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Hi Kit, During the past year, I’ve been asking producers who have purchased Certified Tenet® PCC bulls about their cow to bull ratios. There are some amazing stories out there. One fellow told me he had a single PCC bull and 74 cows. He was nervous about the bull...
‘Tis the Season
No… I am not referring to the holiday season. I am referring to bull sale season. From January through April, there are hundreds and hundreds of bull sales. I receive many bull sale catalogs in the mail each and every week. Most of them go straight to the recycle bin....
We Believe
Cow-calf producers should produce cows that fit their environment – instead of artificially changing the environment with expensive inputs to fit their cows. Most of today’s cows could not survive without outside inputs. When cattle prices break, the cost of inputs...
Attitude First
When I’m getting ready to start a major project, define a new goal, or embark on anything of significance, I start by checking my attitude. I am much more productive and successful if I start with the right attitude. Shane Parrish shared a similar thought in his...
Beef Tenderness
The number one consumer complaint about beef is the lack of consistency in tenderness. For the last 30 years, that has been my number one complaint too. I would rather eat chicken than a tough steak. We have been DNA testing all of our bulls for Tenet®. Bulls that are...
Low-Input Cattle
Without a doubt, the most important economic trait cow-calf producers should be selecting for is low maintenance energy requirements. Maintenance energy refers to the amount of energy (feed) required to keep the animal alive. Since this has a HUGE effect on fleshing...
We Believe
Everyone has at least one competitive advantage based on his or her location, personality, experiences (or lack thereof), family, acquaintances, etc., etc. It is up to you to discover what your competitive advantages are – and to put them to work. Quote Worth...
Seven Minutes with Dave Lalman
Most cattlemen outside the PCC® network are in the dark when it comes to annual cow cost and other important factors at the cow-calf level of beef production. They will survive being in the dark until cattle prices fall. This video is only seven minutes long. It may...
Consistency
It’s the middle of wrestling season and I have kids that are struggling with consistency. They wrestle hard one week and place in a big tournament, then they don’t show up the next week and get put out. I was struggling with how to address this when someone shared a...
No Shortage
When I returned home from 11 days of working bulls and visiting South Africa, I was confronted with a huge stack of status quo beef publications and bull sale catalogs. I quickly thumbed through all of them over the weekend. You can rest assured, there will be no...