#165 – Road Trip
This past week, we spent the Thanksgiving holiday with our son in Nebraska. He and his wife custom graze cows and train ranch horses on a ranch near Kimball. Even though this was a working vacation, it made me thankful for the heritage of hard work, freedom, and faith passed down from our...
#165 – Road Trip
This past week, we spent the Thanksgiving holiday with our son in Nebraska. He and his wife custom graze cows and train ranch horses on a ranch near Kimball. Even though this was a working vacation, it made me thankful for the heritage of hard work, freedom, and faith passed down from our...
#124 – Tax Write-offs
This is the time of year ranchers tally up the balance sheet. If you made money, your tax man may encourage you to buy something to avoid paying excessive taxes. Here’s a suggestion. Why not visit the PCC™ Classifieds? https://pharocattle.com/classifieds/...
#123 – Fleshing Ability
If you raise your own replacement heifers, one of the most important economic traits to look for in a herd sire is fleshing ability. Cattle with good fleshing ability will gain condition quickly, maintain it longer, breed more reliably, and do more with lesser quality...
#122 – Fine Tuning
As cooperative producers for PCC™, our duty is to keep fine tuning our cow herd with the benefit of our bull customers in mind. We are continually striving for optimum levels of frame size, fertility, fleshing ability, calving ease, disposition, and grass efficiency....
#121 – Looking Ahead
Optimism is strong at the fall bull sales. Looking ahead, this fall may be the best time to buy a bull rather than waiting until next spring. Only two sales left!...
#120 – Time for a Trade-in
This upswing in the market would be a great opportunity to trade in some of your large-framed, out-of-date genetics and replace them with grass-efficient 18 month-old PCC™ bulls....
#119 – Herd Overview
Sometimes it's helpful to take a step back and get an overview of your operation from a different point of view. From a different perspective, you can see things you never noticed before. PCC™ gives you several opportunities to do that....
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Time Management
There never seems to be enough time to get things done. Like I say, “If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would ever get done!” How true, but also how stressful. We all could use better time management, myself included. A quote in Farnam Street this week made me stop and think about time management: “You don’t need more time. You need more focus. Time isn’t the constraint. Your choices are.” How true! If I made better choices and didn’t procrastinate so much,...