“Water is the most essential nutrient.”
It’s a serious problem when the waterline freezes and 40 heifers are standing beside an empty tank.
Well pump in the cellar of the abandoned farmhouse at its best is a mess to describe it bluntly accurate.
Promising for years that there was going to be a new system installed, but always a procrastinator still nothing had been done when this winter came.
With electricity-taping pipes, heat lamps and hay bales around crevices, there have been winters without freeze-up. But, the first extreme cold came this year, before necessity preparations were made.
Ryan Kline is this year’s Young Farmer Award recipient. Farming is an expensive and risky occupation and someone in their 20s that has farming as their main occupation is a rare find.
Celebrating Kansas history month, Appanoose Museum is hosting a program at 2 p.m. Jan. 25, by Ronda Hassig, teacher, librarian, and author of “The Abduction of Jacob Rote”.
