WC Mckenzie

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Got to end the day somewhere…

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@benz_miles @andrewkongslie @69redangus that is thin, 😂
my mind read that as you could still see it’s head.

Root health and soil biology have to be lagging from extreme drought, and keeping some early cover should help reduce grasshopper hatch.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@andrewkongslie @benz_miles @69redangus Nice and green, looks good at distance, and grass tetany won’t be an issue for those 3 days this fall.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

One year later….
Snow is gone, the grass is green, Twitter is broken and Jesus is free.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Anyone bitching about rain please stop...

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@benz_miles Not to debate his demeanor, but was thinking what if he had not been here to poke or ask the question…

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

A good twit debate that may not make you dumber, things to ponder as we go about the day.

[Steve N @KINGS1973]

I have been doing this along time. One thing I have learned is certain short periods of time are very important in the meat markets in indicating longer term trends in those market. Next week or two seem to be one of those times. 1/

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@KathyFortune9 @HemmertKyle DC election year motivation, divide and conquer starts now.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Storms buried the natural protection, terrible drought, long skinny winter, so close to spring.

“Peaceful resting in Mother Nature’s Bosom”.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Back to back killer April blizzards…
(For those never experiencing one.)

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

PSA - good range cows often don’t make good barn cows.
She is in safe storage in the “mobile maternity overflow”.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@wellyworldfl Hurricanes of the North.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@mtdirtfarmer @sunflowerfarmer and here like wait,
😳 you had 5 inches from April through August 20 last year.

With every April snow storm, hay prices appear to moving toward “deflationary”
(less calves and more hay)

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@RobSomerville1 Old school birthweight debate,

Is it the cold winter increasing uterine blood flow delivering more nutrients,
Or the need to feed more calories to keep the cow alive during the cold?

Despite ration balancing and feed testing, likely lower nutrition made for smaller calves.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@andrewkongslie Only if it is sacked and it doesn’t start to smell before next dump.

(A seed sack blown into your fence line is perfect for this task.)

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@mbacowboy “Burnt nuts” soon to follow…

Twitter has plenty of them.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

“Hotel California” playing on barn radio and water dripping from snow caught up in the rafters.

-this could be heaven or this could be hell…..

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Storm lost exchange program with my pet miniature mountain lion, big buck knife,
“shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive…”

Surviving Bocephus style.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

@BuckBecker3 Hard way to earned 2” of precipitation.

Will be a calico praire from lush green, dead brown, and dust blow outs.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Like having payed $4.29 for dyed diesel to move the first snow in three years, that’s killing the cattle that pay the diesel bill. 🤔

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Sarcastic realism.

[Curtis Fladager (angrycowboy) @angrycowboy1]

Well at least the cull cow buyer’s will have plenty of supply in about a month, so we can push that market back down to .64 where it belongs. We will get this inventory down one way or another!🙄

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

Imo, have separated pregs and pairs, makes sorting the closest to calving a little easier, forecast is another 28 hours of rage.

[WC Mckenzie @longXranch]

“Pair out” or sorting off cows with calves from pregnant cows, can be done in lot settings, pasture calving to vast range calving by leaving or “dropping pairs” behind.
What is our preference or practice ?