Ag-Visors

With fall here, most are looking at weaning calves and getting them ready for market. At this time we have nothing that is 100 percent against respiratory infection in animals. With stockers and feedlots it is the number one problem. We loose more calves to this one disease complex than any other.

I never heard the word contemporaneous until my freshman year of college, in a public speaking class. According to my professor, a good speech is always contemporaneous; meaning the actual wording and flow of the speech is being constructed at the appropriate time. Pre-planning a speech is always important, but it’s not contemporaneous if you write the entire thing ahead of time and simply read it aloud; and producing a speech after its due date is good for nothing more than a failing grade. Contemporaneous, essentially, means “on time.”

With the holidays over now, we are looking at getting ready for spring time. The first thing I think of this time of year is to make sure our mineral program is balanced right. We are headed straight into grass tetany season. I have seen grass tetany as early as the holiday season and as late as May.

Congress has changed the rules as to how you can convert a traditional IRA into a ROTH IRA for the 2010 tax year. If you own a traditional IRA, sometime this year you will probably be contacted about converting to a ROTH IRA. Under tax law for this year, you have the option of paying the tax due for the IRA in 2011 and 2012.