Recent content by Engler

I have had people tell me if you cut it real short, like scalp it, that you might be able to save it. Much like the watering the heck out of it this needs to be done right now to have a chance.

Where do you want to end up after college? There are some smaller schools that within their region are very well respected, but once you get 300 miles away are thought less of. A U of GA or A&M or MI St or, or, or would all be well respected nation wide but directional Kentucky (or fill in the...

While things are nice, your time is the best thing that you can give someone. Some day, hopefully in the distant future, he will be all stoved up and not able to do what he used to do, or god forbid he ends up in a nursing home. Stopping in to visit him once a month, even for just an hour or...

Devil's advocate here- Just a thought from what I have seen in hoops that weren't full concrete. The deep bedded area was an epic disaster. The owner came back in after 2 or 3 turns and concreted the balance and it was much better. One operation, running fat cattle in it, so take it for what...

What about burning it off? I know nothing about TX pastures, but does it get to the point where you can SAFELY light it up to get all the dead grass/ weeds gone? In my part of the world this keeps a lot of the smaller trees out of it and hits the reset button getting everything back to zero...

From experience you can breed a FB lowline cow to a low BW angus and be just fine. Brother in law had some out of Special Focus (or at least that's what I thought he said) a couple years ago. Father in law has some 3/4 LL cows that have been bred to a Simi and Char bulls and had no problem...

Google Iowa State University Custom Rate Survey, it's a ways from home but could give you a rough idea.

What is you "job" in the service? What are the odds that you would/could be sent to who knows where for a period of time? I know that my wife doesn't mind doing chores for a day or two, but I don't think she would be super excited to do them every day for months on end. IF you were to...

My in laws have a handful of them, some pure and some crosses. The pures they have been keeping pure and selling the steers and second cut heifers for locker beef and been getting along good with them. The good heifers either get kept back or sold as show/breeding stock. The beef that we've...

We recently switched to a vet who has opened a clinic in our area in the last couple years. It put us 30 minutes closer to the office and they drive by a couple times a week taking the kids to school so something of a win-win. We have had to have her out a couple times for problems after hours...

Go to the local feed mill/coffee shop/salebarn/farm store and find someone to help and mentor you. Maybe it's a vet, or salebarn manager or best case an old guy that's been there and done that. A little "free" labor by you with his operation can be the best tuition paid in the school of hard...

Weight is important, but calf shape is probably at least as important if not more so. Take an 85# super blocky clubby deal and you can have troubles on a large % of cows. I never have been around any if the OLD school chi cattle, but was told that the calves would weigh 120#, but they were...

This whole thing has me confused. When we look at the Ferguson situation alone I'm sure there are 3 sides to the story (like everything else) the cops, the kids and the truth that probably is somewhere in the middle. But when we look at the riots on a macro level doesn't it start to become a...

Did anybody go to this? Hot sale? Did they sell everything or just the stock?

You said that you have access to a 50 acre pasture and a 25 acre one, are either of these at the home place? How far apart are they from one and other? I ask because if they are across the fence or road from one and other then you can almost manage them as one unit. However if they are more...