Leighton Kolk
@LeightonKolk
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Co-owner of Kolk Farms, farming with our 3 children, cattle ,wheat,corn,canola seed farming operation. Aiming to Live, love,laugh,be thankful and gracious
Lethbridge County, Alberta
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-40C (which is also -40F) wind chills this morning. The crew is laying out the thick blankets today! Every single job related to caring for livestock gets a whole bunch harder at these temps. Our crew deserve a raise…in temperature for sure!
#thankyoucowgirlsandboys
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Who doesn’t love Burger and fries or steak and potato. We are accelerating the process by feeding the potatoes straight to our cows. You say potato, I say, silage
#RecyclingReusingrepurposing
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LIVE: JAIL break. We put up cameras in November, didn’t think we would catch a terrorist criminal on film in the first week. Next Mission Impossible, step aside Tom Cruise this Holstein is the star! Opened 3 gates and let 450 head mix and party literally till the cows came home
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Chopping cow salad today. Hybrid Fall Rye making this Claasy machine grunt using every single one of its 790 HP
#ProgasRye
#K3seed
#Ronscustomsilaging
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My liberal loving son gave me the thirdbest selling book on amazon ca. for Christmas. I got all uptight preparing to argue what I was about to read. Turns out it’s a lot better than I thought. In fact, this author should write Trudeau speeches going forward.
#justinsmemoirs
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There’s that saying: “fertilizer happens”. Keeping manure out of the bunk is almost like putting money in the bank. When each animal eats $5 a day we want them to savour every mouthful.
#sustainability
#nutrientrecycling
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The last time I saw something go from that hot…to that cold…that fast, was the night I asked my wife if her lingerie was getting a little tight.
#Icyrightthrough
#minus40C
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My dad used to try work us late on Friday nights just to reduce the chance of me getting into trouble, now my son is doing the same thing to me.
#fridaynightsalright
#pityparty
#cowchow
#kflpic
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Amazing tour. 3,000,000 patties per day produced here exclusively for all Canada’s McDonald’s Amazing technology, food Saftey, employee engagement and quality control. And there is only ONE item goes in their patty...Canadian beef
#cowpatty
#angusburgermmm
#flippinggood
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No matter how crummy you feel about something you did or didn’t do or and what you should or shouldn’t have done or experiencing a mishap your fault or not...thankfully God will cause the sun to come up again tomorrow.
#Mentalhealth
#weallneedtheson
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The tongue is ever so light, yet so hard to hold…thus it’s so important to practice holding it! Of course if you are ever find yourself tongue tied you can try this little stretch excise buth I don’th know how thith will helpth.
#wakeup
#tastelessalarmclock
#pencheckingfun
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Our irrigation water comes from the Rockies into the old man, Dam, and then down a network of pipes and ditches to feed our crops. Today looks like 75% off water boxing day special.
#lookingdamnbad
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When a couple of teenager boys sneak over to the girls campsite to spy on the girls, and they get caught red handed.
#twoheadsnotbetter
#bigbusted
#hideyourshame
#inbareassed
#backalleypeekaboo
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Occasionally, our cattle yet digital dermatitis. Which is a swelling between their toes kinda like really bad athletes foot. We then put them through a footbath to treat the ailment and reduce the spread.
#toetallyawesome
#bathtime
#kflpics
#aFunguy
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I had to waste an entire day in court today listening to two people lie through their teeth about why they should be allowed to stay in my rental house breaking rules and not paying rent for seven months and it’s my fault. Their testimony sounded a little bit like this.
#soundup
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-30 C is on its way. Scrapping and pilling everything we can before it turns into frozen bowling balls.
#creaturecomfort
#kflpics
@K3Seeds
#Sanytizing
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The weather man tells us winter is coming next week, so we are getting started with thicker blankets already today. This always puts our cows in a good MOOOd
#bedding
#strawsallowedhere
#kflpic
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Anyone thinking we’ll wean off of fossil fuels in the next two decades better have a lot better plan than electric tractors or we will all be going awfully hungry. Fossil powered modern agriculture is feeding the world.
#Dieseladdupfast
#20000lsincemonday
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When one of your employees with special needs happily moves from depending on fellow employees for a ride to work to gaining his independence and owning his own first set of wheels at the age of 56. All smiles, no mopeding today
#proudowner
#scootaway
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The crew had their plate pretty full today 16 loads of cattle left six loads of grain came in five loads of straw, and over 500 head re-vaccinated plus 4 trucks hauling manure and snow out.
#shithappening
#linerup
#onscale
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I don’t know ya all weather or not we can Hereford to pay for it…Angus we will somecow…our new processing barn is almost complete, ready or not here we run. Will it run like a limousine,moove like a Cattilac or hit it out of the Speckle park? #
@K3Seeds
#maidenvoyage
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I realize you are all wondering why I called this meeting. I want you to listen very carefully and put your heads together to come up with a solution how to turn $450 per ton corn into profitable beef.
#6yearoldboss
#dressforsuccess
#ondefence
#kflpic
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Necessity is the mother of invention. You either need to lift a 300 pound mud covered flat pivot tire into the truck or build an awesome carrier to roll it on to. Devan the mad inventor and creator will be taking orders soon.
#pivotalbreakthrough
#wheelbepreparednow
#kflpic
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Recovering from the storm...we are rebuilding and thankful that none of our family friends and employees were hurt. Fences down, cattle mixed, crops lost, and Feedmill damage. But our crew were super hero’s and put in some incredible efforts
#notwithoutthisteam
#thankful
#kflpic
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We used to think spreading manure N expense but now we are thinking it’s a Phos ative thing given the price of fertilize. It puts a smell on my face and seeing nutrients getting applied to new crop land.
#shithappens
#spreadthejoy
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One of the things we do to keep our cows happy and comfortable is to continuously be cleaning the floors and changing the sheets and making sure the minibar is stocked. Comfortable cows make tastier beef.
#haulingfertilizer
#recyclingnutrients
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I took a wrong turn on a country road and ended up joining a blockade or a protest or something. Not even sure what cause we’re supporting.
#forestgump
#freedom
#notmycausenotmycows
#quiturbawlingrillgiveyasomthingtobawlabout
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Just chopped the Hybrid fall rye, chased by the sprayer spraying any residual crop and weeds, seeding 2nd crop oats right behind. Pivot will be chasing the drill.
#chasingfeed
#kflpic
#watershortageFeedshortage
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The North American cattle industry is very interconnected. we got calves in from Ontario this week and shipping fats out to Hyrum Utah.
#2000miles
#keeponrolling
#busytruckingyard
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We rake down just enough silage to feed the cattle for a one day. This keeps the silage fresh and the cows happy and if the job is done by Denys…
#Denysdoneright
#wastenotwantnot
#kflpic
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Ever wonder what burning 120 litres per hour of diesel fuel sounds like. Good thing fuel is cheap.
#fuelwantthisbill
#harvest22
#cowchow
#kflpic
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-31C…Global warming… just one more broken promise from the experts. If it gets any colder we won’t be able to market beef under the claim always fresh never frozen.
#JennyCraigweather
#kflbeef
#offtomarket
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It's a hot week here in southern Alberta but we are doing our best to keep the cattle cool and comfortable
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Left the bakery with 2 dozen…got to the farm 10 miles away…only 13 left…that’s 1.1 donuts per mile…might need a donut tax to reduce consumption.
#4Hforlife
#forbetteror4H
#Saturdaydiet
Thanks4Hclubs
#cleanupAlberta
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Water you looking at! Please don’t take my picture, I’m already feeling embarrassed and my pen mates already ridding my ass here.
#fail
#Holsteinbrain
#barhopping
#kflpic
#thanksglenn
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This week while pen checking Rob was some baffled by one of our heifers. She is fine...just doing her best impression of Gene Simmons. I didn’t get permission from Kiss but it’s to fitting not to use. Crank it up!
#imaginefrenchkissingthis
#kflpics
#animaltricks
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Our crew is mighty amazing, but even they can’t change the weather. However, they are still doing everything humanly possible mitigate the winter cold. It’s great working with people that care so much.
#creaturecarecausewecare
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Just doing some math here and I figure Rochelle and I will have driven these tractors the equivalent of Edmonton and back without ever leaving the farm. Who says we never go anywhere.
#nodozingoff
#whatsyourRye
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It was truly an honour this week to be part of recognizing Larry Nolan and the Nolan family as a Honorary life member of Alberta Cattle Feeders! Good man, great family, wonderful neighbours! If we grumble about how tough business is today…he might call us snowflakes
#ACFA
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When the Feedmill remote control gets possessed by an evil minion….We have placed a $100 bill under this pile. Please grab a shovel and come dig for treasure.
#bushelsoffun
#extrastorage
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Having trouble keeping your farm afloat? Need to talk to Peter VanWingerden founder of the floating farm. Downtown Rotterdam. Feeds expired groceries to 40 milk cows, sells the milk and cheese, recycles the waste. 2 levels above water and one below for greenhouse and cheese cure
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The Harvest crew is hammer down, balls to the wall, pedal to the metal, right to the pin, given er snoose trying to get this field of Awesome wheat harvested before the sabbath.
#1stKlaasoperation
#nextyearsseed
@K3seeds
#harvestsuppers
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We are bedding on more snow to come. Time for new blankets. This awesome crew pumped out over 400 big bales today
#Corny
#Larry
#Peter
#Ashley
#laymedowninabed
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I understand if you fell into the tradition of having a turkey or ham for Christmas will forgive you, but pmdont forget to put a little roast beef in your holiday diet to keep you strong and healthy in preparation for 2023.
#MerryChristmas
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Making good silage is kind of like making sauerkraut…for it to be well preserved , it needs to be sealed up properly.
#farmspartan
#cowchow
#pileofcrew
#greatteam
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Had 6 volunteers and voluntolds come out to swath the Picture Butte Canadian Food Grains crop this morning. Hoping for a great harvest bee next Wednesday sept 11. Come on out for the “free” BBQ at noon.
#CFGB
#Greatcharity
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Wagyu beef production. 30 months on full feed. 2200 lbs live. Super chubby,super marbled
#SuperSupper
#KobeBeef
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We got some cattle comfort mats to go for and aft of the cattle squeeze. The cattle seem to love it, and thus our crew loves it too!
#cattleMATters
#getagrip
#hoofcarewedo
#kflpic
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Patiently (not) waiting for Canadian immigration to approve our LMIA to bring in a foreign worker. A friend just had his beef herdsman denied b/c the applicant didn’t have enough experience (4 years). But 70 people can walk across the boarder everyday into Canada and freeload.
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When you’re in a race with old man winter but you still want to seed winter wheat and graze the corn stubble, you need to multitask.
#zerotill
#obstaclecows
#noautosteers
#morecowbellDevan
#cowpies
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Our swather gal is knocking heads off faster than a French guillotine. Brittanys got all the boys chasing her, but they ain’t catching up to her today.
#womenpower
#ryesilage
#k3seeds
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A great big thank you to neighbours and community and fellow farmers that helped harvest another successful Canadian Foodgrains Bank growing project.
#150acres75minutes
#CFGB2020
#barleytimetoeat
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Aviator hybrid fall rye. It reminds me of a young nephew of mine…lean tall, but not a lot in the head just yet.
#cowchow2024
#kflpic
@K3Seeds
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Helen really should have been a little bit more suspicious when I asked to borrow her car for a minute.
#getbacktoworkkolk
#designinganewcarwash
#hopethatmazdaisroundupready
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Protests done peacefully and respectfully are a great blessing and opportunity in a democracy. Blockades of vital infrastructure however is an illegal act. Good leader ship would communicate with the former instead of fear mongering about the latter.
#JTcomeoutofhiding
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Dennis Dirt hard at it. Laying RCC/new pen flooring. We originally built this row in 1998. We paid for them once, I guess we can pay for them again. New carpet, new walls, new sink new lights…new loan. How We gauge success…we mortgauge it!
#RBC
#sustainablebeef
#concreteideas
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Took the big boss out for a drive to get her approval on how her grandsons winter wheat harvest is progressing.
#Oma
#strawtegicplan
#combine3generations
@K3Seeds
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Picture Butte Growing Project Harvest day. It makes me choke up every year to watch all these fine folks donating time, diesel, sweet and huge horsepower to harvest a crop with proceeds going to alleviate hunger and poverty world wide. Canadian Food Grains Project
#dustinmyeyes
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The great Creator just painted us a picture for supper on our deck.
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Not like hanging the sign makes it official, but its another step in our journey into the seed sales and cleaning bizz. We are ready and willing day or night to seed potential, sprout new, and grow existing business, rooting it in the firm soil of strong relationships
#signmeup
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Curt Pate winding up todays training session with some tips on working a bud box and using humane, low stress cattle handling techniques. We work with several great crews and Feedyard’s, but we can always find room for improvement.
#imitatePate
#bethecow
#sustainability
#kflbeef
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During the drought in the 80s. My Mom would bake pie in celebration if we got 1” rain. Some traditions are worth keeping. Rain makes grain- grain makes dough-dough makes pie.
#piefromthesky
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2nd crop Oat silage. Thankful for a big crop and great weather to harvest it.
#kflpics
#Thanksgivingweekend
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These little fellas came from Woodstock Ontario, all the way west to Iron springs Alberta. Now I’m sending them back east….to the F row. Happy Family Day, Welcome to the west liddill partners.
#whatsyouralleybi
#kflgreeters
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Happy Saint Patrick’s day everyone it’s a beautiful March 17 morning out here. If you forgot to dress for it, you can just be green with envy that you’re not here enjoying this.
#StcowPattyday
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Was Doing everything wrong here!!! Smiling, hugging,travelling, eating out...how dare we!! 55 million world wide die per year less than 1% to exclusively COVID. We are killing WAY more by lock downs,masks and fear!
#mentalhealth
#amazonwins
#youlose
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@clintwfischer
I farmed with three of my children for several years now I farm with two children, because we made it very clear going in that there needs to be an exit plan to be able to leave with your dignity and equity. Much better to have a smaller operation and still have healthy family
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Putting the finishing touches on the last row of new pens. Travis is lovingly sculpting that bedding pack like it’s a baby bump.
#whosbaby
#fallrun
@K3Seeds
#neveragainthisclean
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Through this entire panic thus far, not one of the our fantastic crew stopped coming to work or caring for and looking after the livestock and food and feed related crop production needs required to keep food on Canadians table.
#cowtipping
#animalcare
#tiptoe
#doingourpart
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Great harvest day. 4 swathers 18 combines 5 balers 5 grain carts 8 semi’s and tons of community involvement and support…n about 400 burgers n dogs cooked. Great project for a great cause. International disaster relief and micro bizz development in developing countries
#CFGB21
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Many of our Cattle Health crew put on between 20 and 30,000 steps per day. We have a cattle dog to try help reduce a few of those steps. if you know of a great trained dog, the crew has voted for getting another one.
#pawsativehelp
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Mom used to say, if your friend jumps off a bridge, does that mean you should? I was a little more of this approach. If one of us is gonna get in trouble, why not both. Hmmm, I thought you looked stupid...now we both do.
#twoheadsbetterthanone
#doubledareya
#truefriend
#tyfarren
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Well that worked well. Till 140km gust. Is this election related ? Turned the west side of the country very Blew, or perhaps I Red this wrong. We need something to Bloc this wind however as it’s really difficult to ndpee out side today
#nottiredenough
#wewillplyagain
#siighlage
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If you want to carpet farming you need to be rugged. By the time our staffs kids graduate, they will know where every pen and bin is.
#planningforthefuture
#magiccarpet
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It’s 6 AM do you know where your truckers are? They’re off to Washington, not to protest, but to haul some beef. Open borders, make healthy markets,
#notwithouttruckers
#kflbeef
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Ponder me this...if the neighbours organic cows graze our round up ready corn will their beef still be organic?
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Well, either we got a new Pope or Hanks has got our very first run of steam going into the new steam flanker mill. So excited to make some corn flakes. Todays Math question:how does 3 mill go into one mill?
#rollingalong
#shesgettingsteamy
#HFS
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Well that is officially it for 2019 silage season close that chapter and hope to never have to re-read it again.
#haulingoats
#nightklaases
#forageahead
#mentalhealth
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Off to clean up the hailed out corn stubble, God gave us cows to up cycle food that no other animal would eat than turn it into delicious nutritious beef.
#recycle
#blackwhiteandgraze
#geezLuiz
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We crossed the finish line today…the entire home yard done with RCC…now to start paying it of to RBC. This wouldn’t be possible w/o the Dennis Dirtworx crew and Goldridge !
#artists
#concreteconclusions
#safteymeeting
#sustainability
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Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convey. It was a chaotic plan on the 3rd of Jan in a line up hauling corn, it was cold as a witch, rigs bumper to hitch, not a trucker we would scorn, was an order tall but they took the call…44 trucks in all
#bigten4
#thankfullbinfull
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Serving lunch for some of our community folks that are in a extremely difficult point in their lives.
#prayforrecovery
#pleaselivetillyoufindhope
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Us snowboarders like to ride the edge. Apparently it’s important to read the conditions and make sure the slopes are stable enough. Jared’s rapid rescue response got me back in the saddle safe and sound.
#letoutasilageofrelief
#bigMogul
#stuckonthepile
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Hotel K3 has one vacancy. Room 109…floors cleaned, sheets changed, mini bar restocked and food service available.
#notforlong
#bovinepalace
#greatFebconditions
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Got a little game of Hide and Seek going on here. Is this a fit bunny or a bit funny? Have a Hoppy Tuesday.
#Hareyouare
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Our cows must be Dutch or Irish cause they sure find potatoes a peeling. Enjoy them boys…it’s the last day of culls
Potatoes
#bunkculls
#spudnuts
#tottertreats
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@BuckBecker3
Spring of 2002 I was calving out a shit ton of heifers and we had a month of Horrid weather then the scours hit hard…more dead calves every day. I felt hopeless at the time, but the sun came out we got to the other side and somehow it all worked out. I’m rooting for you buddy.
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Looking for a career driving a big truck and wheel loader making delicious meals for 6000 hungry mouths? DM if U got Computer skills, class3, independent work skills and want to deal with customers that appreciate you every morning
#makinbeef
#autotransmission
#nomoreshiftwork
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Tomorrow’s KFL employee Christmas party does not appear to be a vegan event. Fred Flintstone eat your heart out. Bone in prime rib and tenderloin designated to feed our awesome crew.
#2lbsperperson
#thefattedcalf
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Our permanent resident mama deer had been suspiciously reclusive the last couple weeks. Dill finally reappeared to show off her family. BamA and Bambi.
#aspottedfawn
#toodear
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