Summer is arriving at the Flying T.  Here are some recent pics that tell a story about what that means on the farm. It’s been really rainy lately, but today we have a good bit of sun… just in time for our son’s baseball game! The ducklings are now a month old.  Just before the three week point, one of the other ducks (Mocha) adopted them as her own. Unfortunately, this meant that she stepped off her own nest a week early, so we lost a clutch of 20. However, she has been a gre

Yahoo just published a story by Terence Loose, “College Majors that are Useless,” and it listed Agriculture degrees as the most useless.  Horticulture and Animal Science also made the top (or bottom) five, together with Fashion Design and Theater.  Ouch. Unemployable? (Photo by Jack Dykinga, USDA Agricultural Research Service) One basis of this claim the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ (NACE) 2012 Job Outlook study, compiled from a survey of employers (Loose