http:\/\/www.ranchmanagement.com\/sallysilvia\/11commandentsdrought.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"….well you know the rest.\u00a0 And it’s certainly true in the cattle business.\u00a0 Some of the best-known consultants have never really successfully managed a herd, much less produced a notable cow.\u00a0 You can check. But here’s a Devon cow bred by a consultant, Bill Roberts of 12 Stones Grassland Beef, that would be a star in any herd.\u00a0 Her name is 12 Stones Maxine and she\u00a0traces her roots back to the Lenoirs Creek and Lakota farms. Bill not only produces beautiful animals but does a limited amount of consulting when he\u00a0can fit it in between finding grass steers for processors and running a mineral business.\u00a0 I hope you’ve been tracking the discussion, including the comments, on marketing grass fed beef down just a few blog entries. A\u00a0point that another grass fed producer, David Hawkins, made bears highlighting.\u00a0 If you’re going to direct market your beef, make sure you consider the time you’ll spend just driving…driving to the abattoir, driving the meat back, boxing and distributing your product.\u00a0 For a 40-steer\u00a0operation, David figures it was about 50 man hours a year, just on the road.\u00a0 That’s more than a weekof your life you’re not really in the cattle business. Incidentally, the name of Ranching for Profit’s Dave Pratt came up in the discussion.\u00a0 And for those of you dealing with drought (just about everybody) Dave’s latest\u00a0newsletter features his 11 Commandments for dealing with drought.\u00a0 Follow the link: http:\/\/www.ranchmanagement.com\/sallysilvia\/11commandentsdrought.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,21,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows","category-meat","category-on-the-soap-box","category-roberts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>But here’s a Devon cow bred by a consultant, Bill Roberts of 12 Stones Grassland Beef, that would be a star in any herd.\u00a0 Her name is 12 Stones Maxine <\/em>and she\u00a0traces her roots back to the Lenoirs Creek and Lakota farms.<\/p>\n