Category: Blog

One-man show, part II

Date: Aug 29 2017

Jim Moore’s full of these. Life lessons, advice not taken, anecdotes of who said ‘what,’ when and why.

One-man show, part I

Date: Aug 28 2017

“I’m going to be my own person,” Jim Moore said as we bounced around in a beat up pickup, checking cows and talking life.

His answer was in reference to heifer selection, but it fits the cowman’s character.

Record Breaking Quality

Date: Aug 24 2017

For the first time ever, more than 100,000 beef carcasses were “certified” for our brand in one five-day period.

Guess who’s back?

Date: Aug 11 2017

Two weeks ago, my husband and I packed up our North Carolina home and relocated to Wooster, Ohio, so I could begin my career with CAB officially as the producer communications specialist.

Tools that work

Date: Jul 27 2017

Every single rancher I interview who has made significant, directional progress gives a big portion of that credit to studying the EPDs.

Black ink in the Black Hills

Date: Jul 20 2017

The Snyder family’s Piedmont, S.D., ranch hugs I-90 to the east and the Black Hills National Forest to the west.

Genuinely good sharing

Date: Jul 17 2017

Josh and Leah were recorded on video as they met with Angus producers from seedstock to commercial cow-calf ranchers, to a feedlot and finally, at the Price Chopper retail meat counter.

Angus, Angus everywhere

Date: Jul 13 2017

There are 146 programs certified by the USDA. Of those only 97 are Angus programs and only 39 are Premium Choice.

Good stories, part II

Date: Jul 05 2017

Sitting shotgun in his truck, Rick Gurley was right. He’d tipped his hat when we exchanged pleasantries, barely made it across the cattle guard to his place near Huntsville when I knew.

Good stories, part I

Date: Jun 30 2017

Rick Gurley’s a storyteller. You know the kind.

Dissatisfied with a simple synopsis, driven by detail, he’ll settle into a memory and take you back with him for the ride.