HI ho, HI ho, its off to the USDA office we go!

Yesterday involved a trip to the USDA office to check on the farms "status" in the EQIP program. This is a government funded program for farms to improve the land, and preserve the environment. Great cost sharing, sort of like "Welfare" for the farm. So at the USDA office we find out OBAMA has cut a lot of the farm funding, fortunatly our farm and contract with the EQIP is going to be spared and a barn we are building is only going to cost us about 5 grand out of pocket. We rotationaly graze our cattle and this program focuses on rotational grazing. We have built fence, seeded, fertilized/limed, put in automatic watering troughs...its been fabulous to upgrade this place. 174 acres has not been farmed in 50-60 years. ANYWAY!!! Today involved a trip to 2 local farms across the ohio line. They are dispersing some of the herd and we went to check out the stock to see if there are any new "babies" that want to come and live at Beech Bottom Farm. One sale is tomm morning and the other Monday morning. I love it when we add to the herd. The cattle really have personality and its interesting to see how the fit into the herd. Nothing dramatic happening today....lets see if we can keep it that way!