Rich Bryant | February 6, 2009
Dave, my friend and boss of several years ago, was fortunate enough to grow up on an expansive family-owned ranch in New Mexico. During the summers of his high school years he worked there, assisting their most senior farm hand, Pedro, in maintaining the fences and working the cattle and horses.
One distinctive feature of the [...]
Rich Bryant | November 4, 2008
It seems that one out of three stories one hears on the farm involves a snake. This is one of those stories.
A levee is a long earthen bank that is built up to keep water out of a field. A well-maintained levee is free of trees and resembles nothing more than a bare dirt bank. [...]
Rich Bryant | November 1, 2008
A person accomplishes a lot when working on the farm but, in my experience, one thing they never do is get caught up on their work. And maybe this was even more the rule in my days on the farm almost thirty years ago, when the process of preparing the ground for planting was infinitely [...]
Rich Bryant | November 1, 2008
I would like to say that I’ve hunted quail, but I was really more “along for the walk”. However, being along for the walk I’ve at least seen a quail hunt. These days I sometimes wonder if the art of quail hunting – and it is most certainly an art – has survived into these [...]
Rich Bryant | October 31, 2008
More so than other businesses it can be rightfully stated that, on the farm, “time is money”. Planting and growing seasons come and go as time marches on. The farmer jealously guards each second and constantly strives to work with maximum efficiency.
And so it was with greatest surprise that I came to learn the long-held [...]