Range fires’ impact on grazing felt long after the blaze

This article is designed to provide a perspective from a young person with a desire to remain involved in animal agriculture as a profession.

It is nearing July, and many of us are starting to get an idea of how much stored feed we will need for the winter – and how much we will have.

Ranch safety should be one of the biggest priorities on any cattle operation but is sometimes an area that gets overlooked.

Weaning age varies due to many factors. These include environmental conditions (early weaning is sometimes practiced during drought), cattle and feed prices, goals for the calves and goals for the cows.

Sorting cattle is one of the real arts of animal husbandry. Sorting can be done for many reasons and by many methods. Often the goal of sorting a group of cattle is to put like kinds together.

It’s a pretty tall order, if not absolutely impossible, to win all of life’s battles. The odds against you are even greater if you’re not careful when picking your battles.

I can tell how old you are just by the horses you know. For example, you are well beyond your expiration date if you know that Rex Allen’s horse was Koko, Hoot Gibson’s was Goldie, Tex Ritter’s was White Flash, William S. Hart’s horse was a pinto named Fritz, and that Tom Mix loved Tony.

It was just another camping trip with friends. A gathering, a return to nature, to get a taste of what life was like in the Wyoming forests and plains before Napoleon Bonaparte sold it to Thomas Jefferson in 1803.

Back in the Wild West, ranchers would have scoffed at the notion of reining as an equestrian sport. In those days – as is true today on many working cattle ranches – the image of reining was far from recreational.