Don’t worry, your eyes aren’t tricking you. Those soybean seeds in the photo are really pink. Yes, pink. No, they didn’t come off of the soybean plant that way. And no, you’ll never eat any colored soybean seeds. In fact, there’s protocol in place so that treated seed can’t be sold for anything other than…
Author: Gracie Weinzierl Pierson
The farm kid behind A Farm Kid's Guide to Agriculture. Coffee drinker. Cat enthusiast. Borderline plant hoarder. History buff. Lover of all things agriculture. Co-host of AgBookClub. Find my posts on FarmKidBlog.com and AgBookClub.com. Follow me on Twitter at @FarmKidBlog.
Apple Cookies
November is here and with it comes fall baking. My parents had an abundance of apples this fall from the three apple trees in their orchard…which means I was sent home with a bag of apples nearly every time I visited. Apple pie, apple crisp, apple sauce, apples dipped in caramel, apple salad, apple cookies–…
Rain, Rain, Go Away
If you live in the Midwest, you may have noticed that it’s been raining an awful lot this summer. Typically, we hear more complaints from farmers about not enough rain while obsessively checking the radar and tracking any green speck that may be moving into the region. While drought can be devastating, too much rain…