We did something stupid. A couple of years back, my wife and I took the kids to the animal shelter in town on Free Cat Day and let them pick out a couple of kittens. But that wasn’t the stupid thing.

While at the NCBA CattleCon this past February, I heard one of the speakers say, “Bovine are God’s favorite protein, so we are blessed.” It was one of those fun little quotes I wrote down, thinking I could use it as a photo caption or something one day.

So what should we make of the ongoing saga to cut federal jobs in this new administration? And what about when those cuts are made to critical programs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture?

Now that you’ve filled up on all the holiday sweets, it’s time to ring in the new year. There’s that saying, “new year, new me,” right? It’s the time of year to set new goals.

So his plan was always to keep one steer or heifer from that spring’s calf crop, fatten it up and send it to fall market. It had always worked out well, and it was one of the fruits of immense joy for him to have the means to make it a joyous Christmas.

I have thought quite a bit about Mary this Christmas season, especially the part at the end of the Christmas story we read in Luke 2: “But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.”