BVD-free, iPhone friendly and teamwork oriented By Heather Smith Thomas Ranchers who send their calves to a feedlot for custom feeding want the best care possible for those calves, so they can stay healthy, grow well, and make a profit. Luckey Custom Feedlot near Devine, Texas (about 45 miles south of San Antonio in southern […]
Get into the COMPOST GAME
By Tim O’Byrne, with Jonathon Berry, Midwest Bio-Systems Our regular Pasture Management column by the always sterling Loretta Sorensen, found on p. 82 of this issue, is all about utilizing manure, primarily from the feedyard, as a treatment for your land base. We wanted to expose you, dear reader, to the art of composting said […]
Through the Reader’s Lens
Featuring Austin Bower, SD Where I live here in South Dakota we run our cows in the Ft. Pierre National Grasslands from roughly May 1 until about the end of October. Every year we move about 300-325 pairs from the main place of operations to the halfway point on Day One. That way it gives us time […]
Behind the Lens
Mandy Frank mandyfrankphotography.com I was raised on the family ranch at the foot of the Wyoming Range Mountains in western Wyoming. My mom was a good photographer and I remember her packing her camera and getting great shots of our life. I now live in central Wyoming on my husband’s family ranch where we raise […]
Ranch Work Championships
Blondy’s Dude
An “everyday” person’s horse becomes a star. By Lesli Krause Groves Two men named Morgan Freeman have registered horses with AQHA. The most recent, and more famous, has a ranch in Mississippi. You’d recognize his voice if not his name. The actor Morgan Freeman was taking classes in drama and dance when the horseman Morgan […]
Bovine Biodiversity
Lotsa different cattle to love By Jaime Pullman There are more than 1000 different cattle breeds on earth. Only about 250 of those thousand are considered beef breeds. Some we know well, like Angus or Hereford. Some you may never have heard of like Caracu (from Brazil) or Bazadaise (from France). According to Virginia Cooperative […]
Texas Teamwork
Sterling Cattle Company is about family, crew, taking care of the resources, and good cattle By Robert Fears Rangeland increases as you drive west of Abilene, Texas on I-20 and it becomes even more pronounced west of Sweetwater. A motorist views miles and miles of short-grass prairie grasses interspersed with mesquite trees, prickly pear […]
Tips for Fenceline Weaning
Not such a crazy idea after all By Heather Smith Thomas Weaning can be traumatic for calves, cows and ranchers—listening to a loud chorus of bawling for several days. If confined in a pen, calves run frantically back and forth. Resulting dust can irritate lungs, and the stress of “cold turkey” weaning hinders the immune […]
Training the Next Generation
By Amanda Kishpaugh Greensburg, Kansas Twenty miles off of the highway, down a winding sand road that most people would fail to notice, the Merrill Ranch is tucked away, deep in the heart of south central Kansas. The ranch is comprised of 17,000 acres of grassy rolling hills and red-dirt valleys, and is home to […]