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Fed Cautious on Additional Rate Cuts

A Wall Street Journal report from Feb. 20, said Fed officials were “broadly comfortable with their decision to hold interest rates steady at their meeting last month and offered nothing to suggest any immediate change to their wait-and-see stance on rate cuts.” 

According to the minutes from the Jan. 28-29 policy meeting, the current high level of uncertainty made it appropriate for the committee to be careful in its approach to additional adjustments, WSJ reported. 

Last month the Fed decided to keep the benchmark federal funds rate at its current level of about 4.3% after 3 consecutive cuts starting in September when rates were around 5.3%. 

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A chain harrow is a game changer

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Utilizing a rotational grazing method on our farmstead with our sheep helps to let the pasture/paddocks rest. We also just invested in a chain harrow to allow us to drag the paddocks our sheep just left to break up and spread their manure around, dethatch thicker grass areas, and to rough up bare dirt areas to all for a better seed to soil contact if we overseed that paddock. This was our first time really using the chain harrow besides initially testing it out. We are very impressed with the work it did and how and area that was majority dirt, could be roughed up before reseeding.

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