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We butcher our cattle for our own consumption. My dads side of the family gets together the day after thanksgiving to start the butchering process. Usually butcher 4 steers and 7 or 8 hogs. It is nice to know where our beef comes from and it is very informative to know exactly which cuts come...

I have a very good working relationship with this landlord. Ive baled several hundred round bales for him last year and have taken care of some of his cows on a temporary basis when he has been gone. We would be supplying the bull in this situation and would be buying the weaned calves in the...

We rent some pasture ground from a landlord who also has about 35 head of beef cows himself. He called the other day and said that he had a job offer down in Florida. He said the job would last about three years and wondered if i would be interested in leasing his beef cows and hay ground...

Around here most of the farm ground is rented by the farmers. The land owners have to sign a form to have the subsidies transferred from be sent to them to being sent to the farmer. It is then a common practice for the landowner to have a higher rent than they would have if no subsidies were...

Thanks for the advice somn. We ship our cattle to a National Beef packing plant and they aren't paying us any premiums for non hormone treated cattle so I thought we might as well be using implants. Just trying to find the one that will fit the best.

We are working on our genetics. We have 15 head of fat cattle left to sell out of the 55 head that we raise ouselves and out of those 40 head we sold already this fall, we are running 100% choice or better, 12.5% prime, and 48% CAB on our CAB eligible cattle. Even though we select our breeding...

We have never implanted our feedlot cattle before, mainly because the hassle to run them back through the squeeze chute to reimplant them later on. I have been seriously thinking about trying a controlled release implant such as Encore or Revalor XS. Anyone have any experiences with either of...

We use the calicrate bander on our calves in the fall when we run them through the chute to vaccinate them. They average 600 pounds. We used to band at birth and would never go back. Never again do i have to chase calves that are a couple days old, watch out for the momma cows, and nows it...

We have run into this problem in the past with cattle that we bought from others and everytime we have seen a male unsheathed, its still had at least one nut. We had one this year that was probably close to 1000 pounds before he was caught chasing the only heifer in the pen with the group. He...

We sold our last load of cattle to USPB in Dodge City. They just recently sent a letter stating that they are paying $35 per head for source and age verified cattle. How does one go about getting their cattle age and source verified and also is their anyone out there selling their cattle to...

Sand is used quite often in dairy operations around here. The reasoning behind sand is that it conforms to the shape of a cow when they lie down and therefore keeps them more comfortable. Also you don't want the sand to soak up and hold urine and water, you want it to flow through tha sand so...

I am a minority and didn't know it. Around here it's not uncommon at all for someone to ask you how many cows you have or how many acres you farm and you to give them an honest respectable answer in return. I don't care if people ask me because it's how you manage those acres or cows that...

The sale barns around here don't ask questions about your cattle, but they are more than happy to provide it to the buyers if you speak up and tell them what type of program you have run them through. Also I have had a buyer tell me that he forsees a time in the near future where most of the...

Whenever we have cattle that are finished, I call the Tyson employee in our area that schedules semi loads, and tell him that we have X number of cattle ready. He tells us when he has loads scheduled that has room and what is the base price. Our base price paid for a choice yield grade 3...

I have no idea what the plant average was on those days. The only information I was given was on our check stub that had the carcass weight, carcass grade, yield grade, live weight, dressing percentage, etc. of our cattle only.

All the cattle we've sold to tyson over the last 5 years have gone to the Joslin, IL plant to be slaughtered where we sell them on the grid and so far have been very happy with it. We've had several loads in the 67%-68%, but usually average 64%-65%. That's based on their live weight at the...

Those fats averaged 1225# that also graded out really good with an average size frame.

We sell our fat cattle to Tyson and we had a group of 14 simangus calves dress out at 70.1% a couple years ago. A tyson employee who gets the loads together in this area called us up and wanted to compliment us on how well they did.

Sticks are for cows that want to stop just like locks are for honest people. A stick isn't going to stop a cow that really wants to charge. Seen it and just happy to make it out of that situation still kicking and screaming. Aggressive cows toward people aren't worth the grass and water they...

Our vet told us that if we had a fairly even group of cattle, that we should just figure a weight for the heaviest one and give that to all of them. We do that for the calves and cows that we run through the head chute. Sure does save time not having to stop a guess each ones weight when it...