Herd Quitter® Blog
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...
Three Business Personalities
According to Michael Gerber’s E-Myth book, business owners need to possess three distinctly different personalities if they want to attain the greatest level of long-term success. Ironically, these three personalities have some conflicting traits. The three...
We Believe…
It is extremely difficult for people to make a paradigm shift because doing so requires them to admit they were wrong. That is something most people are not very good at. Most people would rather justify what they are doing than admit there is a better way....
Neophobia
Neophobia is the fear of anything new or different. I believe all thinking animals and people experience neophobia – some more than others. Up to a point, neophobia is a good thing. It keeps us from taking unnecessary risks and making mistakes. What concerns me,...
Do I Need to Test for BCHF?
We have been discussing Bovine Congestive Heart Failure (BCHF) for the past two weeks. BCHF is responsible for around a 7% death rate in the feedlots of the Midwest. Symptoms are similar to high-elevation disease with enlarged brisket, right heart failure, and...
We Believe
What goes up must come down. You can only throw a rock up so high before it starts falling back to the ground. This well-established truth also applies to cattle prices. No one knows how long these record-high prices will last – but we all know they won’t last...
Is There A Correlation?
This is a guest post written by PCC® customer, Mark Williams, from Lawrence, Kansas. He and his family produce and market grass-fed beef. Check them out at MandJRanch.com. Marks sends out a monthly newsletter. The article below was in his latest newsletter. I thought...