The Cat Herder

Get along little kitty.

Anyone remember this commercial? I am pretty sure it aired during the Super Bowl one year. I guess it takes all kinds of cowboys to get the job done.



Hope you are having a great weekend!

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No cowboys left.

The heart of the west. 

"If you take the cowboy out of society you are going to lose people with integrity and honor and heart and  love for country." CJ Hadley, Range Magazine.

I love this quote from CJ Hadley, in the last I am Angus video. I think about things like this. What if the cowboy disappears. What if people can't make a living at ranching anymore, and it's tempting to sell the ranch for big dollars to developers. What if water laws, tax laws, animals rights laws are passed making it too hard for the cowboy to make a living. What will happen to the people who are protecting our land and helping feed the world.

I know many of us are far removed from the cowboys of the west, but they are important people that much can be learned from.



Also, don't forget to enter my DRIVE give-a-way. I'll draw for the winners on Monday.

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Senate adopts the Cowboy Code

I swear to...

Montana's Senate has given preliminary approval to adopt the "Code of the West" as Montana's code, according to FoxNews.com.

I know you are probably staying we'll of course Montana would do that, that is cowboy country. However, it is a code that we all should live by whether you have spent time in the saddle or not.

Although, the "Cody of West" was an unwritten code, Jim Owen's put the code on paper and then used them as the core for his book, "Cowboy Ethics: What Wall Street Can Learn from the Code of the West." 

1. Live each day with courage

2. Take pride in your work

3. Always finish what you start

4. Do what has to be done

5. Be tough, but fair

6. When you make a promise, keep it

7. Ride for the brand

8. Talk less and say more

9. Remember that some things aren't for sale

10. Know where to draw the line. 

How many of these do you break each day, or maybe family members, friends or coworkers. I say the "Code of the West" is something to live by. It would make the world a better place. 

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Last American Cowboy

Best Television Show Ever

Last night I was working on my computer, while keeping an eye on my Twitter feed, when @cwbieroth tweeted that he would be watching the Last American Cowboy on Animal Planet. I had heard so much about the show, but wasn't sure if we had Animal Planet in our TV package. Well guess what we do!

I was able to watch two episodes last night and I felt like I was right back at home. The episodes are a real, daily account of what happens on a cattle ranch or farm. In these episodes families (the Hughes Ranch, Galt Ranch, and Stucky Ranch) were in calving season, in the middle of one of the worst blizzard they had ever seen. Cows calving, calves needing to be pulled, calves frozen dead in snowbanks, they show it all.

The show reminded me so much of how I grew up. Holding cows' tails while dad pulled a calf or was A.I.ing, holidays going wrong because one parent gets worked up, the other parent starts yelling, kids are crying, and Easter is ruined - yes that happened last night and maybe once or twice in my life time.

The thing is every time something went wrong or right on our farm there was a lesson to be learned from it.

Physicians Mutual sponsors the show, and I am definitely going to be writing a letter thanking them for their commitment to agriculture. We as farmers and ranchers can talk about what we do all day long, but until the consumer sees what our day is like, and they see how passionate we are about caring for our livestock they won't understand.

I would encourage you to watch, and spread the word. Hopefully, these guys won't be the Last American Cowboys.

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