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 …
What an interesting look at the differences in how our minds work and how those differences can be an asset in the world. https://www.ted.com/talks/temple_grandin_the_world_needs_all_kinds_of_minds#t-228424 She revolutionized the cattle industry and handling practices by looking at it differently, looking at it from a visual "picture" perspective. We need to remind ourselves when something isn't working to …
It's like Christmas, you go to the post office box and all of the new AI catalogs are there to greet you with their promises of gorgeous calves next season. We can dream about what matchups will get the best results and which bulls we should jump on to fill our tanks. Yes, AI possibilities …
The Commercial vs Registered Debate Every cattle producer has a different ruler that they measure their bulls against. Seedstock producers want big names in the parentage, strong EPD numbers and breed setting phenotype. Commercial cattle focus on gain potential of the calves, will a bull produce quality replacement females and if the phenotype will survive …
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