FOXHOLM, N.D. – With the growing season well underway, Brandon and Jessie Bock, who farm with their son, Lyle, and daughter, Grace, traveled to represent regenerative ag farming in Washington, DC, on Thursday, June 25.
- Sue Roesler
DRAKE, N.D. – After a busy week representing corn growers at activities across the state, Scott Spear was back in the sprayer at the farm spraying herbicide on his soybeans and reporting on his operation from the cab.
- Sue Roesler
FOXHOLM, N.D. – Crops are developing well in the fields at Bock Farms in northwestern North Dakota, with cooler temperatures in the 60s and low 70s moving in during mid-June.
DRAKE, N.D. – With the official start of summer on the horizon, Scott Spear was busy in the sprayer going down his spring wheat fields spraying post-emergent herbicide when he gave his report on June 14.
- Sue Roesler
FOXHOLM, N.D. – At Bock Farms in the northwestern region of the state, Brandon and Jessie Bock, who farm with their son, Lyle, and daughter, Grace, were busy finishing up spring planting.
- Sue Roesler
DRAKE, N.D. – As of the start of June, Rachel and Scott Spear have finished planting all their crops and have been scouting newly emerged crops in the fields. Scott has been spending time in the sprayer, as well.
- Sue Roesler
FOXHOLM, N.D. – On a warm, exceptionally windy day in mid-May with gusts up to 50-60 miles per hour in northwestern North Dakota, Brandon Bock, reported on their operation from the cab of his truck.
- Sue Roesler
DRAKE, N.D. – The Spears are well over the halfway mark and closing in on three-fourths finished with planting at the family farm near Drake.
- Sue Roesler
FOXHOLM, N.D. – Tractors are on the move in the north central region of the state, and Brandon and Jessie Bock, who own Bock Farms near Foxholm, have begun seeding their diverse crops under cool, partly cloudy weather in the high 40s and a couple of warm 70-degree days.
- Sue Roesler
DRAKE, N.D. – Planting was well underway in the central region of the state, as fourth-generation farmer Scott Spear, who owns Spear Farms with his wife, Rachel, operated his Case IH Quad Track 600, pulling his seed cart, drill, and anhydrous tank as one unit down the field on May 1.
- Sue Roesler
FOXHOLM, N.D. – In gently rolling Prairie Pothole countryside, fifth-generation farmers Brandon and Jessie Bock are innovative owners and operators of Bock Farms on the eastern edge of northwestern North Dakota.
- Sue Roesler
DRAKE, N.D. – Within the rolling hills and long fertile valleys in central North Dakota, fourth-generation progressive farmers Scott and Rachel Spear raise their crops as equal partners in their farming operation. They have three fifth-generation children, Emma, 20, Lydia, 18, and Everett, 14.
- Sue Roesler
HAZELTON, N.D. – Jesse Kalberer has been busy in March completing paperwork for the family’s upcoming registered Red Angus bull sale on DVAuction. He has also been preparing to seed diverse cover crop mixes and native prairie grasses for grazing/haying, as well as working cattle.
- Sue Roesler
BERTHOLD, N.D. – Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager and their three kids, Axel, Ivy, and Daisy, are working on their dream of their own farmstead at Arrow L Ranch. They are planning to build their own home, shop, and cattle facilities with beautiful rows of trees planted in shelterbelts surroun…
- Sue Roesler
HAZELTON, N.D. – With Kalberer Ranch’s online Red Angus bull sale a short month away, Jesse Kalberer and his wife, Susan, are inviting those who are interested in moderate-framed coming 2-year-old bulls that have excellent mothering traits to come out to the ranch and “take a look.”
- Sue Roesler
BERTHOLD, N.D. – Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager, who own and operate Arrow L Ranch with their three kids on the edge of the northwestern region of the state, have stayed busy throughout the end of February/beginning of March with delivering bulls, taking forage clippings of their stockpiled…
- Sue Roesler
HAZELTON, N.D. – It has been an extra busy couple of weeks at Kalberer Farms for Jesse Kalberer, who farms and raises seedstock Red Angus with his wife, Susan. Besides dealing with weather challenges, he has been readying the farm for spring and summer planting, as well as grazing and haying.
- Sue Roesler
BERTHOLD, N.D. – While Mason Lautenschlager took two bulls that were sold in Arrow L Ranch’s recent bull sale to the veterinarian in Minot, N.D., to sign off on health paperwork, he gave his report during the drive.
- Sue Roesler
HAZELTON, N.D. – A break in the bitter cold and below zero temperatures at the end of January/first week in February was a boon to the cows as Jesse Kalberer trailed them into an ungrazed corn stalk field so they could return to grazing.
- Sue Roesler
BERTHOLD, N.D. – With spring-like weather settling into farms and ranches in the northwestern to north central regions of the state, Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager are planning to move their cowherd to stockpile grazing at Arrow L Ranch.
- Sue Roesler
HAZELTON, N.D. – At Kalberer Farms, Jesse Kalberer, who operates a seedstock and commercial Red Angus business with his wife, Susan, is already making breeding and grazing plans for the following year while buttoning up decisions for the upcoming season and making plans for his April bull sa…
- Sue Roesler
BERTHOLD, N.D. – With temperatures plunging well below zero, Mason and Hannah Lautenschlager at Arrow L Ranch are ensuring everyone stays warm and cozy at the ranch. After a few days of mild weather in mid-January, the weather turned bitter cold with some extreme wind chills across the state.
- Sue Roesler
HAZELTON, N.D. – Effective winter grazing management at Kalberer Farms has kept Jesse Kalberer, who raises Red Angus seedstock with his wife, Susan, busy as “up and down” temperatures continue to dominate the weather pattern in January.
- Sue Roesler
BERTHOLD, N.D. – At Arrow L Ranch, Mason Lautenschlager, who farms and ranches with his wife, Hannah, and three kids, has taken videos and photos of the 2-year-old composite bulls in the Feb. 6-8 online auction on DVAuction.
- Sue Roesler
HAZELTON, N.D. – Erratic temperatures – warm days in the 30s and 40s followed by frigid days on repeat – dominated the weather over the past couple of weeks ahead of New Year’s Day. It has made moving cattle closer to home for the winter a slow process at Kalberer Farms.