Category Archives: Video

More Ramblin’ Jack – “Diamond Joe”

Posted on August 9, 2020 by John | 1 comment

Tagged "Diamond Joe", Rambling' Jack Elliott

“Losing Ground”

Posted on May 29, 2019 by John | 4 comments

I am pleased and proud to have some of my poetry as a part of this moving and powerful documentary from the American Angus Association.

“Losing Ground”

Farmers and ranchers across the country are dealing with increasing urbanization of rural America. With that urbanization brings challenges and opportunities. Hear from five Angus farm and ranch families, including: Lovin family, Lexington, Georgia; Marsh family, Huntley, Illinois, Stabler family, Brookeville, Maryland; and the Cropp family, Damascus, Maryland, about how urban sprawl has impacted them and American Farmland Trust CEO John Piotti about the issue as a whole. The American Angus Association® is proud to present the first film to expose the impact of urban sprawl on American Agriculture – “Losing Ground”—an I Am Angus production.
-Rachel Robinson

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Posted in Photographs, Ranch Journal, Video

Tagged American Angus Association, photography, poetry, urban sprawl

Elko (NCPG) 2019

Posted on February 5, 2019 by John | 3 comments

Bob and I left Elko Monday at 5:00 in the dark and drove straight through, stopping only for fuel, to Dry Creek ahead of last night’s storm that threatened to close Tehachapi Pass. Montgomery Pass was 4 x 4, touch and go, but we made it home by 4:30 p.m. 2.74″ total rain while we were gone.

Sunday a.m. at the Pioneer was a special treat listening to Mike Beck and Denise Withnell make Robbin’s guitar sing above the goodbyes of poets and performers leaving for home. We brought the guitar to Elko so Denise would not have to wrestle her own on the airplane. She and Dave Wilke were backing-up several Sid Marty performances. (Oh what a fine singer, songwriter and poet he is!) The Canadians were a well-represented bunch that included Ian Tyson and a spectacular new voice to Elko, Colter Wall.

WOW what a week, what a blur! Good to be home.

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Posted in Ranch Journal, Video

Tagged Colter Wall, Dave Wilke, Denise Withnell, Ian Tyson, Mike Beck, NCPG 2019, Sid Marty

Video

No Wild Cow Poetry

I made a couple of videos of us working cattle in the new corrals in Greasy to send to my sister who owns the ground and financed their completion. Our cattle handling has evolved since the use of the Kubotas, finding it much easier to lead cattle than to drive them while gathering this steep and brushy ground. Over the years, the cows have become gentler and more cooperative, and having good facilities insures they remain that way. I thought some followers of the blog might be interested.

The first video shows the improvements to our loading facilities and the second demonstrates how we worm our cows for potential parasites—not the kind of action one might find in wild cow poetry, but the way we like it.

Rain

Posted on March 23, 2018 by John | 8 comments

Not much to do for the past three days but watch it rain, over four inches in the past ten days.

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Posted in Ranch Journal, Video

Tagged rain, weather

Babies Everywhere!

Posted on September 27, 2017 by John | Leave a comment

The girls, Allie and Terri, were met by our second-calf heifers yesterday when they went up to Greasy in the Kubota with a little hay. Terri brought back this short video from her iPhone. It’s that time of year, babies everywhere!

Dry Creek Brush Catchers #2

Too wet for us to get off the road or cross the creek, but Kaweah Delta was back on Dry Creek cleaning the lower brush catchers this morning before the next storm starts about 4 p.m., forecast to bring 1.5 – 2” of rain through Thursday. Dry Creek: 236 cfs. Operator: Erik Avila.

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Posted on January 10, 2017 by John in Photographs, Ranch Journal, Video

Tagged Dry Creek, photography, poetry, rain, water, weather

Dry Creek Brush Catchers

Posted on January 9, 2017 by John | 7 comments

Dry Creek peaked at 7:00 a.m. this morning @ 2,526 cfs at the gauging station immediately above the lower brush catchers, minus a couple of teeth, despite the cleaning of debris by the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District yesterday between storms.