The Sky is Falling

The Sky is Falling

Do you remember the Chicken Little story? Chicken Little was walking through the woods when an acorn fell on her head. She immediately concluded the sky was falling and the world would soon come to an end. She ran around screaming, “The sky is falling! The sky is...
The Sky is Falling

What Goes Up Must Come Down

You can only throw a rock up so high before it starts falling back to the ground. As you know, this well-established truth also applies to cattle prices. Cattle prices can only go so high before they start falling. As always, the best cure for high prices is high...
The Sky is Falling

Why Don’t All Bull Producers

✔ Treat their cows tougher than you treat your cows? ✔ Refuse to make an excuse for a cow or give her a second chance? ✔ Focus on increasing pounds per acre (profit) – instead of pounds per cow (bragging rights)? ✔ Develop bulls slowly and naturally on grass? ✔...
The Sky is Falling

The Monkey Story (part 2)

I’m sure some of our subscribers thought I made up the Monkey Story that I shared in last week’s PCC Update. I didn’t! The Monkey Story is based on a scientific experiment that was conducted in 1967. This experiment involved ten adult rhesus monkeys. Scientists and...
The Sky is Falling

The Monkey Story

This is a story I used to share in many of my presentations 20 years ago. It made a very good point most cattlemen needed to hear. Since many of today’s cattlemen still need to hear this message, I decided to share it in on the Herd Quitter Blog. First… you start with...