Where are the calves today? in These titles mean nothing.

We sold calves yesterday. It’s the biggest single payday at the farm. By far. It’s the payday for a year of work and the return on a lot of capital. And for some bizarre reason it pays well. Perhaps because of the work and capital involved.

It’s not a totally happy day though. Jim will never watch the cattle sold. He said for the first time- he doesn’t want them to see him there. They are where they’ve never been before. And then they see him. Wow. I never thought of that. I asked, do you really think they would pick you out of a crowd of people? He said sure they would.

I find that incredibly sad. Sure they would.

Then I thought of the idea of the farmer who went broke = there are so many ways for farmers to go broke - because he bought back his calves at the salebarn.