by Kit Pharo | Jan 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
The following is a portion of a letter to the editor I found in a popular beef magazine a couple of years ago. It is in reference to getting young cows bred back with their second and third calves. I think it speaks volumes about what has been going on with most...
by Kit Pharo | Jan 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Cows must fit their environment to stay in production. Common sense tells us it is much easier, as well as much more profitable, to change the cow to fit the environment than it is to artificially change the environment to fit the cow. Your environment can only...
by Kit Pharo | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
If you are a cow-calf producer, I encourage you to be honest with yourself when you answer the following two questions. Were you profitable in 2019? If you were profitable, would you be able to prosper with that level of profitability year after year after year? ...
by Kit Pharo | Dec 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Defining and measuring feed efficiency is something I have always struggled with. It’s definitely not as easy as science wants it to be. Science wants to break everything down into understandable bits and pieces. Unfortunately, that won’t work in the real...
by Kit Pharo | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
No matter where I go, I hear people say, “You can’t do that here,” in reference to many of the management concepts we share in our presentations, our newsletters and our PCC Updates. In most cases, there are people within 100 miles of them doing exactly what they...
