Ten Steps To Double Your Profits

Ten Steps To Double Your Profits

If cow-calf producers want to have a prosperous future, they will need to make some major changes.   The sooner they take the first step, the sooner they will reach their destination.   I will review 10 steps required to get on the right road.   These steps are not...
Ten Steps To Double Your Profits

Top Ten Reason Ranch Trucks are Never Stolen

10. They only have a range of 20 miles before they break down or run out of gas. 9.   Only the owner knows how to operate the door. 8.   It is difficult to drive fast with all the fence tools, grease rags, ropes, chains, syringes, buckets, boots, hay, and loose papers...
Ten Steps To Double Your Profits

The Monkey Story

This is a story I used to share in several of my presentations.   It makes a point that most cattlemen need to hear. First, you start with a cage containing five monkeys.   Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it.   Before long, a...
Ten Steps To Double Your Profits

Top Ten Reasons to Keep that Cow One More Year

10. To cull her, you’d have to catch her first.  9. She was your dad’s first 4-H project.  8. If there were an EPD for wrecking mineral feeders, she’d be a trait leader.  7. She’s been in the spring herd and the fall herd several times each — you just can’t buy that...
Ten Steps To Double Your Profits

The Bear Track

Five-year-old Braylee Pharo talked Grammy Deanna into going for a walk in the woods near our mountain cabin.   When they returned, they showed me a picture of a track in the snow.   In excitement, I exclaimed, “That looks like a bear...
Ten Steps To Double Your Profits

Seven Simple Rules to Live By

Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up your present. What others think of you is none of your business. Time heals almost everything; give it time. Don’t judge or compare yourself to others; you have no idea what their journey is all about. Stop thinking too...