Keeping Good Records with Gabe Wight

Yeah, sure, Lindsay.

First off, thanks for having me.

It's a real pleasure to be here.

I've been raising Angus crosses like so many others for many, many years, and I appreciate what the Angus Association does.

And yeah, I grew up on a small cattle ranch.

We were flashlight farmers, we call it here.

So my parents worked off the farm, and when I was a kid, kind of took over the cows and all the animal husbandry and just loved it.

And this is back, I'm old enough to remember where when round bales were just starting to come out.

So it was stacking the square bales on the truck and taking them out and pitching them off the truck for the cows.

And I just fell in love with the cattle.

And so when I finished college, I wanted to put together a ranch of my own, a few animals.

And it was honestly, it was pretty hard.

It was hard to, you know, scrap the money together and start building a place and building a herd and all that.

But I'm a cow-calf guy.

I tend to raise right now.

The last probably three years I've been selling about 700 pound calves.

So I'll wean them, hold them for a little bit.

I've got more grass than animals the last few years.

Not a bad spot to be in.

It's an amazing spot to be in.

I used to be overstocked like most of America probably.

And I sold them right off the cow.

And then I started to dwindle down the herd.

And I think I'm actually, I think I'm a little understocked now.

I need to add a few more, but it's been, I mean, in the wintertime, it's pretty awesome when you only feed hay like less than a month.