MANAGEMENT

Health insurance costs have been on the rise for several years and are frequently named by farmers and ranchers as becoming a burden to their families and operations.

Our natural tendency when filling columns in a calving book is to start with the calf. Like kids in school, their performance is a direct reflection of their parents.

An important lesson worth remembering is simple: “What if” usually happens when you least expect it to happen.

The books have closed on 2018, and we are now working through winter and looking forward to spring. For the spring-calving cow-calf producer, this is a good time to analyze what it cost to produce a pound of weaned calf last year.

“Company culture” refers to the shared values, attitudes, standards and beliefs that characterize members of an organization and define its nature. It is rooted in the organization’s vision, goals, strategies and structure.

You raise your cattle for a lot of reasons – is profitability one of them?

Agriculture operates on razor-thin margins, and sometimes those margins aren’t just thin, they are nonexistent.