Three Things You Can Do Starting Now to Be More Profitable
When Greg Judy wrote this in February of 2017, farmers and ranchers were reeling from the ups and downs of the market from the previous couple years. It seems that some things never change, so here’s Greg’s advice once more for ways you can survive no matter the ups and downs. There has been quite […]
Read More →What to Do About Runaway Grass
Victor Shelton shared this article with us in May of 2017 – but it’s a problem that comes up for folks every year. Hopefully this will give you some ideas you can use. I can’t believe how much forage growth we have already had this year in Indiana. It seems early, but it is only […]
Read More →Test Yourself – See if You Know When Your Grasses Are Ready to Graze
From May of 2018, thanks for this article go to UNL Beefwatch and Bethany Johnston, Nebraska Extension Educator, Beef Systems, at University of Nebraska Lincoln. You can always find great grazing related information by checking out the UNL Beefwatch newsletter. “We always turn out on May 15th.” Have you heard that before? Does a calendar […]
Read More →Use the Sun to Get Water to Your Stock
This article is from our 2014 archives. I like these two videos because they make learning something new easy – and that’s really important when the grazing season is heating up and you’re realizing that it would be helpful to have more water in more places. Plus it uses a resource that’s almost always there […]
Read More →Surviving Volatile Cattle Prices
When we first shared this article in October of 2016, John started with, “The cattle market is in the toilet. The future looks even worse. Calves bring only one-half of what they did a couple years back. Stocker margins are negative, feeders too.” The graph below shows why he said that. Cattle prices had risen […]
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