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#149 – Summer Hair Coat

#149 – Summer Hair Coat

A slick, shiny hair coat in summer is an indication of a healthy beef animal. Winter hair that hangs on into summer is usually dull, off-colored or dead looking and reveals your least productive cows....

#148 – The Promised Land

#148 – The Promised Land

For years, Kit Pharo has been preaching about a better way to raise beef. Reduced labor, feed, and expense sounds like the promised land, but convincing ranchers to take that step is hard. We’re a lot like cows in that regard, a bit skeptical about the reality of the...

#147 – Summer Home (Part 2)

#147 – Summer Home (Part 2)

Since we've been with PCC™, we've seen a lot of interesting places and met a lot of good people. This week we helped haul some cattle to a remote back country cow camp....

#146 – Summer Home

#146 – Summer Home

Living in the mountains of Colorado, there is usually an opportunity to find pasture at higher elevation. We moved our first calf heifer pairs up to a new summer home....

#145 – Bull Turnout

#145 – Bull Turnout

Our PCC™ Bulls take most of the work out of ranching. Their disposition is easy, they stay in great shape without help, and calving time is enjoyable. I would never go back to the way things were....

#144 – My Boss is a Tyrant

#144 – My Boss is a Tyrant

One of the biggest problems faced by cattlemen is that they are self-employed. They work for themselves, and there is always more work that needs done. They can't get a day off because their boss is a tyrant!...

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Fear of change is a reoccurring theme at Pharo Cattle Company™. We hammer on it because it is debilitating, it stops progress and it prevents ranchers from being as successful as they could be. Most people feel “safe” in their generational routines and fall back on “this is how we have always done it.” To step out and try something new would be a huge risk that most people just can’t fathom. Even if they know they must change, they drag their feet trying to figure...

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