Is Your Business Sustainable?

Is Your Business Sustainable?

Even if you are doing everything right, your farm or ranch is not sustainable unless it can be passed on to the next generation. For various reasons, many family farms and ranches are not being passed on to the next generation. Since 2017, we lost a whopping 159,000...
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The General

The following is an email from Sean Weinert, a PCC® customer and cooperative producer. Kit, We just sold the first bull we ever purchased from Pharo Cattle Company®.  He was a Total Package son called General (pictured below).  We purchased him in...
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Hard Work

Farmers and ranchers know a little bit about hard work. We are not afraid to get our hands dirty. However, we tend to be not so good at working smarter. Shane Parrish makes the connection between working harder and working smarter in his weekly blog: “Telling someone...
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Blessed In Colorado

Basketball legend, Jimme Valvano, once said, “If you LAUGH, you THINK, and you CRY, that’s a FULL DAY. If you do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something SPECIAL.” Last week, I spent Sunday through Wednesday in Eastern Colorado. Those were...
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Losing Weight vs. Gaining Weight

Last week, I read a short article about bull care and management. In it, a university veterinarian said, “A bull may lose anywhere from 100 to 200 pounds during a breeding season.” While I know this is true – I also know it doesn’t have to be this way. Nearly all PCC®...
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What A Difference Five Years Makes

Your calves are worth nearly three times more than they were worth just five years ago! See the blue line in the Cattle Range chart below. Because calf prices continue to go off the chart, several lines have been added to the top of this chart since January. On...