GriggsDakota

08/15/2018

Happiest of birthdays to Farmer Fred and longtime employee, Casey Lee!

08/14/2018

A little Lukens boy was thrilled to visit his daddy during barley harvesting today!

05/17/2018

Happy 43rd wedding anniversary to our favorite farmers, Fred and Jane today!

Today my parent’s celebrate 43 years of marriage. Here’s a look back at some grand memories from the “early days”. They still share the same smiles and twinkle! They still attend the church they were married in, farm the land my mom’s grandparents and parents farmed and most importantly ar...

10/08/2017

It's a happy harvest for Farmer Fred today as he combines soybeans!

08/28/2016

If you want to show your grandkids where you grew up, would the house still be standing? What about your school and church — those places that gave you roots during your developmental years?One Saturday not too long ago, my mother-in-law, Carol, had the idea to take a road trip to Kulm, N.D. Actuall...

08/11/2016

Farmer Fred is featured in this video and he speaks his mind and experience with John Deere versus CASE IH tractors!

07/30/2016

Winter wheat harvest is in full swing today! Here's a look back
http://www.griggsdakota.com/2014/08/winter-wheat-on-weekend-combining-with.html?m=1

07/05/2016

Canola is in bloom now in North Dakota farm fields. Here's a look back from Jane on canola harvest:
http://www.griggsdakota.com/2014/09/combining-canola-field.html

http://www.griggsdakota.com/2014/09/combining-canola-field.html?m=1

06/19/2016

Aneta Turkey BBQ 2016 success! 312 turkeys roasted.

04/18/2016

Spring seeding and planting has started on our farm and Katie shares on her blog how the choices we have in what we plant brings all of us food choices at our local grocery stores. These are choices our farming family didn't decades ago. Learn more in the link.

Do you ever think about your food choices as you walk your grocery store aisles? I do. After returning from an Easter road trip to Colorado to see my sister and her family, a visit to our one and only local grocery store was in order. In addition to family meals, I had volunteered to...Read More »

04/11/2016

Here's a look at Katie's Agweek column on the advantages of rural life and raising kids who learn to bake, sew, wrestle and so much more!

One of the greatest advantages to living in rural America is the chance to give our kids a simple country lifestyle. We live far from city lights and traffic...

02/06/2016

Hooray for barley farmers!
"325.5 million gallons of beer will be drank on Super Bowl Sunday. One bushel of barley produces approximately 565 12-ounce beers. A little bar stool math tells us that 6,145,132.74 bu of barley are used to make the brews for the game, and that barley farmers are the real MVP."

It’s that time of year again for American’s to gather around the big screen to catch the biggest football game of the year with friends and of course, good food. While Super Bowl food is most commonly pegged in the appetizer department, it has landed the football faceoff as the second biggest Americ…