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May 23

To Move or Not To Move

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

How do you know when it is time to move animals from one pasture to another? Most people figure that if they are out of feed in one pasture, it…

May 01

You Might Be Ranching For Profit If …

By Dave Pratt Economics & Finance, Planning & Management, Risk/Drought No Comments

You might be ranching for profit if your spouse doesn’t have to work in town so you can have health insurance. If you are making a profit you ought to…

Aug 10

Scraping By

By Dave Pratt Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Risk/Drought One Comment

I received the following email from a young rancher last week: Dave, I am a young rancher and have grown my herd to over 100 cows over the last four…

Jul 13

It Doesn’t Matter What They Want

By Dave Pratt Decision Making, Economics & Finance, Production No Comments

Earlier today someone called me asking for advice regarding a bid he was about to make for a property he wanted to rent. The property could support 200 cows from…

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…

May 20

Half and Half

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

Take half - leave half. It is probably the most common advice you’ll hear regarding grazing utilization. In my opinion it is bad advice. It was probably the brainchild of…

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,…

Jun 26

Boots On The Ground

By Dave Pratt Ecology & Grazing, Production, Risk/Drought No Comments

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…

cattle

To Move or Not To Move

You Might Be Ranching For Profit If …

Scraping By

It Doesn’t Matter What They Want

The Value of Gain & Grass

The Nine Calf Cow

Half and Half

Stocking Rate Rant

You Might Be Cell Grazing If…

Boots On The Ground

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