Week 4



Week 4, day 1&2, Rubber Boot Journalist has been on the road taking photos of cattle.  Did you know most California cattle ranchers have less than 50 head of cattle?







Week 4, day 3, Rubber Boot Journalist is working on almonds this week.  Did… Read More

Week 18






Week 18, day 1&2, Rubber Boot Journalist is back from skiing and settling in to write about cattle. Did you know most California cattle ranches are less than 50 head? Also working on the next book.














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Week 3

Week 3, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist it's celebration time. We got almost three inches of rain the last few days and more is predicted! Will it be enough for farmers?











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Week 17

Week 17, day 1, Rubber



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Week 17, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist, is still working on haylage which is rice straw made into a kind of silage. And good news we got close to three inches of rain this past weekend the first real storm since December of 2012 and more due in this week. Come on monsoon!




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Week 2

Week 2, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist is working on rice this week. Did you know rice is seeded from the air?





 Did you know 95% of California rice is grown about 100 miles from the state capital of Sacramento?  For more information… Read More

Week 15

Week 15, day 1, the Rubber Boot Journalist, hit the ground running (slippers not boots) and got all the tapes transcribed for the prune article.  Now just got to edit and sort photos.  Long day in the office.



Week 15, day 2, Rubber Boot Journalist finished the prune article and… Read More

Week 1

This is the first posting of the Rubber Boot Journalist.  I've worked as a photojournalist for the last 20 years and 15 of those years specializing in agriculture. A year ago I released my first children's originally titled Four Quarts Makes a Gallon recently retitled From the Farm to the Table Dairy. The books are targeted for second and third grade readers and my effort to educate children about agriculture and where their food comes from. Be sure and like my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/fromthefarmtothetable and follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/KathyCoatney. My FB page is filled with information and photos… Read More

Last Child on the Farm



                           

Whenever I pass a freshly plowed field it gives me the same thrill as an unopened book--full of potential, surprise, and pleasure. And just like that book beckons me to peek beneath its cover, the sight of that rich, dark earth ready for planting beckons me to curl my feet into the freshly tilled layers and feel its coolness between my toes.

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Week 14

Week 14, day 1, Rubber Boot Journalist is working on pecans this week and starting a prune article. Did you know pecans are a very small commodity in California, a drop in the bucket with only about 4,500 acres compare to almost a million acres in other parts of the U.S. Finished Falling yesterday and working on the newsletter this week.


Week 14, day 2, Rubber Boot Journalist finished the pecan article and moving to prunes. Working on promo for Falling.Read More