So life on the ranch is pretty much the same all the time. Dealing with the day to day minutia consumes most of your time. Once in a while, you even have time to make capital improvements: maybe build a fence, kill some cedar trees, construct a loafing shed. So our...
My dad started it…..my vacationing style I mean. My first recollection of vacation was a trip to Denver. We made it late one afternoon and he pulled into the Ramada Inn Cherry Hills. A very nice place by his thinking. Probably over the family budget, but it was...
Well, here we are in paradise. Paradise is a relative term, really. I think I live there. I love the ranch. I love my life. Work….play….for me it is the same, honestly. That is how I got here. You see, when you love what you do, you don’t think about vacation. ...
… and on the Diamond H we use AI. On a prior post, I discussed why we AI heifers one month before our cows. We AI’d our Fall Cows on Dec 3rd to calve in mid September. We use a three shot protocol to synchronize the cows. First shot is...
I spend a lot of my days building the physical plant of the ranch. Improvements such as fence (lots of it), loafing sheds, pens, etc. Other times of the year it is farming the wheat, aerating the grass, killing cedar, working the calves….you know, guy stuff. ...
Part two of the heifer program (or “why in the world do we breed to Wagyu bulls?”) Well that is a question we don’t hear enough. Most people just assume we are crazy and don’t ask. So here’s the story: We want to bring in genes that will make the cattleman more...
