Herd Quitter® Blog
Attitude First
When I’m getting ready to start a major project, define a new goal, or embark on anything of significance, I start by checking my attitude. I am much more productive and successful if I start with the right attitude. Shane Parrish shared a similar thought in his...
Beef Tenderness
The number one consumer complaint about beef is the lack of consistency in tenderness. For the last 30 years, that has been my number one complaint too. I would rather eat chicken than a tough steak. We have been DNA testing all of our bulls for Tenet®. Bulls that are...
Low-Input Cattle
Without a doubt, the most important economic trait cow-calf producers should be selecting for is low maintenance energy requirements. Maintenance energy refers to the amount of energy (feed) required to keep the animal alive. Since this has a HUGE effect on fleshing...
We Believe
Everyone has at least one competitive advantage based on his or her location, personality, experiences (or lack thereof), family, acquaintances, etc., etc. It is up to you to discover what your competitive advantages are – and to put them to work. Quote Worth...
Seven Minutes with Dave Lalman
Most cattlemen outside the PCC® network are in the dark when it comes to annual cow cost and other important factors at the cow-calf level of beef production. They will survive being in the dark until cattle prices fall. This video is only seven minutes long. It may...
Consistency
It’s the middle of wrestling season and I have kids that are struggling with consistency. They wrestle hard one week and place in a big tournament, then they don’t show up the next week and get put out. I was struggling with how to address this when someone shared a...
No Shortage
When I returned home from 11 days of working bulls and visiting South Africa, I was confronted with a huge stack of status quo beef publications and bull sale catalogs. I quickly thumbed through all of them over the weekend. You can rest assured, there will be no...
Three Business Personalities
According to Michael Gerber’s E-Myth book, business owners need to possess three distinctly different personalities if they want to attain the greatest level of long-term success. Ironically, these three personalities have some conflicting traits. The three...
We Believe…
It is extremely difficult for people to make a paradigm shift because doing so requires them to admit they were wrong. That is something most people are not very good at. Most people would rather justify what they are doing than admit there is a better way....
Neophobia
Neophobia is the fear of anything new or different. I believe all thinking animals and people experience neophobia – some more than others. Up to a point, neophobia is a good thing. It keeps us from taking unnecessary risks and making mistakes. What concerns me,...