Food Giants
Check out our newest YouTube video about Beef Chickens. The top pic is a capture from our conversation in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSB_xsJjVI0&t=20s Good morning and happy Tuesday! I
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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.
Hog Processing Day
We had fun with our newest YouTube Video about "Beef" Chickens. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSB_xsJjVI0&t=26s Good Monday afternoon from Air2Ground Farms! We had a pre-dawn sub-freez
Getting Ready for Market
Happy Sunday from Air2Ground Farms! WOW! The temps were cold this morning--19 degrees with a windchill of 12. The saving grace was that there were no clouds so the sun felt amazing and began warming t
Reflection Turned To Introspection
Happy Saturday!! It was a frigid windchill of 17 degrees this morning for rounds with colder temps forecast for tomorrow morning. COME ON SPRING!! All 10 of the hogs were in the hut this morning and t
Reflections
Happy Fast-Jet Friday!! I'll start today's blog with reflections. The top pic is me and Shelley after my fini-fini. The next pic was a few seconds prior to the top one and captured the celebratory 'ho
My Harley is Home!
Happy Thursday from Air2Ground Farms! The top pic is a Happy Thursday pic of Shelley and I in front of the garden with the electric net. It's been a busy morning already! The animals are all doing ver
Incubator Report
Good Wednesday morning from Free Missouri! It was a cool 31 degrees this morning which felt better than the past few mornings. The milking machine wasn't frozen so Shelley's hair dryer was safe. We ac
New F-15s!
Happy Pi Day! We posted a new YouTube Video yesterday: Beef Cow Move to a new pasture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvuaLIB22Kw Check it out and subscribe to our channel! A frigid 20 degree good mo
Proud American
Winter decided it wasn't finished with us quite yet as we completed rounds this morning in 27 degree temps with 21 degree windchill. The brooder heat lamp we were using to keep the milking machine fro
More Food Freedom
It was a mild 39 degrees with no wind this morning for rounds. The clock said we got started a bit later than normal, but the sun said we were early. By tomorrow, our bodies will be used to the new ti
Beef Chickens
We published our next YouTube Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSNqKqI7wa0 Good morning and a very happy Saturday to you from Air2Ground Farms! We completed rounds this morning before the rain s
Country Club Farmer
Happy Fast-Jet Friday from Free Missouri!! The weather is nice today with rains forecast tomorrow. The animals are good. We waited about 12 hours longer than normal to unroll hay for the beef cows and