Another..."last" update.

[clarkmorefarm]

@Warren Allison , don't know if you saw in another post where I mentioned it.... but my son has an app on his phone called "MUD FLAP"... he gets a really good discount on diesel... it tells you the cheapest fuel around where you are... I don't know all the particulars... but you ought to check it out... He has used it here at the Petro fuel station, the Pilot station, and sometimes the cheaper fuel was at the local "no name" station.... he has saved anywhere from $.25 to as much as $.80 PER GALLON.... He can buy it cheaper at the stations than he can get it delivered to the farm for off road fuel sometimes......

Thanks, Jan. I will check it out!!

Look into the RV fuel program called Open Roads, it is an app that you can use to find truck stations in network and get a discount at. You basically join the network and get issued a Fleet Card from the company. They'll invoice you and take from your bank account via ACH. Has saved me a lot on diesel fuel over the years, plus you can fill up at the truck lanes with the big pumps without having to go inside and give them a credit card. I use it a Love's and Speedway's often.

Link --> https://myopenroads.com/

 

[Warren Allison]

Look into the RV fuel program called Open Roads, it is an app that you can use to find truck stations in network and get a discount at. You basically join the network and get issued a Fleet Card from the company. They'll invoice you and take from your bank account via ACH. Has saved me a lot on diesel fuel over the years, plus you can fill up at the truck lanes with the big pumps without having to go inside and give them a credit card. I use it a Love's and Speedway's often.

Link --> https://myopenroads.com/

Thanks!!

 

[Warren Allison]

Scott just left to go get a load. My grandson just got back with some, and he is going back with them to get another load, too. Zeke is going with Scott, and they are taking Zeke's truck! Scott is letting him to do the driving on the way down, He said if he does ok, he will let him drive some on the way back, too. It will be dark though, so he will just have to see. Probably 4 hours down there, and maybe 5 coming back with a load. They are just taking Scott's 24' aluminum, so not a very heavy trailer. But I told Scott he better go by the bank and get a wad of money! That thing might get 10mpg!! Zeke is so excited! Poor ole Scott, though. They have put a CB in Zeke's truck!! Scott told him if he driving, he can't talk on the CB....only while Scott is driving! I decided to just wait and go with Clay and Mike tonight. We will leave about 1 or so, to get there at daylight. No need at getting down there in the middle of the night, like we would if we left after work. Grandson said there is no lights at all out where they have the cattle corralled. Gonna get Scott and grandson to go back, too, so we will have 5 trailers down there in the morning. Should be able to get what's left on that trip. Might not need 5, just have to wait til they get back tonight to see how many they have hauled already. Grandson brought 24 on his load while ago. Scott said they were all 750-800 lb cows and in good condition.

 

[Warren Allison]

Dunno why it posted twice

 

[Hippie Rancher]

This ought to be good news for US ranchers selling cattle, though. Corrientes are just a small fraction of the cattle imported from Mexico. The ones sold every week in Santa Teresa, are red Angus, Brangus, Beefmaster, and Limousine, They sometimes have a few Char and Char crosses...mostly from one producer in Chihuahua, and another sends some f1 Brahma crosses.

that is interesting. I haven't been all over the state, but mostly what I see are brangus. well, criollos in the barrancas, but on the ranches I have been through it was mostly all brangus.

 

[Warren Allison]

that is interesting. I haven't been all over the state, but mostly what I see are brangus. well, criollos in the barrancas, but on the ranches I have been through it was mostly all brangus.

Watch the Santa Teresa sale on THursdays on dvauction. They just sell heifers and steers, and these are bought by US buyers and go to US feedlots. They always announce the ranch they came from, the elevation of the ranch, and the vaccines, worming, dips etc they have had. And they announce what kind of bulls they are by. Red Angus and Limosine are the most, then red Brangus, then Brangus, then Beefmaster ( one ranch uses BM, I think). They also announce if the mommas were registered or commercial. It is amazing at the prices they bring. A 700 lb red-angus type steer form there will be taller, and longer than a 700 lb US steer would be. These cattle have very little fat. They are muscled and conditioned like a performance or race horse. So, when they hit the feedlots, they really pack on the weight. Talking to some of the people there, they say it is because they have to travel a lot for food and water. I see very little Corr cross come through. When they do, the auctioneer says he will give a 15 - 20 cent discount on whatever that animal's number is. This is for those colored up like a Corr. There will be as many red cattle as black in most lots. Sometimes more. Very few, if any, yellows or smokies.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

Watch the Santa Teresa sale on THursdays on dvauction. They just sell heifers and steers, and these are bought by US buyers and go to US feedlots. They always announce the ranch they came from, the elevation of the ranch, and the vaccines, worming, dips etc they have had. And they announce what kind of bulls they are by. Red Angus and Limosine are the most, then red Brangus, then Brangus, then Beefmaster ( one ranch uses BM, I think). They also announce if the mommas were registered or commercial. It is amazing at the prices they bring. A 700 lb red-angus type steer form there will be taller, and longer than a 700 lb US steer would be. These cattle have very little fat. They are muscled and conditioned like a performance or race horse. So, when they hot the feedlots, they really pack on the weight. Talking to some of the people there, they say it is because they have to travel a lot for food and water. I see very little Corr cross come through. When they do, the auctioneer says he will give a 15 - 20 cent discount on whatever that animal's number is. This is for those colored up like a Corr. There will be as many red cattle as black in most lots. Sometimes more. Very few, if any, yellows or smokies.

Definitely some good cattle down there. Lots are Mormon owned ranches.
Good working horses too.

 

[Warren Allison]

Well, they got back with 48, so that's half of them. I am going to take that 44', tri-axle aluminum down there in the morning, and Scott will take it after anther load. Grandson is staying down there in my camper, and he is going back for another load, too. They gonna let Zeke go with his little rig again, too. His pulp wood buddy is gonna go with him. It's just under 200 miles--most of it is on-I-75. Grandson did it in 3 hours both ways. They were a little more than 4 hours the 2nd trip, with Zeke taking his truck, So, just gonna get down there in time for them to leave at 8AM. They will get down there before 12pm, and should get back after 4.. maybe 5PM tomorrow. I am not gonna go. I am paying $140k for these cows, so I am gonna let the others do the hauling!

These 156 will put us at around 670 head. Good thing I found these, because no telling when we can get cattle out of El Paso again. Roe Hulio(sp) could go ahead and buy those bulls and get them into his place in Chihuahua, but no telling when he'd be able to send them on to the people he is buying for. No word yet what the central and south American countries are doing...if anything... about the Mexican cattle. I think he sends them to a port on the Carribean side of extreme south eastern Mexico to ship, and that is in the Mexican state where the screw worms were found. I dunno.. I am not in that business...Roe Hulio and Wayne are. I just brokered the deal to make a little money to pay for the 3k mile roundtrip to get ours.

I didn't really want to get this many cows right now...wanted to wait til spring/summer and let the newer pastures get a good running start first. But, Scott still has over 100 rolls of 2023 hay, and dunno how many of this year's. We have plenty to feed if we have to, and looks like we will, some. Supposed to be in the 20's some mornings for the next week, and that will be the end of the Kudzu. Good thing is, these 156 will all have black polled calves that will fit in Mike's program, in 5 or 6 months, so next Oct-Nov we will sell them for about 125% of what the momma cows cost. Even with feeding hay, still gonna come out in the black, but not as good as I'd like. Feeding that hay, though, just destroys the business model that we have done so well with for the past 20 years or so. But...things change... times change....you have to be able to adjust to keep going.

 

[Warren Allison]

Well, they took off a little before 8 this morning, and should be back about 4. I am just gonna hang out here in the camper til they get back. When it warms up a little more, I will saddle a horse and go check on all the others here and across the road at the old row crop land. Fed the ones we already had hauled some hay rolls this morning . We have them in the arena here at the Kudzu place. Once we get them here, we gonna have to decide what to do with them . I am coming back down Friday after Thanksgiving, to shoot some birds and move some cattle around. Getting these made us have 684 Corr cows now! We will have all 1229 acres in good pasture by this time next year, but right now we only have about 650 established well. I wouldn't feel so bad if I lived down here and could help with feeding the hay and all. So, we are going to average about 60-something calves a month to tag and band, and the same amount each month to wean and ship out. But Mike sends Clay and another cowboy down here to help with that and they haul them back to his place. Lot more work than when we used to have 100-120 calving in February, Back then we spent one day in March rounding them up and tagging and banding, then one day around Labor Day loading them up to carry to the sale. I'm sorry...I just get to thinking about all of that when I am sitting around doing nothing, and ask myself: "Why in the h*// did I want to expand like this?" I told Scott this morning: "Remember when we sold out in 2022, when we were both having health issues, and we decided we were just going to turn the Kudzu place back into just our hunting preserve?! What happened to that plan?!!" He said: " I dunno...you know Zeke found that old Jersey cow and captured her, then you decided to get some more nurse cows. Then you decided to buy that land next to us. It all went down hill from there! But, we'd probably both be dead by now, if we just completely retired and just fished all the time!" Ok., gonna go saddle up now, and go ride to check on this *&^@#!% cattle empire I have gotten myself into!

 

[Warren Allison]

Darn thing posted twice again so this is where I deleted one.

 

[MurraysMutts]

Well, they took off a little before 8 this morning, and should be back about 4. I am just gonna hang out here in the camper til they get back. When it warms up a little more, I will saddle a horse and go check on all the others here and across the road at the old row crop land. Fed the ones we already had hauled some hay rolls this morning . We have them in the arena here at the Kudzu place. Once we get them here, we gonna have to decide what to do with them . I am coming back down Friday after Thanksgiving, to shoot some birds and move some cattle around. Getting these made us have 684 Corr cows now! We will have all 1229 acres in good pasture by this time next year, but right now we only have about 650 established well. I wouldn't feel so bad if I lived down here and could help with feeding the hay and all. So, we are going to average about 60-something calves a month to tag and band, and the same amount each month to wean and ship out. But Mike sends Clay and another cowboy down here to help with that and they haul them back to his place. Lot more work than when we used to have 100-120 calving in February, Back then we spent one day in March rounding them up and tagging and banding, then one day around Labor Day loading them up to carry to the sale. I'm sorry...I just get to thinking about all of that when I am sitting around doing nothing, and ask myself: "Why in the h*// did I want to expand like this?" I told Scott this morning: "Remember when we sold out in 2022, when we were both having health issues, and we decided we were just going to turn the Kudzu place back into just our hunting preserve?! What happened to that plan?!!" He said: " I dunno...you know Zeke found that old Jersey cow and captured her, then you decided to get some more nurse cows. Then you decided to buy that land next to us. It all went down hill from there! But, we'd probably both be dead by now, if we just completely retired and just fished all the time!" Ok., gonna go saddle up now, and go ride to check on this *&^@#!% cattle empire I have gotten myself into!

I hate it when that happens!!

I remember a short time back I sold all but 4 cows and I was gonna put it on cruise control. Just keep my 4 pets and worry about a bull later.

Then ended up buying "deals" here and there. Drought came in, and prices took a dip. I snatched up what I could. About 50 head on 44 acres. Droughted out anyways may as well feed hay and make a little money.

But what a tangled web we weave.....

 

[kenny thomas]

She had a black bull calf today from one of my Simmental bulls. She would not let me within 40 yards of it. Within a few days she will let me grab her horns again i bet.

 

[wbvs58]

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She had a black bull calf today from one of my Simmental bulls. She would not let me within 40 yards of it. Within a few days she will let me grab her horns again i bet.

I'm sure you could've grabbed her horns today Kenny. Looks like the trajectory would be back over her head.

Ken

 

[coachg]

Heads up everyone. Warren has been banned from the forum . No explanation. I'll probably get it too for posting this . Crying shame a public forum practices censorship. . I haven't read anything Warren has posted that broke any rules .

 

[farmerjan]

Yeah, this sucks big time.... there are a few that seem to egg everyone on and they keep on....

 

[SeGaSthrncwboy]

Heads up everyone. Warren has been banned from the forum . No explanation. I'll probably get it too for posting this . Crying shame a public forum practices censorship. . I haven't read anything Warren has posted that broke any rules .

This is the guy that I registered as a member, to be able to contact him! Only now, you can not pull up his account to PM him. I did notice that a post he made on the Mexican Screw Worm discussion earlier this week has been removed, so maybe he was kicked off because of that one? @Warren Allison, if you can still read this as a guest, my email is [email protected]. I want to talk with you about the Brangus bulls you use with those Corriente cows. Or, if anyone reading this has his email address, and/or phone number, would you PM me? Thank you.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Officials should have to explain why they ban someone. I enjoy Warren. Some OTHER people on here like to push buttons.

 

[Travlr]

Officials should have to explain why they ban someone. I enjoy Warren. Some OTHER people on here like to push buttons.

Well I call it calling him out on his poor advice and self-promotion, but if you want to call it pushing buttons I'm fine with that too. I like Warren, but that doesn't mean I don't see what he's doing.

 

[puzzled in oregon]

Perhaps there should be a CT Court. It could have a jury of 5, with it being comprised of 4 CT Members and Marie.
Whether it be text or emails, most of us openly acknowledge there are misunderstandings and or things we just plain disagree with.

I find myself really frustrated at the rude derogatory pictures/comments about women that show up here, but seem to be
perfectly acceptable to others.

 

[farmerjan]

If you do not like what someone routinely says, just do an "ignore".... end of seeing their posts...