We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
—Albert Einstein
Tina and I attended the 2007 Ultra High Stock Density Event in Creighton & Newport Nebraska. Yesterday, Allan Savory, founder of Holistic Management; Chad Peterson, Nebraska’s ultra high stock density grazier; and Neil Dennis, Canada’s ultra high stock density grazier, spoke and showed photos of their work. About 250 people attended the talks on Friday in Creighton.
Today we spent all day at one of Chad Peterson’s ranches near Newport.
Today my son Garland and I gathered our cattle to weigh calves while Tina video-taped. He’s learning stockmanship too! Later Garland taped Tina and I sorting and weighing.
Richard and I will hold a two-day Low Stress Stockmanship School in Springfield, Missouri, September 7-8.
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Tina and I were excited to attend our third Bud Williams Marketing School with Ann Barnhardt at the helm when she brought the school to Springfield, Missouri. You will earn back the school fee in your first marketing transaction! Get to one as soon as you can!
I visited with the attendees after lunch about stockmanship. If you are wanting to sell and buy younger/smaller stock, you might need some stockmanship skills!
Richard will be making a short presentation at the Beefmaster Breeders United Convention in Branson, Missouri, October 25-27. We will also be exhibiting during the meetings. As we also own beefmaster cattle, we will look forward to learning as well as sharing information.
This afternoon Tina and I were able to help a friend gather his cattle from this 80 acre pasture. This friend usually used the feed bucket to get most of them into the corral. He asked whether we’d be able to gather them all using stockmanship, and I said certainly, yes we could. And we did. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see the cattle above the abundant grass in the pasture as they stream toward the corral gate!
Here the cattle are easily standing in the corral before we even got the gate shut. There was no running in, finding no grain, and running out again before we could get there and get the gate shut. They were happy to be there because they were driven in correctly.