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From Abbey's newsletter - September 4, 2026 I usually write my newsletters on my laptop at the kitchen table, and often in the evening when it's dark out. Well, today I’m coming to you straight from the field. I'm sitting here watching my herd graze on luscious cover crops. My family grows cover crops after our wheat crop. It's a mix of cereals, legumes, and brassicas that we seed to improve the health of our soil. The plants keep the soil covered to prevent erosion and add organic matter,...

by Abbey Taylor Welcome to January - barely! The second last day of January. Just in time for me to try to capture the essence of a month that I love (which is sometimes an unpopular opinion). You all know what January means to you - maybe vacation, maybe hibernation, maybe walks in the snow, maybe you work outside in the cold, maybe January just feels like a month of short days and a cold vehicle on the drive to work. January on the farm is a lot of different things too. For many farmers, it...

This spring, knock on wood, has been the smoothest transition of any group of cattle I’ve had yet. I really don’t think the training...