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There is a tool called a "T Post Puller", run you about $15.00 at the farm store, best thing I know to get T Posts out with. Plan on a full day if you are looking to get 200 of them out the ground. While it doesn't take long to extract each T post, it gets awful monotnous after a while. BTDT!lol.

We have our first grass fed steer slaughter a few weeks ago....22 month Murray Grey. My customer got the other half and they called before we had any of it and said they liked this beef better than the others we have given them in the last five years. That spurred me of course to try a...

I pen my new ones up for about 10 days and they learn what is in those white buckets real quick. I just repeat the same process every day until I turn them out to a lot right next to the pen. I bring the white bucket, they right in to eat! After a few days, they join the rest of the herd in...

Moving cattle pasture also has to do with rotation frequency and stocking rates...I didn't have a lot of cattle in the pen up at the house. Made the decision to move them out March 23 here in Southern Illinois. They started off doing okay eating each paddock down but as it as warmed, the grass...

Bottle calf and Bucket calf is a regional thing too. Back home in Arkansas, it was a bucket calf, no matter how it got its milk. I get corrected every time I say bucket calf up here. "Don't you mean bottle calf?" is what gets quipped back to me.

Grandfather gave me some great advice. He said the whole idea is to look at cattle as an investment first, not as a living. If you go in with the attitude that you want to get a better net return than a CD at the bank and you don't mind getting off your hind quarter and getting some fresh air...

Thanks to those that responded. Had already called the vet to come out this morning. I'm not in a real big cattle area here so our vets don't have much exposure to the various illnesses we come across with cattle. Like to have my bases covered and get others insight. Will try to remember...

Got a 9 month holstein steer, wanting to lay around a lot, what looks to be swelling below the eyes with a little discharge. When we bring feed to him, he gobbles it up. He will get up to go get water and lay down again. Seems awful stiff when he gets up, almost like he is arthritic. Anyone...

Wanting to broadcast Lespedeza into about 10 acres of pasture that has bluestem/orchardgrass on it now. It is mowed short. With all the rain we have had in Southern Illinois I thought the timing might be good. Do you think it will take or should I wait until next spring? This pasture won't...

NorCal, Never been to California, but here in Southern Illinois and where my family runs cattle in the Ozarks, you are never too far from a sale barn where you can get odd lots of feeder calves or from a cow-calf producer that does fall calving. We buy our calves at about 350-450 pounds in...

I am by no means a mechanic and I was curious if the posters on this board could tell me if they think my clutch needs to be replaced. Got on my utility tractor I use up at the house, a John Deere 950. The PTO can be engaged and works fine with my clutch, but when I put the tractor into gear...