Take time to notice your progress
The rat race is real, even on the ranch. Sometimes you have to take a wider view to see the progress you've made.
As you go forward in the beef industry, remember to look back
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.
No secret to success in cattle business
Psst…do you want to know a secret? Kids aren’t very good at keeping them.
Get prepared for a bigger beef herd
As the U.S. beef herd expands, know your options.
Black Ink: Critical mass in the beef industry
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.
Drought can present opportunities
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...
Pick new technologies most applicable to you
Miranda Reiman encourages Black Ink readers tomake the changes that are most applicable to their farm and stand to do the most good.
Careful decision making can position your herd for success
When making decisions, weigh the evidence carefully.
Black Ink: Happy people lead to happy cattle
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.
Is your cow herd above average?
In some ways, my cowherd is average. In other ways it is above and in still others, below. Those things are true of each...
