by Robert Pulliam | Sep 17, 2024 | Herd Quitter™ Minute
Masculinity is one of the most important traits when selecting a herd bull. It should show up in their offspring at an early...
by Jared Luhman | Sep 16, 2024 | Ranching Returns Podcast
For those who deal with snow and ice in the winter, this episode is for you! David and his team at Iowa State are researching swath grazing of sorghum-sudangrass in the Midwest to feed cows through the winter at a reduced cost, and I am super excited about its...
by Robert Pulliam | Sep 10, 2024 | Herd Quitter™ Minute
Many cattlemen like to brag about large weaning weights. Instead of comparing weaning weights, let’s compare pounds per acre, and especially DOLLAR$ per acre. Easy fleshing moderate framed PCC cattle have resulted in more profit per acre for...
by Jared Luhman | Sep 9, 2024 | Ranching Returns Podcast
For this week’s episode, I interviewed John Gutzman, who is running a cow/calf and crop operation in Wisconsin. I really enjoyed this conversation where we discuss the best ways we’ve found to make cow/calf work in this region with high snowfall and crusty snow....
by Kit Pharo | Sep 4, 2024 | Herd Quitter™, PCC™ Update
I believe all people are resistant to change – but some more so than others! Nowhere is this more prevalent than in family-owned cow-calf operations. It often takes over two decades for family-owned cow-calf operations to make simple changes – even when they know the...
by Robert Pulliam | Sep 3, 2024 | Herd Quitter™ Minute
This week my wife and I gathered 1st calf heifer pairs off an 1800 acre brush pasture up on the mountain. This would have been impossible without their gentle...
