Category: Blog

Doctor’s orders

Date: Oct 27 2018

A packer buyer’s favorite cross

Date: Oct 18 2018

Putting it in perspective

Date: Oct 05 2018

The older I get, the more I realize perspective is important. What would be a drought in Minnesota might be a really good summer in west Texas; what is a lot of noise to one family might be an average day in our house full of kids; what might seem cheap to some would be a lifetime’s savings for another.

Hard work, luck and smarts

Date: Sep 18 2018

Sometimes it’s easy to see where a person is and forget where they’ve been. It’s easy to stare down the success in the here-and-now, without even a glance at their past. When I learned Gerald Timmerman won our Feeding Quality Forum Industry Achievement Award, I knew the family in generalities.

Time tested

Date: Aug 10 2018

On my family’s regular route through the Sandhills, there’s a lonely old place, rain and time have left the wood devoid of color. Yet, with its classic, square farmhouse design—and a little imagination—its two upstairs windows make eyes. It sags so much that the porch looks like it’s turned up in a smile.

Doctor’s orders

Date: Aug 06 2018

The Taste, part II

Date: Aug 03 2018

Edd and Nina Hendee were out to dinner, three kids in tow. It was 35 years ago and Edd can still recall, “It was one of the worst meals I’ve ever put in my mouth. Not to mention the service was ghastly.”

The Taste, part I

Date: Aug 02 2018

Have you ever met the president? Me neither, but a trip to Houston’s Taste of Texas left me feeling like I had.

Nothing owed

Date: Jul 30 2018

Groups more humble than cattlemen and women are few and far between, but I’ve often heard ranchers called “salt of the Earth” people.

Dreamers and doers

Date: Jul 25 2018

If you could have one wish, any wish, what would it be? More resources, greater assets, the best genetics or something else?