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Colostrum is the first milk produced from a cow after birth and is rich in nutrients and antibodies. It is very important for calves to get up and nurse shortly after birth so that they can receive colostrum, which gives passive immunity to the calf.

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It obviously wasn’t the goal, but power outages with the extreme cold weather we faced recently may have allowed canned or jarred food to freeze and become unsafe to consume. Let’s look at some tips to keep those foods safe to eat. If you have canned foods, either home canned or commercially canned, in a storage location that froze, first check for broken seals or seams in metal cans or broken glass in home canned foods due to the expansion of food and liquids inside those containers.

Attention, sweethearts: This is your one week warning that it is almost Valentine’s Day. So get your gifts in order, your flowers and candy coordinated and make a trip to the store to pick out a meaningful card for your special someone.

Poems & lyrics celebrating Kansas Flint Hills land & people by Annie Wilson – the “Flint Hills Balladeer”

It’s Kansas Day! Happy 163rd birthday to our favorite state! We are lucky enough to live in the 5th largest county in the beautiful state of Kansas – and these are the 5 things you should know that You Are Here Agriculture Education teaches us about Greenwood County: 5. GW County is the 5th largest in Kansas 4. Only 4% of the Tallgrass Prairie remains in the world, and the majority of that is in the Flint Hills of Kansas.

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Patience is a virtue. That’s what we always hear anyway. Well it’s a virtue that can be hard to hold on to sometimes. At least in my experience. We have big plans that we can’t wait to come to fruition. We set goals and sometimes it’s hard to accept a slow go waiting for that goal to become a reality. We often think it’s all or nothing when it comes to goal-setting. We think we have to do this or that and stay hyper-focused. Well that’s not always necessarily the best or most successful way to achieve what you’re looking for.