{"id":1146,"date":"2010-06-24T12:41:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T12:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2023-09-24T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T18:56:15","slug":"id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been studying your math.\u00a0 Thanks for all the help you give us all.\u00a0 I thought I would give you feedback.\u00a0 Your explanations are clear and easy to understand.\u00a0 I remember sitting in some marketing classes and people would just say their cost was a certain set amount like say $.70.\u00a0 I was sitting there thinking\u2026.mine changes almost everyday.\u00a0\u00a0 The more weight we gained the smaller the costs became.\u00a0 I finally decided these people must run 10,000 stockers or something.\u00a0 Then I found myself making all marketing decisions based on my cost of gain rather than watching the market.\u00a0 It was like a disease, and only when my cost got low enough would we ever consider selling.\u00a0 Luckily, you picked up on this and made this rash statement and it was like getting a giant shot in rear\u2026.\u201dif you always sold overvalued and bought undervalued, you would probably never need to even know your cost of gain.\u201d(Bud Williams).\u00a0 I realized right then that you were trying to help me see that I was ignoring the <em>important<\/em> thing and focusing on a minor issue.\u00a0 I think maybe the cattle square is responsible for this because it doesn\u2019t work really well with little or no weight gain, so it is tempting to hold on to overvalued animals waiting until it does work, meanwhile passing up profit potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been studying your math.\u00a0 Thanks for all the help you give us all.\u00a0 I thought I would give you feedback.\u00a0 Your explanations are clear and easy to understand.\u00a0 I remember sitting in some marketing classes and people would just say their cost was a certain set amount like say $.70.\u00a0 I was sitting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3202,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockmanship.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}