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They need to listen to Dave Ramsey!

There is a silver lining here! You can stop spending money and time on medicine and get her system “clean” and then slaughter her for your own consumption. I’m assuming she can’t walk enough to sell at stockyards or even a slaughter house? I eat all my cows that get down. They are primarily...

It depends on soil composition as to how nutrients will move through them? A lot depends on your soils cation exchange number which changes with soil profiles. If you have heavy clay soils with little top soil, nutrients could stay bound in the upper inches more easily. Hopes this helps?!

I’ve heard a lot of people say that big volume means more feed. Any thoughts on preferring volume over efficiency? Myself I sell feeders and they like bigger frame calves at Bluegrass Stockyards!

This goes to show, the best of our cows are never the prettiest of cows. Disposition is worth more $ than any of us know too. It’s a challenge getting the right ones!! She is worth $4 per pound to you, but would be middle of the road priced at a stockyards.

Dad always said. Best to cull your cow that lost its calf, than to keep her around eating groceries for 9 months to do it all over again! He would give heifers a second chance, but not all them!

If your NH is 2015, it was factory with def and particulate filter and regen. The best part is you have the open track design where idlers don’t have gusseted metal following angle of tracks. That design with metal following tracks is pure **** in the winter!

Dang you sure you’re in Europe? That looks like where I live. The damn freeze thaw we get almost everyday for 2 months or so keeps everything a muddy mucky mess! I’m where Indiana meets ohio in the South corner. Could be a photo from around here, but right now we’ve been in the hardest freeze...

I agree. Bear or Mountain lion is good guess.

That’s definetly a jaguar. The block pattern gives it away. No calf or colt stands a chance against one of them. I believe they stay by themselves, which is your only saving grace! A good pack of coyotes might due as much damage?!

Hi Silver. I have a C175 New Holland that’s used in my construction company and around the farm. I love the stability of tracks. I also like the low compaction when getting first cutting of hay off my fields when the ground is still soft. However, several things to consider are the track...

By the way, I usually fertilize because we are robbing nutrients and it helps keep cost per bale down? I tell myself that, but it sure is $$$$ to do it anymore. I’ll say add $7.5 per round and another $1.5 per square just for fertilizer costs. Of course that’s a rough estimate and rain is...

I’m not too far from you in Indiana. Your prices are about the same as mine. With cut, raking, & tedding being on a per acre cost. Baling is per bale. Rounds are $22-$30 for first cut Second cut usually $30-$35 Squares are $2.50-$3 for first cut Second, third, or fourth add about a $1...

I’m on other side of Indiana. South east corner. We are not too far from Cincinnati, Ohio, 35 miles. We do have quite a few abandon gravel lakes that have some of the clearest water around and are very deep! Lots of sand and gravel around here from Ohio river valley in the bottom ground areas.

Cows think it’s cool enough now to go swimming while calves eat! Sure got hot here in South East Indiana today. We haven’t had any real 90 degree days this whole summer, but the dog days are upon us! I hope everyone needing rain gets some soon. We’ve had a good run with rain all summer.

I have had this barnyard grass grow really aggressively in a nice hay field that had manure applied over the winter before I baled it. I was concerned the cows wouldn’t eat it, but they did eat it once baled with not much problem. If it gets real ripe and seedy, they will pick around it. I...

Intestinal parasites, poison, or possibly mold/fungi in round bales. If they are farm fresh as described being fall calves, shipping fever wouldn’t make sense. Unless, you just bought a bunch of unknown cattle (stockyards)?!

I got a BS in agriculture from OSU (Ohio) and that was almost 30 years ago. Sustainability was the buzz word back then! It comes from the “liberal scientific environmentalist” that think humans can somehow save our planet? Our planet wasn’t created by human hands and I have faith that human...

I can’t agree more. I run cows and a construction company. If it weren’t for the buildings, I would starve with only cows. It’s really sad that a necessity such as food as a business can’t “sustain” a decent lifestyle. Maybe once we get back to basics, which usually takes a major...