Pylman Farms

10/26/2026

Our garden tractor pulls are over for the 2026 season but we are as busy as ever with this great weather harvesting all we can while it lasts!

Paul's training the boys to run combine.

10/22/2026

We will have fall piglets available of anyone is looking. I have a list started so let me know if you or someone you know would like to be put on my piglet purchase list this fall.

10/21/2026

The Girls have out done themselves this morning!

10/21/2026

Not sure if I was "unfired" or rehired but I spent 3.5 to 4 hours combining soybeans today. Finished up Joe' s farm and we moved to the next one.

I've not been asked to combine for 2 years after my last mishap. 😥

10/16/2026

So life has been a bit busy, borderline hectic since yesterday evening. Eggs will be out in the fridge in an hour or two.

Due to shorter daylight hours and a persistent fox, egg supplies are low right now.

Any expert fox trappers looking for a challange, I have a healthy well fed fox than needs to not be at my address. My dogs have proven to be worthless at keeping it at bay.

10/15/2026

Lil' Boss Lady is a first time mom with 14 so far with our new hamp boar... is she done? We'll have to wait and see!

Nosey neighbors on both sides of her stall.

10/15/2026

Kids are drinking the goat milk but not loving it... however, these guys LOVE, LOVE our extras!

No sound track needed, the slurps are enough. 🤣

10/10/2026

Well our 2026 grain harvest has started today with a great buckwheat harvest. Lets hope for the same tomorrow and possibly start some soybeans before the rains come in.

10/06/2026

We have a lot going on and crop harvest hasn't even started for us yet.

We purchased a new cattle chute that will be placed in a much needed cattle yard and catch pen.

Making c***r, applesauce, horseradish, canning tomato soup and tomato sauce. Canning pickles, carrots and beans. Freezing squash. The pantry and freezers are getting quite full!

Paul and his dad have been working on erecting 1 of 5 used bins we have, pouring concrete for our new grain dryer. Our older one caught fire early last year and left us a huge financial loss as the crops could not be harvested until natually dryed down in the fields often loss to weather and wildlife or a unsalable wet crop.

On top of my normal chores, we have 5 new dairy goats, 3 of which are currently milking. No more store bought milk for us!!

10/02/2026

Well said...

“I’LL JUST RAISE MY OWN COW BEFORE I PAY THAT.”

Okay.

Do it. 😂🐂

And I don’t even mean that ugly.

Actually, I think everybody ought to raise some of their own food at least once in their life.

Because I promise you, you’ll never look at the price of food the same way again.

Go buy the cow.

Or better yet, start where we do.

Buy the breeding stock.

Maintain the mama cow all year.

Breed her.

Wait roughly nine months for that calf.

Pray she calves without trouble.

Then start raising the calf.

Now you’ve got pasture to maintain.

Fence to build.

Fence to fix.

Fence to fix AGAIN because apparently cattle wake up some mornings and choose violence. 😂

You’ve got hay.

Minerals.

Water.

Vet bills.

Vaccinations.

Equipment.

Fuel.

Tractors.

Trailers.

Land.

Taxes.

Insurance.

Repairs.

And about 147 other expenses nobody thinks about while they’re standing at my freezer looking at the price written on a package of hamburger.

Then keep that animal growing.

Through summer.

Through winter.

Through drought.

Through storms.

Through whatever Mother Nature decides she’s pi**ed off about this particular year.

And remember…

you don’t get Saturdays off because you’re tired.

You don’t get Christmas morning off.

You don’t get to tell the cows you’re sick.

They don’t care that you worked another job yesterday.

They’re hungry at 6:00 in the morning whether you feel like putting your boots on or not.

Then, after all that time and money, you’ve still got processing.

And suddenly that pound of hamburger doesn’t look quite so simple anymore.

Here’s the thing, though.

I will NEVER be offended because somebody can’t afford our beef.

There is a difference between “I can’t afford that” and “it shouldn’t cost that.”

I understand the first one.

Lord knows I understand watching every dollar.

Families are getting hammered at the grocery store too.

I’ve said it a hundred times:

Consumers aren’t my enemy, and farmers aren’t theirs.

We’re standing on opposite ends of the same food system trying to figure out how in the hell we’re both supposed to afford it.

But don’t stand in front of a farmer and tell them their product isn’t worth what they’re charging when you’ve never raised the first cow.

Because that package isn’t just beef.

You’re paying for YEARS before it ever reaches that freezer.

You’re paying for somebody being there when the calf hits the ground.

You’re paying for grass and hay and minerals.

You’re paying for the fence.

You’re paying for the tractor that keeps breaking at precisely the worst possible time. 😂

You’re paying for somebody checking cattle when it’s 100 degrees outside and somebody checking them when it’s freezing.

You’re paying for the nights we worry.

The mornings we get up anyway.

The animals we lose.

The equipment we repair.

The pasture we maintain.

And the thousands of little jobs nobody ever sees.

And after ALL of that…

the farmer still has to make enough money to be there to raise another one.

That’s the part I think we’ve forgotten.

Food cannot sustainably cost less than it costs somebody to produce it.

Eventually somebody pays the difference.

And for a long time, that somebody has been the farmer.

So the next time somebody looks at farm-raised beef and says,

“Hell, I’ll just raise my own cow.”

I’ll probably smile and tell them:

“I genuinely think you should.”

Raise her.

Feed her.

Fence her.

Doctor her.

Hay her.

Spend two years worrying about her.

Pay to process her.

And then come sit on the porch with me.

I’ll pour the coffee.

And we can have an entirely different conversation about what that pound of hamburger is worth. 😂☕️🐂❤️

Know your farmer.
Know your food.
Know what it takes to produce it.

🇺🇸 America Feeds America.

**shared from another farmHER**