I can help you with your report...
make it short and sweet....................
Cattle Ranching, yesterday and today.
Those that chose to produce cattle are risk takers, they are willing to gamble against odds that would make a Vegas high roller run and hide.
Ranchers go through boom and bust periods, mostly near bust. Not because they won't work,or are poor businessmen, but due to forces outside the control of that rancher, such as weather, politics, the latest fad diets, etc. They usually wake up each day hoping for better , but also expecting worse.
But ask almost any rancher or other cattle producer if they would trade it for anything else, and I suspect you know the answer.
If you have to measure a rancher against most other people you meet on the street, you will find that they are some of the hardest working, humble,sincere, dedicated and honest people you are ever likely to find.
I would much sooner invite a rancher into my home that I did not know, then I would a lawyer, a preacher,or CEO of a major company for that matter.
That is the short of it..........ten years ago, today, and likely ten years from now............ :cboy: