Bad day to be a weed

Always a good day to roll up some barb wire and replace it with high tensile

Planting and calving the two things in ag where it’ll always be a race to be the first one done

I know every ranch is different but days like today sure make me happy we switched over to may calving back in the day

“There ain’t no Sundays west of Omaha” I tell myself acting like the co op makes us work more then one or two Sundays a year

https://t.co/Qu5QI56LzX

The high plains version of fescue

Lots of good sayings out there but one I find truer then the rest is work on a Sunday pay for it on a Monday fortunately none of that is our headache

“i should've been a cowboy i should've learned to rope and ride wearing my six-shooter, riding my pony on a cattle drive stealing a young girls' heart just like gene and roy singing those campfire songs oh, i should've been a cowboy”

They sure don’t lie when they say transitioning a ranch/farm from the 3rd to the 4th generation is the hardest transition

Taking them to summer range guess we’re either half a year early or half a year late

I’ll know I’ve made it in ranching if I ever own a house like this

Most days I contemplate if I should go back 2 ranching/day working but on days like today when it’s raining, snowing wind is blowing 30 mph I’m perfectly content being a co op employee hiding in a heated shop messing around greasing trucks

Fertilizing a field in the dark that I don’t know or never been in before with booms out I know better then this

For as long as I’ve watched Nebraska play in the last 15 or 20 seasons I can’t really remember a season where the offense pulled there weight and didn’t have to rely on the husker d to win for a season

Dirt work might just always be a deal where I think a project will take a couple hours then next thing I know I have days worth of time into it a quarter of the work done wondering where all this extra dirt keeps seeming to appear from

Point in the year to start gathering them up and shipping them out

Bought some stuff 4 tacos tonight and sandwich’s 4 tomorrow came up to $30 when I lived in Hyannis a few years there was a guy that day worked on ranches 4 $75 a day and had a hard time stay busy guess he’s gotten way better at day working or he found a new career path

Quite a few people talk about how bad Walmart and dollar stores r bad for small communities I think co ops r just about as bad they buy up choke out quite a few different business usually offer subpar service have high turnover rates r dumpster fires inside and I work for a co op

Real uncommon don’t remember the last time the meadows were wetter in July then in March-May, but in 2023 guess they are