We are just in the process of harvesting our first beeves of the season this morning with the kill guy showing up shortly. The steers have been gaining nicely throughout the Summer and it is important in achieving optimum flavor on Grassfed animals to have the animals be “on the gain”. With the seasonal nature of grass this means that there is a definite “season” for harvesting beeves for that peak taste.

On the haying side, we have had a very wet Spring which delayed the first cutting of our Orchard Grass and Alfalfa which will delay our second cutting until about August 15th, some 10 days later than normal.

We had a very unusual hail storm, yes hail, yesterday. It was a half inch in 10 minutes and then gone. For a valley which gets 9” of moisture a year, most of it in the form of snow, this was a concentrated event.