#210 – Most Watched in 2025
Starting the new year, I wondered what topics were the most popular with our viewers in 2025. Content about developing, breeding and managing cows is consistently at the top. PCC® has some solid, common-sense philosophies that have helped Herd Quitters become more profitable. Click to read the...
#210 – Most Watched in 2025
Starting the new year, I wondered what topics were the most popular with our viewers in 2025. Content about developing, breeding and managing cows is consistently at the top. PCC® has some solid, common-sense philosophies that have helped Herd Quitters become more profitable. Click to read the...
#199 – Capturing Profit
The recent high cattle market has given ranchers a welcome reprieve from rising expenses. While our focus has been on increasing income, reducing expenses is much more important if we want to capture more profit in the future. NOTE: We misquoted the OSU study in the...
#198 – Expanding Markets
Describe a profitable ranch: They don't follow the herd They work with nature instead of against it They use grazing as a tool to build soil health They use low-maintenance, moderate-framed genetics They find value-added markets for their products...
#197 – Compare Cow $ize
Why does the status quo beef industry continue to select for more growth when the only thing increasing is cow size? They believe that bigger weaning weights mean bigger profits. Here's a challenge for you: run the numbers on your own herd and compare them to a herd...
#196 – Retirement Questions
Today we had a visit from some vacationing PCC® customers, the Unruhs. We're about the same age, so we had a good time getting to know one another, as well as a great discussion about retirement. This raised many questions, especially how to manage the cow herd as the...
#195 – Preconditioning Calves
This past week I made a trip to the mountains to precondition our bull calves in preparation for weaning. It was good to see them prospering, even in a pretty harsh environment....
#194 – Bull Evaluation
This past week, the PCC® crew finished up Bull Evaluations for the November sales in Nebraska, Colorado, Montana and Alabama. Here's a deeper dive into the traits we score....
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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 eventually death. We also talked about the difference between Pulmonary Arterial Pressure (PAP) testing and BCHF. PAP testing is like taking your blood pressure to identify risk while BCHF testing determines...