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Apr 10

Pounds per Head or Pounds per Acre

By Dave Pratt Decision Making, Ecology & Grazing, Planning & Management, Production No Comments

For decades we’ve been encouraged to evaluate the efficiency of production by focusing on weight weaned per cow. Now some are arguing that the critical measure should really be pounds…

Nov 10

The Value of Gain & Grass

By Dave Pratt Economics & Finance, Planning & Management, Production No Comments

Wally Olson is a rancher from Vinita, Oklahoma. He has a profitable cattle trading enterprise based on the Sell/Buy marketing principles popularized by Bud Williams. At the foundation of Wally’s…

Jun 26

The Nine Calf Cow

By Dave Pratt Economics & Finance, Planning & Management, Production 3 Comments

I just read an article written by an ag economist on the value of bred heifers. He wrote that a crossbred heifer producing 9 consecutive calves in her lifetime is…

Jul 08

Stocking Rate Rant

By Dave Pratt Ecology & Grazing, Economics & Finance, Production No Comments

A Ranching For Profit School alumni sent me a paper published by the Society for Range Management on calculating the optimum stocking rate. The authors crunched 14 variables through 1o…

Apr 22

You Might Be Cell Grazing If…

By Dave Pratt Ecology & Grazing, Planning & Management, Production 3 Comments

A lot of ranchers use some kind of grazing rotation. Very few do it in a way that has even a 50/50 chance of improving the health of the land,…

Apr 25

Rotational Overgrazing

By Dave Pratt Ecology & Grazing, Production, Risk/Drought 2 Comments

Nearly 15 years ago I surveyed over 300 commercial cattle producers asking them questions about their grazing practices and their attitudes about change. One hundred twenty of them (40%) identified…

Nov 23

Two For The Price Of One

By Dave Pratt Ecology & Grazing, Planning & Management, Production No Comments

Would you like a free ranch? This summer I had the pleasure of visiting several Ranching For Profit School alumni ranches from Texas to Montana and points in between. Most…

Jan 01

Ranching with Nature

By Dave Pratt Economics & Finance, Planning & Management, Production No Comments

North American livestock producers are the most productive in the world. We are also the least profitable. Could it be that our battle to increase production is the reason for…

animal performance

Pounds per Head or Pounds per Acre

The Value of Gain & Grass

The Nine Calf Cow

Stocking Rate Rant

You Might Be Cell Grazing If…

Rotational Overgrazing

Two For The Price Of One

Ranching with Nature

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