Still Here

Life has been so consumed with field work that I thought maybe I should mention we still have cattle and goats.  For the most part they are all doing their thing without much trouble.  The last cow that freshened is moving along exactly as the manual would expect.  We do have a cow that Bruce has had to treat for mastitis.  She is one of our staph aureus cows which is her first problem but the wet and heat contribute to her problems.  I am feeding 6 calves currently.  They are slow to start on feed with the warm weather, which is why I really like 20 degrees better.  Today it was in the mid 80's and humid again.  The corn is loving it and finally looking pretty good.  With our clay soils, the excess moisture earlier stunted some of the plants in wetter areas and until this week they were shorter more yellowish than green.  We do need some rain and hopefully we will get some over night and won't have storm damage in the morning.