O.T. - Back To My Roots

I bought a quarter of a corn and grass fed cow last summer. Hay prices were out of sight and I knew prices were going to go way up.

One thing I have always wondered about...

Most folks use the US traditional pronunciation
CAL -gury
Emphasis on Cal and gury rhymes with jury

But some folks (hockey players?) say Cal-GARY
emphasis on Gary, like the man's name

@motorhead,

Neither pronunciation is correct.

Universal pronunciation of the city's name by its inhabitants makes it a two syllable word with accent on the first syllable:

CAL-gree

Fascinating. I'm always learning. Thank you farmerart.

Omaha!

No bull, art, have a great time. Just steer clear of castrated bulls! ;-)

@Art-Sounds like good times. I already get beef from a rancher around SLO. Tasty Brangus.

My strip club spending dwarfs my food spending. Beef prices could double or triple without making any impact.

I like beef, but steak is not a favorite.

"Eat mor vag".

Between selling last year in the drought and more food stamps in the US...

Why go to a bull sale when you can get so much bull here for FREE!

I bought a Hereford bull at this sale.

My brother wants to introduce a new bloodline into his herd of purebred Hereford cows and this particular bull should be perfect (if he performs well). If the bull's progeny are good animals my brother and I could be making some serious coin selling straws of the semen in a few years. After three years of calves' sales, I will be entitled to 25% of the calves' sales prices. If the bull's semen turns out to be marketable my brother and I will split that profit 50-50. Brother does all the work.

This is an interesting business. Holstein bulls can be real moneymakers if their progeny are superior milkers. A straw of semen from such a bull can easily sell for $300. Consider that each ejaculation from a bull can produce enough semen for 1000 straws. Also consider that prime bulls can ejaculate many times each day. Further consider that these straws of semen are frozen and can be used long after the death of the bull providing the semen.

Sadly for bulls such as these, the poor boys never get to experience the tight sweetness of a sexy heifer. All the semen is collected in artificial vaginas.

Bummer, art. Glad that I'm not a prime bull!

Just out of curiosity, why not? Would the bull having experienced the real thing "refuse to donate" in the artificial bag?

That's all the bull semen I need to read about for a life time! Are you going to help collect it?

Am I mis-remembering? Isn't there a TUSCL member that drives around with bull semen in his trunk. . No joke. His job. But I can't remember who.