Recent content by MO-Ruminants

Tom Lasater said steers were a byproduct of his ranch.

Everyone loves to do something, and some love to convert grass into hay with diesel and iron.

Up to 10% of an industrially-raised chicken is fecal soup absorbed into the "mush-soft" meat from the chill tanks. At day's end, chill tanks have up to 12" of fecal sludge at the bottom from sloppy mechanical evisceraton. Large processing plants douse the birds with multiple chlorine baths...

Costco is a great place to get a 5-gallon pail of dill pickles or a 3-pack of mustard.

Know exactly what you will do with the information on the tag before you tag. I.e, "Do I need to tag?"

Salatin preaches that lean beef can be tender and delicious, and it is to be cooked long, low and slow. For marketing reasons, I too am intrigued with cooking lean beef...I think many a consumer is tired of "draining" cheap supermarket beef.

What happens in winter to 10" fescue that is being trampled now?

Brahman Dilemma....great name for a band.

The article is twisted and unnatural, but there is some truth to the part about indentured servants. I'm thinking of the large-scale concentration camp chicken houses. Farmer loans $$Millions to build 2 houses Fills them with 40,000 birds each Receives however many pennies profit per bird that...

I've noticed we're trending away from seeing others as God-created humans and toward seeing others as possible pathogen-laden threats.

This just to keep your mind open: Rotate a handful of feeder pigs on your pasture or forest. (rotation enhances your land instead of destroys) Run your milk through the pigs. Sell the best pork in the world to anyone who will listen. This may not work in your situation, and you've already...

Were they Jim Gerrish articles in a recent SGF? I do enjoy most of his writings. If I recall, he wrote that this exercise may help us realize that some of our enterprises are not profitable. (yearling, cow etc.) Savory taught a similar principle on enterprise selection, using gross margin as...

AUGUST, N. Missouri: Attempting to stockpile fescue growth for winter grazing. Should fescue based pastures intended for winter feed be trampled with high density? Moderately grazed? Grazed short? Skipped? Paddocks are fully recovered when moving into them.

After a few weeks of closure, it's business as usual here. My longing to return re-affirms my belief that church is much more than a Sunday morning Gospel message. Among other things, it is encouraging, warning, and sharing time with brothers and sisters of like precious faith.

Sheep and goats. My smart answer for everything.