Undoubtedly when you live on a ranch and have things to do outside, you’re going to get stuck doing some of it in inclement weather. Sometimes you have the option to wait until it’s better, and sometimes you do not. For example, if it’s going to be a -25 outside, and a blizzard is blowing in, chances are you’ll need to climb into a Big Green Tractor, as the case may be here, and feed several bales of hay to the cows and horses. If you’ve consigned your heifers to the sale barn for say, a November 13th sale, you pretty much have to find a way to get them to the sale. But when you sell your calves via a video auction in the summer, well then you might get to be more flexible on the delivery date. Which was the case with us. We were supposed to ship on the 28th of October, but if you’ll recall Mother Nature kept it snowing and raining and was otherwise being uncooperative…
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