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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

TBF 012 :: Balancing Family, Farm, and a Job; Pig Corrals; Hard Lesson Learned

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Family, farm, and the job in town ... that is the balancing act that many farmers have to juggle these days whether you are just starti...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

TBF 011 :: Selecting Breeding Stock, Woodlot Pigs, and Wayward Hogs

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Today's topic for The Beginning Farmer Show is one of those subjects that is way over my head, but it is something that all beginni...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

TBF 010 :: Setting Prices, Building Pig Fence, and Gambling With Hay

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I mentioned in the previous episode that we had to sit down and take a hard look at product prices a few weeks ago. This was something ...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Stay Off the Grass!

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Here we are on May 14th, 2013 and, as you can see from the picture above, the only animals on my farm enjoying the bounty of the pasture a...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2013

TBF 009 :: Becoming Our Own Hatchery, Snow in May, and Hard Lessons Learned

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One thing that we have learned on our farm over the last five years is that animals that are born on our farm, from stock raised on our ...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

TBF 008 :: 6 Steps to Farm Success, Farm News, and a Hard Lesson Learned

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Have you ever wanted to raise your own livestock? Have you ever wanted to work for yourself? Have you ever wanted to become a marketing...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

TBF 007 :: Sheep vs. Cattle, a Rainy Week, and Mud Lessons

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Before moving to the farm I had a lot of ideas about what I wanted my farm to look like. As you can tell from the previous episode  I r...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

TBF 006 :: 10 Books for the Beginning Farmer, Farm Updates, and a Hard Lesson Learned

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Over the years I've received quite a few e-mails from people wanting to pick my pea-sized farming brain. Usually when that happens I...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

TBF 005 :: Making Major Farm Purchases, Rain is Coming, and What Not To Buy

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Making major purchases on your farm is always a necessary part of beginning a farm and expanding your farm in the future. But, they are ...
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Monday, April 08, 2013

The Little Satisfactions ...

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Chick Brooder #2 I will be the first to admit that it is very easy for me to become the "Danny Downer" of farming. Sometimes i...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

TBF 004 :: Spring Farm Updates, Buying vs. Renting Land, and Lessons Learned

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On this weeks episode of "The Beginning Farmer Show" we dig into one of the most popular topics ever from The Beginning Farme...
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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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Friday, March 29, 2013

Choosing Chickens

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If you follow along with the blog you will remember my frantic call for help a few weeks back as I was in search of chickens ... meat chi...
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

TBF 003 :: It's Chick Week, The 3 D's of Farming, and a Hard Lesson Learned

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On this weeks episode of The Beginning Farmer Show I delve into the challenges associated with the "Three D's" of farming....
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Friday, March 22, 2013

The Book Family Farm :: Circa 1940's

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In the early 1940's my Grandpa and Grandma Book were farming on 320 acres of Boone County, Iowa land. My family is lucky because we ha...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

TBF 002 :: Farm Updates, Farm Do-Overs, and Hard Lessons Learned

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TBF Show 002 :: Play in a New Window | Right Click to Download I don't know what your playground days were like, but at Orc...
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Podcasting Frenzy!

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A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be interviewed by John Suscovich from the Growing Farms Podcast  (this is a direct link to the episo...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

Muddy Boots ...

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Sometimes a picture says more about my thoughts on the farm than I could ever hope to express through my writing (or now through The Begin...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

TBF 001 :: Farm Updates, Heritage Breeds, and Hard Lessons Learned

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The Very First Episode of The Beginning Farmer Show! This is something that I have wanted to do for over a year now, but never had t...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

We Need Help!

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Today I was going to post a picture of my boots in the mud and talk about how things never go even close to or remotely as planned ... of ...
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