Life Is Simple
Across the Fence
Welcome to May!
Freshly Picked
With four growing kids, our family goes through a lot of groceries. Grocery shopping is probably my least favorite task every week (second only to dusting). The retail giants call me a once-a-week big basket shopper. Every week I look at what’s on the schedule and plan out our nightly dinner menu. I throw in everyone’s favorite grab-and-go breakfast and lunch items, snacks and even consider a couple of big weekend breakfast plans as my list builds, and builds and builds.
Life Is Simple
From time to time, I like to look back and reflect on the many changes that have taken place in the cattle industry over the past 50 years. At times, it seems almost unrecognizable to me, as we’re now confronted with embryo transfer, sexed semen, genomic testing, DNA analysis, and EPDs for every trait imaginable, just to mention a few. Most of the advancements have benefited cattlemen immensely, but….. when I was a youngster, there was not a veterinarian on duty at the livestock auction barn.
Across the Fence
Welcome to May!
Life Is Simple
From time to time, I like to look back and reflect on the many changes that have taken place in the cattle industry over the past 50 years. At times, it seems almost unrecognizable to me, as we’re now confronted with embryo transfer, sexed semen, genomic testing, DNA analysis, and EPDs for every trait imaginable, just to mention a few. Most of the advancements have benefited cattlemen immensely, but….. when I was a youngster, there was not a veterinarian on duty at the livestock auction barn.
Across the Fence
Farmers and ranchers are like a large family made up of distant cousins who live all across the country. While the cousins might not know one another or even heard the other’s name, when one is in need they come out of the woodwork to lend a helping hand.
Freshly Picked
One of the wonderful things about farming is following the circle of life. It’s amazing how creation was planned out perfectly to live in harmony on a farm. Cattle need hay to eat and kindly drop several piles of fertilizer on a field each day. Nutritious grasses pop up after fields receive abundant rain and sunshine, ready for a hay harvest in the spring and summer. The cycle continues and MOST of the time, it all makes sense.
Life Is Simple
I have always been proud to call myself a farmer or rancher, but never more so than the last few weeks.
Across the Fence
Farmers and ranchers are like a large family made up of distant cousins who live all across the country. While the cousins might not know one another or even heard the other’s name, when one is in need they come out of the woodwork to lend a helping hand.
