The Big Grocery Lie

This week I have been working crazily doing lots of research. I want to tackle something very wrong with our whole grocery marketing system. Prices continue to go up and never come back down. I am calling it the big grocery lie! All producers understand that there are many different times when there are shortages of a farm commodity. We as small producers are extremely susceptible to these problems in our operations. We know that a hail can come through, or grasshoppers, or even limited amoun...
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Value Added Cattle

I hope that you are enjoying the Value Added  series as much as I am enjoying writing it. Today we are going to look into value adding cattle. I was born and raised on a cattle ranch. This is a subject that I have spent years trying to figure out how to make a bit more money doing.  We in the cattle industry have always had to depend on the market. We don't get a choice on what we get for our livestock sales after spending a whole year dumping money into our livestock operation. It has bee...
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