Nebraska Cowboy Poet RP Smith

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How much rain did you get? It’s 30. Doubles what we’ve had for the year. I mean it’s been super dry so we got a long way to go but that’s the best start we’ve had.

And your ranch is located there in the central part of Nebraska, right? Yeah, Custer County. What kind of cattle do you run? Oh, the market’s kind of forcing us to go back to black but I like the red angus and thought maybe they were a little more heat tolerant but I haven’t had a lot of big proof on that point and there’s sure a difference when you go to sell them. They sure like the black hides better.

And you just sold some cattle this year, right? We sold all of our steers back in January which was a little earlier than normal but the pasture situation had a factor on that feed situation. What we sold last week was just the very tail end of our yearling heifers and the rest of them we’ll expose to a bull or AI for a very short time period and whatever doesn’t get bred really quick we’ll go to town and the rest of them we’ll try to hold our cow herd genetics together with. Homegrown, Hall of Fame Cowboy Poet and Broken Bow Area Rancher, R.P. Smith.

Visit his wildly popular podcast at rpsmith.us. That’s it for today’s program. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.