Gail C. Keck

Agricultural writer, indiscriminate reader and opinionated farmer

[Rachel Wagoner @wagonerachel]

Here is my story on Dave Brandt if you want to read it. If you have questions, you can call me, too.

I'll probably answer unless I'm busy with something. If you leave me a voicemail, there is a 50/50 chance I'll return it promptly. You can also text me.
https://t.co/aC5n0i8ZKF

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

Just a little something to make twitter a better place…

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

@wagonerachel Go Rachel!

[Rachel Wagoner @wagonerachel]

“I was told ‘You’re in Pennsylvania so this doesn’t affect you.'" Then, she told the woman at the Norfolk Southern help center their address.

“All the people at the table looked at each other. They said ‘We didn’t know anybody lived that close in Pa.’”

https://t.co/5jWo2CmtZE

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

@ScottIrwinUI When I was a kid sometime in the early 1970s I went with my dad to a dairy field day in southern Ohio and won this Harveststore water cooler as a door prize. It’s a good cooler and I’ve used it a lot over the years, but my dad never bought one of the silos.

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

@grantorino101 If I ever start feeling nostalgic for our old 8430 I remember that wrench and the feeling goes away

[Rachel Wagoner @wagonerachel]

Farm and Dairy is looking for a reporter! The full job posting is linked, but the key thing is you don't have to have ag experience for this position if you have an open mind and heart.

Feel free to DM me any questions (because I'll give you the skinny)
https://t.co/0cu1YAHQfj

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

Just a pawn? I was listing hydraulic couplers for sale online and Facebook auto-filled the add, putting them in the “Toys and Games” category under “Chess.” Oddly, there is no category for “Hydraulic couplers: John Deere old style.”

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

@wagonerachel Well done on this story. I’m curious if you’ll get much reader reaction, because, you know, stigma. But I bet you helped somebody even if you never know about it.

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

@TamarHaspel Ha, good one!

[Tamar Haspel @TamarHaspel]

Beyond Meat COO apparently still carnivorous.
https://t.co/77gL5K166u

[farmanddairy @farmanddairy]

Dean and James Barr have been working with researchers to preserve the complex of earthworks, called the Snake Den Mounds Group, located near Ashville, Ohio, in Pickaway County.

https://t.co/j6LnAZ1byT #history #Ohiohistory #Archaeology

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

@USATODAY

[USA TODAY @USATODAY]

It's World Turtle Day, so let's celebrate all the turtles, on the land and in the sea! 🐢

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

The Senate finally passed a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. Now if the House can just get on board we can be done with this nonsense. https://t.co/92q3xACqC0

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

Dear overly helpful login system: I misspelled the answer to my security question on purpose to make it harder for creepy random hackers to guess. Please quit auto correcting the spelling then telling me I have the wrong answer and locking me out. Thank you.

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

I don’t have chickens, so I don’t mind that a fox is spending cold nights in my feed room. He seems to have taken care of the rodents and I’d much rather see a fox than a rat. I just wish he would stick around long enough for me to get a good picture.

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

This is cool and all, but I think I will keep the hogs in my barn for the time being 😁 https://t.co/iKKZ5o3cGX via @farmanddairy

[Gail C. Keck @GailCKeck]

People think they’re baking from scratch putting chunks of refrigerated dough in the oven 🙄. At least I unwrap a stick of butter and mix it up with some white powders and and maybe some brown goo or brown chunks. I bet my great grandma would look up from her butter churn like🙄.

[farmanddairy @farmanddairy]

The phosphorus in liquid manure can be a problem in areas with concentrated livestock production because many fields already have high phosphorus levels. So Theresa Dirksen has been working with livestock producers to remove manure phosphorus.

https://t.co/v10iXlfI48 #Farming