Tuesday, November 28, 2023

The rat race is real, even on the ranch. Sometimes you have to take a wider view to see the progress you've made.
Old farm

There are differences in the journey, but also similarities of how a producer ends up looking back on a career in agriculture with more wins than losses.

Psst…do you want to know a secret? Kids aren’t very good at keeping them.

As the U.S. beef herd expands, know your options.

It takes so many plants to make a stand, cows to make a herd and drops to make a rain. Before turning that herd out to pasture, you look for enough plant mass to support their grazing. If you’re watching a couple of bred heifers for a month, you might as well be watching 20 or 30.

I dreamed of fresh-smelling rain that beat waves against windows and swept slowly through fields to fill every crack before moving on to refill...
cattle

Miranda Reiman encourages Black Ink readers tomake the changes that are most applicable to their farm and stand to do the most good.

When making decisions, weigh the evidence carefully.

When ranchers or feedlot employees are unhappy or feeling stress, how much pride can they take in the job they're doing? Call it mammalian empathy or stress-related errors of management, but those bad feelings are contagious across species.

In some ways, my cowherd is average. In other ways it is above and in still others, below. Those things are true of each...