Calving season starts May 1st each year. By calving in May and June, we align the peak energy of our grass growth with the peak nutritional requirements of our cows. Since we moved our calving season from March to May we have gone from an overall breed back percentage of 71% to 89 ..read more

Each year we keep our entire heifer crop. Bulls are put in with the heifers July 24th for 30 days. This allows only the most fertile heifers to breed, typically around 50%. The heifers that do not breed are finished and sold through retail ..read more

Every year lambing season starts May 1st. We lamb outside on pasture when the weather is warm, and the spring grasses are productive. Lambing season typically lasts for three weeks. During these three weeks we stay out of our lambing fields as much as possible ..read more

Water is money. On our farm without water we have nothing. We recently leased a farm that has 760 acres of grass. It has one small pond on it, all the way on the southern edge. From the pond to the north boundary is 1.4 miles. When we put cattle on this farm, we can rotate them effectively through the southern half closest to the water. We find it very difficult, even using temporary wires to create lanes, to get them to have any kind of impact on the north side. In order to fix this, we have limited options ..read more

On November 20th, we had the vet out and Pregnancy checked all of our cows. They were exposed to bulls for 90 days ..read more

Our hands-off pasture lambing approach is certainly not common management practices. We use breeding and lambing as a tool to build a hardly, low-input flock, and now we successfully lamb 1,500 ewes on pasture with virtually no involvement ..read more