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Showing posts with label Practical Farmers of Iowa. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

TBF 018 :: Part Two of an Interview with Luke Gran of Practical Farmers of Iowa, Updates, and a Hard Lesson Learned

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If you missed last weeks episode you might want to check it out before listening to this one because it is the first half of my intervi...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

TBF 017 :: An Interview with Luke Gran of Practical Farmers of Iowa, Updates, and a Hard Lesson Learned

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With the exception of the first episode (because I was excited to finally get The Beginning Farmer Show going) this is probably the epi...
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Monday, April 01, 2013

Dick Thompson :: Research Farmer!

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"In harnessing land, Iowa farmer preserves it" ... that is the title of an article from a little over three months ago that som...
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Greg Judy in Iowa :: April 21, 2010

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What perfect timing! As I'm making my way through Greg Judy's book, "Comeback Farms" (for the second time) ... he is comin...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Grassfed Farminar

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Last night was the final installment of the Practical Farmers of Iowa "Fishbowl Webinar" series that paired a beginning farmer wit...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Snow Bull and Other Quick Hits ...

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Since the temperatures have been slowly coming out of the single digits above and below zero I have been carrying a camera around with me a ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Price Maker or Price Taker?

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One of the many wonderful benefits of being a member of the Practical Farmers of Iowa is their quarterly publication. The thing about a me...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009

Can't Miss Field Days

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**This post comes a few hours late courtesy of more fence building on the farm. Hopefully we are done for a couple days.** The 2009 Practic...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Holistic Herd Care

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One of the most interesting presentations I went to at the Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Conference was the workshop by Will Winter calle...
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Monday, January 12, 2009

Saturday at the PFI Conference

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Saturday at the Practical Farmers of Iowa Annual Conference was just as great as Friday, but in a different way. Of course because of the s...
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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Day One of PFI Conference Report

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Day number one at the PFI Annual Conference ... Great! I gotta say that I really enjoyed my first day at the conference from the workshop t...
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Friday, January 09, 2009

Gettin' Me Some Education...

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Today I take off for the Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) annual conference in Marshalltown, IA. I'm pretty excited for a couple of rea...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Does the Farm Bill Make the Grade?

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I realize that the 2008 Farm Bill is kind of old news at this point, but since I didn't spend much time writing about it I thought I wou...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Overwhelming

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Today was a pretty overwhelming day in more ways than one. It was overwhelming because I was trying to squeeze a lot of work into the day an...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Breaking the Conventional Mold in Crop Rotation

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One of the many great benefits of being a member of the Practical Farmers of Iowa is that they have their own e-mail List-serv. The e-mail ...
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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Planning My Summer Schedule

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Even though I am going to be plenty busy on the farm this summer I am already beginning to plan my summer out around learning opportunities....
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Getting Creative ... The Farming Way

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Yesterday I blogged about the bleak picture that analysts are painting for pork farmers in 2008. I was prompted by an article that I read i...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Practical Farmers of Iowa

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I've had a link to the Practical Farmers of Iowa website over on the links menu on the right for a while now, but I just wanted to point...