I should have raised prices last year, but I was hoping it was just a supply and logistics fluke and would go away. I was wrong.

Higher labor costs, higher packaging costs, and high demand for their services means one thing: our butchering rates also went up.

I’ve always wanted to be a better manager of our resources, and some of what they encourage folks to do, we’ve already been doing.

Tulip was a bit larger than my average calf size, but she wasn’t huge.

Since we built the house, we have been using a gigantic stepladder leaned up against the loft floor to get into the upstairs. With a baby on the way, this solution was clearly not workable.

Cattle markets took a dive due to Covid-19, so I kept a couple cows I wanted to sell. One died. That sucked.

Her calf was stillborn. But she didn't know it.

When we first moved in, we were very much camping as we had no electricity nor running water of any sort.

I had a funny comment on one of my Facebook marketplace ads yesterday, the comment was "Nope.   Cheaper at auction".  I thought to myself, "Really?". And then I got curious. 

 I was shocked because it's incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to attain very high levels of marbling when finishing beef on grass.   

Put up a back fence to keep the cows from grazing where they've already been whenever you can; it'll help tremendously with regrowth.