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Wellen Boring and Well Drilling of Saskatoon is about to install the fibreglass casing on a new water well drilled on the Eppich farm.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Great success in drilling water wells

Eppich News: A busy month as old friends come to visit and haying gets underway

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There is no rest for the wicked this summer. The old hayfield that we converted into a pasture this spring had been running short of water and so we were trying to figure out how to best manage our pastures and the low water situation. We were desperately wanting to take some bales off of […] Read more
By early March calving was well underway with two or three new calves every day.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

The Eppich family welcomes a baby boy

Eppich News: Babies are arriving on all fronts, so not much sleep these days

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February was an exciting month for our family. The weather continued to be a roller coaster with freezing rain followed by days of -40 C with a bitterly cold wind. We did a little bit of work on our bull corral, moved quite a bit of snow around and Gregory did quite a bit of […] Read more
James and Joseph where proud to wear hand-drawn horse tee-shirts made by great-grandmother Thomas in Idaho.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

All the 2021 bales are now home

Eppich News: Some decent weather but then -40 C and a blizzard

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There were a few nice days in the middle of January. On Jan. 13, Gregory and I were able to get the last of the slough bales hauled home. We saved the closest for last as they were in the field that is southeast of the home quarter. I drove the tractor around while Gregory […] Read more
It takes a little more than cold temperatures to keep the Eppich men, Gregory and sons Joseph and James, from a successful mission to track down a Christmas tree.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

The New Year begins with frigid temperatures

Eppich News: It was so cold it made it easier to make a clean cut on tires for feeders

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By the middle of December, the temperature had dropped quite a bit. Gregory and John were able to haul most of the slough bales home. It was slow going but it’s good to have more bales home. Some of the bales are good for bedding and some were good enough this year for feed. Right […] Read more
One of our Eppich Quarter Horse weanlings standing patiently for a refresher course on being tied up.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Saying goodbye to an old gelding

Eppich News: Calves sold, and cows and heifers are home for the winter

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We had a bit of snow on Thanksgiving Day but that quickly went away. October 12 I brought the mares and foals home from the home native pasture so that we could start the weaning process. We put the mares and foals in separate pens with a slab fence between them and with a few […] Read more
After watching the horses being brought into the corral, Joseph and James rode their critters around the house mimicking the real roundup.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

A time of Thanksgiving — for a few reasons

Eppich News: Harvest is complete and 2022 will see a new addition to the family

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September 21 we finished the last oats field at Handel. The next day we got everything ready and then took three trucks and then the two combines over to Landis to combine the last field of the year. As luck would have it, the oats were too green. There was a second growth coming, which […] Read more
While field crops are being combined, James helps his mother harvest the last of the corn from the garden.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

Harvest has a few ups and downs

If weather held, combining would be done by late September

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September turned out to be windy with a bit of rain here and there. From September 1 to 5, we had a good run on harvest. In the mornings we would unload the trucks from the night before, service the machines and tend to any minor issues. Joseph, James and I would also usually get […] Read more
After boring and casing the new well, the water is baled out leaving water in the well clean and fresh.
Cattleman’s Corner, Columns

New wells producing good-quality water

Eppich News: Rain is welcome even though it interrupts harvest

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The beginning of August found us baling buffer zones on the organic land, sloughs and ditches. The bales are few and far between this year. On August 5, we set up the troughs on two of the pastures in Landis in preparation for the wells being dug. We purchased some large mining tires, and with […] Read more

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