When you marry a farmer in the spring, anniversary celebrations in the following years are often subject to the whims of Mother Nature. Over the past 37 years, I have celebrated our May 26 anniversary by sitting in the planter with Hubby while we mudded in the last of the soybeans, brought s…

Heading south of the border for a week. I was asked to represent the Nebraska Cattlemen on a Nebraska Department of Ag trade mission to a country that I will not name yet as I’m hoping to make it back alive. Having the opportunity to learn anything about international agriculture I find so i…

Learning from my previous mistakes is not one of my strong points. I know my family and particularly my wife would agree with this point. I seem to make the same mistakes over and over. I am creative though and find new ways to make the same mistake. This past weekend was a prime example of …

It was another 12 plus hour day of ranch work. Yet, there still seems to be so many things that I ended up putting off until tomorrow or – let’s be realistic – even the following day. Office work is piling up, cattle records need to be updated, I’m still not tagged up, pastures need to be go…

If I’m being honest with you, there’s really nothing in my mind more beautiful or satisfying than turning cows out to summer pasture. These are the days I thank God for the ability to see, and to see in full color. The backdrop of cows grazing the wide open Sandhills is something that always…

I was informed on social media last week to stop acting like an 80-year-old. I was on my soap box – surprisingly there are just a few topics that get me wound up – I know that may be hard to believe. There are two inanimate objects in life I despise – net wrap and balloons.  

It’s funny how things can change, but they really don’t. That sentence will make English teachers cringe and everyone else scratch their heads, but it really sums my life up over the past couple of weeks. Not only is it confusing, but it is darned frustrating.