A Day in the Life

5:50 I need to email Doc Stock when I get to school before math and English to find out when he can come out to see about my heifer with the bad hoof. I hope he can come out this morning because I have never seen this before.
6:00 Logged in and starting math. Online classes are awesome for me. I don’t like math but I know I need to be proficient in specific areas that have been determined for me based on my chosen academic path (pre-ag with emphasis in herd management). I like the freedom to log in or out at my convenience. Mrs. Bjork is really good at explain concepts to me when I can’t get it from the tutorials in the program. Kind of hard to find her during planting and harvest because I spend a lot of time on the farm a lot then.
7:25 Doc Stock will be out at 9:30 better wrap up math and work on English quick. Another subject I tolerate because I know I need to be literate to have a successful farm but I don’t need to be a rock-star writer.
8:30 Chrome is my friend. I wonder why my cattle are getting hoof rot. Going to research as much as I can to see what info there is out there. I wonder if it is dietary or environment? Doc Stock might be able to help me with that later too.
9:20 Heading home for the best part of my day. I feel so good learning about farming. I have always known I belong here as a steward of the land. I am so interested in organic farming but Dad is old fashioned, he doesn’t see the benefit when we can keep farming the way we have for years. I’ll have to find someone to help me do an economic study on price margins comparing traditional farming to organic farming…who?
9:30 Doc Stock is here time to get to it.
10:15 – 12:00 Chores and lunch
1;00 – 3:00 More research and collecting samples. Split wood and deliver for my small business, “Freddie’s Firewood”.
3:30 I have soil and feed samples to send to ISU for analysis. Doc Stock gave me contact info for a guy at ISU who can help me get answers to my questions. Might be a chance to do research on hoof rot…awesome.

5:50 I need to email Doc Stock when I get to school before math and English to find out when he can come out to see about my heifer with the bad hoof. I hope he can come out this morning because I have never seen this before.
6:00 Logged in to the AEA Student Personalized Learning System to work on my Algebra math class. Online classes are awesome for me. I don’t like math but I know I need to be proficient in specific areas that have been determined for me based on my chosen academic path (pre-ag with emphasis in herd management). I like the freedom to log in or out at my convenience. Mrs. Bjork is really good at explain concepts to me when I can’t get it from the tutorials in the program. Kind of hard to find her during planting and harvest because I spend a lot of time on the farm a lot then.
7:25 Doc Stock will be out at 9:30 better wrap up math and work on my English class (AEA Student Personalized Learning System) quick. Another subject I tolerate because I know I need to be literate to have a successful farm but I don’t need to be a rock-star writer.
8:30 Chrome is my friend. I wonder why my cattle are getting hoof rot. Going to research as much as I can to see what info there is out there. I wonder if it is dietary or environment? Doc Stock might be able to help me with that later too.
9:20 Heading home for the best part of my day. I feel so good learning about farming. I have always known I belong here as a steward of the land. I am so interested in organic farming but Dad is old fashioned, he doesn’t see the benefit when we can keep farming the way we have for years. I’ll have to find someone to help me do an economic study on price margins comparing traditional farming to organic farming…who?
9:30 Doc Stock is here time to get to it.
10:15 – 12:00 Chores and lunch
1;00 – 3:00 More research and collecting samples. Split wood and deliver for my small business, “Freddie’s Firewood”.
3:30 I have soil and feed samples to send to ISU for analysis. Doc Stock gave me contact info for a guy at ISU who can help me get answers to my questions. Might be a chance to do research on hoof rot…awesome.
3:40 Sent an email to Professor Cow at ISU with some questions I have about my cow. I asked him if there is any kind of data pool on this problem, I can't be the only one, can I?

5:50 I need to email Doc Stock when I get to school before math and English to find out when he can come out to see about my heifer with the bad hoof. I hope he can come out this morning because I have never seen this before.

6:00 Logged in to the AEA Student Personalized Learning System to work on my Algebra math class. Online classes are awesome for me. I don’t like math but I know I need to be proficient in specific areas that have been determined for me based on my chosen academic path (pre-ag with emphasis in herd management). I like the freedom to log in or out at my convenience. Mrs. Bjork is really good at explain concepts to me when I can’t get it from the tutorials in the program. She is always in the Alternative Education center from 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. It is kind of hard to find her during planting and harvest because I spend a lot of time on the farm a lot then. I like that I can do more math work between planting and harvest seasons so I can get the crops in and out with out worrying about falling behind.

7:25 Doc Stock will be out at 9:30 better wrap up math and work on my English class (AEA Student Personalized Learning System) quick. Another subject I tolerate because I know I need to be literate to have a successful farm but I don’t need to be a rock-star writer.

8:30 Chrome is my friend. I wonder why my cattle are getting hoof rot. Going to research as much as I can to see what info there is out there. I wonder if it is dietary or environment? Doc Stock might be able to help me with that later too.

9:20 Heading home for the best part of my day. I feel so good learning about farming. I have always known I belong here as a steward of the land. I am so interested in organic farming but Dad is old fashioned, he doesn’t see the benefit when we can keep farming the way we have for years. I’ll have to find someone to help me do an economic study on price margins comparing traditional farming to organic farming…who?

9:30 Doc Stock is here time to get to it.

10:15 – 12:00 Chores and lunch

1:00 – 3:00 Doing more research and collecting samples. Split wood and deliver for my small business, “Freddie’s Firewood”.

3:15 Sending a quick email to Doc Stock. I am asking him to give me contact information for all the vets in our area. I thought of an idea that I might be able to do. I am going to ask the vets to send me data on hoof rot cases they treat. I would like to see if there are any environmental factors that might be causing the rot.

3:17 Emailing the tech guy at school to see if he can help me find a way to organize my data I will collect. I know they have office hours from 7:30 – 3:30 so I can easily meet with them

3:30 I have soil and feed samples to send to ISU for analysis. Doc Stock gave me contact info for a guy at ISU who can help me get answers to my questions. Might be a chance to do research on hoof rot…awesome.

3:40 Sent an email to Professor Cow at ISU with some questions I have about my cow. I asked him if there is any kind of data pool on this problem, and explained my idea to use vets in the region to try to study my problem.

3:50 Sending an email to my 4-H leader to see if he knows who to contact at the Linn County Extension office that might have information on hoof rot. I could also ask the extension office for a list of 4-H leaders to get more data.