Thoughts on ranch management:

Soggy calf szn Wine Glass #easykeepers #baldiechat

The history books have taught me that this is a lose-lose situation for the cattle producers 🤦‍♂️

If you know a cattle producer that lived through the 1970’s, it would be a good idea to give them a call this evening.

Excerpt from The Art of Spending Money by Morgan Housel #agtwitter

We are selling 95 head of bred heifers at Ogallala next Monday. Make plans to attend or bid online at CattleUSA. This is the top end sort. Bred to Jorgensen bulls to calve starting 2/25 for 30 days. Forage developed and excellent disposition.

What percentage of the farming in this country is now completed by H2A workers? 30% or higher?

“The fewest heifers retained for replacements in the history of this report.” Dr. Derrell Peel at the UNL Beef Summit

Gathering the bred heifers 95 to ship to Ogallala now. They will sell at auction Monday. Make plans to buy them before the USA runs out of replacement heifers entirely.

The rancher PTSD from the 2015-2016 free fall is real. It’s a bigger factor than drought, interest rates, and Trump tweets combined. This rebuild will be completed under an abundance of caution.

Market report from Ogallala yesterday. First good test of the bred cow market for Western Nebraska. Ours brought $4325 weighing 1120#. Ladder Ranch topped the sale at $4375 weighing 1005# The reds were soft.

My neighbor posted their glowing breed up percentage on social and I thought to myself, yeah right no way in hell. Well, we just finished our last preg check last week and would share the results but I know what y’all would be thinking.

Apology notes are best received wrapped abound a nice bottle of whiskey.

My best thoughts come to me whenever I open a book.

My GFQ puts are in the money ☠️☠️

Can you really call it a black swan when analysts have been saying it’s only a matter of time before a plant closes? That said, I’d fully expect remarkably lower feeder cattle prices. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that vibes are the only thing that matter in a market.

It’s time. Time to move the Senate across the hall and deliver stronger representation for greater Nebraska in this building. It’s time to revive the House.

Turkey sucks

Selling: premium bred 3-yr-old cows at Ogallala Livestock Market this Monday. Bred to calve starting 2/25 in three 30-day windows. Sired by top SimAngus bulls (sons of Hooks Trinity & Ethosis). This is all of a group of early-calving H1s we kept back. DM for details.

Good morning #baldiechat