Recent content by Brandonm22

I think we are being a little hard on Star Lake. They aren't Neil Trask, Frank Felton, the Coopers, the Holdens, Jim Lents, Louis Latimer, or the Wyoming Hereford Ranch in its hay day who molded and shaped a line of cattle to fit into their preferences (whether those of us on the outside were...

It looks like 2/3s of the Purebred Simmentals at ABS here in the US are black. The rest are solid red. The white faced, "flashy", and yellow Simmentals of my youth appear to be no longer en vogue......in the US http://abs-bs.absglobal.com/beef/simmental_ss_main.asp?

The vast majority of Simmental breeders around here raise black cattle. Driving down the highway you would think they were commercial Angus. I have long since given up identifying breeds of cattle by visual evaluation.

Where beef quality is going to suffer (in the short run) is a lot of these cattle are going to go on feed lighter because the backgrounders and the stockers don't have grass because of the drought. Heck a lot of them are coming off the cow earlier and lighter because the cow-calf operations are...

If the water came out of a lake, creek, river, or stream you can pretty safely bet there is a urine percentage to it (fish, critter, & human). Hopefully the water treatment system works well enough.

I am missing something here, because I thought he said that he wanted to start a "commercial" cattle herd. If you want to be selling commercial cattle, and black Angus is the dominant breed in northern illinois and we don't have a lot of money, time, or numbers.......then I would buy black...

I am not an Angus guy; but think for a minute how much less premiums the Angus guys are getting BECAUSE of those non-Angus calves that won't grade passing for Angus at the stockyard. The repeat buyers know what calves at that yard have done for them in the past and adjust future pricing...

I am not a great fan of Tarentaise cattle; but the 710 cow is just about as close to ideal phenotypically as a real cow can get.

Really he is pretty typical of American Simmentals now. When you add a little Angus you lose a little muscle. When you moderate your birth weights you lose some thickness. When you breed for easy keeping, moderate frame females in a large framed breed, you can lose more muscle and thickness...

Why would a little white on a sheath be grounds for disqualification in a breed that 15 years ago had white faces, white stockings, and often a white patch on the top side, with a white underline???

At risk of getting banned, it HAS been my experience that little red people work a whole lot better in the South than do big Black people. I think that has more to do with culture and how they were raised than it does with genetics; but if we are going to go there...........

All I can say is that it did not bring that when it WAS on the market.

That might work well in Texas. The recession really never got bad there. In most of the U.S., the deadest segment of the real estate market is spec macmansions on large acreage lots. People are too scared to tie up that much money in housing (now seen as a bad investment for the first time in...

George, it is 10,000+++ acres. How much money do you have to have to build the roads, the streetlights and the underground utilities to divide that sucker up into ~8,000 to 10,000 square foot lots? Nobody buys big lots any more because of the grass cutting expense. The last number I saw around...

You very well could be right. I have no geological data AT ALL on this property; but if it is so EASY to ramp up the gas production to $3 to $5 million a year, why did the LAST owner lose everything he had???? If it was worth a lot more that $2700 an acre.......why did it not bring more than...