Ben Gotschall

Magister Pecoris at Holt Creek Jerseys. Author of Where It Happened. Too poor to milk Holsteins, Too proud to milk goats.

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@GGunthorp @GunthorpFarms As I recall, her name was
Della. But I was away at college at the time and wasn’t as involved during non-summer months.

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The heritability of fertility is epigenetic.

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Someone who raised and sold a lot of heifers that lived to be old cows once told me: keep your bulls young, your guns clean and your weiner cleaner.

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A2 Jersey cows with polled bull calves https://t.co/SttAdTBngs via @YouTube

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Grassfed A2A2/BB Jersey Heifers Available Now https://t.co/A6kRWnm1cE via @YouTube

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@greenwoodae As someone who raises both Jerseys and Bison in black cow and corn country, I have this feeling every day, not just on social media.

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Screenplay writers: What obscure novel by a Nebraska author should be made into a mini-series and why is it Mari Sandoz’s Slogum House?

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Birds. Bison. Beavers. Bees. Battlestar Galactica.

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“Hand-milking teats,” once a thing of the past, is now a commonly heard phrase in the grass-fed dairy world, especially among homesteaders and family milk cow owners.

https://t.co/YKmz1naz9o

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Hope she doesn’t have Lepto.

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I’m not saying it’s windy in Nebraska, but I’m pretty sure the rain I just felt was a cow pissing in Kansas.

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Found this gem of a sweatshirt in a box of Dad’s old stuff. Pretty sure this thing hasn’t seen the light of day in about 30 years.

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-2 for the high today, the buffs just faced the wind and waited it out.

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What’s the difference between sexed semen and HeiferPlus-treated semen?

https://t.co/hKqSXSocom

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Photo credit: Mike Evnen

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Are Jersey bulls inherently dangerous? Or does the way they are raised and handled make them so?

https://t.co/FLqf29LSdG

[Ted Genoways @TedGenoways]

Bottom line: Don’t trust anyone who tells you that poetry is “woke” or somehow off limits to anyone. Poetry is how we make sense of our lives and how we make them worth living.