Getting Your Money’s Worth

Getting Your Money’s Worth

When purchasing 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 than...
Getting Your Money’s Worth

What Goes Up Must Come Down

You can only throw a rock up so high before it starts falling back to the ground. As you know, this well-established truth also applies to cattle prices. Cattle prices can only go so high before they start falling. As always, the best cure for high prices is high...
Getting Your Money’s Worth

Cold Water

People are afraid of change. “Change” ranks up there with going to the dentist and doing your taxes as the most feared/hated thing to do. Nowhere is that more apparent than in agriculture where farmers and ranchers would rather go broke than change their paradigm....
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The Exodus has Begun –

Because of the drought, we are relocating all of the mature cows at PCC Headquarters – with the exception of a few old teenage cows.   At this point, we hope to hold on to our bred heifers and heifer calves.   We are sending our cows to four different PCC cooperative...
Getting Your Money’s Worth

Ten Steps to Double Your Profits

Cow-calf producers who want to have a prosperous future will need to make some major changes in their business.   The sooner they take the first step, the sooner they will reach their destination.   I will review the Ten Steps required to get on...
Getting Your Money’s Worth

Time to Change Horses

Visualize, if you will, an old cowpoke riding an old plug horse that stumbles along with its head just a foot off the ground.   The cowpoke represents a lot of today’s cow-calf producers — perhaps most of today’s cow-calf producers.   The old horse represents an...