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He and I have been pecking away at his third cutting, rolled a few this morning. Big clouds with a SW breeze toughened it about 7:15 this evening. He had the rake running, I started to bale. His wife came to rake so both balers could get after it, everyone got about a round done when the...

Our area had one light up Saturday afternoon, kinda took the fun out of setting out front with the neighbors to watch the smoke plume blow up. I saw some video of the one up your way on You Tube. A bunch more rough terrain where that is. Dry lightning fired the one down this way. That's a...

I remembered your loss when I woke up yesterday. I couldn't remember how long ago, guess it happened on my 44th birthday. I think of it every year, you will always have my kind thoughts and condolences Jody.

Yep, very fitting tribute. Any of you remember him talking about a junior high girls basketball game? I still laugh about that analogy!

He made us laugh at ourselves, cause I guess we do funny things once in a while. I remember reading "On the edge of common sense" and Lee Pitts column in the Record Stockman in the '80s. Have two autographed books that will never be for sale.

4 hundred hogs and a week in a county jail. Old school is passing on, somebody's put my calendar on fast forward...

Some neighbors pull a Wilson and it's a solid trailer. My brother put over 40,000 miles on an Exiss 36 foot, no pasture use. They probably cost the most, but Featherlite. I've hauled bulls and the horses that gathered them out of some rough terrain. 28 foot behind a Dodge Cummins single...

Featherlite or Merritt, they both have strong points. I have seen, and helped, both tried out to extremes; neither will disappoint. I've used shorter models of the former and a 32 foot Merritt, but that was behind a 550 Super-duty. Your pickup can pull 4 foot more aluminum, the question's are...

Must have been at the neighbor's, or were you working those Char's that made money?

It's been too dry and full of bugs for much grass hay, but first cutting irrigated alfalfa looks decent . Some cheat but not as bad as last year . The pairs sold in Crawford today looked to be heading SE. At least half the yearlings sold already. Sure glad Corbitt thinks it's a wet year...

Preaching to the choir I know, but the fastest way to move cattle is a tad slower than they want to travel. Processing maybe a click slower than that. I'm grateful I have lived long enough to see this proven over and over. While shipping some fall pairs home last week a bull got out through...

I grew up using a '53 International one ton 2wd. No extra power but tough, hauled a ton of feed and rode better. Folks bought a '73 Travelall to use for a rural bus route,that 345 v-8 was a beast. Since IHC quit the pickup business we have gone the same way as Evans and I got lucky enough to...

True story, Evans. Outcross genetics? My Dad was raised with Herefords and when he took the place on he bought a (gasp) Angus bull. Bought Hereford heifers and black bulls for quite some time. About the time the last neighbor who still ran straight Herefords bought a black heifer bull Dad...

Ain't such a thing as watering lightly with a sideroll, unless someone has a different sprinkler package than I have seen.

I don't own any cows currently, but if I did, I would like a a 1/4 Hereford-1/4 Shorthorn- 1/2 Red Angus cow to use 1/4 and 3/8th's black Simmental bulls on. Just my thoughts, but that ought to take advantage of all the hybrid vigor there is. My favorite color is alive...

I have a similar 1980 F-150 parked here. Not nearly as attractive as a red one. Brown and white, it spent 14 years working on a neighboring potato farm. My nephew bought it when they sold out and after some repair he drove it to high school and college. My Dad bought it from him 15 or so...

Is helping harvest hay on your summer schedule? We do see cattle on occasion. Kinda kidding, but not really. I'm probably not far enough west for what you have in mind. Ranching is a pretty diverse business, and cows are supposed to be doing their own work in the summer, with some supervision.

I'll second Big Muddy's advice. It pays better to help with someone else's cattle year to year, and experience is worth way more than iron that needs maintained. I started working off the home operation when I was 15, 40 some years later I just about have it figured out. You might benefit...

I've heard they aren't seen much, but they leave tracks. Probably see those 3 or 4 times a year, but I'm in their country half the time I see those. I am not supposed to live in their territory, nor that for wolves, yet both have been seen here by hunters. Heard one scream over a kill I...

Rib brands used to be discouraged because of the amount of leather impacted. Now that hides are all but worthless, I doubt that is a factor. I have never rib branded calves so I can't really answer your question but hip brands do go on nice even down to a week old.