Monthly Archives: September 2023

Hey, hobo, what’s this about sheep? You’re always talking about cows. Cattlemen & women are supposed to hate sheep. Sheep ruin the range, eat everything in sight, blah, blah, blah. Well, hate to tell you this but any vegetable-eating critter can destroy the landscape if left un-managed. And, besides, we don’t hate sheep (well, exceptContinue reading “U.S. sheep industry”

Working on some odd ball ‘projects’ at the moment but thought that you all may enjoy an old article that I had posted on my old blogger blog before goggle had decided to cause issues for me. It’s a pretty good article from the Weston A. Price Foundation about meat and its processing.  A littleContinue reading “insights from a meat processor”

September 7th, 2020 started out with high wind advisories and a continuation of high temperatures. It was Labor Day. Thousands of people were hitting the campgrounds and traveling anywhere they could post-lockdown. At 6:38 pm I received a text from home “We have a fire up somewhere to the northwest. Smoke showing really strong.” TheContinue reading “3 years ago…”

….is in the books. It all began April 17th at approximately 11:40 AM when a bull calf #310 was born to an experienced cow. A couples of months before we expect calving to begin we start watching the back ends of the cows for signs of calving being around the corner. More on what kindaContinue reading “2023 calving”