#ranching

My foreman is working part time at another farm, he invited me to take a tour of his side job and we got to see hundreds of acres of fields. Along with hundreds of black angus cows. Seeing a farm that

Building on Hive and making Friends for LIFE

Oh the messes of ranch life. Mud to muck through, cold rain to work in, ice to roll with… This life isn’t an easy choice on days that my past office jobs and warm office are thought of while being drenched

Oh the messes of ranch life. Mud to muck through, cold rain to work in, ice to roll with… This life isn’t an easy choice on days that my past office jobs and warm office are thought of while being drenched

Oh the messes of ranch life. Mud to muck through, cold rain to work in, ice to roll with… This life isn’t an easy choice on days that my past office jobs and warm office are thought of while being drenched

Say hello to this wonderful horse, his name is Whiz and I get to train with him. Well, he is training me so I can ride horse and learn reining, and I would also like to learn about ranching. Even shoot

Oh the messes of ranch life. Mud to muck through, cold rain to work in, ice to roll with… This life isn’t an easy choice on days that my past office jobs and warm office are thought of while being drenched

Oh the messes of ranch life. Mud to muck through, cold rain to work in, ice to roll with… This life isn’t an easy choice on days that my past office jobs and warm office are thought of while being drenched

Raising goats is quite enjoyable. Read about what they do and how we take care of them in our humble homestead.

There are many changes underway in the food industry. One of the main areas is with meat. Technology, according to advocates, is helping the food industry to change the face of "ranching". Whereas

Friday, the wife and I went over to our daughter's new place. It's in the ozarks in Missouri. The plan was to get up Saturday morning and help mend the fence in the horse pen. BlackBerry, a quarter horse,

These guys are now at the ranch. This was taken this morning right before loading. Hope allyall are having a good weekend

We have been spending every spare day rain or shine out fencing . Last weekend we got another section fenced and moved the pairs out to that pasture . We have had a couple of warm days but it is back to

The cool down came early so day two of fencing was a little less productive. The temp was supposed to get to 35 before dropping but it never got past ten. Since we were out there we decided to give it

Western South Dakota has seen some warmer than usual weather conditions after the initial blast of cold air that swept the nation. We decided to take advantage of the warm condiditions by working on fence

Our quiet little corner of earth is about to change. We have a wind farm going in next door! We are not sure how this will impact us overall. Our biggest concerns are the noise that the turbines are going

My first grandson got his first deer this week. What a right of passage for a young man to hunt with his day, kill a deer and then gut it, skin it and process it with his dad. Interestingly, they used

I took delivery yesterday of the beef from the two angus heifer calves I bought in March of this year. The following are pictures and a brief report of raising them, the expenses involved and the result.

Just thought I would show the Craigslist Ad I have for my calves.... "Angus beef grass fed. No hormones or antibiotics added . We've hand raised two calves from babies on our property. We're selling