman

People sometimes ask me what it is that I do all day. To be honest, I’d like to know myself. Whatever it is, I’m sure not getting it done, that much I know. Still, I wonder what people imagine I’m up to when they ask that question.


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Wipe Your Feet: The impatient patient

June 20, 2023
Michele Coleman

Did you know that farmers don’t need pain medication? When they are as grumpy as @#$%!, it is simply because you are irritating, not because they are in any discomfort whatsoever.


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Wipe Your Feet: I’ll take ‘Dave’ for the win

May 9, 2023
Michele Coleman

I like to ask David questions I already know the answers to. It’s my own private game of “How Well Do You Know Dave.” I happen to be the world champion, and I score pretty high most of the time, though every once in a while, he’ll throw me a ringer.


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Progressive Dairy Canada From the Editor

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Everything in moderation

September 1, 2023
Katie Coyne

I remember when we bred cows based on what traits we needed to improve on. No computer programs or apps on our phone, just a bull book with proven bulls in it and a cow standing in front of us that needed help improving her udder and milk production.


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Aren't we lucky

August 1, 2023
Katie Coyne

I recently attended a major gathering of dairy farmers, and boy, the conversation wasn’t all that great.


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Canada's greatest dairy influencers

You don’t have to have a social media account to be an influencer.
July 1, 2023
Katie Coyne

When I was young, the social event of the summer season was the annual Black and White Show. We had many top-name judges – Heffering, Trevena, Stewart and a young man named Lowell.


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Fortitude and farming, a salute to World Milk Day

June 1, 2023
Katie Coyne

As World Milk Day is recognized on June 1, may you take stock of where your dairy story began, how far you’ve come and what it truly means to celebrate this life we call dairy farming.


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‘Exceptions are expensive’

April 1, 2023
Karen Lee

“Exceptions are expensive,” said a dairy producer at a recent conference. This producer was explaining how his farm prefers to use sort gates to pull out cows that need attention after they are milked, as opposed to headlocks where the entire pen of cows is held up to treat those that are the exception.


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Progressive Dairy Canada Guest Blog

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5 ways to stay energized during a challenging season

December 31, 2020
Kimmi Devaney
Energy is generally in high demand and short supply during a challenging season, and 2020 threw one crisis and challenge after another at us.
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HERd Management: Past lessons, future success

May 31, 2018
Jess Campbell
I was raised in the country, in a red brick Victorian on 2 acres. I was not, however, raised on a farm. To now be a third-generation dairy and cash crop farmer is far beyond, as a girl, what I thought my life would be like.
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Cultivating cross-border friendships, one letter at a time

June 28, 2017
Patricia Grotenhuis
Growing up, I had multiple pen pals. There was my cousin in Quebec, the daughter of family friends, a goat farmer and various exchange partners. Nothing could beat the thrill of a personal letter arriving in the mail.
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HERd Management: Always learning

November 30, 2016
Jess Campbell
I am not a farm girl by nature. Although I was raised in the country, I did not live on a farm. I certainly had friends who were farmers, was a member of the local 4-H horse club and even helped our neighbours milk their cows a few times.
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Tractor meals to avoid

October 10, 2016
Emily Morrison
‘Tis the harvest season and that means farmers on tractors for hours and hours. If your farmer is like mine, he appreciates food once or twice a day. Yes, some might think bringing my husband food is an act that dates us back to the ’60s or a time when a woman’s time wasn’t valued.
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Progressive Cattle From the Editor

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Change of scenery

September 25, 2023
Tyrell Marchant

There was a bit of a chill in the air – a friendly one, not the angry kind that would come whipping out of the north in a month or two – as I cruised with my window down along Highway 20.


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Ask the right question

August 25, 2023
Carrie Veselka

I write this editorial huddled in a hotel room in front of my A/C unit, seeking respite from the humid convection oven that is Texas in August.


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Patience and the cattle cycle

July 24, 2023
Cassidy Woolsey

“Just a second. Just be patient,” is a phrase I find myself often repeating to my 2-year-old, and might I add very determined daughter.


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Not just a pretty face

June 26, 2023
Tyrell Marchant

Here’s a confession that hopefully doesn’t alienate me too much from you serious cattlemen and women out there: Whenever I get my hands on a sire directory from one of the semen sales companies, I flip straight to the club calf section. 


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To everything there is a season

May 23, 2023
Carrie Veselka

To me, June is the most hopeful month of summer. If I had a magic eight ball, it would say “Outlook good” in June.


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Life on the Family Farm

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Life on the Family Farm: New visitors to our farm

September 12, 2023
Tom Heck

We had a surprise a little while back, new visitors – or maybe I should say new residents – living on our farm.


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Life on the Family Farm: You can't teach an old dog new tricks – or can you?

July 19, 2023
Tom Heck

For all my life I’ve handled small square bales of hay to feed to the cattle. It is a lot of work unloading them off of the hay wagon and putting them away in the barn’s haymow.


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Life on the Family Farm: Looking ahead

May 25, 2023
Tom Heck

As we look at the news stories coming in from around the world, we must admit things don’t look good.


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Life on the Family Farm: Working together

March 11, 2023
Tom Heck

Dairy farming during the winter in northern Wisconsin can be very challenging, especially when it’s bitterly cold. Equipment has a harder time working and occasionally can break down. Read how God helped one family with this problem.


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Life on the family farm: My special valentines

February 7, 2023
Tom Heck

Valentine’s Day is coming up soon, and it’s a great time to express your love to your sweetheart. It’s also a great time to express your love to your children.


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Progressive Forage Guest Blog

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Shattered windows and burnt cookies

August 23, 2022
Kaylee Mecham

In life, it seems like there is always something. Maybe you’re in the middle of a drought year and it decides to rain only after you cut your hay. Maybe you left the gate open and now your cows are in the neighbor’s yard.


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Old mowers

December 8, 2021
Jim Grace

Snow was falling, and I had planned a day of repairs in the shop. I wandered back to the ditch with the old machinery to look for a piece of metal for a welding project.


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Fresh eyes

August 5, 2021
Sundee Holtman
My little sister, Sadey, was my go-to. Not sure what to wear? Overthinking a situation? Frustrated over something? Stumped with writer’s block? Stuck in my own stubborn way? Sadey was always there. But, did she just listen? Oh no, she brought what I often needed, what I like to call, “fresh eyes” to each of my scenarios.
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The punny farm

January 8, 2021
Erica Louder
For the first blog of the year, I thought I should include a few jokes – you know, for kits and gaggles. It’s been a tough year, and I think we could all use a few “calfs” (I warned you – watch those puns). I’ve been hearing a lot of jokes about sheep I thought I could share. I started telling them to my dog to test them out, but she’s “herd” them all. I tried telling them to the cows next, but they were just “laughing stock.”
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Reinventing yourself

August 24, 2020
Andy Overbay
My wife, Andrea, and I have been married for 35 years now; we’ve been blessed to have a nice home and family. Like many couples, we have had our ups and downs, but fortunately the ups covered up the few downs nicely. Like many of you, 2020 has been an unusual year to say the least; however, our most challenging year by far was 1998. That was the year we both reinvented ourselves.
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Outside Eden

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Outside Eden: Up for discussion

September 11, 2023
Erica Louder

“Ewe lamb up for discussion.” I read on my nightly doom scroll through Facebook. “What does that even mean?” I thought.


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Outside Eden: Goat milk on cereal

August 7, 2023
Erica Louder

As born and bred farm kids, my kids are adept at chores. They can flake hay to horses, check water, dump grain to calves and collect eggs.


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Outside Eden: Farming, despite the equipment

July 10, 2023
Erica Louder

Government agencies love to categorize farmers, and they are categorized every which way.


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Outside Eden: How hard is a family farm? Well, at least this hard

June 12, 2023
Erica Louder

 Family dynamics are hard to begin with. Then throw in a family business. And this family business is a farm.


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Outside Eden: Just don’t ask me to drive the tractor

May 8, 2023
Erica Louder

It’s a Sunday family dinner at the Ramsey household – all the siblings and grandchildren are there, and fortunately for the crew, “a day of rest.”


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Tales of a Hay Hauler

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Tales of a Hay Hauler: Kids and cars

August 17, 2023
Brad Nelson

I suppose I’m spoiled. Too many years dealing with things that will start and run with only air, fuel, spark and enough starting momentum to create the initial compression to make an engine run.


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Tales of a Hay Hauler: Animals

June 20, 2023
Brad Nelson

I’m not allowed to name dogs. Over 50 years ago, we were given a border collie cross puppy and I named him “Sour Mash.”


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Tales of a Hay Hauler: Are there any plans for this thing?

May 11, 2023
Brad Nelson

All innovations started as an idea in someone’s head. And like my Doodle Bug, they rolled out of the shop ready for work.


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Tales of a Hay Hauler: Bring the toolbox, the tire chains, some food and a warm bed

March 31, 2023
Brad Nelson

A man’s toolbox should be small enough that he can move it from place to place as needed – but big and awkward enough that his neighbor and his brother-in-law can’t.


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Tales of a Hay Hauler: Who you are is never an act

March 9, 2023
Brad Nelson

Never volunteer. Fellows I’ve known with a military background say that’s the first thing they learn when wearing the uniform. The realities of rural communities, however, are such that without volunteers, not much would happen.


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Progressive Dairy Just Dropping By

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Just Dropping By: Footprints

September 12, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

When you arrive in the winter years of your life, you start to wonder about footprints. Not the ones you make in the mud or in the snow, but the ones that are indelibily etched in the path of your life.


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Just Dropping By: The Lord’s pattern for prayer

August 25, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

In church the other day, I was thinking about my prayers and how I need to improve. The Lord’s prayer came to mind. 


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Just Dropping By: Bless the reading teachers

August 7, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

There is a pang of nostalgia as I watch the yellow buses roll around picking up children, dressed in bright autumn colors, carrying backpacks and lunch pails. 


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Just Dropping By: Preparing for the new year

July 19, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

I have accomplished a few major things in my short 70 years, but I still feel like my music is still ringing somewhere in the distant future.


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Just Dropping By: Searching for miracles

July 1, 2023
Yevet Crandell Tenney

In studying the gospels, I marvel at the wonderful miracles Jesus performed in His ministry on Earth.


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Tim the Dairy Farmer

Tim is a satirical comedian that bases his comedy on his upbringing on a dairy farm in Florida. 

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Place aux cadeaux de la Saint-Valentin!

January 1, 2023
Tim Moffett

Eh bien, ici Tim qui vous rappelle que la Saint-Valentin approche à grands pas! Si nous avons appris quelque chose des vacances, c’est que les cartes de crédit ont des limites, tout comme les pantalons de yoga.


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Tim the Dairy Farmer: Christmas decorations and open doors

December 9, 2022
Tim Moffett

Well, it’s the one week out of the year that the Christmas lights on my cousin’s double-wide trailer actually make sense.


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Tim the Dairy Farmer: My 2022 year-end review

November 25, 2022
Tim Moffett

I spent a lot of time traveling around this past year, and I need to share some of what I’ve heard and learned along the way.


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Tim the Dairy Farmer: Expiration date

October 22, 2022
Tim Moffett

If you’ve ever had the “soup of the day” at a restaurant, chances are you just ate food that was close to its expiration date. Just like your granny used to, soup is an easy way to use up leftovers.


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Tim the Dairy Farmer: Climate change

October 8, 2022
Tim Moffett

According to climate alarmists, the world will end in just a few short years. If what they say is true, then why should I continue to pay my mortgage, eat right and visit the dentist? We should all just go on permanent vacation and let the world fall apart around us.


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The Milk House

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The Milk House: RFD and me

September 12, 2023
Ryan Dennis

When I passed by the house, taking the haybine, plow or some other equipment from one field to another, I always looked for one thing: if the red flag was down on our mailbox. 


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The Milk House: On not messing with French cheese

August 25, 2023
Ryan Dennis

Sometimes I’m tempted by the smell of grease that McDonald’s blows outside its walls. It triggers something inside me as we pass by. It’ll be quick, cheap and familiar, I think. Or, it’s the millions they spent on advertising coming to roost. Regardless, my wife shakes her head.


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The Milk House: The Country Life Movement

August 7, 2023
Ryan Dennis

For the first time ever, the population of rural America shrank in the last census. With the loss of family farms and manufacturing jobs, there is little economic opportunity for those who live there.


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The Milk House: A boozy argument for books

July 19, 2023
Ryan Dennis

Between smartphone addictions and AI that will write your school papers for you, I fear that there’s a generation coming, in which no one reads.


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The Milk House: The global rural

July 1, 2023
Ryan Dennis

According to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 45% of the world’s population live in the rural areas of developing countries. As a planet, we’re facing growing challenges, including poverty, food insecurity, climate change and inequality.


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Baxter Black

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On the Edge of Common Sense: ‘I Know You’ll Miss this Man’

September 26, 2022
Baxter Black

The Lord spoke to the heavy hearts
 that stood with hats in hand.
“Your sadness pains me deeply
and I know you’ll miss this man.



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On the Edge of Common Sense: Littered with progress

May 24, 2021
Baxter Black
The other day on the internet, I saw an old commercial of a semi truck that had these words painted on the side: Jonny Kat, Kitty Litter. For some reason, that had a profound affect on me.
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On the Edge of Common Sense: Carniphobia

May 21, 2021
Baxter Black
“Doctor, I’m here because I’m a … I’m a …”
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On the Edge of Common Sense: Here, by the owl

May 7, 2021
Baxter Black
A while back, I was asked who has had the greatest influence on my life. I hadn’t ever given it much thought, like most folks, I guess. After considerin’ for a while, I came up with six people that I could say actually affected the direction of my thinkin’.
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On the Edge of Common Sense: Pull my finger

April 19, 2021
Baxter Black
ATTN: This is addressed to teenagers, tuba players and grown-ups in the news media who have gotten great giggles out of the story that cow flatulence is a danger to mankind.
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Progressive Dairy Guest Blogs

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Is social media the new blogging?

September 20, 2023
Rebecca Shaw

Over the years, blogging went from a way to share one’s feelings in a digital, public diary to a business tool for building brand awareness and selling products.


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Key products that our farm utilizes and that we truly value

June 23, 2023
Julianne Holler

As humans, I think it is just part of our nature that we tend to go for the same brand or same type of product time and time again. Often, we are hesitant to try something new or don’t see the need to, since what we are currently using is serving its purpose for us.


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Add these shows to your must-watch list

June 14, 2023
Rebecca Shaw

You know, I’ve never been a big YouTube kind of girl. Which may sound like a terrible start to a blog about ag-related YouTube and TV shows and other video content, but it’s a journey you can join me on.


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Have you heard? Podcasts are (still) in!

March 28, 2023
Rebecca Shaw

Podcasts have been steadily growing in popularity over the last few years – and they’ve been growing in options too, especially in the dairy and agriculture communities.


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Basketball, brothers and the joy of simple activities

February 15, 2023
Christina Winch

When we think of March Madness, many people think of basketball. The high school and college basketball seasons have reached their peak as state and national tournaments are taking place.


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Progressive Dairy From the Editor

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One small yopp

September 12, 2023
Jenna Hurty-Person

My daughter is obsessed with Horton hears a who by Dr. Seuss. In this story Horton the elephant defends the people of Whoville who live on a tiny speck of dust on a small clover.


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Hello, football season!

August 25, 2023
Kimmi Devaney

There are a lot of similarities between putting together a winning team on the dairy and recruiting players for a winning season. Let’s explore some key attributes of winning teams on and off the field.


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More than fun, the fair is a foundation for our industry

August 7, 2023
Karen Lee

When I was younger, I loved showing animals at the fair. I’ll admit, I was in it more for the fun than the cattle. Those calves and heifers were essentially my ticket in, so I didn’t mind the morning chores and occasional barn duty shifts.


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Seek out the skills of your team

July 19, 2023
Jenn Coyne

Imagine you’re locked in a room with a handful of people you work with daily. The only way out is to lean on each other’s capabilities, crack codes and solve riddles leading to the right key that unlocks the exit.


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Proud to be an American

July 1, 2023
Matti McBride

It’s been a minute since I’ve felt patriotic. The good old-fashioned fire in your heart, tear in your eye, sound of a bald eagle screaming in the distance type of patriotic.


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