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Am I safe to use a bull who's maternal grand sire is the same as the cow's paternal grand sire? Or how about a cow's paternal great grand sire? Thanks

Just know that through your writing on here you reach many more than you'll ever know. I am sorry for your family's loss and will keep you in my prayers. He left a wonderful legacy.

Great looking pictures again, cattle, horses, grass and a big sky

Those are all very nice pictures and looks like a successful looking day for everyone. I'm not much for too many trees blocking my view. I like it wide open and it sure is pretty where you are.

Thank you for your advice, I appreciate your responses and plan to feed as you suggested Faster Horses

We are only a few weeks away from grass, but have ended up with most of our remaining hay supply to be 2nd cutting alfalfa. We have a limited supply of grass bales, and I have been feeding both bales for a few days now. I can only continue feeding grass for about 3 more days and am wondering...

Thank you Soapweed, I'm making notes on the cows as we go through calving and I hope he'll be receptive to some stronger culling. History is that he only culls after a problem and not before it happens even though things like this are easy enough to see beforehand. Cull cow prices are so strong...

Thanks. Calf is up nursing. No he's not a stockmen at all. His dad had a bad stroke and he took them over a few years ago. He gets by because I do the work as he lives 65 miles away and I have a lot of try, especially when it's someone else's cows. We have 10 in with his and they are sim-angus...

I'm looking for advice on helping a calf to nurse. My neighbor had a calf born at 2:00 pm yesterday and the cow has big tits. We saw the calf still searching for a tit his morning at 8:00 am so we had the cow in the calving pen and I milked just a couple ounces or so and got the calf to take...

I only have a few registered sim and simangus cows but my Olie daughter is my favorite and she's bred to Tuition to have a bull calf any day now. Moderate frame, good depth, very good udder. Last year's heifer calf out of her is very nice too.

Was very refreshing to see Dodge's ad "So God made a farmer" in the Super Bowl. Some on here are ranchers, some are farmers, but that was us he was talking about in a good light on national tv. It was even better to hear God mentioned so many times. I drive a Chevy, but way to go Dodge!

Thank you, I checked on it awhile back and will take a look again.

My wife and I are looking for an opportunity in North and South Dakota to work for an existing family farm/ranch that may consider us becoming involved in the future. Being raised on a crop farm in northwestern MN and farming there part-time the past few years, I have experience in grain...

That was good, thanks for posting

This topic and the posts are very interesting and some helpful as my brother and I are coming to that fork in the road following our last year working together. I am 30, he is 33, and we worked side by side growing up and since college he has farmed full time and I have worked a full time job...