It is that time of the year when I do not feel fully comfortable until I have driven past the last group of cows and made sure they are in. I …

Today will be a good day. You know how I know? This marks 48 hours of no cows out.

"I started out really well Sunday, the drill was working perfectly. I was making great progress. That was when the tire went flat."

"She told me to think of this puppy as physical therapy and maybe it would get me more active. That was all the incentive I needed."

Columnist Glenn Brunkow talks about the difficult decision to move someone with dementia to a care facility.

"We have incorporated our side-by-side into nearly every task on the farm. It really seems unhandy now to go check cows or put mineral out without it."

"My blood pressure is high and my productivity is low. I think I need a vacation. Not a chance, the thought of being gone for an extended period gives me a nervous twitch and hives." 

"It was the first time in over 20 years and maybe 30 that I watched a show as a spectator and not a parent, judge or county agent. To say the least it was something I could get used to."

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."