Kids, please be careful of the decisions you make in college.
She went from Huntington Beach, CA to branding strs in nowhere Nebraska. This could be you.
17 bulls turned in today on 860 virgin heifers. 50:1 ratio which probably isn’t enough to cover.
We only want the floozies to make it into our cow herd.
A message from a cattle person that you have cattle out, means you have cattle out.
The same message from someone who doesn’t run cattle, doesn’t mean a damn thing but you gotta check anyway.
My top two guys on the ranch took off about 7 weeks paid time off this year. (I took 8).
I think it’s an important management tool for this generation. It gives them flexibility.
Guys don’t want a day off anymore, they want a week off here and there.
55 days without a rain now.
No crops to harvest this fall and the range produced about half.
August 2022 was one of the most difficult months of my career. Good riddance.
I will never be as cool as my dad here in 1984 who’s spraying wheat stubble with a 20’ boom mounted on a cab-less 4020.
They neighbors thought he was loco. Now we all do it.
Was accused by a neighbor for stealing a bull (for the 3rd time).
Buddy if one of your bulls was in with our cows I’d have him out of there ASAP. Trust me on this one.
One of the fun/frustrating things about grazing is you never know what performance you’re going to get until you run them across the scale.
These boys did a 4.2 ADG, 45 days on wheat.
Happy to be working today on my family’s ranch. I am at the helm to take it into its 134th year. One in a billion chance that I get this opportunity but I do. Hashtag blessed.
Prospero año my fiends.
We went from the driest summer in recorded history to the wettest December in recorded history. And now it’s raining before it starts snowing ahead of a cold front.
It’s been a rough few weeks here.
For a million years your ancestors lived in mud huts, sod houses and cramped urban hellholes. They hoped for a better life for their decedents. If you’re reading this you’re among the most blessed humans to walk this earth.
Have a good weekend.
The worst dust storm I can remember today here in Western Nebraska. We have had 2” of total precip over the last 6 months.
And now we are being being pummeled with 65 mph gusts.
A few decades ago my father used the CRP program to enroll prairie strips around all of our low spots.
Along with being cool to look at, it shifted the insect ecology of the place.
One thing you’ll learn when (actual) spring calving is that 100° temps are just as hard on young calves as 30°
We try to calve between the last snow storm and the first 100° day and that has been a tight window the last several years.
On a ranch, you really only control what you spend. Mother Nature and the markets drive your revenue.
The last 9 months have really driven that point home.
Nightmare fuel for a steer man. The range is slow to green up this spring and these boys aren’t happy after coming off wheat.
Thought I’d share some of the dumb shit I do too. Enjoy.
We had two sections of winter grazing that we had poor performance on, every year for decades.
We figured it was the soil (sandy) that caused it.
@T_Eeeasy
figured it out his first year. It was a water problem.
12 years ago today in Panama.
Everything I owned on starship earth was in this photo. Didn’t owe a cent to anyone.
I love my life today but I miss that man.