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<blockquote data-quote="CowboyRam" data-source="post: 1830207" data-attributes="member: 42312"><p>Just dumb, or could it be dumb luck, who knows, and it really doesn't matter here I am. I came into the cattle business a little late, but the family has been farming in one way or another for a long time. Grandpa had a dairy, dairy farm, feed store and a painting business back in Illinois. Dad and two of his brothers wanted to become cowboys, and were planning on going west, well grandpa decided that they all would move. They ended up in western Nebraska where they raised sheep. Dad, Duane, and Roy ended up going to work for a couple of ranches here in Wyoming, and grandpa moved to Colorado. Dad eventually started working for Warren Livestock, became their cow foreman, and a few years later I came along. We left Cheyenne when I was about five; grandpa talked dad into moving to Craig Colorado where he ran a construction business for 30 years. In the Early 90's Uncle Duane bought the ranch in Creston Junction Wyoming, and I helped a little while I was going to college. Once I got married, I kept my nose to the grindstone trying to make a living. After several years of running the construction company after college I moved to Wyoming to help my dad with the farm he bought, he was in early 70's by then, and beside I need to get out of a partnership that was starting to go bad; it seemed like the logical thing to do. After my divorce I had the bright idea of buying some farm equipment and we put our own hay after I sold my property in Colorado. I still sometime wonder if that was a good idea or not, but here I am, I jumped in with both feet. That first year we put some hay that we didn't feel we could sell, and so the only course of action was to buy cows. I was already 50 by the time I decided to get into farming and ranching. I can say I have learned a lot over the last several years from dad, my uncle, and cousins that grew up in the industry. I figure if I can learn half of what dad has forgotten I'm doing good. It has been a lot of work, but I have enjoyed almost every part of it. Well except those days gathering cows when it never got above freezing. I don't really enjoy being a human popsicle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CowboyRam, post: 1830207, member: 42312"] Just dumb, or could it be dumb luck, who knows, and it really doesn't matter here I am. I came into the cattle business a little late, but the family has been farming in one way or another for a long time. Grandpa had a dairy, dairy farm, feed store and a painting business back in Illinois. Dad and two of his brothers wanted to become cowboys, and were planning on going west, well grandpa decided that they all would move. They ended up in western Nebraska where they raised sheep. Dad, Duane, and Roy ended up going to work for a couple of ranches here in Wyoming, and grandpa moved to Colorado. Dad eventually started working for Warren Livestock, became their cow foreman, and a few years later I came along. We left Cheyenne when I was about five; grandpa talked dad into moving to Craig Colorado where he ran a construction business for 30 years. In the Early 90's Uncle Duane bought the ranch in Creston Junction Wyoming, and I helped a little while I was going to college. Once I got married, I kept my nose to the grindstone trying to make a living. After several years of running the construction company after college I moved to Wyoming to help my dad with the farm he bought, he was in early 70's by then, and beside I need to get out of a partnership that was starting to go bad; it seemed like the logical thing to do. After my divorce I had the bright idea of buying some farm equipment and we put our own hay after I sold my property in Colorado. I still sometime wonder if that was a good idea or not, but here I am, I jumped in with both feet. That first year we put some hay that we didn't feel we could sell, and so the only course of action was to buy cows. I was already 50 by the time I decided to get into farming and ranching. I can say I have learned a lot over the last several years from dad, my uncle, and cousins that grew up in the industry. I figure if I can learn half of what dad has forgotten I'm doing good. It has been a lot of work, but I have enjoyed almost every part of it. Well except those days gathering cows when it never got above freezing. I don't really enjoy being a human popsicle. [/QUOTE]
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