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Yes. Had one in my neck last year. Had to have surgery put 2 plates and 6 screws in my neck. Took a long time to recover.

This is what I did. I noticed there were some large areas in town that people owned and paid someone else to mow. I offered to mow them for the hay. I got a square bailer and related equipment and mowed hay and sold it to horse people. Eventually I bought a acreage and started feeding some...

I was 21 in 1979. Land here was $2500 per acre and interest rates from federal land bank were over 10%. Corn was $2/bu Bean $5.5 and you got 100 bu corn and 38 bu beans. I bought my farm in 1987 I was 29 and had been working in town, saved $15000 over the years and bought 148 acres with an...

$50,000 is still a chunk of money and $100,000 is nice chunk of money, and what I would give to be 21 again. If I had it to do over again. I would go a good college like South Dakota or Wyoming or CSU that has a good range program. SDSU has some experiment ranches out in the western part of...

I was in southern Calif. visiting my brother and family. I showed my nephew a picture of me plowing with my horses. He proudly proclaimed that he knew what that was. A Tractor.

I run a wedding carriage service on the side. I use my black percherons in that business. I deduct the cost of those horses, I even depreciate the horses. Floyd's right get a new accountant.

If you've got a big green sign on US 20, went by your place today. That country west of Chadron is some of the prettiest I've ever seen. You folks really got green grass this year. Whats all the worked up land for?

I use IGR and about once a month I spray my cows. Control is good, Flies just don't come back and cows spread all over the pasture grazing rather than bunch up. Remember, though I've only got 14 cows.

I meant to say NOT very big. Tonight after work, when I turn up the drive it sure felt GOOD. I grad high school in 1976 near Decorah Iowa. Dad farmed and worked in town and I started at a filling station, remember those? Anyway the state of Iowa decided they needed most of dad's farm for a...

I bought our farm in 1986. Today I'm going into farm credit and paying it off. It's very big 145 acres, but tonight she's all mine!

South Dakota State is a good school. Out of state tuition is quite cheap compared to most. Total budget for SDSU out of state is under $14,000. That includes tuition, room & board, books Etc. Not a bad deal for a land grant university. Brookings is an ok town too. Biggest problem though is...

Today as I was working my "9-5" job, I went to one of my regular stops. The husband and wife that own the shop also run the local food shelf. The wife asked me if I like pears; well yeah. They had two cases of fresh pears and couldn't give them away because the "poor folks" don't like them...

I'm always amazed at how guys around here love to make hay and haul manure. Got one neighbor that is convinced his cows won't eat corn stalks. He makes hay all summer and hauls it back to the farm and is all ready feeding. His corn stalks are just on the other side of his feeding yard. For...

The only thing I would add is too AI your heifers. Typically these are the easiest to catch in heat and are the best genetics on the farm. We coupled with better genetics from AI you improve your herd faster. This also spares the expense of having a heifer bull around too.

Katrina: I've been around for a while, read the board every day. and I have absolutely no idea what your talking about. You attacked somebody who expressed an idea, who didn't attack anybody. Your response was way out of line, if you don't like my opinion of your response, well TOO BAD!!

Go somewhere else..... I doubt you will be missed...... said Katina That was uncalled for. People are allowed to make observations, and comments without hurtful responses like yours.

what is the typical stocking rate for a sandhills ranch?

If you read the bag tags you'll see that LOL is feed at 3 oz and Vigortone is fed at at 4 oz so you have to compare cost per day. Assuming both are equal and that a fairly safe bet.

The hardest part of roping is keeping your loop open, and the trick to that is to roll your wrist. To learn that motion tip your head back till your face is pointed up and start spinning the rope and kiss the back of your hand. After you get that figured out then set a bale up on it's side and...

the guy who taught me was left handed. When we started roping a bale we would have contests to see who could rope it fastest with our "off hand". I think I was also meant to be left handed but mom forced me to be right handed.