While most cowgirls spend their time on horseback working cattle and helping out around the ranch, this is not where you will likely find Jennifer Cummins.

Inspiration or desperation? Changes made on farms are generally driven by one of these two reasons.

The hay is sold, the check is in your hand, and now it’s time to pay the bills. Having money left over means your haying operation is profitable, right? What if you could be making more? Could you just be breaking even? Or are you actually losing money and you just aren’t aware?

Agriculture is an industry that is known to be dangerous; this fact is especially true for workers on cattle feedlots. According to recent labor statistics, beef cattle production has a fatality rate of 116 per 100,000 workers.