Author: Luke Jessup

Luke, a graduate of Western Kentucky University, runs a cow-calf operation in Kiowa County, Oklahoma and keeps a fulltime job at a paper mill. In a previous life he enjoyed vacations in Iraq and Afghanistan courtesy of your United States Army. His wife Kimberly, a nurse, sometimes performs as his veterinarian and with daughter Amy periodically helps Luke out of jams. They contend that he is not nearly as smart or as funny as he thinks.

June 22, 2020

What Do You Do With Your Bull When He’s Not Working?

The bull in my herd lives a pretty good life.  He “works” a couple of months a year and the rest of the time he just, sort of, chills. Most cattlemen want their bull’s working season to last for as short a duration as possible. The advantages of a more uniform calf crop to sell, […]

March 30, 2020

I Couldn’t See the Forest…or the Water, For the Trees

After digging a well and running polyethylene tubing all over the place, my intensive grazing operation was humming right along. Cows never needed to walk more than two or three hundred feet to water and things looked pretty sweet. Then the water problem started. During a dry spell my well struggled to supply sufficient water […]

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