Jun 4, 2026 · 12 min · 8 segments
What does "cheapening up" in the summer actually cost you? In this episode of That Ranching Podcast, Twain Manning and Darryl Paskewitz dig into why summer is the most critical — and most…
Trevor GreenfieldHost
Twain ManningHostDarryl PaskewitzGuest
Yeah, well, I think guys got to look at what they're spending versus what they're getting.
You know, that's a common thing that we hear in the summer is we got to lower our input costs or we're just going to skate by, you know, the cows are doing good out on grass.
We're not going to put much into them, which is if you can get away with that well-maintaining results is one thing.
But what we commonly see is, you know, maybe a decision that saves you five to 10 grand in mineral costs or supplement costs through the summer.
is a decision that on the back end could cost you $30,000 or $40,000 in results.
And you get to the end of the year, you sit down with your accountant, it's pretty easy to see what you spent.
Those are things that you don't see what that costs you in weight you didn't get to sell at the sale barn.
Yeah, they don't have a line item on your financials saying, here's all your unrealized gains, or here's the pasture that you didn't optimize and the cost of it.
Daryl, what else is at stake here in this? Like if we step into a rancher's world, what else is at stake during the summer? Trying to help profitability.
want to look at how can we save money? What can we do there? And how can we make money? And ideally, you can do both.
You can cut where you can cut and maximize absolutely everything that you can make more money on.
You can get not only, as you mentioned, a twain more cows bred, but you can get them bred sooner.
How many are we missing that could have been in the first cycle and they weren't? Where all can we maximize and optimize profitability? more.
We can increase the health and performance of our calves, the growth and development, all these different areas that end up giving you a payday sometime in the future.
There's so many things at stake about the payday he talks about right here in the summer.
There's not a blizzard you know there's not snow going sideways all that the stress is not there so that is where we tend to think we can kind of coast for a little bit and to daryl's point so many things at play here you know we're talking conception rates we're busy investing in that next year's calf crop and then the calf outside you know we're impacting the weaning weight all summer long better managing your land resources, getting more out of every acre, getting more out of every mouthful.
Yeah, well, I think guys got to look at what they're spending versus what they're getting.
You know, that's a common thing that we hear in the summer is we got to lower our input costs or we're just going to skate by, you know, the cows are doing good out on grass.
We're not going to put much into them, which is if you can get away with that well-maintaining results is one thing.
But what we commonly see is, you know, maybe a decision that saves you five to 10 grand in mineral costs or supplement costs through the summer.
is a decision that on the back end could cost you $30,000 or $40,000 in results.
And you get to the end of the year, you sit down with your accountant, it's pretty easy to see what you spent.
Those are things that you don't see what that costs you in weight you didn't get to sell at the sale barn.
Yeah, they don't have a line item on your financials saying, here's all your unrealized gains, or here's the pasture that you didn't optimize and the cost of it.
Daryl, what else is at stake here in this? Like if we step into a rancher's world, what else is at stake during the summer? Trying to help profitability.
want to look at how can we save money? What can we do there? And how can we make money? And ideally, you can do both.
You can cut where you can cut and maximize absolutely everything that you can make more money on.
You can get not only, as you mentioned, a twain more cows bred, but you can get them bred sooner.
How many are we missing that could have been in the first cycle and they weren't? Where all can we maximize and optimize profitability? more.
We can increase the health and performance of our calves, the growth and development, all these different areas that end up giving you a payday sometime in the future.
There's so many things at stake about the payday he talks about right here in the summer.
There's not a blizzard you know there's not snow going sideways all that the stress is not there so that is where we tend to think we can kind of coast for a little bit and to daryl's point so many things at play here you know we're talking conception rates we're busy investing in that next year's calf crop and then the calf outside you know we're impacting the weaning weight all summer long better managing your land resources, getting more out of every acre, getting more out of every mouthful.
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