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Joe Peck cultivates bushels of farm humor in his new book

Joe Peck has managed to balance the neat trick throughout his lifetime of being a full-time farmer and a part-time Renaissance man.

Peck's wit and wisdom of life on the farm has been honed through the years. He has talked a lot to audiences and written for a variety of publications. His often humorous accounts have been published in the collection 'A Tractor In The House & Other Smashing Farm Stories.'  Full Story
Author find humor in farm life
He writes the words, his wife corrects the grammar, and between the two of them, the laughter rarely ceases.

"She's my editor -- I have to listen to her," said Joe Peck, author of "A Cow in the Pool and Udder Humorous Farm Stories."

"He lets me correct the spelling, but if it's about content, we have to have a focus group with our children," added his wife, Pat Peck, at a book signing for Joe's new book, "A Tractor in the House and Other Smashing Farm Stories." Full Story

Local Books

by Lisa Stevens
Times Union Sunday December 23, 2001
  You'll be laughing until the cows come home with Joe Peck's bovine beauty of a collection, "A Cow in the Pool & Udder Humorous Farm Stories"
  These delightful tales of life on the farm milk every aspect of the business- and leave you wanting more.  Peck is a wonderfully funny storyteller.  The Author lives on his farm and enjoys the rural live in Saratoga County.    

Local farmer milks cows, tells jokes, writes book

It's hard enough to run a small family farm nowadays. Imagine being a farmer with a story deadline to meet.
 
For more than 10 years, town of Saratoga dairy farmer Joe Peck has gotten the cows milked on time and written a column for publications such as American Agriculturalist magazine, which goes out to 35,000 farmers monthly.

Now Peck has gathered some of his favorite columns in a book, "A Cow in the Pool & Udder Humorous Farm Stories." The self-published volume, nicely produced and complete with drawings and caricatures by Andrew R. Taormina, has been selling briskly at libraries, feed stores and some of the numerous speaking engagements which Peck, a member of the National Speakers Association and Toastmasters, enlivens annually. Full Story

Farm life is funny for farmer-writer
Joe Peck started writing a humorous column about farm life more than 10 years ago.
 
He's done more than 100 columns, many written free of charge for Cooperative Extension's agricultural news magazine that circulates in several Capital Region counties.
 
Those musings of life on his dairy farm in the town of Saratoga have been collected in a 230-page book called "A Cow in the Pool, & Udder Humorous Farm Stories.'' It's filled with funny stories, and is available at Borders Books on Broadway, Saratoga Springs and Olde Saratoga Books in Schuylerville. It costs $14.95. Full Story
Help! There's a cow in my pool
Except for his college years, the farmer, author and humorist has always lived on Peckhaven Farm, just outside of Saratoga Springs. That farm has been in the family for quite a while.

''My grandfather bought the farm from the Wagmans in 1919,'' Joe said.

The Wagmans, who had owned the farm since the early 1800s, were related to the Pecks by marriage.

In 2000, the New York State Agricultural Society presented Peckhaven Farm with the Century Farm Award, given to farms that have been owned by the same family for more than 100 years.

Peckhaven Farm has changed since Joe's childhood. Full Story
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Dads Will Love 'A Cow in The Pool'
Murphy's Law - "whatever can possible go wrong will" - rings especially true with cows, contends New York dairyman Joe Peck.

Here are the ones he's been able to identify:

• When two cows are due on the same day, the one left out in the freestall area will always freshen before one you put in the well bedded box stall.

• When sorting cattle, the one you want will always be cut off by the one you don't want.

• The cows are always down on milk on test day.

• The breeder only calls in early on the days you call in late.

• If your wife insists that you finish chores early for a special event, either the motor will burn up on the vacuum pump or some catastrophe will force you to call the vet. His "Peck's corollary" is: "If there is no deadline, chores will be uneventful and you will finish right on schedule.

• The wetter the lawn, the greater the chance the cows will get out during the night.

This is just one of the gems this Saratoga Springs, New York producer shares in a new book titled, "A Cow In The Pool and Udder Humorous Farm Stories." At $19 (which covers tax and postage), it's the perfect Father's Day gift - one guaranteed to keep Dad's eyes open when he relaxes in his recliner after evening chores. This 232-page compilation of over 100 entertaining tales and tractor musings by Joe is good medicine for those days when the price of milk drops, it rains on the hay and your highest producer steps on a teat.  
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Knee-deep in manure:  Reporter learns what it takes to be a farmer
I was a soldier in a mine field looking for a downed comrade whose very life depended on getting a yellow ear tag. Or, at least, that's what I told myself as I pushed through the slurry of manure trying to keep my breakfast down.

I was flanked on either side by black-and-white rear ends, but like a good soldier, I pushed on, praying to God that my $14 Wal-Mart boots would hold out. And then, in the dim light of the cow barn, I spotted No. 926, and sure enough, she was missing one of her tags.

To an outsider, just making it through one day at a dairy farm can feel like a "Saving Private Ryan"-scale achievement. But to guys like Joe Peck, it is just another day at work.  Full Story
Laugh till the Cows Come Home Reading Joe Peck's Udder Nonsense 
Saratoga County author Joe Peck doesn't mind if people say he's "milking" his life as a dairy farmer for all it's worth -- just as long as they "laugh until the cows come home when they turn the pages of his book." Aptly titled "A Cow in the Pool & Udder Humorous Farm Stories," Peck's knee-slapping 230-page collection of musings draws upon his experiences at Peckhaven Farm.  Full Story