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Also, if you’re willing to go to Oklahoma, Heath Redwine has some really nice cattle and is an even better guy. Heath and XBAR are both on SP

XBAR Shorthorns. Pottsboro, Texas. The cattle he sent here have done a good job. He has a nice group of heifers. Most importantly the heifer will go on to make a productive cow for you.

I have a JPJ cow that is DS. She’s a really good cow. Breed her clean and I don’t worry about it. There are others on here who have line bred JPJ and been fine. Others have had a wreck or two. Don’t breed a DS to a PHA cow is the big one to avoid in my opinion. I’ve been told by others who are...

Location, location, location. Not only in real estate but in meat sales as well. The land you can afford to run cattle on is usually way far away from an urban area. For every successful direct marketer I can show you, I could show you five that failed. I’m not sure if I’ll make it or not. One...

My old lady bought me a freeze brand recently. I’m excited to try it out.

Hold on. You were selling 8-11 steers a week and decided to quit? Say what? I’d have found the shorthorns or shorthorn cross cattle and continued down that path. God only knows where that would have lead down the road. While delivering a bull to Brian Banzet in Kansas I drove past a restaurant...

In my experience once the customer sees the value of buying in bulk and buying locally, they will purchase a bigger freezer if they don’t own one already. I’ve got five freezers here at the farm and I didn’t pay more than 150 bucks for any of them. You can find cheap ones on Craigslist all day...

Here are some pure shorthorn ribeyes. Excellent steaks eating wise. Interestingly enough they are out of a steer that was sired by a son of Wolf Ridge Red Commander bred by Mr Reed.

I’m not on FB and now that I see Lee Miller’s name on the committee I have to assume there is something being done. Lee is as good of a person as I’ve ever met in this business. I don’t know the others but I know for a fact Lee wants this breed to grow and improve. It still is frustrating to...

How does one profit? In my world, a more tender product equals happier customers which lead to more customers. Giving me more opportunities to avoid the sale barn. Locally produced food is hot right now. We just signed on to a farmers market to sell beef as well as pork. A nice tender cut of...

Who is on this “commercial acceptance committee” ? It’s clear to me the higher ups in the shorthorn breed don’t want commercial acceptance. They want to keep doing what they’re doing. A small group of breeders control the direction of the whole breed. What a joke.

They all have Belgian Blue asses. Fascinating how different sections of the world prefer a different type. I won’t be ordering any embryos from the UK anytime soon. Not a knock on them just not what I prefer. I can’t get over dat ass on those cattle 😳

Love your cattle. Those Resource cattle you have are excellent

I like that head on her for sure.

Jesus man. Would you just stop. I was just kidding? You’re high. If you don’t have anything positive to contribute then just move along. It was a legit question. Obviously you’re still sour. I’ve been having private conversations. I’m not required to keep you posted on what I’m doing. This...

Great points by you and medium rare. Does the U of I give a break down for the reasons for the costs? I’m sure the grow safe feeders were not cheap. But for the money they charge it would seem to me a good business venture to create a similar test station. I appreciate all the effort put into...

A second preg check is another trip though the chute. Another vet bill. Again, not commercially viable. I don’t check a thing. If they don’t calve, they are sold for burger shortly after. If their calf doesn’t make it to weaning, they go to burger. It’s not rocket science. Like ol Gabe Brown...

Nice deep bull. Whatcha got there? The swirl is tremendous.

7 farms represented in that sire test. We can do better

Last I looked, it cost a pretty penny to “nominate” a bull for the test. I could be wrong this year but if the ASA is going to have a sire test, why does it cost the producer so much dinero? Why not let any breeder who thinks they have a bull worthy submit a cane of semen? Why charge a fee? Have...