Search results for query: *

I received a special treat over the weekend. Our local sale barn sells hogs, goats and cattle in that respective order. Here the last few months we have been getting run over by goats. It went from being a few goats to a hundred and now it is several hundred a week. It really chaps my...

How long does everbody give it before the train wreck hits? It seems I can hear the whistle blowing. The border is to reopen (which I view as a good thing for the long term stability of the industry), but with the drought in the corm belt and grain prices creeping on up this feeder calve...

I'm real curious as to everyone's strategy surrounding our current high cattle prices. If you are buying what are you buying? Who's retaining heifers? Who's selling everything?

How many of you have heard all the hoopla over the rediscovery of the Ivory Bill Woodpecker? JB

I personally do not think it is any of the governments business.

I have a non registered brangus cow that is structurally one of the best I've ever seen. She is almost too easy a keeper and milks like a guernsey. I would like to have more cows with her genetics in them. Any of yall ever considered embryo transplant on a non registered animal or is the...

We have so many obstacles we are facing with more coming up everyday. What does everyone see as our greatest challenges ahead?

Fats were up 2.35 cwt this morning at 10. Do they know something we don't? JB

Washington (AP) - A second case of mad cow disease (news) may have turned up in the United States, Agriculture (website/news) Department officials said Thursday. The officials released few details, saying it would be four to seven days before the possible case could be confirmed. Mad cow...

It seems that just about everyone here finishes with corn or sweet feed. Has anyone tried finishing their beef with alternate grains. I have been debating finishing a couple on rice or a rice corn mixture. I am going to put up a couple of bins and save a couple thousand bushels of milo from...

Anybody here ever tried to bale winter wheat early enough that you could still cut the wheat. I have another 100 acres that I'm debating on planting in wheat, but I am not going to run cattle on it. I was just wondering if I baled it in early April (at the same time I pull my cows off of the...

Anyone else out there raise hogs. This site is the best when it comes to cattle. Anybody know of a site similair for hogs? JB

What is everyone's opinion on the best baler for the money? If you yourself were going to buy a baler new or used what would you be looking for? JB

How early will an angus bull breed? I have one that is just a calf (8 months) that is trying to breed cows. I didn't think that they could breed until 12 months or so. JB

I have a newly weaned steer calve that appears to have pnemonia. Mucus discharge from mouth, loss of appetite, head hanging low, real lethargic.....etc. What do ya'll guys do in this situation? He's drinking plenty of water. JB

Everyone seems to have a different opinion on this subject, but I thought I'd get everyone to throw in their input. I'm talking no bank payments, all equipment owned outright and good commercial cattle. I'd love to hear what everyone has to say. Some of us think that $25k is a living and some...

Anyone here run hogs with or adjoining cattle. I'm debating getting a 100 head or so as I have a ready supply of feed, but I'm afraid of diseases. Are there a lot of diseases that are communicable between hogs and cattle? I've raised a few hogs in the past, but the were not in close proximity...

Little Nancy was in the garden filling in a hole when her neighbor peered over the fence. Interested in what the cheeky-faced youngster was doing, he asked, "What are you up to there, Nancy?" "My goldfish Died," replied Nancy tearfully, without looking up," andI've Just buried him." The...

Big Flat (AP) - A cow having triplets is uncommon, but not for one in northern Arkansas. Faith the cow has given birth to her third set of triplets. She's also delivered four sets of twins. Only once has Faith had one calf. The eight-year-old Charolais mix cow lives at Cedar Creek...

I am looking for graphs that depict the cattle cycle on an annual basis...not the overall cycle but how prices tend to move through out a calendar year. I know that calves are the highest in April and cheapest around November -give or take, but I would like to see the info in a graph based over...