Small Challenge
I'll give $100 to anybody who can tell me why our Google Custom Search box is displaying where it is on IE8. It appears just fine and properly formatted with IE7 and FF.
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Bull Semen:The Latest Hair Miracle
From Curlstylist.com by way of Drovers...
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Move over, argan oil and shea butter. Stylists are all abuzz about the latest miracle hair treatment: bull semen.
I guess the stylists got tired of steer jocks pretending to be hair stylists and decided to turn the tables?
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Triple C Farms to hold Dipsersal in October
Evidently, it was only a matter of a time once Mr. Courtney passed away but Triple C Farms will hold a dispersal sale October 3, 2009. More details here.
Their regular production sales were a sight to see for anybody who liked Simmental cattle. It's hard to imagine the quality at a sale including all of their high powered donors.
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283 Days Later
September 2008…
Dad - “Hey, your new Brahman bull got out with the clubby herd”
Me – “Eh, no biggie, there shouldn’t be too many opens in that group any way right?”
Dad – “No, at least I don’t think so.”
Me – “I really need to get some work done here in the office since I’m going to be down there quite a bit over the next month. I don’t know that I can make it down there for a few days, any chance you can get him back in alone?”
Dad – “Sure, I’ll see what I can do.”
June 2009…
...and...
...and...
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Dikoff Herd Reduction Sale Report
Full Report Here
A rather wide range of cattle sold in the Dikoff sale on DVAuction with offspring from ranging from classic Angus bulls to even a Heat Wave heifer.
This brings the total amount of lots analyzed in our sire price report to just over 12,000 in the past three-years.
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June Traffic Report
There weren’t any major changes to the actual ranking even though we did make a switch to a more open and verifiable algorithm.
- CattleNetwork.com 28.22%
- Cattle Today Sites 21.66%
- Cattlerange.com 10.60%
- Beefmagazine.com 9.76%
- Cattle.com 9.26%
- Showsteers.com 6.48%
- Cattlegrower.com 3.83%
- Cattlepages.com 2.77%
- Steerplanet.com 2.02%
- Cattleconnections.com 1.74%
I’m changing the algorithm to something completely open, public, and verifiable. The new algo consists entirely of the following sources;
40% - Compete
40% - Quantcast
20% - Google Ad Planner
We’re leaving Google Ad Planner lower because it doesn’t pick up as much traffic as the other sources. Also, to prevent rigging, sites with an anomalous spike in traffic are typically dropped or left out for a month.
Is it accurate?
Is it perfect? Heck no.
Nothing, (I repeat, nothing) is even close to 100% accurate in terms of third party tools for tracking third party website traffic. However, there’s a reason sites have tended to stay within certain groups in the traffic report.
Part of the reason we only list percentages is we don't want to mislead people into thinking that the numbers are accurate visitor stats.
If it’s not 100% accurate why do it?
It’s interesting data and if you know what you are looking at, stuff can be learned from it. Also, some sites still have no shame in claiming to be “the most visited site in the club calf industry” when there is no way they can know that and in fact, every indication is they are just plain old wrong.
Why don’t you use Alexa?
We don’t use Alexa because it’s just flat out terrible. Those three sources of information listed above all track very similarly. Alexa is like throwing a dart at a map.’
Why is Site A with a ton of users more active than Site B?
The data is based on visitors, and visitors alone. An example I commonly give is this site and Showcattle.com, which we also own.
On the surface, Showcattle.com gets a lot more traffic and is a much more active site. However, that’s because the people that visit it do so over and over throughout the day and leave tons of evidence they were there in activity in forums and other stuff. In reality, Cattle.com gets more visitors that spend less time on the site.
The stratification of users also plays a role in that. There is a very distinct difference between commercial and show people on the web. The sites that show oriented people visit most often are largely unknown/unvisited to commercial guys and vise versa.
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Canadian Scientists Breeding Cows that Burp Less
The real question is why doesn't the American Angus Association have a dollar index for this yet?
The professor of agricultural, food and nutritional science completed primary tests using traditional techniques to breed efficient animals that produce 25 percent less methane than less efficient animals. But more work needs to be done before the long-term impact is known. Moore's study was published earlier this year in the Journal of Animal Science.
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Where's the Beef? In Downsized Cows
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Bigger isn't always better -- at least when it comes to cows.
And downsizing is a growing trend in the cattle industry...
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Trausch Farms Bulls
We've added half a dozen videos sent to us by Trausch Farms to the site...
 Baton Rouge |
 Breathe Easy |
 Chasin Tail |
 Chore Boy |
 Cyrus |
 Naughty Pine |
For more information on semen contact any major semen supplier or call the ranch at 641-745-0323.
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