One of the things I have heard about being a good cowman is the ability to listen to the cattle and let them tell you what needs to be done.
Livestock progress shows and county fair season has begun, and while everyone aspires to bring home that grand champion trophy or belt buckle, no one wants to leave the show carrying a zoonotic disease.
"I love the Fourth of July, and the number one reason is I love the patriotism of people. Why can’t we have that year round?"
"Opening and closing gates was somewhat a solitary endeavor, offering plenty of opportunity for creative thinking."
Nebraska students learn to make quality, dry-aged meat.Â
"I realized I had missed the boat the last couple of years, and I was more like my father than I wanted to admit."
"I wasn’t thinking anything was unusual, just assuming he was some guy getting into the cow business who had a California attitude."
"Not everybody passes from this life doing what they love to do: just being a cowboy."
When you marry a farmer in the spring, anniversary celebrations in the following years are often subject to the whims of Mother Nature. Over the past 37 years, I have celebrated our May 26 anniversary by sitting in the planter with Hubby while we mudded in the last of the soybeans, brought s…
Heading south of the border for a week. I was asked to represent the Nebraska Cattlemen on a Nebraska Department of Ag trade mission to a country that I will not name yet as I’m hoping to make it back alive. Having the opportunity to learn anything about international agriculture I find so i…
Learning from my previous mistakes is not one of my strong points. I know my family and particularly my wife would agree with this point. I seem to make the same mistakes over and over. I am creative though and find new ways to make the same mistake. This past weekend was a prime example of …
It was another 12 plus hour day of ranch work. Yet, there still seems to be so many things that I ended up putting off until tomorrow or – let’s be realistic – even the following day. Office work is piling up, cattle records need to be updated, I’m still not tagged up, pastures need to be go…
The late Mike Welker is being honored with induction into the Nebraska Sandhills Cowboy Hall of Fame with a ceremony set for June 11 in Valentine.
If I’m being honest with you, there’s really nothing in my mind more beautiful or satisfying than turning cows out to summer pasture. These are the days I thank God for the ability to see, and to see in full color. The backdrop of cows grazing the wide open Sandhills is something that always…
I was informed on social media last week to stop acting like an 80-year-old. I was on my soap box – surprisingly there are just a few topics that get me wound up – I know that may be hard to believe. There are two inanimate objects in life I despise – net wrap and balloons. Â
Topsy-turvy is the best way to describe life this week at the Post farm! This is mainly due to the addition of an 11-month-old pup that I’ve named Waylon. He hails from a Newton, Kansas shelter, which is where we got our previous dog some 15 years ago. Waylon is an exceedingly friendly guy, …
It’s funny how things can change, but they really don’t. That sentence will make English teachers cringe and everyone else scratch their heads, but it really sums my life up over the past couple of weeks. Not only is it confusing, but it is darned frustrating.
Hello, from our little part of the Bohemian Alps near Knoxville, Nebraska. Since we have been blessed with some wonderful rain, the inches are adding up. It sure is greening up around here very nicely. Our area did also experience a very nasty and cruel derecho storm a few days ago. What a m…
As if the weather in 2022 hasn’t already been crazy enough, Thursday I was able to add yet another event to my weather bingo card, a haboob.
When looking for a role model in community service, both locally and across the state, you could look to the late Lowell Minert.
Hi, my name is Jaclyn and I have calving brain. I think this is when everyone repeats back ‘Hi, Jaclyn!’ I tried this the other day on the cows – no response. Calving gives one a number of epiphany moments. I had one last week…
There are some days that are frustrating, and you just can’t do anything about them. Today was one of those days. We are at the time of the year when I am so busy and have so many things to do that, I don’t know which way to turn. That usually means I just spend my whole day spinning in circ…
With big-hearted Nebraskans and others from across the region ready to connect and give the boot to cancer, plans are in place for the widely-heralded ‘Cattlemen’s Ball’ June 3 and 4 at the Cass County Fairgrounds in Weeping Water, Nebraska.
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