Recent content by mattthecat

Thought I would never post about this on here but am glad to put in my opinion. The debate between GMO and NON-GMO is getting stronger daily. To start with I sell Seed and Fert. inputs and can tell you right up front that GMO hybrids are a total waste of money and produce absolutly no more yield...

I just sent a Sugar Ray to town last winter and regret it, she was 8  years old and lost a calf from calving a few weeks early in a shit storm one night.  She was out of a Delighter cow from Bill Fraunholtz and was flat good, don't think that Sugar won't work today he was one of the great ones IMO.

If you look at the bull as well as other bulls in certain breeds I feel they are going backwards. Some of these breeders are breeding for a show steer look and starting a fad, in my opinion. Look what Star Lake did, bred for show and if they could muster up some commercial guys along the way...

On the deep tillage rip it if you have to but only in the fall. The verticle machines are great and I love them but they are also always getting better machines made every year. With that being said Huiniker from Minnesota has the best machine out there IMO. Don't buy one rent it if you can...

The only problem is it's a Shorthorn

The best steer we ever had was a $1200 calf that did well all over and ended up 2nd in his class at Louisville that year. He beat several calves in that 20- 40000 range. Manage them and hire the things done you can't do right. No one has said Ryan rash!?!?! If i had about 40k this guy would be...

There are more great ones in Iowa then probably anywhere year in and year out. The class that had the Grnd Champ at Iowa this year had over $4000,000 in 10 head and one was home raised...... from what I understood they were all Iowa raised cattle. Wade Rodgers, Chad Holtkamp, Jeff...