The last 10 days have been very eventful on my Kansas farm. I have now replaced the items lost in my recent robbery, a distant neighbor was robbed as well, among the items stolen from him were 24 sacks of cow mineral. The perps were caught in that case, and the Sheriff had been hopeful they had stolen from me as well. If they did, they are not going to admit to it apparently. Amazingly, the mineral was stolen from the thieves a day after they had stolen it themselves, so they claim. It seems a far fetched story to me. The Sheriff made them buy replacement mineral for the fellow they stole it from and also made them guarantee the check under penalty of jail if it doesn't clear. There is now consideration being given to adding some volunteer police to the force,it seems the only way we are going to be able to get a handle on this crime wave.
Our weather forecast for tonight and tomorrow is a wild one. Freezing rain tonight, followed by 60F and thunderstorms tomorrow. We need the moisture, but not in the form of freezing rain. The last several days have been very windy and tomorrow looks to be quite windy as well, gusts up to 35mph.
I moved fall pairs onto the triticale and turnips this week. At my home farm I have the grazing divided into 3 patches I will gradually rotate, I am hoping to get by for at least a month with 70 pairs grazing with little if any additional feed. The bulls are now in with the fall calving cows.
Sold cull hogs Wednesday, such a joke. Heavy sows(above 500 pounds) at 26 cents a pound, lights at 19 cents and boars at 10 cents. The hog market here is truly in the tank as we say, who knows when it will recover.
Got my property tax statements in the mail the Friday after Thanksgiving(one week ago) and was shocked to find the tax had doubled on my home farm. There is a protest process I am going to go through, I have no idea how much good it will do.
Lived through the first 3 days of the 10 day rifle deer season. The countryside is crawling with people carrying high powered rifles, I can only hope they are good shots, and know the difference between a deer and a cow(or a farmer).