Guest Blog

Two tiny toads ate fat flying flies. No, you are not being challenged with a tongue twister, but do you remember playing the telephone game at 4-H meetings growing up?

Last summer, in the height of the pandemic, a bad storm with straight-line winds went through our farm. The winds took out nine trees and a garage roof.

We walk by it several times each day. We walk by every morning when we feed and milk our cows. Every evening when we repeat this routine, we pass by it again.

If you’re anything like me, sometimes farming can consume you. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but farming has a tendency to throw us challenges, long hours and a long list of to-dos.

At the dairy, there are so many intricate parts that it’s easy to have this law entangle your life. What am I talking about? You may remember this law, which states that any object can become entangled with another object without any rhyme or reason.

On any farm, sometimes it is more about having “enough” employees than it is about having the “right” employees.