Coming Home

Coming Home

by | Jul 8, 2019 | Award/contest winners, Blog, On the ranch

Coming Home “His name is Panic Switch,” says Colton Hamilton with a grin. His father Gavin helps hold the stuffed bull’s head nearly their height. But I didn’t hear the word “panic” clearly. I don’t know what I heard, even after asking a couple more times. Maybe the...

Smiles, Success

by | Jul 10, 2018 | Award/contest winners

By the end of the day, my cheeks hurt from laughing. Normally it’s my feet that hurt after a ranch visit, not my face. I didn’t know what to expect on my first visit to a Canadian ranch. I sure didn’t expect to smile so much and leave with a sunburn. What I did...

It takes a team

by | Dec 4, 2017 | Award/contest winners

We lived in a two bedroom apartment in the middle of the city when my husband made the first livestock purchase of our marriage. Bidding in an online pig sale, he made us the owners of a beautiful crossbred gilt with nowhere for it to live. No barn, no plan, no pig...

Commitment you recognize

by | Mar 27, 2017 | Award/contest winners, Hot topics

Just when does the lifelong road to excellence start? For some, it seems it’s inherited as easily as blue eyes or a deep voice. For others, there’s a turning point, some life-changing event that causes a seismic shift in the way they do business or live their lives....
Meeting of the Minds

Meeting of the Minds

by | Oct 21, 2016 | Award/contest winners, Hot topics

It’s been a busy month for the brand. In the last 30 days we’ve marked the end of one fiscal year and the start of another, surpassed a pretty big milestone (more on that later) and hosted that little thing (note the sarcasm) we call Annual Conference (AC). More often...