Getting Your Money’s Worth

Getting Your Money’s Worth

When you purchase bulls, cost is always a factor – but it should not be the only factor.   First and foremost, you should consider the program behind the bulls.   Bulls that are produced in a program that aligns with your long-term goals are worth a whole lot more...
Getting Your Money’s Worth

Security

When you consider the future, how secure are you with the direction your cow-calf program is headed?   Based on what I have been reading and hearing, many (perhaps most) cow-calf producers lack security.   They have reason to believe their program is not where it...
Getting Your Money’s Worth

The First Step

It has recently come to my attention that many cow-calf producers are upset and frustrated with the direction their operation is headed.   They have been brought to the realization that other cow-calf producers are two to four times more profitable than they are.  ...
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Opportunities To Advance

Nearly all the people, in any business, belong to the status quo herd. That is why it is called status quo. They do things pretty much the same way everyone else in that business is doing them. They are content with being average. They will never have a competitive...
Getting Your Money’s Worth

Top 10 Reasons for Buying a Bad Bull

By Mark Parker 10. Your neighbor took one look at him and immediately began fixing the border fence. 9. Do the math: He only settles 3/4 as many cows but at half the price! 8. Him being a six-way cross — maybe eight or nine — just think of the hybrid vigor impact. 7....
Getting Your Money’s Worth

Cow Size and Profitability

By Kit Pharo For most of the last three decades, Pharo Cattle Company pretty much stood alone in promoting the benefits of smaller cows.   Among the high-input, big-cow, status quo seedstock producers, we were the butt of many jokes.   That did not...