Your dog rides in the truck more than your wife. You've never thrown away a 5-gallon bucket. You have used baling wire to attach a license plate. You have used a chainsaw to remodel your house. You have fibbed to a mechanic about how often you greased a piece of...

We all know big birth weights can be disastrous in a first-calf heifer program because of increased labor and death loss.   However, there is a hidden cost associated with big birth weights that few ranchers have considered. Birth weight is highly correlated to a...

Good Mover:  Runaway Spirited:  Psychotic Excellent Disposition:  Never been out of the stall Bold:  Runaway Well-Bred:  Sire and Dam are also brother and sister Athletic:  Runaway Needs Intermediate Rider:  Runaway Event Prospect:  Big, fast horse Dressage Prospect: ...

Elephants have been trained and used by humans for over 4000 years.   How is it possible for a 180-pound man to restrain an 11,000-pound elephant with a piece of rope and a wooden stake? When an elephant is very young, it is tethered to a wooden stake driven deep into...

Hair coat is the best indicator of animal health and well-being.   A healthy beef animal will have a vibrant-looking hair coat – slick and shiny in the summer and cuddly-looking in the winter.   In contrast, an unhealthy animal will have a dull, dead-looking hair...

Pharo Cattle Company has had Angus, Red Angus and Polled Hereford cattle with substantial heat tolerance for most of two decades.   For the past ten years, we have been experimenting with the creation of a slick-haired, heat-tolerant composite that would be even more...

From the inception of Pharo Cattle Company, we have always been very different from the status quo beef industry.   In the mid-1980s, we realized the beef industry was headed in the wrong direction at a high rate of speed.   While nearly everyone was focused on...