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Protecting Our Cattle in Excessive Heat

Mother nature can be cruel. Joan reflects on the extra measures that can prevent the grief and hardship of losing cattle. Our cattle have an incredible purpose: To nourish us and countless others as food. My job is to care for them on our feedlot…

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Kellie: The Calm Cattle Midwife

Newborn calves on cattle farms are precious and miraculous. Helping their mamas labor is intimidating and essential. Kellie Blair brings you into that mixed-emotion experience on the blog today from Iowa.

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Moms and Business Women: We Need to Ask for Help

As a business owner, wife, and mom, Wrenn’s world is in constant motion. She’s bravely sharing the returns on investing in her mental health in hopes that others will be brave as well.

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Katie’s Rewarding Bet

Being a mother, farmer and female entrepreneur is no easy task. Katie finds the reward is far worth the effort.

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Resilient and Faithful: That Was My Mom

Even while fighting cancer, my mom was constantly making sure that everyone and everything was taken care of from the cattle to the kids.

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What Women Need but Might Speed Past: Noticing

What was vital to Krista’s battle with breast cancer? Good habits for her mental health.

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Emma’s Rural Investments: Equipment, Cows & Commitments

Love often moves us to invest in the future. For Emma, her family’s love has created a legacy of commitment.

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Carla Thrives in Her Busiest Season

Despite Carla’s zeal for an intense and busy life, fall is her craziest season of all because of harvest.

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Who Inspires Gina Jo Sugarek? Her Daughter Samantha, the Next Generation of Women Farmers

Seeing what Samantha, a preemie born at 29 weeks, has already overcome gives her mom Gina hope for future women farmers.

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Who Inspires Kate Lambert? First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Women can feel pressure to fill a mold that doesn’t fit. Yet we have great role models who show us how to forge a new path that does.