Farm Facts- Did you know?

A neat little list of farm facts from Farm and Dairy Newspaper. I think one the most interesting facts is: "It takes 40 days for the average American to earn enough money to pay for a year’s supply of food. It takes 129 days to earn enough money to pay a year’s worth of federal, state and local taxes." Follow link to read facts: http://www.farmanddairy.com/lighter-side/did-you-know

New Tractor

Above is the newest addition to CMF. Recently we have been in the market for a 50-70 HP tractor. On Wedsnesday we test drove and made a deal on this tractor. It is a 1966 Massey Ferguson 175 Diesel, 63 HP with 3 point and remote hydraulics ( It will do everything I currently and in the future will need). This is big enough to pull my haybine (mower), and disk and plow. It is going to be delivered on Tuesday or Wednesday. We are very excited.
PS- Pigs are doing well, will post on them soon.

August Photo Review

In July we took a great trip to Lake Erie to see Jay's Great Grandparents. What a great trip!

Family photo.

The camp set up, our camper.

Cayla Cooking on the fire
Family Campfire photo
Fresh Beets anybody? What a worker

Chris and the backhoe. Who said video games teach you nothing? He said, "I like this, its like a big video game." And hes pretty good at it too! Thanks to Chris for his hard work on the farm this week.

Work in progress, digging hole for water line. No more hooking the hose up inside the basement to water animals!!!!!!!!

Thanks to Andrew for his plumbing expertise and time spent. We now have a water spigot in the field.

Jay loved the rides at the Athens County Fair.

Ok, were tired now. LOL. Jay and I catching quality zzzzzz's.

PS: Feeder pigs in progress, they will be ready in February! More on them later. Thanks again, to Chris for all his help this week, we got lots of work done.

1st Place Bread and Butter Pickle!!!!!!

Yes we won, first place!!!! This year we entered some canned items in the Athens County Fair. 1st- Bread and Butter Pickles; unranked- Green Beans. This is our first time entering anything from our farm in a competition.

What a busy time of year, Athens County Fair is in full speed, over next week. I will post an update of this months events.