The Cattle Business Weekly
For cattlemen, by cattlemen is this podcast bringing you the latest in cattle industry headlines straight from the news desk of The Cattle Business Weekly in South Dakota. It's a dose of what's happening in markets, on the ranch and in Washington, D.C. It's news about everything that impacts a cattle operation's bottomline (aka profit). Listen to us in the feed truck, on the way to a cattle sale or on the porch with a beer! We promise you won't go away without having learned something.
The Cattle Business Weekly
A little reckless
By Codi Vallery-Mills It felt like slow motion – the red 4-wheeler body coming at me and slamming into my side – but I know it happened in seconds versus minutes. The moment my 4-wheeler rolled over me while I was out checking cattle last summer is time-stamped in my brain. The accident also left a time stamp on my body. I have a slow-fading scar down my leg, remnants of a hardened hematoma on the inside of my knee, and a shoulder that hurts when I sit too long. I was almost a ranch-accident statistic last June. On the...