If you’re concerned about where your beef comes from, now you can get it directly from our ranch.
Hanging On The Hook Beef
Brian Hale : Welcome to the Cattleman’s Corner. I’m Brian Hale sitting in for the late Howard Hale as we continue his legacy of speaking with Cattlemen and women from around the globe.
Balancer cattle are registered hybrid seedstock that have documented pedigrees and expected progeny differences. Balancer animals are 25 to 75 percent Gelbvieh with the balance of Angus or Red Angus. Balancer cattle combine the Gelbvieh growth, muscle, leanness, fertility, longevity and low yield grading ability with the carcass qualities of the Angus. Balancer cattle offer a simple and powerful way to maintain hybrid vigor and a profitable blend of British and continental genetics without a complicated crossbreeding system. – American Gelbvieh Association, National Sponsor of Cattleman’s Corner
Brian Hale : Hanging on the hook beef was established in 2022, but they’ve been providing butcher beef to family and friends for over 20 years. Beef comes from cattle that they raise on their own farm. Gary and Ladonna have been married for 32 years. They take pride in providing the highest quality meat. Grass raised, grain finished beef processed in a USDA inspected facility.
Brian Hale : You can purchase the beef by individual cuts or try their bundle boxes and decide which is your favorite. Let’s jump over to the shop at hangingonthehookbeef.com. Click the shop button. Looks like they have 15-pound sampler boxes, summer grill boxes, variety boxes, crockpot box, filet mignon, flank steak, flat iron steak, comfort foods favorite and more.
Visit hangingonthehookbeef.com. If you’re concerned about where your beef comes from, now you can get it directly from the ranch. From their farm to your table, hanging on the hook beef. We’re hoping to get Gary or Ladonna on the phone with us on a future program right here on the Cattleman’s Corner.
That’s going to do it for today. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.
There’s no such thing as a re-ride on a Tooke bucking horse.
Ernest Tooke
Brian Hale : The Horseman’s Corner is an original production of Howard Hale Broadcasting on the air since 1994 with over 7,000 episodes with people involved in the world of horses. I’m Howard’s son Brian and we welcome you to the Horseman’s Corner.
Brian Hale : With Feek’s Vision about the legendary bucking horses out in theaters now, we are going to continue our conversation through Nelseena, our co-host, and Toby Tooke. Let’s listen in.
Nelseena Lehmann : Feeks’ biggest swear word was re-ride. He said, you didn’t get a re-ride on a Tooke horse, because he said if you thought the first one was not good, the second one was really going to eat your lunch.
Toby Tooke : Yep, and Feak always said that the most important people at a Tooke rodeo were the chute builders, because I’ve heard of the older Bronx getting run in and they have to stand there for a little bit. They would just splinter those chutes. Grandpa took a lot of pride in his horses, but if you made a good ride, he’s the first one to shake your hand and say good ride. If you got dumped, he was going to be the first one there to maybe give you a little poke. I know Ernest, it always irked him because we put on the rodeo’s and Miles City and Baker and Glendive. I’ve got the score cards in my office from some of those in Glendive where they do a Friday purse and a Saturday purse and I think in the Bareback and Saddle Bronx, both days out of, I don’t know if there was 40 total horses out, one guy rode.
Brian Hale : Those were some tough horses! We’ll have more with Toby Tooke on future episodes!
Brian Hale : The legendary Tooke bucking horses, find them on Facebook and find that movie near you. That’s going to do it for today’s horseman’s corner. Thanks again to our co-host Nelseena and Toby Tooke. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.
When Howard was alive, I would always find books nearby. Howard loved to read. If you enjoy reading, you should pick up Nelseena Lehmann’s new book, Country Life Shenanigans. You can pick up the book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble or straight from her website at nelseena.com.
Learning is fascinating to some, especially to neuroscientists like Dr. Steve Peters. Here’s is just a snippet of a longer interview he did with the late Howard Hale.
Horses have an optimum range, just like humans do, of comfort in which they can learn. Now if they’re too comfortable, they’re in a part of their nervous system where they’re just not going to pay attention.
You know they’re going to look over the fence at their buddies, they’re going to graze, they’re going to have their heads down. A little bit of arousal, what we call sympathetic arousal, make them alert. But if you go beyond that, you’re going to start to kick in self-preservation and they’ll tune you out.
Well I think for years what we did is that we didn’t pay much attention to that and as the whole, like Granddad said, don’t let that horse win. Go back there and make them do it. That horse just pretty much did it but it tuned you out and it really wasn’t learning. You know? And so Martin got in the habit of really saying okay this horse is not really where I want him right now and it seems like we’re reaching a point of diminishing returns. Heck I’ll just pick this up in the morning.
Join us as Darren Dale from Star Expos gives us a quick update on the Sep 6-7 Farm Show that he’s putting on September 6-7 in Torrington and Hawk Springs Wyoming.
There are several titles I could think up for Dr. Tom, and all of them would be genuine and true. However, how does one fit all those titles into one? Call him a guru!
Dr. Tom Noffsinger is a Veterinarian by trade, but is defined by his ability to not only understand how cattle think, but also being able to control how they move, and do it without any whoopin’ and hollerin’.
Dr. Tom is an expert on low-stress cattle handling and it’s always a pleasure to listen to him teach. Below is a series of clips from various interviews conducted for our radio program, the Cattleman’s Corner.
Humans have been cultivating new plant varieties since the beginning of agricultural development, but until fairly recently, the process required patience. Many have used the argument that GMO’s are nor more than a new way to create a hybrid plant.
The term “hybrid,” which you’ll often see in seed catalogs, refers to a plant variety developed through a specific, controlled cross of two parent plants. Usually, the parents are naturally compatible varieties within the same species. This hybridization, or the crossing of compatible varieties, happens naturally in the wild; plant breeders basically just steer the process to control the outcome. In contrast, GM varieties (sometimes called “genetically modified organisms,” or “GMOs”) are a whole different animal, as we’ll explain in a bit. First, some background on plant hybridization.
Bioengineered, or “BE” for short, is the federal government’s new term for GMOs. Under the Bioengineered Food labeling law, certain BE foods containing detectable modified genetic material must disclose the presence of BE ingredients.
By adopting the term “bioengineering,” this law selects language that’s unfamiliar to most shoppers. People know about GMOs. Most people do not know much about bioengineered food. The term causes consternation and the furrowing of brows.
In 2009, American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.”
More and more doctors are already prescribing GM-free diets. Now that soy is genetically engineered, it is so dangerous that I tell people never to eat it. In the US population, the incidence of low birth weight babies, infertility, and infant mortality are all escalating.
GM corn and cotton are engineered to produce their own built-in pesticide in every cell. Bt toxin, used in organic farming is inserted into the plant genes making the toxin thousands of times more concentrated than natural Bt spray. It has properties of an allergen, causing allergy or flu-like symptoms.
The only published human feeding study revealed what may be the most dangerous problem from GM foods. The gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines and continues to function. This means that long after we stop eating GMOs, we may still have potentially harmful GM proteins produced continuously inside of us. Put more plainly, eating a corn chip produced from Bt corn might transform our intestinal bacteria into living pesticide factories, possibly for the rest of our lives.
If GMOs happen to cause immediate and acute symptoms with a unique signature, perhaps then we might have a chance to trace the cause.
This is precisely what happened during a US epidemic in the late 1980s. The disease was fast acting, deadly, and caused a unique measurable change in the blood — but it still took more than four years to identify that an epidemic was even occurring. By then it had killed about 100 Americans and caused 5,000-10,000 people to fall sick or become permanently disabled. It was caused by a genetically engineered brand of a food supplement called L-tryptophan.
If other GM foods are contributing to the rise of autism, obesity, diabetes, asthma, cancer, heart disease, allergies, reproductive problems, or any other common health problem now plaguing Americans, we may never know. In fact, since animals fed GMOs had such a wide variety of problems, susceptible people may react to GM food with multiple symptoms. It is therefore telling that in the first nine years after the large scale introduction of GM crops in 1996, the incidence of people with three or more chronic diseases nearly doubled, from 7% to 13%.
Many concerns about the disadvantages relate to human health. Scientists have not yet shown that GMO foods are harmful to health, but research is ongoing. Here are the risks scientist and doctors watch for:
Allergic reactions
Cancer
Antibacterial resistance
Changes in human DNA
Toxicity for body organs
What to watch out for:
Foods that are likely to be GMO include:
sugar beet, as 99.9% of sugar beet in the U.S. is GMO
canola products, as 95% of them are GMO in the U.S.
soybean products, since 94% of soybean in the U.S. is GMO
corn, as 92% of corn planted in the U.S. is GMO
cottonseed oil, since 94% of cotton is GMO
Many GMO crops also become ingredients in other foods, for example:
cornstarch in soups and sauces
corn syrup used as a sweetener
corn, canola, and soybean oils in mayonnaise, dressings, and bread
sugar derived from sugar beets
The next step in Frankenstein foods:
Under the Bioengineered Food labeling law, certain BE foods containing detectable modified genetic material must disclose the presence of BE ingredients. The clause “detectible modified genetic material” is crucial because it excuses many products that are made with GMOs from making the disclosure. Many products made with new GMO techniques such as CRISPR, TALEN and RNAi are currently untestable. Without a commercially available test, the modified genetic material is undetectable and thus those foods wouldn’t require a BE label.
Additionally, many processed foods contain highly refined ingredients made from GMOs. The processing often leaves no detectable modified genetic material behind in the final product, and therefore those products also will not require labels. Common household products that contain ingredients such as sugar made from GMO sugar beets or cooking oil made from GMO canola would fall into this category.
Which bioengineered foods will be labeled — and which won’t?
Certain food containing detectable modified genetic material will require a Bioengineered (BE) Food disclosure. The USDA’s current List of Bioengineered Foods includes:
Alfalfa
Arctic™ Apple
Canola
Corn
Cotton
Bt Eggplant
Ringspot virus-resistant Papaya
Pink Pineapple
Potato
AquAdvantage® Salmon
Soybean
Summer squash
Sugarbeet
This list determines which foods are considered bioengineered in their most basic, raw form. However, the way the BE law is written — with exemptions, loopholes and technical limitations — many products made from these bioengineered ingredients will not require a disclosure.
Animal feed, pet food and personal care products are all exempt from the BE labeling law.
Some foods for direct human consumption are also exempt, such as meat, poultry and eggs.
Multi-ingredient products in which meat, poultry or eggs are the first ingredient listed are exempt even if other ingredients with detectable modified genetic material are included in the product.
The Bioengineered Food labeling law is ineffective at finding GMOs and avoiding GMOs, largely because of restrictions, loopholes and exemptions. Too much falls outside of the law’s purview for it to be effective.
So how do I protect my family and our health?
Buy foods labeled “100% Organic.”
Look for “Non-GMO Project Verified” label on product packaging.
Eat locally grown food.
Identify how produce is grown by reading its label or sticker number.
4-digit number means food was conventionally grown.
5-digit number that begins with a 9 means produce is organic.
5-digit number that begins with an 8 means it is genetically modified. (PLU labeling is optional so not all genetically modified produce can be identified)
Know which foods and their derivatives are most likely genetically engineered. Such as:
Come to find out, I am a “TOO”, not actually a “TWO”. Let me see if I can recall all the “toos”. I am too tall, too heavy, too open, too sheltered, too tough, too much, too wild, too outrageous, too complicated, too damaged, too raw, too sentimental, too kind, too religious, too slow, too mouthy, too intolerant, too quick-tempered, too ambitious, too intense, too emotional, too simple, too nice, too outspoken, too much a dreamer, too conservative, too ranch-y, too eclectic, too responsible, I drive too fast, I fly too low, I worry too much, I have too many dogs, too many ideas, I talk too much, I dream too much… The list seems endless.
We’ve had the pleasure of sitting in on several of Dr. Tom’s presentations over the past decade. Each time, he continues to say something or do something that teaches me more about cattle. Just when we think we know it all, or at least enough on that, in walks this master educator.
Can you ‘train’ cattle? You bet you can.
Can you get more out of your animals and therefore improve your bottom line? YES, but you must come listen to Dr. Tom to find out how on Sep 6-7, 2023 in Torrington, Wyoming.
Meanwhile, listen to this interview to get an idea on what he’ll speak on.
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