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The 2018 production year came and went about as fast as a three-legged cat can cover up poop. Knowing and understanding the passing of time appears to accelerate as a person grows older and hopefully wiser, one also must understand time appears to pass much quicker during periods of prosperity than during periods of hardship.
As the convenience and affordability of technology continues to offer opportunities, it’s also possible they can distract from the importance of the basics, sometimes derailing our everyday focus.
The books have closed on 2018, and we are now working through winter and looking forward to spring. For the spring-calving cow-calf producer, this is a good time to analyze what it cost to produce a pound of weaned calf last year.
Prescribed fire is a common practice to help control brush in native grass pastures. Those who implement prescribed fire will spend numerous hours and dollars preparing for this practice before it is implemented.
You live and you learn, right?
Vern Terrell readily admits he has. A diversified cattleman in the western edge of the Nebraska Sandhills – who farms and ranches alongside his wife, Marjean, his son Brock and his wife, Heidi – was willing to share what he considers to be “game-changers” for his operation with producers at the National Grazing Conference in Reno, Nevada.
For the past five years, I’ve been writing articles for crop farmers on how to manage the unprecedented amount of income flowing through their operations, and now it is the turn for the livestock producer to worry about what to do with all that extra income.
It’s common for food-service providers and retailers to communicate they are committed to sourcing food from sustainable beef production systems. Most sustainability definitions note the necessity of an economic or financial component.
In multiple circles the cattle industry has a renewed sense of optimism with possible beef cow herd expansion being thoroughly discussed again. Underlying this optimism is a growing view that many cow-calf operators are nearing a situation of being not only able to physically add breeding stock, but also that operators have forward-looking profit expectations that warrant expansion.
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