#221 – Heat Tolerant Bulls
If you live where the weather gets hot and humid, you may experience loss of production because of it. PCC® has a great selection of heat tolerant composite bulls in our spring sales: Texas April 7, Missouri April 13, and Colorado April 20. Click to read the full transcript If you live where the...
#221 – Heat Tolerant Bulls
If you live where the weather gets hot and humid, you may experience loss of production because of it. PCC® has a great selection of heat tolerant composite bulls in our spring sales: Texas April 7, Missouri April 13, and Colorado April 20. Click to read the full transcript If you live where the...
#185 – Soil Health – Part 2
Here's a real life example of improving soil health through rotational grazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?loop=1&v=1Q_tfg_mYus&list=PLSpP--7TbVItPcvRmNfEugZ0Hu8SfIOay&index=185
#184 – Wild Country
We run our cows with other PCC® customers in wild country for the summer. It's past the middle of nowhere, but the cattle do great up in the mountains....
#183 – Developing Heifers
It's much easier to work with nature instead of against it. We've proven that in our experience developing heifers. We used to overcomplicate every part of the process — now we let nature do the work....
#182 – Rain is a Good Thing
Rain is usually a welcome sight in my part of the world. We received a half inch yesterday and it sure brightened things up. In a country that relies primarily on irrigation, rain is pure gold....
#181 – Long Days
This time of year requires long days to get all the work done. I'm thankful for good friends and "Vitamin I" (Ibuprofen). This week we worked our yearling heifers and put them out to grass....
#180 – Kill the Cow?
In recent years, climatologists have villainized the cow as a primary culprit of global warming. They claim that methane gas (or cow farts) along with traditional farming methods are major contributors to increased carbon in the atmosphere. Are cows the problem or the...
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In Sync with Nature
This is what we mean when we say, “Calve in sync with nature.” We have a 45-day breeding season and calve when nature is giving birth to its babies. We calve from May first to the middle of June. This year, we were finished in 47 days. This doe and fawn were too far away for me to take a good picture. She had her baby a couple of weeks ago, close to the road.