Category: Post Weaning

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?

Smiles, success

Date: Jul 10 2018

You could say Cudlobe Angus began on a whim. The journey from three Angus cows purchased at a sale barn to a more than 600 head seedstock operation that hosts two sales a year took decades of learning and investment risk.

Time and data will tell

Date: Apr 27 2018

“We want to be able to capture the true value of the genetics we’ve invested in,” Billy says. “And to do that, we need to hang them on the rail and see what they’re worth.”

Ovine to bovine

Date: Feb 05 2018

I met Fred Roberts this summer outside a diner in western Wyoming. He ordered his coffee and I asked him questions about Angus cattle. Fred’s a sheep guy, too.

News Release: First class feeder cattle marketing

Date: Nov 21 2017

Riding for the CAB® brand for nearly 16 years, Paul Dykstra has learned a thing or two about “First class feeder cattle marketing.”

Following the calves: The data is in! The data is in!

Date: Sep 01 2017

Cattle feeder Mark Sebranek was giving me a wrap-up on the Hadrick calves, the ones we’ve been following since December.

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.

Don’t blame the calves

Date: Aug 16 2017

Percent marbling in harvested fed cattle tends to decrease from late February to early May.

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.