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I was hoping for some more specific things.

What are steps your taking to make yourself a better cattleman? One of the steps I've taken recently is planting more warm season grasses and cover crops to graze.

I took some that had expired in 2012 just 'this morning. I had a beer that was about ten years old once, pretty skunky won't do that again.

Don't have the right last name is about what it comes down to.

I'm already there, just tired of here right now. Tenn, ky, and co look like places I'd like to live

Moving east or west is more what we're thinking then north or south. Every time I drive to Atlanta I fall in love with Tenn between Nashville and Chattanooga. What parts of Kentucky would I google?

If I had more acres I think I could do alright here. However there is to much competition from row crop farmers driving land prices up. It's not just that they have driven land prices up it's that if someone wants to sell something they start with one of 3 big operators and offer it to them...

It has some advantages and disadvantages. We're just kind of tired of somethings and thinking about picking up and going.

Wife and I are considering picking up and moving. She can find a job anywhere so that's not a concern. What areas of the country would you suggest that we look at?

I guess I'm aware of what a bad bag is. Just that my two biggest calves were weaned off of cows with bad bags so I'm not curling them for it. I keep an eye on them but I'm not culling them because it's not creating a problem yet.

Well he isn't going to do anything right now but we had a productive conversation

Maybe this should be another tread but what do you call a bad bag? I've had a lot of old timers tell me to look at the calf not the bag. My two cows that you'd tell me have the two worst bags weaned the biggest calves.

In most cases I'd agree, but who it came from would know before anyone else and isn't telling anyone else. Haven't talked to the neighbor yet but hope to in the next few days.

I'd be fine with that if he's willing to owner finance. The end is what I'm trying to do with a lease.

I hadn't thought about rent being part of the calf share. From conversations I've had with him in the past he wants to be out of cattle and row crop in about five years. It's probably to much to think that we could arrange something that'd be mutually beneficial and allow me to completely buy...

He's in his 60's and wants to get away from some of the daily grind so feeding hay and daily tasks would fall on me. I assume I'd pay rent on his pastures and be responsible for hay or should he pay some? I guess it depends on the calf split. I'd kind of like some kind of a graduated lease...

Heard through the grapevine that a neighbor is considering getting out of cattle. I'm thinking about approaching him about leasing his cattle. Anyone have experience as a party in a cattle lease? How do you handle cull cows? Is the owner responsible for any costs or time? What works and what...

I've got an 12 year old cow that I have to take to the vet in the AM to see a vaginal prolapse. She didn't come up the last two days but she shouldn't calve for a month so I wasn't worried then this afternoon I decided to check on her and found her prolapsed. Third one in six years, Running...

I've started buying pairs or 3 n1's. I've been able to find some better deals on proven cows with a few years on them then in heifers. I know seed stock guys that feel like a five year old cow is obsolete because they are producing better off spring every year. Their obsolete cows still have...

I married a Doctor. Let me tell you, her student loan debt makes my farming debts look like nothing.