We got our first cutting alfalfa up and have gotten started on brome hay. Oats will be ready before we are, I'm afraid, but cutting and baling between rains is a challenge we embrace, because too many years it isn't a problem. We have caught a few showers and a decent rain since the last report. Cows are doing well, crops are growing and the weather has been unseasonably mild.
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