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Wondering if anyone can give me some help on this one. We have 6 Mirafount waterers scattered around the farm from new to real old. Some have a couple steers on them, others big groups of ewes, others plenty of cows. All but 1 are protected from the wind. It seems like every winter we have...

My brother in law and father in law are super motivated to get into the mini cattle business, not sure why, and they are looking at some lowlines. Since I have any cattle experience I have been drafted as the resident "expert" on the project, but I know I don't know diddly poo about these...

I see on the front page that the Branveigh Ass. hired Ron Bolze. Didn't he just go to work for the Red Angus Ass. from the Shorthorns within the last 12 months or so? Anyone know anything about why he moved again so quick? Problems with the Reds? Personality conflict? Just wanting to get...

I've got access to some super cheap feed next fall. Would it be completely crazy to totally dry lot cows 365 days/year or close to it? I'm not talking about feedlot situation with 200-300 square feet/head more like 25ish pairs on 5 acres. I've put a pencil to it, and on paper it looks like a...

The post on age down the board here got me thinking about using the age and experience of some of our more senior participants on this board. My question is "are we headed for the 1980s again here in farming?" I don't know either way, nor have I formed a complete opinion on the matter, but...

I know this isn't a beef topic, but since we're all going after the same market (meat on the table) I thought that some of you would find this interesting/have some reaction to this. According to reports on the farm show on the radio(WHO out of Des Moines, IA) at noon today Smithfield Farms...

Can anyone point me in the direction of a web site with approxamite values for used machinery. I know that there are some books like the Kelly Blue Book for cars floating around, but a new one is $50-60, and for three times a year reference I can't make that one pencil. Thanks

I've got a new neighbor that has about 20 acres of grass that is having nothing done with it. In talking to him the other evening he made the coment that he'd thought about fencing off half of it and putting the other to hay ground. To the best of my knowledge there is little to no fence on...