When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. This is the phrase that kept coming to my mind as I looked at range condition on a ranch recently, except the tool wasn’t a hammer; it was a hoof.

What do you think about new ideas to grow and sell high-quality forage? Do you like to have new things soon after they are available? Or do you wait until a new concept is well proven and tested before you adopt it?

When I’m asked to speak to groups, one of the first topic areas selected is often “managing conflict.” I surmise that could be due to one of two things: Either they want to be prepared to handle conflict when it arises or they have a large amount of conflict that has already arisen.

‘Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.’ —Mark Twain Everything has boundaries. While some limitations can be stretched, there are points beyond which no amount of training, adjusting, modifying or educating can reasonably alter a boundary.