You Need A Competitive Advantage

You Need A Competitive Advantage

The lead-off article in our 2017 Winter Newsletter was entitled “Do You Have a Competitive Advantage.”   I bring this up again because we firmly believe having a competitive advantage will be the difference between mere survival and true success in the future of the...
You Need A Competitive Advantage

Dare To Be A Contrarian

No matter what the business is, very few in that business will ever have a competitive advantage.   Why is that?   The reason very few people will ever have a competitive advantage is because nearly everyone is essentially doing the same thing everyone else in their...
You Need A Competitive Advantage

Do Small Cows Make More Money?

By Alan Newport ANewport1@gmail.com  For years, indeed decades, the argument over cow size has been bantered about by cattle producers.   Now, adding to the debate, research from Wyoming shows smaller cows can produce more beef per acre, as well as produce more...
You Need A Competitive Advantage

Drought Thoughts

Other than the terrible drought in California, we have not had much reason to discuss drought in our weekly emails or quarterly newsletters since the spring of 2013.   For twelve years prior to that, however, we spent an inordinate amount of time discussing drought.  ...