Shooting the Bull on the Cattle Industry
I realize as I type this post that it is going to be wildly controversial - I'm okay with that - these conversations need to be had and I have a different perspective than most because of how I was raised and the path my career has taken. My "day job" is being a Supervisor …
Santa Maria Style Beans are a common known staple across the country. It has become the official side to "Tri-Tip" cooked over an oak pit. Don't get any of the people I know in the argument about how Top Block (aka Top Sirloin) is the actual meat defined by Santa Maria Style and good lord …
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The smell of burnt hair, mama cows bawling, cowboy sideline roping commentary and top block cooked on an oak pit - TIS THE SEASON! Summer brings shipping, Fall brings calving, Winter brings breeding and Spring brings BRANDING! I hear myself tell people all the time, "Well it is about to slow down," or, " Things …
I always find it funny when I start a conversation at my day job with a sentence such as, "So this weekend we pulled a monster calf and the cow made it without a hitch but afterward she tried to kill me." The faces of the people in my office always remind me that not …
Yes - that is a rubber boot - stuck in a dry mound of what used to be mud. That boot (and the mate) were sucked from my father's feet last year while he tried to clear a culvert during a very wet storm. He had to hobble back to his pick up in muddy …
As cattle producers, parents of livestock showmen and meat consumers we have all been approached at one point or another by a member of an animal extremist group. These vegan extremist groups are constantly pushing for political policy changes as well as trying to change the public's mindset on meat consumption and the production of …
Pacific Coast Cattle 