Wally has the following Marketing school scheduled:

• November 12-15, 2019 in Claremore, OK; click here for the information/registration form.

Read more about Wally and his school on his website here: olsonranchllc.com

[Note from Tina] Mom, Richard, and I have been talking about writing the book about Mom and Dad’s life for a long time now. Finally, we realized that, if we don’t start on it and really put some focus into it, it just won’t happen. Therefore, we have decided to not teach ANY Hand ‘n Hand Livestock Solutions schools in 2019 (except the 3 day Marketing and Stockmanship School in February just before the 2019 Bud Summit) so we can focus on collecting the information and writing the book.

Watch for notice that the book is ready to order!

Richard and I were so happy to have Mom join us for our recent trip to California to put on a Marketing and Stockmanship school in Eureka. Mom, Dad and I lived in that area for my life before I left for college, and it was great to visit some places we had lived and visit with folks we had known back then. Here are the two group pictures, and click here for more photos from the school and our trip.

I’m happy to recommend the Stockmanship and Marketing schools Tina, our daughter, and her husband, Richard McConnell are now putting on.

Visit their webpage at Hand ‘n Hand Livestock Solutions

From a friend in Iowa:    We have just recently gotten back into some calves and so far things are going well. We’ve been watching Yours and Buds video a lot lately and it never ceases to amaze us of the new things that we pick up on each time we watch the same video. Truly astounding that one can just over look things that they perceive as not pertaining to them. There is just so much information in there and each time we watch we are at a different level of learning and doing different things at the time. You both just keep on helping us, what awesome friends you have been.

I have often told people “You can watch our videos ten times and pick up new and valuable information each time you view them.”  Eunice – Springfield, MO

Comment: . . . .we’re dry but cattle are doing amazingly well! Here’s some of the best numbers I have ran in a while. Sold 750# yrlng steers $1.38 – $1035hd Bought 688# steer and bull calves $1.255 – $863 cost of gain plus a dime profit – $1.06!

That’s $112 profit in 40 days in the worse drought with the highest feed cost ever!  I’m so glad you taught me to look for opportunity instead of complaining about stuff I have no control over.

Question: . . . . I live in South Africa and heard on a number of occasions about Bud’s work on livestock marketing.

Some questions from my side:

1. I see I can buy some of your DVD’s, but how do I pay for it if you don’t have a credit card facility?
2. Will the livestock marketing DVD be enough to start buying and selling livestock or will I need more training?
3. What is the difference or similarities between Bud’s work and the ideas of the KLR marketing school?

 Answer:    We have never seen one of KLR’s Marketing schools, but hopefully there is no difference between Bud’s work and the Ideas of the KLR Marketing School. Rod Knight, Jim Lindsay and Grahame Rees learned from Bud and have our blessing to teach his methods in Australia. We realize that there is some difference in livestock marketing in the two countries, but the principals are the same.

Some people have no problem learning Bud’s methods (SELL-buy Marketing, not BUY-sell) from just the DVDs, but for the people who have questions we have a Subscription Section to our website where, for $300 per year, Bud is available to answer unlimited e-mail questions. These Q & A’s (as well as other articles that Bud writes) are posted on the site anonymously for all subscribers to view. As of this date there are over 800 different postings on the site.

We don’t plan on charging for the website after April of 2013.  Anyone who is a subscriber at that time will continue to have access as long and Bud and I are physically able to keep the site going.

You can send payment via Western Union. Go to www.westernunion.com for a location for a local office or to take care of the transaction online with your credit card. You would then send me the “number” and I can use this to collect the money at our local Western Union location.

Hi Bud and Eunice. I have been wanting to talk to you for a while but I thought I would wait and see how things shook out for us.

This has been an exciting winter. Everyone wants to talk about cows, I want to talk about feed. We have been working hard at saving our feed for the winter months to make it possible for us to carry dry bred cows if the opportunity presented itself. People were sick about seeing all the grass going to waste, and even asking if they could use it if we weren’t going to. We just told them we were letting it recover and the cows would eat it this winter. We picked up 80 or so bred cows this winter for $950, and put them out on that wasted grass. We had no idea our neighbors kept such good track of us until one said, (more…)

Following are excerpts from a letter that we just received from Grahame Rees.  Grahame is the “R” in KLR Marketing.  He, Rod “K”night and Jim “L”indsay are teaching Bud’s Marketing principals in Australia.  Many of you folks met Grahame when he was visiting us last year.

. . . . I am finally home for a little bit after travelling running schools. It has been an interesting time seeing many come along to learn everything they can, whilst others want a silver bullet and almost want you to tell them they are doing it right already. They will never change. . . . There are more breeders coming along and so we have developed more breeder examples. In many business’s the basic herd management is quite poor with low calving % and too high a costs.   I am going to Write an article titled “ Why high prices can send you broke !” not sure it will go down too well but that is ok.  It seems as soon as prices go up people spend more money, much of it long term commitments and then when prices fall those costs remain.  Queensland has been devalued by the banks by 32% (where it should be) which means many will be challenged.

After each school we run a mastermind day where about 10 – 20 members of our mastermind group will attend.  These days show how well some people are doing and who is still struggling.
Know and Understand yourself is always the biggest challenge, but if they get through that one, the sky is the limit.  Here are a couple stories from those days :

. . . . John shared how he stopped doing things that were not making money like spraying weeds or fixing fences and focused more of his time on marketing.  One guy stood up, angry saying “no weed gets out of place on his farm and no fence is going to be neglected.”  I was considering how I was going to pacify him when John said “Well, since using KLR I make enough money to pay a contractor to do those things so I can focus on the most important parts of my business”

There were 3 guys who traded the same sheep and made a profit.
1st guy bought dry ewes and joined them to the Ram
He sold them scanned in lamb to the 2nd guy
Who then sold them a short while later to the 3rd guy to lamb out.
It was only after the event did they all know they passed through 3 KLR guys but they all made a profit on the way through.

. . . . I host a discussion call every Wednesday night and I get everyone on the call to share their results challenges and questions.  She shared 1 night how she had sold some heifers for $2.40/ kg and managed to replace them with same weight hfrs for $.192.  The agent called on the way home and said he needed more so she let him have those before they came off the truck for $2.40.  Someone said to her “That doesn’t happen every day – she came back with no you are right but I am there every day and when it does they are mine”

The video that we took of our last Marketing School didn’t turn out as well as we’d have liked so I talked Bud into letting me video him just setting down and explaining the basics of his marketing system.  This 3-disk, 3-hour video is now available for $200.  This includes postage to anywhere in the world.  I must collect 7.60 % sales tax if I ship to a Missouri address.

Sorry, we don’t take credit cards.  Send your check to:

Bud Williams Stockmanship School
Eunice Williams
1519 E Erie Street, #206
Springfield, MO 65804