Rick Murdock

Two mornings in a row, I get a picture of this buck.

Gotta love country living!

While a student, in 76, at UW Madison, my dad and I were discussing management strategies on pasture and hay ground. I was all about yield, tons per acre and fertilizer applications. My dad said, “son why do you want to buy nitrogen?”

He would have loved this white clover and fescue field!

Caught a picture of this guy with a doe this morning.

Rifle season opens here in Western Ky, Saturday November 8th.

There is nothing new under the sun, keeps repeating.

Had a bad track on a mini excavator. Called my wife and asked if she would accept this as a tree bed for the yard. We have a Sycamore sapling to plant in it once I get filled with soil this week!

Recycling damaged equipment parts is a thing!

I think his stockcropper work is great!

In the 70’s, I would come stay with my uncle and work on his farm. He gave me a baseball cap with the Treflan logo on it! I now was completely integrated with the local KY farmers.

Then my Aunt would wash it and it looked like that Kent hat.

This helped me develop humility! 😎

Self awareness is a thing! 😎

in January.

Yes we sell at 2-3 lbs. we buy 6 inch fingerlings and grow them.

We have Pay Pond customers that come to our farm in their trucks. We fill them with water and their live fish order and they do the hauling.

We will average 4000 lbs of live fish per week. 35 weeks out of the year. We are a couple weeks away from season end.

Our catfish ponds are 5 acres and rectangular with a flat bottom. 5-6 feet deep. Tractors on both sides drag the seine up into a corner then we hand load into a boom basket to load trucks.

No, we have a watershed pond we use for irrigating. It was built in 1976 and not a flat bottom catfish pond we can seine. Cattle and irrigation.

Well: 30 hp electric well pump discharges into a 2.5 acre pond. We pump out of the pond. Run 2 pivots from that pond.

4 towers. Only one tower crosses the fence.

Yes it goes through a 10 ft gate we will open and close when irrigating. It does it in 2 places.

Building a new high tensile fence using Timeless plastic fence posts. Solar box is setup to make strands 1,3 & 5 hot and 2 & 4 are grounds.

Pivot irrigates the hay field.

a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words it 's a no from me . ALT: a man sitting in front of a microphone with the words it 's a no from me .

No house “Rosie” robot for me.

When the public facing christo-mags, publicly repent, for their complete lack of discernment, maybe then they can change.

Until then we continue walking away.

My grandfather often told me: “bad company corrupts good character.”

Matthew 6:24 (NIV)
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Pick your Master wisely!

My father told me about the time period of the great depression. He told me no one had money in rural KY, but “your word was your bond.”

The currency was your word.

Honesty was valued.

Greed is a line you step over, and over time becomes harder to walk back.

Walking “the way” into the future is going to be amazing!

Blizzard?

The no cab combines were still running when I was a kid and I even got to ride on a tractor pulled combine cutting wheat. They are good memories of very simple harvesting!

When you spent a day in those early combines you slept well that night!

1966 Loadstar 1600. It came from a seed cleaning company that ordered it with a long bed to hold lespedeza seed.

When I loaded it with with wheat, the front wheels would come off the ground if you hit a bump! Made for a fun drive when you got over 50 mph!

My first combine was a used 1973 Gleaner K. Paid $12,000.00 for it. Came with a 3 row 36 inch corn head and a 12 ft grain header.

Combine is gone but the young lady on the side of the truck is still running strong!

Beef Producers, It's Time to Speak Up Comments from the Trump administration have caught beef producers' attention. Prices have been driven by low inventory, and beef producers prefer it to be that way.

With grains in a a tariff hole, the government might mess with the beef markets?

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