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Monthly Archives: January, 2019

Is There One Right Answer?

When I was working for the Bureau of Land Management and stationed at Utah State University, a friend and I started an internship program called...

You Do Not Have to Move Cows Every Day

You do not have to move cows every day to build soil health. You don’t always have to stretch polywire to implement rotational grazing....

A Bull Named Pron

We were over at John Seal’s one day looking to buy some of those big Holstein heifers from Wisconsin that he would go up...

Successes In My Heifer Development Business

I spent my first four years in the grazing business running custom cow-calf pairs. It wasn’t profitable for me and I determined that it...

Relationship Questions

Have you ever heard this?

Help Replacement Heifers Be More Successful Calving and Breeding Back

In this video from Oklahoma State University Extension and SunUp TV, Glenn Selk, OSU Extension Cattle Specialist, talks about the key to your replacement...

For You Bacon Lovers

Sometimes bacon comes before everything.

Maybe This is Why You Don’t Like the Research Coming From Land Grant Colleges

From time to time readers complain about the research coming out of our land grant colleges. "It headed us in the wrong direction." "It...

Lies, Scams, Disagreements, Misunderstandings – The Need for Written Agreements and/or Contracts

We all prefer trusting and being trustworthy, but sometimes things just don't work out without a contract of some sort to clarify expectations. Here are some examples of problems that could have been prevented by having more than a handshake.

Tips for Grazing Cover Crops

When we graze cover-crops we always need to be considering both meeting the livestock needs as well as soil building objectives. The more cover-crop...

Thinking of Seeding Your Pastures?

By this time of year, any seeding of forages would be considered a dormant seeding. Seeds planted now will lay there until the right...

Low-Stress Livestock Handling – Starting Herd Movement For a Successful Drive

For the past few years, Whit Hibbard has been sharing a series of articles on Low-Stress Livestock Handling (LSLH). We've gathered these articles as...

Soil Fertility and Good Feed – That’s Why Greg Judy Unrolls Hay

Back in 1999 when we first started leasing idle land for grazing that needed serious fertility, I designed my first bale unroller. We had all...

How to Save Hypothermic Lambs

In winter lambing flocks, hypothermia and starvation of newborn lambs can account for nearly all of the pre-weaning death loss of lambs. It’s a...

Snowman Humor x 3

For all of you covered in snow this week...

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