Peace in the outbreak

With the coronavirus looming in what seems like every corner of the world today, a friend of mine directed me to a sermon by David Platt, “Peace in the middle of pandemic”. I listened intently to the sermon, hoping for some guidance and peace that I felt lacking in my spirit. The sermon directed to […]

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“Fear Is a Liar”

“Mom, I hit a baseball and broke the lights in the shop.” It was the first official day of summer vacation.  Miles had gotten up excited about summer, and promptly started watching one of his favorite movies, “The Sandlot”.  After the movie went off, he tore up to the shop to hit some baseballs in […]

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Did Ya’ll Get Done?

Owning a farm will make you realize this: the work is never done. A couple of weeks ago, we worked tirelessly on cleaning a fence row, putting up an electric fence, and repairing some broken barbed wire.  When we finally arrived back at my in-laws house, my sweet and encouraging mother-in-law asks “Did ya’ll get […]

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The Fly Over

It’s sunset here at the farm and I hear the sounds coming from a distance…the honking of the Canadian Geese that frequent the pond near the house.  The sounds get louder and I see them making their way across the field, but today their flight pattern is different.  They are flying very low, and are […]

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A Mother’s Instinct

‘Til Death do us part.  Wedding vows.  Something we have to choose to do.  We have to choose to love our mate in the good, bad, and ugly…until death parts us. On the flip side, as a mother, you don’t have to tell me to love my kids until death parts us.  God has instilled […]

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The Chosen

I have spent much time learning about the cattle selling/buying process, and it continues to amaze me.  Pedigree, EPD’s, cost, size, foot score, and age are all among the factors that we pay close attention to. Over the past few weeks, we have been going over the sale catalog for the Spring Production Sale at Hinkle’s […]

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Amateur Hour

Today we had amateur hour here at Premier Angus Genetics.  As I have mentioned before, I’m 41 years old and just learning things around the farm that I probably should already know. You know, like driving an F350 dually with a cattle trailer on the back.  I have done it a few times with supervision […]

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Live Like You’re Loved

Most of us over the age of 30 have seen the movie “The Shawshank Redemption”.  If you haven’t seen it, spoiler alert coming here.  The movie is set in the 1940’s at the Shawshank State Penitentiary. One of the inmates in the movie, Brooks, had been there for a very long time.  His life is […]

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The Best Gift I Could Never Give

As we are approaching the holidays, my mind races about gifts and what to do…online shopping, Amazon deals, Santa, the stupid elf, store lines, recipes, cooking, family gatherings, work parties, school parties, teacher gifts, and lest we forget about all the calves that have been born and the ones to come in December…insert #Jesusandxanax here.  […]

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Do Farmers Really Care?

It’s a beautiful fall Sunday morning…by that I mean as “fall” as you can get in late September in Alabama.  I am sitting in an old chair outside the cattle lot at Robbie & Beverly’s house, listening to all the sounds around me…birds, a train nearby, cows (of course), and family members leaving for church. […]

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A Faithful Servant

Sadie.  A lot of people’s faces may come to mind when you hear that name, but in our little farming family, it comes a different face… the fuzzy haired, black and white Australian Shepherd Cattle Dog.   Technically, her master is our loving Uncle David, but I think everyone that knows her thinks in some way […]

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The significance of the insignificant

  Annoying, buzzing, nasty pests.  They make our horses stomp, our cows miserable, ruin our food outside, and drive us completely crazy when they enter our houses.  I’ve never had any positive thoughts about flies because they just seem to ruin anything when you’re outdoors. It is one of those things that I find it […]

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Keep your mouth shut

Working on a farm teaches you a lot about life.  Lessons that we would do best to learn at an early age.  But here I am, at 41 years old learning about farming. It is teaching me more than just cows, hay, tractors, and all the other things you think about when you are discussing […]

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Hard Pathways and Bountiful Harvests…

For those of us farming in the south, we all remember that 2016 was a struggle. We spent many days and weeks praying for rain.  The drought seemed never ending.  We prayed for rain for what felt like we were praying on deaf ears.  We lost hay and even cattle because of the drought. The […]

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