Farming Requires Faith Like a Mustard Seed
Or in our case: faith like a canola seed. Because canola seeds are so small, we have to have faith that those tiny little seeds will find moisture, germinate, and be able to grow into a huge plant. The...
View ArticleHarvest ’14: Complicated
Harvest ’14 started on our farm August 12 when the first crop of yellow peas were going through the combines. We mark the start of our harvest not with the first swaths or when we desiccate the crops,...
View ArticleUpdate on #plant15
We began seeding, or planting if you prefer, our crops on April 21 this year. This is the 2nd earliest date ever that we’ve been in the fields, in my father-in-law’s time. He said he recalls 1 year...
View ArticleThe Hail Cometh and Taketh Away
This year on the farm we’ve been battling drought conditions with the driest spring on the prairies in almost 70 years. We’ve prayed, hoped and wished for rain, and we got some. Then we got even more....
View ArticleSchultz Growing Season Video 2015
It’s been a farming year full of adversities and challenges, but in the end it’s all in God’s hands and we were blessed with more than we deserved. We started out the growing season in a drought, but...
View ArticleHow To Have the Perfect Seeding Baby
Ever since we had our second baby boy after harvest in 2012, I wondered if we would have just one more. Maybe we’d get a little girl to add to our family, or another little boy, or maybe we were just...
View ArticleHow This Farm Wife Gets Through Harvest
This post is sponsored by AGCO; however, all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own. This is my 10th harvest season as a farm wife, and it also marks my 7th harvest season as a mom. My role on the...
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