Monthly Archives: September 2010

Young Jock

Young Jock headed back to Semex this week as he his blood tests have finally improved.  He has proved to be one of the leading bulls for growth, but has only been collected once for sale.  Each time he has went in to be collected it seemed like a different problem would crop up.   He is...

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Nice weather is here

Finally after a month of rain it looks like the weather has changed for at least a week.  Most of our crops are sprouted but if we can get them dry they will still make feed.  Cut another half section of hay and will probably get that baled later this week.  Still have 3 more...

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Moving the Cows

Usually most of our cows are grazing stubble by this time of year, but with harvest at a standstill we are having to look at other options.  The pastures are still green but with the number of cows we have the growth is no longer keeping up.  We have enough stubble lined up to graze...

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Weighing the bulls

Today we finally had some fun and crossed another job off the list.  The bull calves have been on a quarter of pasture about 1.5 miles from the home scale.  So we walked them home this morning and weighed them this afternoon.  The good bulls then were walked back to pasture and we cut the...

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Working in the rain

A wet spring, summer and now fall. We were able to get one quarter combined, two weeks ago but have had close to 5 inches since that and all field work has stopped. The nice thing is the pastures are still green, our third cut alfalfa is coming along and the stubble grazing will be...

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