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Yeah, I like the 3910. I bought it used years ago and it had been left outside and done a lot of rough work before i got it. It seems like any part with plastic or rubber involved is wearing out, but the tractor just keeps on running. There is a good Kubota dealer nearby and a front end loader...

At age 72 I am well into a semi retirement mode. I still have 88 acres of mostly rolling to hilly but productive land, about 20 cows and maybe 20 ewes. My old 3910 Ford still runs well but is in constant demand of having a part replaced due to its age. (Kind of like me) I need a dependable...

Wow! 100 pound plus calves and horns on the cows, both things I try and avoid. But, it seems to meet your goals and you do a great job with your cattle. Beautiful land and cattle, you add a lot of interest to the forum.

We use to put up a lot of red clover square bales. In a wet year and if we were a little late getting to it (late June to early July) the clover would fall down and then regrow. It was hard to mow with the old sickle bar mowers but we went on and baled it with pretty good luck. Yours may be...

Around here we have sinkholes, but I have never had a problem with one. The old hand dug wells are what scare me. At the close of the 1800s and through the 1920s a family would live at the mouth of almost every hollow where it entered the creek. Out of the wind, a little bottom land, and an...

Like Kentucky Hills, I live in a county roughly half Bluegrass and half Eden Hills. The famously fertile and beautiful Bluegrass lands that are today home to horse farms, were noted by early explorers and settlers as barren of surface water in the summer, enough to be a concern when crossing...

I have always gone the card file and notebook route. I have records going back to 1972. They are very flexible, I even sometimes draw pictures. I wonder if these computer records will be accessible for 10 years, much less over 50 years. Seems like everything I have stored digitally is more or...

I kept back several heifers last fall and had one that turned out almost exactly like yours. She was the least of the bunch, out of a first calf heifer and sort of scragly compared to the others. We gave them all a shot of lutylase at weaning but the timing must have been wrong on this one. I...

When Ivermectin came out, it was the trick for worming sheep. Unfortunately, worms in general but barberpole worms in particular quickly developed resistance and it became no more effective than water. You notice this in sheep because without an effective wormer they die. I suspect something...

Strange dogs and neighbors who just bought a new AK 47 and try it out by relieving themselves of a case of ammunition in the field beside the cows.

Even if she is only eight, seems like a good reason for her to grow wheels.

Like the others say, I think you did all right under the circumstances. I have done similarly several times over the years. In each case I got the cows bred and actually made a little money on the bull after he had grown out on summer grass. Lately, I have bought off the farm where I could see...

My wife was the eldest daughter in a large family, but never learned to cook as she worked outside the home. The first time I visited her home and folks it was a big occasion for she was to cook chili and I had already said I like chili. It looked OK and I dipped out a big bowl. Pretty tasteless...

I never seen an Amishman or his family at one of the sales with a dog, in the way the "English" carry dogs with them. They do have dogs at home. Most I've seen are mixed breed mutts, even a few house type of the rat dog sort. The Amish seem to want to make everything pay its way. If they do have...

Once you are attacked by a Pit Bull beside your own barn, the memory tends to color almost any discussion about animals or barns.

It seems all the animal control agencies (dog pounds) have been taken over by animal rightists and become "No Kill". This means vicious pit bulls and other untrainable dogs get rotated back into rural areas where they have "room to play" in neighbor's fields. The new owners can not believe their...

I once thought black cows on green grass were as pretty sight as you could see. Now a uniform group of black calves going through a sale ring looks even better. A little color does spice things up though.

Local Amish built our house for us and I have attended their produce and hay sales for over 25 years, both as a seller and a buyer. They are people like anyone else with both good and not so good about them. Early in the morning their school bell rings and kids come out, down the hollows and...

A bump, bruise or scratch, that would not have been noticed 20 years ago, now seems to hurt more and leave a red whelp that lingers for days. Just part of the joy of old age.

Kentucky is widely known as the "Bluegrass State" and the home of Bluegrass Music. Decades ago, cattle fattened on bluegrass pastures and these same pastures produced some of the fastest horses in the world. This comes to mind because for about a week or so each year the fields take on a bluish...