Church attendance was on the downward trend before we were ordered to shut down and stay home. The pandemic it added fuel to the fire.

"It also seems like if one vehicle on our farm needs a set of tires, they all need a set of tires."

"I wish I could give them all a trophy. ... What is more important are the skills gained and the memories that are made."

"Jennifer and I have been married over 25 years and I have learned a little bit about having a happy marriage during that time."

"Jennifer and I have been married over 25 years and I have learned a little bit about having a happy marriage during that time."

We lost a good man in our farming community last week. Eldon was one of the best farmers around and one that I admired and envied all at the s…

Cows are funny critters. This morning I was on my merry way doing chores and enjoying life when I popped over the last hill before the place w…

"That would have been the simple story, but we can never do anything the simple way around here."

"We thought we were expert ranchers and smarter than the cows. We were wrong."

"I think the current trend of blaming beef production for climate change and the subsequent push to reduce or eliminate red meat consumption is one of the most baseless, senseless and shameful campaigns I have ever seen."

I am the master of putting things off. Procrastination is my special power, I admit it. Wednesday rolled around and I was out of tomorrows. But I did have later in the day. 

"Now days, we are awash in an ocean of information and not all of it is factual. Increasingly, it is hard to tell what the truth is. That is where we need to unplug."

Prescribed burning is a spring ritual in the Flint Hills. Nothing signals the end of the long, cold winter like seeing the hillsides ablaze and the smell of smoke in the air.

Have the dark and gray January days got you down? Same for Glenn, but at least he's doing what he loves. 

"All I know is 2020 is over and I can safely say if you are reading this, you survived it and that is worth something."

"Like thousands upon thousands of students at Kansas State over the past 49 years, I took Dr. Flinchbaugh’s ag policy class. That class and getting to meet him changed my life forever and had an impact on my life like no other class I participated in before or after it."

"We finished harvest last week, and it was a pretty good one for the most part. We had few problems other than one lost spring, one broken chain and the fire."