Yeah, I know, everybody thinks they are getting screwed all the time. My great grandpa had a saying that has been passed down, "Farmers buy retail, sell wholesale, and pay the freight both ways." As I've gotten older, more involved, and learned a little more about how the world works, how the industry works, I’ve realized something... Grandpa was right, but in this case it's not just farmers.
Read More“Stories and stories- a storyteller has all kinds of stories going at one time out of which he hopes he can find one story he can tell at one time. ”
— NORMAN MACLEAN- YOUNG MEN AND FIRE
Read MoreTwo cattlemen show up at the home of a known cattle thief, and were never seen again. It sounds like a story from 150 years ago, but its not. It happened in July.
Read MoreI have never seen it laid out so well as Ms. Ellis does in this video. As she stands on the hill over looking her ranch and the scenery turns to a rock quarry and then to subdivisions, that is what people need to see and understand.
Read MoreSo last night the Des Moines Register newspaper has became the nations punching bag , because they suck. To many of us Iowans this is nothing new.
Read MoreJust getting bucked off certainly doesn’t qualify as a wreck. But that buckskin wasn’t done with me. Although he had about 150,000 acres to choose where to run, he chose to make a 100-yard circle and come right back at the stunned cowboy standing there hatless, surrounded by remnants of a Walkman and a Marshall Tucker tape.
If anything should happen...you tell them what happened here...you tell them.”
Read MoreSouthern Oregon’s ZX Ranch operates on over a million acres and is an outfit every cowboy wants to work for at least once.
Read MoreWhen we arrived, we were greeted by a fresh bear claw mark down the logs of the wall that held the door. Talk about welcoming! There was no plumbing and no electricity.
Read MoreScientist are continually beating us over the head with their thoughts on climate change. Maybe its time they hear my thoughts. I am not a Scientist, and I don’t think I am smarter than those who are. Unlike most everyone else who isn’t a scientist, but talks, or writes about climate change, I am not going to pretend to be one.
Read MoreWhere would the cowboy be if Charlie Russell hadn't picked up a brush, or Will James hadn't picked up a pen, if Erwin Smith hadn't picked up a camera, or if Will Rodgers hadn't stepped out on stage, or if John Wayne hadn't stepped in front of the camera?
Read MoreOver the past year the media has been telling the U.S. consumer to stop eating beef. Last week the message peaked with an anti-beef article in every major news outlet imaginable. At what point do agricultural organizations start taking this seriously? At what point will beef industry media members start telling their readers what is really going on?
Read MoreAlthough not every cowboy has the good fortune to end his time in the saddle quietly on a day of his choosing, I know none would trade it for a life lived safely behind a desk
Read MoreIn the process of writing a short something about an article I wanted to share, I stumbled into an internet rabbit hole, that shook me to my core. Google, the top internet search engine in the world’s top news results for, “meat” tell people how meat is being replaced, lay out step by step plan to eat less of it, and for those who don’t want to eat it less, they explain how to tax it and force people to eat less.
Read MoreWhat’s funny is PETA is getting what they want by making national news, what they don’t realize is a TV show getting their name in the national headlines is virtually priceless to a show like Yellowstone.
Read MoreWell first man that comes along that can read Latin is invited to rob us as far as I’m concerned. I’d like the chance to shoot at a educated man once in my life.
Read MoreInstead of taking a food that everyone loves...meat, and making a fake one out of foods that everyone doesn't really love... vegetables. Why not make fake foods...vegetables out of great tasting food... meat?
Read MoreWhen I rolled up to Binion's in 1975 with no more than a week's riding lessons to prepare me for a summer cowboying, Wade was the first cowboy's hand I shook as I got out of my parent's station wagon. I was twelve and he was 24, fresh out of Vietnam.
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