Stability vs Excitement

Stability vs Excitement

Last week, I talked about doing the things that make you come alive. To “come alive” means to follow your dreams, to make your dreams into goals, and to work towards achieving those goals. I also said stop settling for what’s available and start chasing what you want....
Stability vs Excitement

Profitable Cows

These record-high cattle prices have made most cow-calf producers very complacent. They can do many things wrong and still be very profitable. However, when cattle prices drop, a high percentage of these producers will struggle to keep their head above water. Wise...
Stability vs Excitement

Efficiency

Efficiency isn’t good or bad – it’s just efficiency. Culture ascribes value and privilege to certain words and phrases, and “efficiency” is currently enjoying that privilege. I will argue why that value needs to be stripped from the word. I’ll also show how efficiency...
Stability vs Excitement

Fat — Good, Bad, or Ugly?

Livestock thinker and philosopher, Johann Zietsman, eloquently stated: “Fat is an essential component of sustainable profitability. You can either breed fat into cattle or feed fat into cattle. If you breed cattle to feed them, you will have to feed cattle to breed...
Stability vs Excitement

Faulty Science

I recently heard that 99% of the animal species have gone extinct. When I heard that, I immediately thought, “How do they know that to be true?” When I did a Google search, I was told that there are written descriptions for 1.5 million animal species. That’s good...