Sorted newest first so the active risk patterns stay close to the surface.
One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said the thing that changed how he heard this cattle-flu story was not the milk test. It was the birds. Not in some abstract migratory-bird sense. More like: Which tank...
One of our ranching friends in Maverick County said the old reflex still shows up fast when strange cattle or a loose horse appear on the place. Get them caught. Get them watered. Get them into the nearest...
One of our ranching friends in Erath County said the chain by his hospital pen kept turning into "just ranch chain." That meant it could help pull a sick cow one day, then end up back on a...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said there is a certain kind of rough summer cattle day that does not announce itself very clearly. Nobody collapses. Nobody says they are in trouble. Nobody wants to be...
One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said a lot of livestock jobs still have the same unofficial ending. You step out of the pen. You peel something off. You toss something in the cab. You grab...
One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said the dangerous part of a dairy day is not always the cow that looks sick. Sometimes it is the concrete after. The milk is off the line. The cows...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something a lot of places would recognize. He said the ranch still had a habit of treating parking like weather. Whoever showed up found a spot. The vet truck...
One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said a lot of ranch trouble does not start in the dramatic place anymore. Not only in the sick pen. Not only in the trailer. Not only in the milking...
One of our ranching friends out in Mason County said something plain a while back that stuck with us: the safest pasture on a fire day may not be the prettiest one on the place. That felt worth...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said the rough cattle days are not always the ones that look the worst at daylight. Sometimes the sky is clear. Sometimes there is enough breeze to fool you. Sometimes...
One of our ranching friends in Kinney County said the insect problem on a ranch used to get talked about like this: Spray them. Pour them. Dust them. Watch them. He said that is still part of it...
One of our ranching friends in Bosque County said he had started noticing something about the portable panels that show up on busy cattle days. They never arrive empty. Maybe they came from a neighbor's sorting job. Maybe...
One of our ranching friends in Deaf Smith County said the thing he quit doing this year was simple. He quit coming home from a trip and heading straight to the cattle. Not because he got soft. Not...
One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said something this month that sounded simple enough to keep. He said July gets blamed for a lot of things that really start in May. That felt right. Because one...
One of our ranching friends in Erath County said the part of this bird-flu-in-cattle story that changed how he heard it was not the word flu. It was the word eyes. Not some distant public-health headline. Not a...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said the medicine box feels different this spring. Not bigger. Not fancier. Just heavier. Because a wound on a calf, cow, sheep, goat, horse, or deer used to feel mostly...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said the part of a hot cattle day that bothered him most was not always the pasture. It was the place where the cattle finally stopped. The holding pen with...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said the ugliest part of spring was not always the storm. It was the week after. The place by the water tank that stayed soft. The gate opening that kept...
One of our ranching friends said something this week that felt worth passing around before summer gets fully wound up. He said a lot of snakebite trouble on a ranch starts after the strike. Not because the snake...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this spring that felt more useful than fancy. He said a lot of ranches now have more disinfectant than discipline. A jug in the side box. A pump...
One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said the easy mistake after a show is thinking the risky part is over when the trailer points back toward home. The banner got handed out. The halter came off...
One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this week that felt plain enough to keep. He said the dangerous part of a pit emergency is not only the pit. It is the love. The dad...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said the best cattle hand on the place was becoming a problem. Not because he was rough. Not because he was careless. Because nobody could explain exactly what he was...
One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this week that felt small until you sat with it. He said the cattle used to get a reset at night. Not every night. Not in August, not...
One of our ranching friends in the Hill Country said the dangerous part of a flood was not always the night it rained. Sometimes it was the next morning. The crossing everybody had used for years. The creek...
One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said something this week that felt more useful than dramatic. He said the dangerous cattle job on a lot of places is not always the wild one. It is the...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said the place they call the "hospital pen" had too many other jobs. It held a cranky pair when the main trap got crowded. It caught bought cattle for a...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said the dangerous cow on his place had gotten more expensive twice. Once when he bought her. And again when he decided to keep giving her one more chance. Not...
One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said the prettiest part of a dry spell can be the most misleading. Not the dead grass. Not the dusty tank edge. Not the hay bill. The first bright green...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said a thing this spring that felt more useful than polished. He said the dead cow was not the only thing he worried about. It was the route after. Which...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of Texas cattle work is sliding later and earlier without anybody formally saying so. Not because people...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this spring that felt more useful than fancy. He said the cattle had changed faster than the chute had. That is a good ranch sentence. Because a lot...
One of our ranching friends in East Texas said something this spring that felt worth keeping. He said a lot of trich wrecks do not walk in wearing a sign that says trich. They walk in looking affordable...
One of our ranching friends said something plain enough to keep: "The safest cattle day usually starts before the cattle know we're coming." He did not mean a seminar. He meant a walk. A slow lap around the...
One of the quiet changes in livestock safety is that the dangerous moment is not always the cow, the chute, the trailer, or the side-by-side. Sometimes it is the question nobody can answer on Friday afternoon: who was...
There is a moment in a hot cattle job when the whole place starts telling the truth. The cattle do not run wild. The crew does not collapse. The chute does not break. Everything just gets slower. The...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the cattle day did not go bad because the cattle were especially wild. It went sideways because three people...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this spring that felt worth writing down. He said the side-by-side had become the ranch's most trusted liar. Not because it breaks all the time. Because it feels...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this spring that stuck with us: "We keep borrowing height from the wrong equipment." He was not talking about one dramatic wreck. He meant the ordinary ranch version...
One of our ranching friends in Jackson County told us the ugliest water problem he had last year did not start as a drought story. It started as a normal-enough failure. A pump problem. A power problem. A...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County told us about a rule his family made after a close call that did not happen in the pen. It happened at the entrance. The injured person was in a...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said something this spring that sounded small until we sat with it. He said a lot of ranch weather planning still hangs on one...
One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said the most dangerous machine on his place was not the one that looked dangerous. It was the one nobody argued with anymore. The old tractor by the hay rings...
One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said the new camera system did exactly what he bought it to do. It watched the back lot. It caught a weak calf early. It saved him a couple of...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this spring that felt worth writing down. He said the most expensive animal on some places is not always the bull. It is the bull everybody is making...
One of our ranching friends in Bee County said he has started looking at rough places in the pens a little differently this spring. Not just the bad latch. Not just the ugly weld. Not just the wire...
One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this spring that sounds like a small complaint until you think about it long enough. He said the camera had made him calmer. Then it made him sloppy...
One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that sounded simple, but it belongs in the safety notebook. He said: "We used to ask if the weather was good enough to work calves. Now...
One of our ranching friends in Hopkins County said he used to think the vaccine cooler was a medicine problem. Then he had a rough respiratory year in calves that should have been covered. Nobody could prove the...
One of our ranching friends in Montgomery County said the hardest part of a youth show is not always the show ring. Sometimes it is the ride home. The calf is tired. The kid is tired. The parent...
One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said something after pushing a cattle job back one morning: "We did not cancel because we were scared. We canceled because the day changed." That is a useful sentence. It...
A cow stands off by herself. Head low. Rope of saliva hanging. Not eating. Maybe she is choking. Maybe she has a stick lodged in her mouth. Maybe it is hardware. Maybe she got into something bitter. Maybe...
One of our ranching friends in the Rio Grande Valley told us he had started doing something that sounded almost too small to write down. Before a hot, fly-heavy cattle job, he looks at hands. Not in a...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something after a spring working day that sounded like a joke until it did not. He said: "I wore earplugs when we started the generator. I did not think...
One of our ranching friends in Webb County said the fever tick conversation changes when hunting season gets involved. During cattle work, everybody knows they are in livestock mode. There is a chute. There is a trailer. There...
One of our ranching friends in Fayette County said something after a rough working day that stuck with us: "We keep giving the hardest job to the person who knows how to survive it." He was not talking...
One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said the most crowded place in his shop is not the welding table anymore. It is the little shelf by the outlet. There is a phone charger. A power bank...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said the cats around a dairy are easy to quit seeing. They are just there. On the feed alley. By the calf hutches. Under...
One of our ranching friends in East Texas said the thing he worries about on bought cattle has changed. He still looks at feet. He still looks at eyes. He still wants to know where the cattle came...
One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said he has started writing down one thing on retained heifers that he used to keep in his head. Not pedigree. Not weight. Not breeding plan. He writes down how...
One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County put it about as plainly as it can be put: "A high calf market makes every trailer gate feel heavier." That is not a complaint. It is a safety observation...
One of our ranching friends in Fayette County said the hardest animal on the place is not always the wild one. Sometimes it is the one that cannot get up. That sounds backward until you stand there with...
One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said something last week that stuck with us. He was not talking about a green pond. He was not talking about dead fish. He was not talking about a windmill...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends up toward the Rolling Plains said something after a fire that stuck with us. He said everybody understands the danger while the fire is moving. The smoke...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Fayette County said something after a long doctoring day that stuck with us: "The shot was not the part I was worried about. I was worried...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends down in South Texas said something this week that sounded like a pretty good summary of the moment. He said: "I am glad they are building the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said something this week that sounded simple enough to miss. He said the place had more safety information than it used to. More disease...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said something this week that sounded simple enough to miss. He said the place had more safety information than it used to. More disease...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends said something this week that sounded like a throwaway line until we sat with it. He said: "That drone found the cow faster than I could. But...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle put it plainly: "A crop field does not become a pasture just because the cattle found it." That line stuck because one of the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends said something this week that sounded like the future and the past sitting in the same pickup. He said: "I like checking the tank from my phone...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said something this week that sounded small until we sat with it. He said a lot of dairy and mixed-livestock places have a habit...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that sounded like a small management detail. He said the cattle were not the only thing crossing the ranch. Deer...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that sounded like a small management detail. He said the cattle were not the only thing crossing the ranch. Deer...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Central Texas said something that sounds like a small problem until you picture the work. The crew had gloves. They had eye protection. They had masks...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that sounded like a joke until it did not. He said: "A phone can draw a fence faster than a...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle put it plainly: "A 100-degree day gets everybody's attention. The dangerous one is the day that feels fine until the work starts stacking up."...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Central Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a strange trailer at the wrong gate does something funny to a cattleman...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Central Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a strange trailer at the wrong gate does something funny to a cattleman...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something about cattle trailers that stuck with us. He said the most dangerous person on the place is not always the one driving...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something about cattle trailers that stuck with us. He said the most dangerous person on the place is not always the one driving...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of cattle-hauling trouble does not begin with the wreck. It begins...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of cattle-hauling trouble does not begin with the wreck. It begins...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt uncomfortably true. He said the dangerous cattle job is not always the wild one. Sometimes it is the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt uncomfortably true. He said the dangerous cattle job is not always the wild one. Sometimes it is the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Rolling Plains said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said hungry cattle make a new bale look safer than it is. Not...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Rolling Plains said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said hungry cattle make a new bale look safer than it is. Not...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still think movement paperwork starts when the truck is...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still think movement paperwork starts when the truck is...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends up in the Panhandle said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock safety talk still sounds like it belongs entirely...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends up in the Panhandle said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock safety talk still sounds like it belongs entirely...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places have finally accepted that cattle paperwork is not really...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places have finally accepted that cattle paperwork is not really...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock jobs still get judged by the animal, not by...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock jobs still get judged by the animal, not by...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the ranch does not create "little wounds" anymore. Not this spring. Not with...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the ranch does not create "little wounds" anymore. Not this spring. Not with...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of bad hauling decisions do not start on the highway. They...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of bad hauling decisions do not start on the highway. They...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Webb County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of people still hear "fever tick" and picture one thing: a...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Webb County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of people still hear "fever tick" and picture one thing: a...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in East Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of people still think trich is a bull problem you solve...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in East Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of people still think trich is a bull problem you solve...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in East Texas said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said horse people are usually pretty good at noticing the big safety jobs. The...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in East Texas said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said horse people are usually pretty good at noticing the big safety jobs. The...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Jackson County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranches still think of biosecurity as the stuff you worry...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Jackson County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranches still think of biosecurity as the stuff you worry...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in North Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of spring cattle work still gets separated into neat little boxes...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in North Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of spring cattle work still gets separated into neat little boxes...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that sounded ordinary until it did not. He said the crew had a cow blow past a gate, miss a...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that sounded ordinary until it did not. He said the crew had a cow blow past a gate, miss a...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something that stuck this week. He said most places have a ranch address. But that is not always the same thing as having...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something that stuck this week. He said most places have a ranch address. But that is not always the same thing as having...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Central Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of storm cleanup on ranches gets judged by what is obvious...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Central Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of storm cleanup on ranches gets judged by what is obvious...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of the hardest cattle work on real places is no longer...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of the hardest cattle work on real places is no longer...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends over in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said everybody on a livestock place knows water matters. But a lot of...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends over in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said everybody on a livestock place knows water matters. But a lot of...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt too true to ignore. He said a lot of cattle work still gets "solved" by somebody climbing up...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt too true to ignore. He said a lot of cattle work still gets "solved" by somebody climbing up...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still treat wound care like cleanup. Spray it. Mark...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still treat wound care like cleanup. Spray it. Mark...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of cattle trouble starts on days everybody called routine. Not because...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of cattle trouble starts on days everybody called routine. Not because...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends up in the Panhandle said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock places still think of washdown as the part...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends up in the Panhandle said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock places still think of washdown as the part...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Central Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said backup power has become part of the livestock job. Not just for the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Central Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said backup power has become part of the livestock job. Not just for the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Wilson County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still think the danger around a hay-feeding site is...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Wilson County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still think the danger around a hay-feeding site is...
Where this one is coming from There is a kind of ranch injury that still gets talked about like it barely counts. Not because it is harmless. Because it is ordinary. You slip stepping off the trailer. You...
Where this one is coming from There is a kind of ranch injury that still gets talked about like it barely counts. Not because it is harmless. Because it is ordinary. You slip stepping off the trailer. You...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still talk about wildfire prep like it mostly lives...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still talk about wildfire prep like it mostly lives...
The safety pattern we think more ranches need to name out loud There is a certain kind of ranch mistake that starts with good intentions. Somebody finds a cow, sheep, goat, deer, or exotic dead or nearly dead...
The safety pattern we think more ranches need to name out loud There is a certain kind of ranch mistake that starts with good intentions. Somebody finds a cow, sheep, goat, deer, or exotic dead or nearly dead...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Hemphill County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of fire planning on ranches is built around the run. The...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Hemphill County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of fire planning on ranches is built around the run. The...
Where this one is coming from There is a version of the cattle-hauling day that still feels normal on a lot of Texas places. Gather. Sort. Load. Get rolling. Beat supper if you can. That routine still sounds...
Where this one is coming from There is a version of the cattle-hauling day that still feels normal on a lot of Texas places. Gather. Sort. Load. Get rolling. Beat supper if you can. That routine still sounds...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that stuck. He said a lot of us still treat a pond problem like a pond problem. Fish floating. Water...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that stuck. He said a lot of us still treat a pond problem like a pond problem. Fish floating. Water...
Where this one is coming from One of the clearer livestock-safety trends right now is not showing up in the usual places. Not just in the alley. Not just in the trailer tires. Not just in the weather...
Where this one is coming from One of the clearer livestock-safety trends right now is not showing up in the usual places. Not just in the alley. Not just in the trailer tires. Not just in the weather...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranches are finally taking screwworm seriously. They are watching wounds...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranches are finally taking screwworm seriously. They are watching wounds...
The livestock-safety trend hiding in plain sight There is a quiet shift happening in livestock safety right now. More of the risk is being assigned to traffic. Not just animal traffic. Trailer traffic. Vehicle traffic. Shared equipment traffic...
The livestock-safety trend hiding in plain sight There is a quiet shift happening in livestock safety right now. More of the risk is being assigned to traffic. Not just animal traffic. Trailer traffic. Vehicle traffic. Shared equipment traffic...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said some of the roughest moments in cattle work are not the obvious wrecks...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said some of the roughest moments in cattle work are not the obvious wrecks...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of backup cattle plans still stop one step too early. They...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of backup cattle plans still stop one step too early. They...
The safety pattern we think more ranches need to name out loud Most livestock safety talk still starts with the obvious ranch dangers. The bull. The gate. The trailer. The squeeze chute. The four-wheeler. That makes sense. But...
The safety pattern we think more ranches need to name out loud Most livestock safety talk still starts with the obvious ranch dangers. The bull. The gate. The trailer. The squeeze chute. The four-wheeler. That makes sense. But...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranch places still treat the water trough like background scenery...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranch places still treat the water trough like background scenery...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranches still think about trailer safety like it is mostly...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranches still think about trailer safety like it is mostly...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of bad cattle decisions still get made under a trailer deadline...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of bad cattle decisions still get made under a trailer deadline...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said most wildfire talk on a cattle place still sounds like one hard day...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still act like the safety part of livestock work...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock safety plans still have an old body hiding inside...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends over in Castro County said something plain after a messy sick-cow day. He said the hardest part was not always the job itself. Sometimes it was the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said people still talk about disease exposure like it mostly lives with the obviously...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of cattle places still work a loadout like it is one...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock jobs have a dangerous little lie built into them...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of dangerous cattle work does not start with wild cattle. It...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Castro County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock places still treat testing like the office side of...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Bosque County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places still talk about summer safety like it starts once...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places have already had the screwworm conversation. Everybody knows it...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of places have already had the screwworm conversation. Everybody knows it...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Comanche County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock jobs now have two different kinds of dirty mixed...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of people still walk into a calving, lambing, or kidding problem...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranch safety still gets built around the person who always...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranch safety still gets built around the person who always...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of birthing work still gets treated like the danger is only...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something this month that felt worth passing around. He said drought changes what counts as livestock equipment. Not just the well. Not just...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Runnels County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of people still talk about cattle treatment work like it is...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Hidalgo County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of calf work still gets talked about like the dangerous part...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Hidalgo County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock work still gets scheduled like the wound is the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said the first really hot week on a place causes trouble because everybody still...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Childress County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of hard calvings go sideways in the same order. First everybody...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of dangerous cattle days do not come apart in the pen...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Val Verde County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a sore mouth or a teat blister still gets misread on a...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in the Panhandle said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a sudden-dead cow creates two bad urges at once. The first is to...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in West Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranch emergencies do not actually start when the cow goes...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends over in South Texas said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the danger with breeding-bull work is not only the bull. It is...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends told us something simple a few days ago that stuck. He said the most expensive pen on a place might be the one people still treat like...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Bee County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said fly-control day used to feel like cattle work with a little chemistry attached...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the dangerous summer mistake on a lot of places is assuming daylight fixes...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Fayette County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the danger with new tag requirements is not really the tag. It is...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said something sharp this week. He said the worst part of a face splash is not always the splash. Sometimes it is the walk...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in South Texas said something plain the other day that stuck with us. He said the hog problem on his place is not ending at the trap gate anymore...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the gate did not suddenly get meaner. The cows just got bigger than...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said the first truly hot cattle-working day is the one he trusts the least...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in McMullen County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock places still have a first-aid plan that only works...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County told us about a gather he cut short last spring. Not because the cattle were wild. Not because the trailer broke. Not because the...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something the other morning that felt bigger than it sounded. He said a lot of cattle pens around here still work pretty good...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of livestock places will stop a cattle-working day over one gate...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Erath County said something short the other day that has been sticking with us. He said a lot of livestock PPE fails for the same reason...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Gonzales County said something the other day that felt worth passing around. He said the side-by-side has become so normal on a lot of places that...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends over in Lavaca County said something this spring that felt worth passing around. He said a lot of ranch danger still looks like ranch danger. The cow...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something this week that felt worth passing around. He said a powered gate can make a place feel more organized fast. Fewer steps...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something plain the other day. He said a lot of hot-weather cattle work does not go bad when the thermometer jumps. It goes...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something plain the other day. He said a lot of hot-weather cattle work does not go bad when the thermometer jumps. It goes...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in South Texas told us something this week we have not stopped thinking about. He said the biggest change on his place this spring is not a new mineral...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in South Texas told us something this week we have not stopped thinking about. He said the biggest change on his place this spring is not a new mineral...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County said something we think more people ought to say out loud. He said he knows exactly who he wants showing up first if there...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something that stuck with us. He said a lot of bad shipping days do not start at the trailer. They start two or...
Where this one is coming from The livestock-safety conversation has gotten more layered over the last two years. The old hazards are still there. A cow can still pin you on a gate. A calf can still throw...
Where this one is coming from The livestock-safety conversation has gotten more layered over the last two years. The old hazards are still there. A cow can still pin you on a gate. A calf can still throw...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in East Texas said something plain after a wet stretch. He said the dangerous water on a ranch is not always the creek out of bounds or...
The safety pattern we keep coming back to When ranch people talk about livestock safety, most of us picture the obvious places first: the alley, the squeeze chute, the sorting gate, the bull pen, the loading ramp. Those...
The safety pattern we keep coming back to When ranch people talk about livestock safety, most of us picture the obvious places first: the alley, the squeeze chute, the sorting gate, the bull pen, the loading ramp. Those...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in South Texas told us something this week that stuck. He said the biggest change on his place is that a wound check is not just for...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that stuck. He said a lot of us still look at a stock pond turning bright, streaky, or painty-green and...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that stuck. He said a lot of us still look at a stock pond turning bright, streaky, or painty-green and...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends over in the Rolling Plains said the dangerous part of a hard year is not always the dry spell itself. Sometimes it is the first thing that...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends over in the Rolling Plains said the dangerous part of a hard year is not always the dry spell itself. Sometimes it is the first thing that...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something that stuck. He said the cattle were not really fighting the alley. They were fighting the whole soundtrack around it. The hydraulic...
Where this one is coming from One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County said something this week that felt worth passing on. He said expensive cattle can make ordinary handling mistakes feel smaller than they are. Not...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in Victoria County told us a story last week that stuck with us. He lost a steer in the chute two summers ago — healthy animal, 1,100 pounds, nothing...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in Fayette County — a cow-calf operator we have been lucky to learn from over the last couple of years — pulled us aside at a sale barn coffee...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in Lavaca County — a cow-calf operator we have been lucky to learn from — told us at the feed store counter last Friday why he changed how he...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in Hopkins County was swapping stories at the equipment dealer counter in Sulphur Springs last week and told us about the PTO routine he has been running for about...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in Erath County was at a sale barn coffee pot in Stephenville last month and told us about a rough season he had with his hot wire. He lost...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in DeWitt County pulled us aside at a coffee shop in Cuero last week. He had just finished his spring manure pit routine — the one he does every...
Where we heard it One of our ranching friends in Colorado County was at the Columbus auction barn last month, and after the sale we ended up talking about working facilities for about forty-five minutes. He had a...