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Problems with Google Voice

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Be warned, this is sort of unintentionally obscene.

Since, unlike you, I’m a very safe driver I use the voice recognition on my phone to send texts.  Errors with Google voice recognition like what follow almost make losing a cow that’s produced a reserve champion Red Angus in San Antonio worth it…

Me: 83 died.

Brother: How many is that?

Me: 7

Me: we had a hoe down her throat when she suck a dick

Me: hose

Me: ah crap suffocated

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012

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Wednesday, February 22nd

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012

San Antonio

The 2nd largest market steer show in the nation, but the one that seemingly nobody in the Midwest gives two farts about, starts today.  There’s a live broadcast with taped classes on Stockshowlive.com.

Burr Clover

Prior to this year we lost MAYBE a combined three cows to bloat from burr clover in our entire memory.  It was the kind of thing that would happen every few years but not with any sort of regularity.  The most cows we’ve had die on the place for any reason at all in any given year was three.  That was a pretty bad year.

We’ve lost SIX cows (we're running about 140...ummm..134 right now) in the past two weeks, all to bloat.  It’s not like we are just letting them die, they’ve had mineral, bloat blocks, and hay since February 8th.  One of them died the day after we spent two hours moving her around to get the bloat down.

I don’t know if it’s due to a lack of competition after the drought but the stuff is thicker than it’s ever been and it’s everywhere, there’s nowhere they can avoid it.  If we take the cows completely off of pasture and put them in a feedlot the clover will just keep growing and will be even worse when they do eventually go back into the fields.

I’m Glad

I have no clue what exactly went on with somebody who felt scorned posting to a judge’s Facebook wall.

I Wonder

If the ex-boyfriends of people like Adele and Taylor Swift have same pride in the songs they helped inspire that small show calf breeders have in their calves.

They Should

Just call the first two AOB classes at San Antonio and Houston midget classes.

Daily Web Summary 2/21/2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2012

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Daily Web Summary 2/20/2012

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012

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Stockshowlive.com

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012

There’s a new standard in stock show internet broadcasting.  You’re used to static camera web cams and you’ve even seen a few that included a live commentary with background on some of the calves being show.

What you haven’t seen is anything like what Stock Show Live is doing this week in San Antonio.

Some of the features…

  • Archived video of previous classes.
  • Full results of previous classes.
  • Breeder and sire information for previous breed champions.
  • Free to view.
  • Moving camera to follow the action.

Simply put, it's flat out jaw dropping what they're doing this week.

Stockshowlive.com

Daily Web Summary 2/19/2012

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2012

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Daily Web Summary 2/18/2012

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012

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Daily Web Summary 2/17/2012

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012

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Who places in San Antonio?

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012

There's hair all over the ground and you can almost smell the Zilmax in the air (about that, you should probably put a mask on or something).  That can mean only one thing, the first big slick show of the year, San Antonio, is next week.

The 4-H Counties and FFA chapters that have branded the most steers in San Antonio since 2007…

  1. Marion FFA 18
  2. Lampasas FFA 16
  3. Gillespie County 4-H 16
  4. East Central FFA 14
  5. Brazos County 4-H 14
  6. Guadalupe County 4-H 13
  7. Kendall County 4-H 13
  8. Karnes County 4-H 12
  9. Poth FFA 12
  10. Prosper FFA 12

Almost all of that list consists of ‘local’ kids other than the Brazos County 4-H and Prosper FFA (Wade Shackelford) powerhouses.

Did you know that the median household income in Prosper, Tx is over $100,000?

We’ve run the data on both San Antonio and Houston based on the information they provide on their websites.  We didn’t do Ft. Worth because they don’t allow you to go back years and I couldn’t find anything on Austin or San Angelo.

Daily Web Summary 2/16/2012

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012

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Forum Activity Report 11/9/11 to 2/9/12

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Another report I haven’t done in quite some time, this is the forum activity share for the time period 11/9/11 to 2/9/12.

  1. Cattle-Today    52.1%
  2. Steerplanet    23.6%
  3. Ranchers.net    18.9%
  4. Keeny's Corner    3.4%
  5. 5BarX    1.3%
  6. Clubcalves    0.4%
  7. EDJE    0.3%
  8. Breedersworld    0.1%
Cattle Today is so much higher than and last time was such an outlier that I think I may have had a miscalculation in the previous report.  The actual number is likely somewhere between what was reported last month (20.3%) and this month.

Overall forum posting was up to just over 800 posts per day for the time period.

Keeny’s Corner showed up with a respectable 3.4% in the first time they’ve been tracked as a part of this report.

Daily Web Summary 2/15/2012

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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Livestock Merchandising "Review"

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I’m finally done reading Thinking Fast and Slow (summary: everything is chance, you just think people are skilled because you are stupid and don’t understand statistics) and had a chance to read Rachel Cutrer’s new book, Livestock Merchandising.

Short and simple review: You need this book, go buy it.

I don’t know that there’s another book I’d say that about.  If you read this blog, the odds that you sell cattle by any method other than hauling them to the local auction barn are pretty darn good.  If you do fit that description, this book covers just about everything you could possibly want to know.

Rachel’s been one of the pioneers of the print/web/general livestock marketing industry and is found in the ‘pedigrees’ of a surprisingly large number of other service companies.  Her credentials on the subject are unparalleled.

That's now why I'm telling you to buy the book, I'm telling you to buy it because you really do need it. Frankly, and I don’t say this because I’m being lazy or overly nice, I don’t think I can review this book well enough to do it justice.  It’s got enough information that I have no doubt it’s going to end up in collegiate livestock marketing classes but it’s easy enough to read that anybody can pick it up and learn something in just a few minutes.

When I say go buy it, I mean it, really.  That’s some of the best advice I’m going to give you this year.

Chapter List

  1. Marketing Purebred Livestock
  2. Trends in Livestock Advertising
  3. Components Used in Livestock Promotions
  4. Print Advertising Design
  5. Livestock Photography & Video
  6. Brochures, Catalogs and Direct Mail
  7. Livestock Web Design
  8. Signage for Livestock Producers
  9. The Role of Livestock Shows as Advertising
  10. Social Media for Livestock Producers
  11. Email Marketing for Livestock Producers
  12. Establishing your Advertising Budget
  13. Sire Promotion Basics
  14. Ethics in Livestock Advertising
  15. Customer Service
  16. Putting it All Together

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Daily Web Summary 2/14/2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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Verrrrry Solid American

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Editing video for the sale and captured this...

Sells as lot #7 in the South Texas Select Club Calf Sale at 11 AM on Sunday, February 26th.  Sale is located between Pleasanton and Floresville on HWY 97 at HK Farms.  It's a 30-minute drive from the San Antonio stock show and the sale will be held the last Sunday, the day of the livestock judging contest.

Calf is sired by a Godfather son and out of a 1/2 blood Brahman cow.  As far as I can tell he's polled.

Consigned by UR Show Calves. Call Ronnie Ussery @ 830.569.3877 for more info.

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Cattle Site Visitor Report - December 2012

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Based on December data, I skipped November for some reason…

  1. Cattle Today Sites - 21.81%
  2. CattleNetwork.com - 18.97% (4)
  3. Cattle.com - 12.91% (2)
  4. Cattlerange.com - 12.14% (3)
  5. Beefmagazine.com - 10.36%
  6. Steerplanet.com - 9.54%
  7. Showsteers.com - 8.29%
  8. Cattlepages.com - 1.50%
  9. Clubcalves.com - 1.00%
  10. Mattlautnercattle.com - 0.65%

These rankings are based on triangulated data from Compete, Quantcast, and Google.

How correlated is the information on those three services?

Quantcast & Compete - .863
Quantcast & Google - .834
Compete & Google - .949

Daily Web Summary 2/13/2012

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012

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Updated Collegiate Livestock Judging Rankings

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Now includes results from the Iowa Beef Expo and Sioux Falls...

Rank Team Rating
1 Oklahoma State University 1.553
Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 National Western
2 Iowa State University 1.551
Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 Iowa Beef Expo
3 Texas A&M University 1.551
Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 National Western
4 Colorado State University 1.493
Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 Fort Worth
5 Kansas Sate University 1.477
Top Finish: 1st @ 2012 Fort Worth
6 Western Illinois University 1.466
Top Finish: 2nd @ 2012 Iowa Beef Expo
7 Texas Tech University 1.460
Top Finish: 4th @ 2012 National Western
8 University of Illinois 1.437
Top Finish: 6th @ 2012 Sioux Falls
9 West Texas A&M University 1.430
Top Finish: 5th @ 2012 National Western
10 University of Georgia 1.425
Top Finish: 1st @ 2011 Arizona National

The top three are essentially tied but OSU jumped A&M because after five contests are put into the system the relative strength of each contest comes into play.  Next year we won't publish the ranking until after the IBE.

Iowa State is right in that top three tie after wins at both the Sioux Falls and Iowa Beef Expo contests.

Crystal Young Blog

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I hate, hate, hate getting into animal welfare stuff and/or linking to it.  You can actively see my eyes glaze over any time somebody brings up Peta and HSU.....snif....what we were talking about again?

But, well, this is actually pretty good...

Chipotle your Grammy commercial still doesn't change my mind.

Daily Web Summary 2/12/2012

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Daily Web Summary 2/10/2012

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Classification Percentages

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Percent of calves classed out of breed and into ABC/AOB at Houston in 2011 based on information in this year’s premium book…

  1. Angus - 41%
  2. Simbrah - 37%
  3. Brangus - 36%
  4. Polled Hereford - 22%
  5. Brahman - 21%
  6. Hereford - 20%
  7. ABC - 17%
  8. Limousin - 17%
  9. Red Angus - 15%
  10. Shorthorn - 9%
  11. Chianina - 8%
  12. Santa Gertrudis - 7%
Some notes…

I thought that Simbrah class looked relative weak last year and was told they were tough on them but that's certainly surprising to see the number that high.

No surprise, Angus is #1.  Forgive me if I don't weep for the poor poor Angus breeders that aren't going to bat an eye at telling the world that two similar carcasses are worth different amounts if they had different color hides.

Brangus is #3 for similar reasons.

According to the data on the HSLR website, nothing was classed out of Simmental or Charolais, but how exactly do you class out of Chianina?

Daily Web Summary 2/9/2012

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