Category Archives: #AgChat

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  Farm week in pictures 5-10-12

  Posted on June 9, 2012 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, farm photos

  The last spring calf was born on our farm this week.  Sorry I couldn’t get a better picture, he is a moover! Got a good start spraying weeds that have invaded my soybeans. We finished sidedressing (fertilizing) corn last week, after a rough start its finally starting to take off and look good! The mums [...]

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  Farm Spring in pictures.

  Posted on May 27, 2012 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Farm, farm photos

  Well its been awhile since I have posted much about the farm, so a quick update! All the corn is planted and growing. Soybeans are all in the ground, some a second time and after this most recent downpour we may have to replant some again ;( Hay season is in full swing as we [...]

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  How many cows do I have?

  Posted on January 11, 2012 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, Cattle, family, Farm, farm photos

  How many cows do I have? This is a question that I face quite often. The simple answer, of course, is that I have no cows. While my grandfather often talked about a few shorthorn cows he and his grandfather raised on our farm there were no cows on our farm while I was growing [...]

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  Visitors On The Farm, Oh My!

  Posted on November 30, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, Cattle, Farm, farm photos, livestock care

  Recently a good friend I met online, Ryan Goodman, asked an interesting question on his popular blog Agriculture Proud: “How would you farm differently if a total stranger (non-farmer/rancher) followed you around all day?” I found this an interesting question. My first response was that I would do nothing different but after thinking about how [...]

  Post Tagged with agvocate, animal care, cows, farm life, farm photo's, farm photography, farm visit, Farm Visitor
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  Sparboe Farms Open Letter

  Posted on November 21, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, livestock care

  Thanks to Zachary Bray for sharing his thoughts on the recent undercover video linking McDonalds to animal cruelty and how it effects his families poultry farm. Zachary can be found on his newly formed blog, From Cubicle To Corral To whom it may concern: My name is Zachary Bray. I’m a young, beginning farmer. On [...]

  Post Tagged with 20/20, Animal Abuse, chickens, eggs, McDonalds, McDonalds Cruelty, Mercy For Animals, Sparboe
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  Occupy Combine: The Movement

  Posted on October 10, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, Farm

  There is a new movement afoot throughout rural America. Every fall, millions of farmers climb In their combine, head to the field and harvest their crops. Over the past couple of years, though, farmers began to add to this annual tradition by embracing a new type of technology: Social Media! Farmers are outfitting themselves with leather gloves, steel-toed boots [...]

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  An open letter to America

  Posted on September 20, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate, Environment, family, Farm, livestock care

  I’m not sure who may read this and knowing some of you may not know me, I want to start this off by introducing myself. I am a fifth generation grain and beef farmer from Ohio. My daily responsibilities on our family’s farm vary immensely from day to day, but in the end, each day [...]

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  Farm Month(s) in pictures!

  Posted on August 3, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Farm, farm photos, Wordless Wednesday

  Well, its been a while since I shared many pictures as I have been extra busy this summer after an unusually wet spring. hauling large round bales if timothy hay out of the field liter ruins the environment, the beauty of the country, and is not good for our cattle’s hay my nephews new kids [...]

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  Board Rooms and Tractor Seats

  Posted on July 11, 2011 by Mike Haley in #AgChat, Agvocate

    Like most kids growing up I always loved to dream and talk about what I wanted to be when I grew up.  For me there was never any question, I was going to be a farmer.  I have always wanted that. I lived in a rural area; even so I was the only kid [...]

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