by Kit Pharo | Nov 30, 2016 | Kit Pharo
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 her environment than it is to artificially change the environment to fit the cow. Your environment can only...
by Kit Pharo | Oct 24, 2016 | Bull Sales
Around 60 people from at least eight different states attended the pre-sale meeting in Valentine, Nebraska, to hear Kit Pharo speak. Kit reports that it was extremely refreshing to be around so many cow-calf producers with a positive attitude, who are excited and...
by Kit Pharo | Oct 19, 2016 | Kit Pharo
Most farms and ranches are family-owned businesses. Some have been passed on from one generation to the next. If you are like most cow-calf producers, you hope to pass your operation on to your kids and to their kids. Although not always possible, each...
by Kit Pharo | Oct 12, 2016 | Kit Pharo
Ignorance may be bliss – but it is a very poor management strategy. Ignoring your problems may be easier than dealing with them, but it will not make them go away. Eventually, you will have to face reality – and deal with it. Sooner is almost always better than later....
by Kit Pharo | Oct 5, 2016 | Kit Pharo
In last week’s PCC Update, I compared maintenance requirements of the AI sires in the latest ABS and Genex catalogs to the bulls we will be selling in our three fall bull sales. Since most seedstock producers use bulls promoted and marketed by the major AI...
