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I have abandoned my solar pump....it was to pump water from my neighbors pond.....my neighbor and I were cattle partners.....after he died several years ago from cancer, his sons maintained ownership for a few years..... my solar system is now idle. originally I pumped water from my neighbor's...

no angus....I only haad a few when we had the barn fire in 2021.....took my feed , tractor, cattle facilities which were in the barn....the few cows I had went to my sons that afternoon. currently raising some red angus heifers for a neighbor

I was a pretty good rider back in the day...... but thank goodness I was not good enough to try my hand at rodeo..... and then too rodeo was pretty rare in Virginia when I was young so there was not so much temptation

Hello to all my old friends....... hoping to make some new ones from those who have joined since my last post that was some time in 2020 life has changed a lot in the last few years. my wife had a life ending stroke in 2018. my best friend and horseback riding partner, battled cancer for two...

yes I did forget that distinction as I scrolled thru the thread.....but 69 lbs is a pretty heavy application depending on the growth stage and growing conditions...

Well it has to happen as the power companies are being penalized for non environmentally friendly generation methods....People dont want coal fired plants....people don't want nuclear plants, people dont want oil fired generation....but they all want to hit the switch and have the lights come...

there are numerous private labs around the country that can do a basic soil test. most of the land grant universities also will do a good job of testing....in our state the university testing is free for bonafide agricultural producers... the interpretation of the results is the key.....even...

I didn't catch where you are.... I am in virginia. the extension service in our state gets a lot of lip service but it is no longer an essential part of the university and is constantly under funded and they have bought out all of the older experienced agents..... be that as it may.... here...

only have a few any more....but I am going back again this year to Balgain of Wye. this falls calves by him are uniform and stout and growing well and well made. I am just dumb enough to repeat it..... He has been a top performing sire in the Wye herd for a couple of years now and when I saw him...

one iteration of cover crops is not going to do much.....consecutive cover crops and grazing them rotationally will build the soil....in fact the cover crop grazing will outperform grass grazing in tonnage and nutrition. the trick is to keep your seeding cost under control these days....try a...

In our part of the country Labor day is what I recommend as the cut off date for planting them....planting them after mid september is a waste of money they winter kill when it gets down to the upper teens at night...17 18 or so.... so they have to have the degree growing days of the early fall...

here is the cinch I have been using for about ten years.....got a new saddle and so I bought a new cinch this past weekend.... https://www.bigdweb.com/product/code/35-2470.do?gclid=Cj0KCQiAk53-BRD0ARIsAJuNhpsWaEikSy5WXVH467VGAlPoQ5Oj6zIVm2kbdK8WKHK2tyUOD8WKs4gaAgXdEALw_wcB

last couple of times I have had semen shipped in there was a note that ups would return in so many days to pick up the shipping container......all I had to do was transfer the semen to my tank.

this is what I was going to suggest .....using an alley rather than a pie shape....often the far ends of pie slices do not get grazed evenly and the close ends are abused. the more paddocks you have and the more often you move them the better your grass will be. avoid over grazing and...

I started doing this when we were breeding 40 cows and I was doing it all by myself..... and it has worked so well that it is second nature to me now years alter....

Last evening I began the breeding synchrony shots for my now small herd of cows...I don't have many any more but still want to breed them to great bulls.... I use the Michigan G6G protocol which no one uses because it involves six trips thru the chute over a nineteen day period.... the...

LOOK LIKE YA DONE GOOD....

when we used good bulls out of our best cows.....it moved our herd ahead.....this was a registered angus herd and in the beginning all the cleanup bulls were sons of AI bulls....and out of our top cows...eventually we had calves from our bulls that were outperforming the calves from the AI bulls.

off topic.....i read this thread all the way thru because I have been shopping for something to do limbing with.... about a year and a half ago I bought a small stihl it think it is a 170.....bought it to clean up fence lines that I had to put a hot wire on....my farm boss was wearing my...

colostrix was the first and it worked every time I used it...with only three cows I don't stock it any more