Propane safety on the farm

Safety doesn’t happen by accident. We use all sorts of energy on our farm. One major type of fuel for both our grain and livestock operations is propane. #ad However, if you’d have asked me all about propane two weeks ago, the only thing I could tell you...

I am a grocery store farmer.

I’m a grocery store farmer. Yep, you heard that correctly. Our family raises the food that we have the privilege of purchasing at our grocery stores, you know, the store where we buy most of our food from. I love walking through the isles of the grocery store...

Pigs, Pork Production and Covid-19

As this pandemic continues to develop, my emotions have traveled from panic to fear to anxiousness and now lie in the area of facts and faith over fear. I still check the markets multiple times per day and watch our grain prices plummet and the hog markets fall in...

What are we doing different?

As we navigate through, what I think will be referred to as “The Pandemic of 2020” (aka COVID-19), I found myself doing things around our house and in our daily life that I wasn’t doing before this occurred. These “things” or chores or...

Let’s recap life: January 2020

Okay, I will say this one more time and then I’m not allowed to say it again – TIME FLIES. I swear I just updated the blog but it has been almost a month. Epperson January recap: Jordan: Winter is supposed to be a slower time but it seems like we have been...