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Jeff Ryan is Guy No. 2 in the operation of Two Guys Farming, Inc., near Cresco, IA. Piling Up vs. Piling OnBy: By Jeff Ryan So what do you do when you get some fun winter weather — maybe a dash of ice with just enough temperature to keep things interesting? You get on the road and drive, of course... The Alps of Cardinal MarshBy: By Jeff Ryan My best hay customer uses approximately one round bale per day to feed his Holstein heifers. They are kept at a place a mile or two from downtown Schley, which is a little less than 10 miles away from my hay... Watching sausage being madeBy: By Jeff Ryan What with the lack of a real summer last year, harvest moved at a snail's pace. We normally are done chopping corn silage in the middle part of September, but we hadn't even started at that time last year... Go ahead, Tase him, bro!By: By Jeff Ryan It was a long, drawn-out harvest season this year, with a seemingly endless string of 12-, 14- and 17-hour days... Eden, a minister, and a serpentBy: By Jeff Ryan My phone rang as I was in the middle of a task with my cattle the other day. The number was one I didn't recognize, but it was a local cell phone number, so I answered... He had a large carb footprintBy: Jeff Ryan Thirty-eight years ago, I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes. I don't remember everything about it, because I was only three at the time, but I do remember quite a bit... The other fitnessBy: By Jeff Ryan Technological way in which you determine if your soybeans are ready to be harvested. In the business, we call that condition being fit.... For the recordBy: By Jeff Ryan So you think you have a good product, eh? Maybe someone wants to pay you fairly well for it. Maybe they don’t live next door or even nearby... The return of silenceBy: By Jeff Ryan Let me share a somewhat unconventional medical story with you. This one deals with a patient I have been working with for years. That patient is me... Under the radarBy: Jeff Ryan Let’s say, hypothetically, that you’re a rural type who needs to deliver same hay to a customer... A Leap of FaithBy: By Jeff Ryan One day a couple of summers ago, I didn’t have a lot of pressing work to do, and I found myself free for lunch... Wednesday means hay storiesBy: By Jeff Ryan Wednesday is the day when the weekly Fort Atkinson Hay Auction is held in beautiful downtown Fort Atkinson, Iowa. Forage producers from near and far bring in loads of ... My kind of placeBy: By Jeff Ryan So you finally get yourself off the farm for a little time to see some country. And where do you go?... Get a piece of the rockBy: By Jeff Ryan For several years, one of my cousins, Jerry, rented a farm that was not what you would call tremendously productive... Had I been a horse…By: By Jeff Ryan Last summer I almost broke my ankle answering a phone call that let me know my cows were standing in my front yard ... We’ll leave the light on for youBy: By Jeff Ryan Cattle have always been part of my life. When I was 14, my dad more or less turned over control of the beef cattle operation to me. ... And for dessert? RecessBy: By Jeff Ryan Have you ever hit one of those dietary mental brick walls where you just can’t come up with any good ideas for what to eat? Me neither. That’s why my phone has a lot of carryout numbers stored in it. ... To the last dropBy: By Jeff Ryan Cresco came awfully close to declaring martial law this winter. At least, some residents felt that wouldn't have been the worst course of action under the circumstances.... Please, have a seatBy: By Jeff Ryan “His humor was a little bit off-balance.” Sometimes you will hear such a statement after a comedian’s performance. ... Sliding into an Amish existenceBy: By Jeff Ryan Do you know what keeps winter interesting up here by the North Pole? Is it the brisk air? The fluffy snow? ... Fueling the FunThere I was, fresh off my 25th annual A.I. season with nothing really pressing on the schedule. It was a beautiful August day, so the solution was...... Let me get my bearingsAs I made my way across a field of raked cornstalks with the baler a couple of weeks ago, it was going quite well. The stalks were bone dry, the wind was quite brisk and I was getting a bale made, wrapped and dumped every 69 seconds. This was productivity ... Scratching a nicheI got a message several years ago from someone looking for some timothy hay. Calls about hay are not completely out of the realm of possibility for me... This is only a testBy: By Jeff Ryan When you think about making a major purchase of some kind, do you go out to the store/dealership and just pick up the item on a whim? Probably not. Most people like to... Or what we could do...By: By Jeff Ryan Not all buildings were meant to be preserved. If you saw nothing but Roman ruins every time you turned around, they would soon lose their significance and appeal... |
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