“…’Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” -Mark 12:31- The wind is blowing hard again today. It feels all too familiar of that horribly windy day last week which brought with it fire that changed so many peoples’ lives. My heart has been heavy for the ranchers who lost cattle, fences, their livelihood […]
Last year around this time, I was writing about what Americans spend on groceries. This was right during the middle of the drought. I read today that drought has affected food prices less than expected. I’m thankful for this! However there has been a lot of talk of this in the news that last year’s […]
In the next several weeks, farmers across the U.S. will begin planting and cultivating their crops for the 2013 harvest. With the 2012 drought still looming, this is a little scary. You can put a seed in the ground, but what does it need to grow? Water, nutrients, sunlight. And more water. And not to […]
I’m feeling grateful this Friday. Despite the cold and bitter winter conditions, the ranch received some much needed moisture this week. The ranch in Eastern Colorado is where the green star is on this map – right in the middle of the dark red, Exceptional Drought. We like to view our ranch as “exceptional”, but […]
This week, the exciting Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show is going on in Tampa, Florida and I know many cattlemen and women who are attending. One of those is my uncle, Mark Frasier, who is the President of the Colorado Livestock Association and I’ll brag on him for a minute. 🙂 He took […]
During the widespread heat of summer, how do cattle in feedlots stay cool? To answer that question, this video is from my friend, Joan, who owns and operates a beef feed yard in Nebraska. She told me that there is always plenty of room for the cattle in the yard to move around, but they […]
As we wrap up 2011 and look what may happen in agriculture in 2012, I wanted to share a few excerpts I read on Corn & Soybean Digest online by David Kohl and Kent Thiesse. 2011 Year in Review by Kohl: Interconnectedness and convergence In the early part of 2011, it appeared that the U.S. […]
My family’s ranch in Eastern Colorado was featured on the NCBA’s Cattlemen to Cattlemen show on RFD-TV last night. My dad has been working with a beef cattle nutritionist from Purina Mills, who has developed a product for sustainable cattle nutrition that can be customized to meet the cattle’s needs. Our family has practiced intensive, […]
A deepening drought is threatening one third of the U.S. And that includes a lot of livestock country. Wildfires are starting up all over, and I’m especially sensitive to these fires when they affect the livestock. In Colorado, three new wildfires started last week that burned more than 11,000 acres, forcing thousands of people and […]
