You can’t monitor the health of land from a windshield. You’ve got to have boots on the ground. Even then, we tend to look across the land rather than into…
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Most of us hire people to work. We write job descriptions telling them to do this or that. But what people do and how long or hard they work is…
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Abby of Dear Abby, passed away last week. I don’t intend to take her place dispensing relationship advice, but I do get my share of Dear Dave letters. Here’s a…
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Ranching For Profit School instructors work with people in the evenings after class to help them apply the tools they learn in the school. A lot of people take advantage…
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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…
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In the last ProfitTips I asked you if you owned a business or a job. I offered Robert Kiyosaki’s criteria from his book Cash Flow Quadrant: Could you leave for…
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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…
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A Ranching For Profit School alumnus was talking to me about his financial goals. I asked how much profit he wanted to make. He told me he figured he needed…
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The best day of my life was the day my first child was born. He was delivered through an emergency C-section. I was surprised when they invited me to scrub…
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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…
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