Friday Feature:  Florida Cracker Cattle – A Spanish Legacy

Friday Feature: Florida Cracker Cattle – A Spanish Legacy

This week’s featured video was produced by the Florida Department of Agriculture for the Florida Museum to be presented at the Florida Cattle Ranching: Five Centuries of Tradition exhibit that travel around the state back in 2011.  Since we are celebrating the...
Maximizing Revenue with Calf Management

Maximizing Revenue with Calf Management

This is the fifth installment of my ramblings on revenues (a good title for the series, wish I’d have thought of it sooner). As we get farther into this discussion it becomes increasingly obvious that most, if not all, of these topics are interconnected. My comments...
Friday Funny Feature:  Baxter Black’s Cow Stupidity

Friday Funny Feature: Baxter Black’s Cow Stupidity

Baxter Black is a veterinarian who became famous for his humorous cowboy poetry.  He certainly has a unique way of viewing the humor in day to day activities of cattle ranches.  This week’s featured video was published by NCBA’s Cattlemen to Cattlemen to...
Maximizing Cull Cow Revenues

Maximizing Cull Cow Revenues

  This week’s conversation about maximizing revenues centers on a topic that is generally not very popular with cattlemen – cull cows. I don’t know a single cattleman that enjoys culling cows from the herd. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, each year there...
Friday Feature:  500 Years of Cattle in Florida

Friday Feature: 500 Years of Cattle in Florida

Florida has a rich agricultural history, but one of the historic facts that Florida cattlemen take great pride in is that cattle were introduced into what later became the United States through Florida in 1521.  Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish conquistador who first...
Increasing Cow/Calf Revenue with Reproductive Management

Increasing Cow/Calf Revenue with Reproductive Management

  Continuing our discussion on maximizing revenues generated by cow/calf operations, this article will focus on herd reproductive management. Previously we looked at 1) Can Cow/Calf Operations Increase Revenue to Help Offset Input Costs? and 2) Maximizing...