When the King Ranch owners recognized professional ranch management is critical for successful cattle operations, they established the King Ranch Institute for Ranch Management (KRIRM) with Texas A&M University – Kingsville in 2003. They realized the ranching business has changed and continues to evolve, and keeping up with or even anticipating changes is a critical business management component of a profitable ranch.

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He has a half-dozen kids, but they’re aging out now and heading off to college or “spousing up” and leaving the family farm.

Before the service truck arrives, there’s the kind of troubleshooting that happens between rigs, between drivers and between those who still believe in lending a hand.

If you’ve ever felt your heart race in a show ring or measured your summer in ribbons, you already know: The county fair isn’t just an event, it’s a way of life.

Cattle people are the same, no matter where you’re from, and you can always rely on finding a friend, new or old, when you find a gathering of “your people” – in this case, cattle folks.

Long before digital dashboards, drivers relied on red lines, the sound of the engine, gut instinct and the guidance of borrowed wisdom to treat a machine right.

It was just a normal Tuesday, no real wrecks had yet been had, when a woman called the office, said her pooch was feeling bad.