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    Blessed With Heifers Calving

    I held back 40 heifers last year. I waited until they were 15 months old and turned them in with a 5 year old Horned Hereford bull. I bought the bull from a friend based on his calving ease and previous calving track record with heifers. I was blessed! The last one was born yesterday. 40, that's...
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    Funny Thought About Castration

    Yesterday I worked 68 weanling calves. Of the 68, 37 were bull calves, which I castrated with my pocket knife. As I was running them through the squeeze chute I remembered the very first bull calves I castrated, it was a delightful and funny memory. It was 1988 and I was 19 years old. I only had...
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    Interesting Pasture Situation

    My Mother's best friend is Beth. Beth has 160 acres of fenced and cross fenced pasture within 2 miles of my place. The pasture has been rented for 8 years by an older gentleman (90 years old) who is my friend. He never applies lime or fertilizer and never does any fence maintenance. He has 80...
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    Will Y'all Help Me Find A Truck To Buy?

    I am looking for a Chevrolet 2500 or 3500 regular cab or extended cab, diesel, automatic, 4WD, power windows, with a bale bed. Preferably a Deweze or like bale bed that I can put two rolls of hay on. Under 200,000 miles under $25,000. I've searched autotrader, craigslist, cargurus, and...
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    Sold 50 Steers Today

    The following post, with the exception of the results from today's calf sales, is solely my opinion. And I will be the very first to admit my opinion isn't worth much, but here goes nonetheless. We are blessed! Are feeder calves bringing what they did at the beginning of the year? Nope! Are we...
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    Heavy Bred Prices

    Top shelf, young to middle aged, black and BWF heavy breds are down to the $1,850 neighborhood here in South Alabama. Should I pull the trigger and buy $30K worth? Or wait? What do y'all think the prices are going to do in next 30-60 days? The only thing the price hasn't fell on is young, tiger...
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    My First Calf of '15

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