Just how big are your cows?

[cowman]

Fascinating stuff! I suspect every farmer is a bit of a "scientist" at heart!
Grassfarmer: I like your statement about how something seems to work but how you question whether maybe it was just the year or something. How true that feeling is! Been there, done that many times!
Randy: Have to agree with just about everything you said, especially about how this is a nice sideline from all the politics etc. I always like to hear about how someone did something different and how it worked out. At one time the "Cattleman" magazine used to have stories about how different people were trying different things, and I truly enjoyed reading that. Now it tends to be all politics and experts!
And while a lot of you might think I'm an opinionated old SOB, I'm really not when it comes to new ideas about plants, animals etc.! But yea, I am an opinionated old SOB on politics!

[grassfarmer]

Your comments about cattleman magazine are interesting Cowman. It reminds me of the situation in the UK where we used to have 2 farming programs on TV on a Sunday that featured leading farmers - the progressive, successful ones that were leading by example. In the early 90s these programs were stolen by environmentalists and now feature producers that were flooding their land to encourage a rare kind of frog to return, or growing reeds to make wicker baskets for craft fairs. It kind of symbolised to me the writing was on the wall for agriculture there and I think it is a disgrace that a nation that led the world in stock and crop breeding at one time has no room for an agriculture anymore. At least Canada still feels like an agricultural country - despite the problems.