Working Ranch Magazine January/February 2025

BY TIM O’BYRNE toppin’ out

Celebrating VOLUME 20 - ISSUE 1

$$$$ HOTTER’N A REAPER TACO These record calf price reports were posted by our loyal FB followers the week of Dec. 12th on our weekly Friday Facebook post. You’re reading that right… $2,063.11 per head for 438 weights and $1,845.12 per head for 372 weights. I may need to take up rawhide braiding to calm myself down from this. ADIOS DR. MILLER Respected veterinarian, cartoonist and prolific feature writer of all things equine, Dr. Robert Miller, crossed the Great Divide this past November. He was a good friend of WR magazine; we ran his cartoons in our earliest eNews letters, and I always enjoyed picking out the next one to run. I must have chuckled at over two hundred of his ‘toons over the years. My least faded memory of his extensive and lasting contribution to the equine world was his development of foal imprinting, a methodology that impressed me as a logical strategy to mitigate those potentially explosive first rides. God Bless you Doc, we’ll catch up to you on the other side.

WORKING RANCH RADIO SHOW GEMS

engrossed in how cool Justin’s topics are that I forgot what I was looking for. Here’s some of my favorites, par ticularly “Why Junior Shouldn’t Come Back To The Ranch” . That was a good one! (It’s not what you think). Go back and check them all out. From everyone here at WR we hope you have a Blessed 2025 folks!

To follow up on the record calf prices this fall, I wanted to track down a WRRS podcast with producer/ host Justin Mills that I recalled had some interesting info on the ben efits of weaning and selling calves early (at that 380 range), and I got so

14 I JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2025 WORKING RANCH audited readers run 21 million head of beef cattle.