It’s still hot and dry at the Kerr Center, and, while the staff are working hard, the livestock are taking it easy: Recently, the livestock team, accompanied by Kerr Center President and CEO Jim Horne, met to discuss the pastured hog operation here at the ranch. All of the Kerr Center hogs are purebred Large…

The grasshoppers have settled in for good. I can hardly walk through the gardens without a grasshopper clumsily hitting me in the head. We usually don’t suffer too much crop damage from this summer insect, but this year has been more of a struggle. Probably because the drought is burning up most of the vegetation…