Ready for the Weekend!
The pic today is the Mighty-Mighty F-15E Strike Eagle flying low in Wales. The weather today is back to hot and humid. The heat index was 105 this afternoon…HOT! The animals are doing great today. Ste
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Colonel's Blog
322 posts on farm life, food freedom and raising real food in the Missouri Ozarks. Fighter-pilot habits applied to livestock, with the wins and the failures both written down.
Feeder Lambs!
We got over 2” of rain yesterday and the temps never got over 80 degrees. Thankfully, the worst of the storms missed us but our friends 45 minutes south were without power, again, overnight. Today was
Still Learning!
We awoke to a very nice 64 degree day and the high topped out at 83. It’s forecast to be raining by the time we wake up in the morning and continue through midday. The animals are great! The highlight
Getting Things Done!
Ground Beef Ground Lamb Colonel’s Blog, Earthdate 7 August 2023… Hey Y’all! Good evening and happy Monday from Air2Ground Farms! It almost felt cool this morning when we went out for rounds and it was
Animals...
The pic today is the Mighty-Mighty F-15E flying low in Wales this week. Training rules dictate that you can’t exceed 120 degrees of bank when flying low, so that’s what you’re looking at…120 degree ba
Beef & Lamb For Sale!
It was oppressively hot today, sunny and hot. We quickly did morning rounds and picked the garden. We were finished with the garden by around 1100 and were soaked with sweat, I mean dripping. We picke
New Beef Chicks Arrived!
It was a hot one today! It was humid and sunny, ensuring whatever you do outside leaves you drenched in sweat. The animals are all good today. The highlights of the day are the sheep (more below) and
Lamb Alert!
We started the day with a couple of rain showers, which was amazing, and the day finished in the upper 80s and sunny. It’s supposed to be hot for the next few days with heat indices near 110. The anim
Amazing Food!
We had another thunderstorm overnight and lost power for a couple of hours. It rained another 1/2”. The grass is loving this weather! The animals are doing very well. We spent some extra time with the
Shocking!
I hope you have had a wonderful weekend! The weather is still quite hot here and we have been doing things mostly inside during the heat of the day. The animals are all doing very well with no updates
Preserving Harvest
The pic today is the Mighty-Mighty F-15E flying low in Wales. It is tail # 98-0135 which was my jet the second time I was in the 492d Fighter Squadron. The other pics are Stella looking like a cow, th
We have a PODCAST!
It was HOT again today. The animals are all good with nothing significant to report. We gave the beef cows an extra paddock this morning. Mid-morning, we noticed there wasn't any water. Never a good t