Preparation for the Future

Preparation for the Future

What are your plans for the future?   Most people don’t want to spend much time thinking about the future – especially if the future might involve change.   Most people hate change!   You, however, are not “most people.”   You know if you do not prepare for the...
Preparation for the Future

You Need A Competitive Advantage

The lead-off article in our 2017 Winter Newsletter was entitled “Do You Have a Competitive Advantage.”   I bring this up again because we firmly believe having a competitive advantage will be the difference between mere survival and true success in the future of the...
Preparation for the Future

Dare To Be A Contrarian

No matter what the business is, very few in that business will ever have a competitive advantage.   Why is that?   The reason very few people will ever have a competitive advantage is because nearly everyone is essentially doing the same thing everyone else in their...
Preparation for the Future

Do Small Cows Make More Money?

By Alan Newport ANewport1@gmail.com  For years, indeed decades, the argument over cow size has been bantered about by cattle producers.   Now, adding to the debate, research from Wyoming shows smaller cows can produce more beef per acre, as well as produce more...
Preparation for the Future

More Drought Thoughts

As expected and as shown in the latest Drought Monitor Map, the northern-plains drought is increasing in intensity and size.   From what I have read and heard, many of the drought-stricken cow-calf producers have procrastinated to the point that they are behind the...