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gcreekrch. You stole my story about the loonsh**t but I'll forgive as you have waded through it too. Congrats on the sales and it is very timely with my telling of a story about buying light yearling steers at Willians Lake from out in the Chillycotin. You may even know where they came from...

Brisket is a real problem in any altitudes above, I believe, 6000 feet. The only area I know that tests thoroughly is Colorado and Wyoming. I had a bull one time that never showed brisket (not PAP tested) that was raised at about 4500 feet but when we moved him to 8000 he never sired a calf that...

This "ranchers value" discussion has sure intrigued me. We are in the process of starting a small registered Angus herd to produce bulls for our commercial cows. We have had a small horned Hereford herd, to produce our own bulls for the past 47 years so we know what we want in our bulls. After...

I read Kit's email and totally agree that we all need more disaster preparedness. We have been living that way for 30+ years. Everything from installing small hydro power to gravity house water. First off you need to prioritize your needs ie. house and cattle water. If that comes from a well...

This could be a lengthy post that relates to calving at different times of the year in different areas. First off I have owned ranches in Colorado, 8000 feet, British Columbia, Oregon, and Idaho. In Colorado the ideal calf was born Apr. 10. Earlier calves went stale in May and had trouble...

All classes. We sell our calves and yearlings on the satellite in late July for late November delivery. The open cull cow market is really sick in November so we wait until Jan. to go with them, I have even purchased old cows in Nov. and held them to Jan. for resale. Always is positve price wise...

A number of years ago when I was living in BC I got the U of Alberta to run a per month price list for the average price of cattle anually for each month. They went back to 1911 until about 1985. In only one year over that time was the price higher in Nov. than July. From that reliability we...