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Question: Ross did a great job on his essay. Do you know how he did? Answer: Not surprisingly, he didn’t place. Even though more and more “Individuals” are understanding the benefits of Bud’s methods of Stockmanship and Marketing, the “Livestock Industry” still isn’t ready for this.
Ross Wahlert is 16 years old and is one of our Stockmanship and Marketing students. He entered a National FFA Risk Management Contest with the following essay. Controlled Risks Risk Management is just one crucial part of the agriculture industry that must be understood. There are many risks involved in
I spent the last week on a crew weaning calves. Talk about frustrating and disheartening… The cattle were in groups of 120 to 200 per pasture (largest pasture was only about 4,000 acres). Typical of ranches here . . . . . they spend most of their time in pickups
This is an interview that Grahame Rees conducted in Australia with one of our former Australian students. Many of you folks may remember meeting Grahame at some of our schools here in the U.S. Grahame is now teaching Stockmanship and Marketing in Australia.
Just wanting to wish you and Bud a Happy New Year! Still use everything I learned from you that weekend we spent together. The pens we built with the Bud box are wonderful….sooooo easy to use. Didn’t know it could be so consistently easy and smooth. The only problem I
This is from a letter we received from Nancy Lidster (see “Pig Stockmanship” on our Main Homepage). “A year ago I was ready to call it quits on the handling stuff. I told Don I would give it my absolute best for 6 months and if nothing changed I was
We enjoy the website so much I don’t know what we would do without it. It is good to hear of others working through the same problems we are and it is good to hear the answers even if we’ve heard them several times before. I realize that in this
Excerpts from a letter from Jim Lindsay, our friend who teaches Low Stress Stock Handling in Australia. He is talking about his trip to Sweden. . . . . . I was there for about 8 days and helped some workers on one farm for about 6 days. They wanted
Emotion is it good or bad or does it really matter? After many years of studying animals it is my belief that their emotions have a lot to do with their health and performance, good or bad. The last 20 years of working with and trying to teach people I’m
There have been a lot of articles written about the “Bud Box” for loading a processing chute or trucks in the last few years. Though Bud has often stated that he “would like to live long enough to see every crowd tub replaced with a Bud Box, or at least
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