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Pictures from the ranch this week… One of our Thanksgiving traditions is to do a shooting competition. Here Maddy is waiting for here turn to take a shot. Jed watching the other contestants take their shots. The Thanksgiving table. Clyde, guarding the hay bales. Photo credit Josh Whitling. Want to follow along more day-to-day? Find …

Pictures from the ranch this week… Emily’s car bit the dust a few weeks ago. She’s been working in Brookings, SD for the last few months and she had no way to make it home to spend the holidays with us. Annie and I decided to make the drive out to pick her up, because …

Pictures from the ranch this week… The last night feeding the cow and calf pairs at the Tendoy ranch before they headed back to the home ranch for the winter. These last few weeks at Tendoy we have been supplementing the herd with some hay in the evenings, while during the day the mama cows …

Pictures from the ranch this week… When it comes to assessing the quality of available forage Glenn is the definition of hands on. He will often use a spectrometer to assess the nutrient content/energy levels in the grass and alfalfa. This involves crushing a representative sample of the forage, putting the extracted plant “juice” on …

Pictures from the ranch this week… On Thursday a crew from the ranch headed into the mountains to spend the day cutting firewood. They drove to a mountaintop area that had burned in 2018, resulting in many dead trees to harvest. Roads were snowy, chains required. They took the majority of the wood in 30ft …