Tina and I had our first exhibit at the Mid-Missouri Grazing Concil Grazing Conference in Columbia, Missouri. We shared movies and visited with attendees, and I give the keynote address and a demonstration on working five heifers.

We hurried home from West Virginia knowing that a massive ice storm had hit SW Missouri and our farm the week previous. This is part of what we found this morning. The tree damage is massive throughout the entire area, but we were incredibly lucky that no buildings, water lines, or animals were harmed. We were also a lot more lucky than many people in that our electricity was only off for five days and was on when we returned.

Our final night in West Virginia I spoke to about 40 people at the Shenandoah Valley Sportsmen Club near Martinsburg in Berkeley County.

I had the chance to visit with Jerry Yates and David Workman at the bull experiment station north of Wardensville.

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Keyser sure might be the friendliest city in the USA, but I found that West Virginia is about the friendliest state in the Union!

I spoke to about 120 people in the Burlington Firehouse between Keyser and Romney.

Tonight I spoke to about 70 people in Fairmont south of Morgantown.

I spoke to about 90 people in the barn of the old WV state prison in Moundsville. What a neat building and great crowd.

We enjoyed visiting Washington, DC and Gettysburg while waiting to speak Monday evening to a Wheeling, WV crowd. The weather back home in SW Missouri is just about as nasty as it gets with freezing rain the last three nights adding up to disastrous tree damage and power outages. At least our cattle handled well for the kids moving them to hay to weather the storm. It’s sure nice using good stockmanship to do what needs to be done.

This week we will be in Wheeling the 15th, Morgantown the 16th, Keyser the 17th, and end in Martinsburg on the 18th. Come see us!

Our last night this week was in Franklin, WV where I spoke to about 100 people.

I saw this corral and loading area on Hwy 33 just east of Harman, WV, and had to get a photo.

The people who loaded out of this corral knew how to work livestock!