Category: Post Weaning

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.

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.

Maternal instincts, predictable cattle

Date: Apr 07 2017

Some may take offense to comparing a herd of kids to fresh calves or a mom’s eye to maternal instincts, but I don’t think it’s out of line.

Following the calves: Not in South Dakota anymore

Date: Mar 03 2017

On paper, Mark Sebranek doesn’t own very many of the 28,000 head of cattle on feed at his Garden City, Kan., yard….but don’t tell his heart.

Friends and neighbors 1,000 miles away

Date: Jan 16 2017

When we first met the Keaster family in Belt, Montana, Bruce told me he needed a good relationship with his banker and feeder to be successful.

Worth the wait, without losing weight

Date: Jan 09 2017

The first snow of the season was just moving off the Highwood Mountains to softly blanket the valley below when I pulled into Todd and Charla Prosser’s driveway