Beef cows in the river bluffs. writing about life and my residency program on Substack. agx personal account: @ringmichaelj Come visit me at Silvamore.
Silvamore, Oregon IL
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My six year old just explained how to administer her homeschool lessons while her mother is at the store. First child energy.
I told a kid he should work for me for a while. He needed to figure some things out. He was here about 8 months. I taught him to get his CDL and then he could get a better trucking job. He’s still going to plow for us in the winter. Turned out decent.
His Grampa really appreciated it. So much so that he snagged one of these for me for $200 as a barn find. It needs a couple screws and the bucket reattached. Single phase. Works.
It’s an interesting form of dividend…
My whole world at peace aside from the furious licking of this group of misfits.
Welcome to the weekend!
I grew up in a blended family of nine.
It was total culture shock once I moved to living alone and none of my stuff moved around while I was gone.
I left things out on the coffee table for weeks just for the odd novelty of seeing them not move.
I have fully reverted now that I have small children. It feels like all the nostalgic familiarity of a second jail sentence. 😅
Their cuteness fully makes up for it.
One of the walk-in coolers at our private butcher shop on the farm went out. We opted for a mini split and web-enabled diy coolbot controller setup for about half the money of a new conventional hvac unit. This tech has come so far in the past decade.
I just got the commercial snow contract for a dealership I worked at in college after the contractor last year pushed a Hagie boom into a snow pile. Feels full circle somehow. The world is pretty small out here sometimes.
Pretty sure this guy paid for this tractor twice… I fixed several trans problems and then had to replace most of a trans harness so it would start. 🫠 don’t buy tractors that already have shifting issue. Trashed spool valves get expensive in a hurry.
Today I was asked by a local shop to diagnose a tractor transmission on a type I’ve never worked on before. It probably took 40% longer than someone that knew the process but those people apparently don’t exist here. 🤷🏼♂️ Fed the whole 2200 page manual to Sol5.6 and started hooking up pressure gauges.
Sometimes it doesn’t matter if you’re a cowboy, a mechanic, or a truck driver. When it’s grain harvest you just put out fires.
Customer got quoted 120k for a new unload system in this bin, so here we are billing diesel shop rates to fix it.
They also tried to replace something themselves and blew apart a $6000 pump housing first. 😬
Michael Ring retweeted
New: the Fed Cattle tool now has a Value Across the Chain view. It puts bred cows, feeders, fed cattle and the boxed cutout on one page, each ranked against its own history. It also shows the packer spread, a feeding margin gauge and how sale barns compare to the Feeder Index. Can a cattle guy give us some feedback?
Direct link:morninghogwallow.com/v/6GH2f…
Recent favorite use of ai: feed it a whole wiring schematic for a piece of heavy equipment and let it trace sections while I run the physical tests on the system.
I watched his widow grow up since she was about 10. She was the generation that replaced me when I aged out of youth leadership in the beef industry. She’s expecting a baby in October. What a gut punch to the Gelbvieh and Red Angus families.
Prayer is needed here. God, bring her strength.
pvpmortuary.com/obituaries/e…
this is an impressive ai based tool for viewing ag market data and news that I stumbled across today.
The Morning Hog Wallow is live. A free, no-login dashboard for anyone who trades or works the meat and grain markets.
Pork, beef, poultry and grain in one place: USDA wholesale cutout values, CME livestock futures, cold storage, WASDE, Commitments of Traders, grains, fertilizer, freight - plus a daily ag news feed that pulls the whole trade into one screen.
No PDFs to dig through. Clean, interactive charts you can actually read.
morninghogwallow.com/
There’s a couple trucks parked half-hazardly different directions in the lawn of one of the local rural fire stations from the guys tearing out of there early this morning to evacuate flood victims. It’s a bit damp here…
This little💩Has been missing for FOUR DAYS and decided to pull a full on Mark Twain "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated” act. She had the audacity to wander by nonchalantly ignoring me today.
