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What objective measures are you using to manage/improve your herd or ranch? What are you trying to manage with those KPI? Any stories to go with those efforts? I'm interested in all management measures but I was really struck in a different frothy thread when someone said - paraphrased -...

Built a new home and moved in a month ago. It's in the middle of nowhere Illinois. Just got DirectTV so I can watch Cardinal games and signed up for Exede Satelite Internet. Some contractors showed up to install the sat dish for internet and immediately informed me they can only connect to...

I really like single malt Scotch and a good Stogie. Love Oban Scotch mixed with a bit of Coke. It's not quite so peaty as many of the other Scotch's I've tried. I like to pair it with a nice burning cigar. Prefer Cain Cuvee's for the most part. Anyone else enjoy Scotch and Stogies?

So it's pretty clear that certain journalists don't just lean left or right but fell completely that way, leaving no question as to their political bend. At one time, I would have said Bill O'Reilly was plenty conservative but over the last few months, I just don't know. He supports raising...

We just had a Feb 6, 2013 born heifer calve yesterday. Basically she must have been 5 months old when she cycled and either the clean up bull or one of her herd mates bred her. She was one of about 50 we kept back from last spring. Sure surprised us when she got loose in the back end and...

I got a problem with birds. I have a truck load of DDG on the floor of an open air barn and many many thousands of starlings. The DDG pile is covered with one of those blue, woven plastic tarps, only the tarp now looks like a lace doilie from the birds picking at it. I have a barn of horse...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oYl-Lm9a6U Was shopping for nieces and nephews at a Hallmark store of all places and found one of these. Have taken some practice shots and can't wait to put this to use this spring. Got to figure out just how much I got to lead em!

I've seen posts in two threads complaining there's been little to no national news about the blizzard and livestock devastation in South Dakota which was puzzling because I'd seen and read news reports. Specifically there have been complaints that very little is found when the event is...

Looks like they're graduating from Bambi to Gramps! News reports aren't forthcoming with much if any detail. Would like to know what weapon the old man had, when he took his last nap, how long did they negotiate, what was the domestic disturbance about, did they think about letting him fall...

Picked up an app called Measure Map Pro for the iPad gives me a couple of ways to mark out field boundaries, measure perimeters and acreages, view and share the results with others. Can save directly to the iPad or to an iCloud account or to a dropbox account. Can take pictures of your maps or...

I'm wondering if anyone has good or bad experiences they'd share about using EID readers with either Full or Half Duplex tags. What reader did you use? Did you use it directly at the chute head gate? Were you integrated with a scale head? Were you integrated to herd management software? Did...

Weaning calves, palping cows, giving shots, attaching fly tags and using a pour on wormer. Girl wouldn't leave the chute and someone decided "nows the right time to use a cattle prod". I had turned away to reload the fly tag pliers when I heard words which really should never be found in a...

We're looking at picking up our haying/baling/silage productivity and we're looking at 'on baler' single bale wrappers as well as other options as a way to let us get more hay out of fields with fewer people, fewer resource hours and a less than cooperative Mother Nature. One of our contacts...