It’s been a while
Well, we told you this was our first attempt at a blog, and we’re obviously not so good at staying committed to it. We’ll try to do better from now on. Since we last wrote, things have been busy. We bred and preg checked the cows we were just synchronizing last time. We were quite successful, with a 95% overall conception rate. We weaned the spring calves that were being born the last time we wrote, and think that they are going to be an impressive group. We have calved the majority of the fall cows. Calving is always so much more enjoyable in the warmer, drier fall. The weather has been cooperating very nicely lately, with the temperatures starting to drop off but not getting too miserably cold, and it’s been dry enough to make the fall harvest a lot easier than it has been the past couple of years. I’m please to say that we actually finished shelling the last of our corn today, which finished our harvesting for the year. The wheat is planted, and the anhydrous ammonia (which is a Nitrogen fertilizer) is in the process of being applied to next year’s corn ground. With the dispersal of the Montana Basin Angus herd, there will be a few changes around the farm here. We have purchased the entire Missouri Basin spring cow herd that has been growing here since 1999. With that purchase and the cows that we already owned, we will be able to continue to provide you with the quantity and quality of cattle that we have in the past. We will continue to work with Doug Stevenson of Basin Angus and proceed down the same genetic path we have been developing for the past 11 years to meet the changing needs of the commercial cattleman.
