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I was born in 1949 and sold my first cattle in 1961. It has been downhill every since.

is it just me or does someone need to shovel in more coal? Ranchers is slow also.

Should I use in my feed truck. This will be used to feed multicolor cattle with varied color genes. There could be some dilute r and spotting involved. I would also like help on the best way to compost the spent fuel. Thanks in advance to all of the multi field experts.

Main causes in my area are as follows 1 horns 2bulls not cut or banded 3 off color,lineback,spots,belt ect as in roan 4 small frame5 excessive flesh or overfat6cloudy eyes 7 frozen ears. What gets them discounted in your part of the country?

The old timers said you need to have 1/2 of your hay and 1/2 of your corn on Groundhog day. Is your feed supply holding out with all of the cold weather we have had. Sad to say those below 0 temps are starting the new month where I am. Warmer temps will be showing up by months end but we are a...

I just typed in British white in the search box at the top of this page and it produced 628 hits from this board! Talk to the breeders on here and you will get more reasonable advice.

Everybody is talking the end of the world on corn prices so I pulled the farm ledger out to check :shock: Corn was $1.06 a bushell and gas was$.262 per gallon in the farm tank. Now fuel is pushing $4 and corn is at $5 so that makes todays corn not very expensive in todays dollars. The livestock...

If we did away with all the beef from producers with less than 100 cows[hobby farmers], who would take up the slack? Most people realize that most of the grass in this country does not come in 1/2 sections and sections. What do you think we should do with all of the 20-60 acre parcels? Do you...

Will the corn price and ethanol help the beef industry compete? The ddg make a pretty good feed for beef but do not have as much value for pork or poultry. Will this let us compete a little better than them if they have to use an all corn ration? Could this be the silver lining in the cloud oh...

With all the discusion on ribeyes and marbling , maybe those feeders should be sold by there epd's and not ''eyeballed'' till they are delivered :cboy: If you will buy embryos that way why can't you convince that feeder to buy the ''paper'' :roll: Will we see Superior auctions in the near...

What type of clover do you frost seed into existing pasture? I want to frost seed some in the next month or so and wonder what you use. I have a lot of redclover but it comes on later in the year. Have a lowgrowing white clover that comes early that the cows hunt for relish :D The big prob. is...

Us oficials are looking for 6 dairy cows that were imported from the same herd from the last bse dairy cow in Canada. Do you think they will have any better luck this time around? Just goes to show that there is a need for traceback. These cows were born within 1 year of the bse cow so they very...

Well it looks like there is a good chance that Japan may take beef from cattle less than 2 :D Will that change your plans on selling or buying feeders to make sure they have the proper finish and still be within the age ''window''. Will more price be built into cattle that have been...

I had to shoot a big heifer Wed. and the only option I have is hire a backhoe. The dead truck runs on a weekly route and there is no way I would let one suffer that long. What options do you have. I live in a grain poducing area in Ill. with very little livestock! There is only one rendering co...