Category Archives: Monday Morning Photos

My wife, Tammy, qualified our bull, Sangre De Toro, in the top 25 for Exclusive Genetics Million Dollar Futurity in Las Vegas during the WNFR.

For most people when the daughter gets engaged, they end up with grand children. We ended up with a bucking bull.

Tammy has done great with him and the Exclusive Genetics experience has been great. If you have some extra cash and are interested in having a bucking bull it is a good way to do it.

As you can see in the photo I need to keep working on the fashion thing (Lori Darlin). I think she is practicing Yoga even when flanking a bull, but it looks to me like she should relax and breath.

I will have the winning photo and picture of the big check in December.

~ Curt Pate

Monday Morning Photo: Grazing, U.N. reports, and what makes the world go round

This is a video my daughter sent me and it shows exactly what we can do with grazing animals all over the world. Grazing animals guts are the original recyclers. It is a good thing to graze properly, our world depends on it.

The Patagonia video along with the recent United Nations report (see U.N. says animal handling key to cutting emissions on the farm, Drovers Cattlenetwork, 9.26.2013) are two contrasting but positive views to livestock production. I feel the report released is much more positive than the one titled, Livestock’s Long Shadow, and goes right along with the science-based solutions I hear at seminars all the time. The natural nutrient recycling through grazing is also needed to make this world work. We need both technology and Mother Nature’s natural system in this world to progress. Is it not an amazing time we live in?

~ Curt Pate

This is the stuff that makes the world go round, and it might be B.S.

I was driving in Colorado and saw this mix and thought it was worth a picture.
The bunch contained horses, bison, Brahman, longhorns, Angus and a jackass. They were all content and seemed to be tolerating each other nicely. I don’t know if they had been worked with or negotiated with to get along this good or not.

All the nations in the world should take this as an example of different needs getting along. It wouldn’t hurt if whites, blacks, Indians, Latinos, and all other races of people could get along as good as grazing animals. NCBA, R-CALF, and the US Cattlemens should all quit acting like a bunch of young bulls on the fight and try to work together for the herd (we are even for the same species). Even the Jackass was getting along in this bunch.

~ Curt Pate