Earlier today, at 3:35 pm to be exact, with the hot sun reflecting off brittle forage, the thermometer reading 98 degrees and not enough breeze to carry a sigh, Don and I were out showing bulls. That’s okay we us. We appreciate the opportunity to show folks the stock we have available and to visit with them about their cattle operations to determine what their needs are. Sometimes we don’t even have to ask questions. We just listen to our potential customers and they let us know. Take this gentleman for instance. He is looking for a bull that doesn’t “put up his head and run when he sees strangers”. And “I like to look at the width of the head and shoulders” as well as “I need a bull to bred about 20 cows right now”. We also gleaned that he wants to keep his herd red as opposed to black, likes a bull raised on grass and is trying to back his cows up a month for calving. So, we showed him our daughter’s two year old. This cattleman will call us in a couple of days with his decision. He is interested, however we aren’t the only Red Angus breeders in Missouri. Either way, its a win situation. If we get the sale great. If not, through face-to-face contact, we know that we’re breeding cattle that cow-calf producers are looking for.

Above I mentioned brittle forage. The pasture where the bulls are running will be a test for the younger ones. To extend our on-farm forage, we put the bulls on rented land. This land was indiscriminately grazed then hayed for a few years.