Cody Archie

If you hunt around, I know a lot of you guys are going to say, you can't buy one where I'm at.

That's true, but you may have to do a little digging.

Where do you go to market with those?

Our goal was to start selling starter flocks because a lot of folks can't buy cattle and they may not be as profitable on their place.

If you've got five or ten acres, you can buy five or ten ewes.

What we really wanted to do was to deal up little groups of 5 to 10 ewes and then sell them around to go with them.

So they're just a starter flock.

Here you go, let's get you started.

But we've been, that's kind of gotten a little more intensive as far as the labor goes of keeping them separated and having people come out.

So now we've just got, there's a couple of local markets there.

We just, we try to breed our ewes to where we can hit

it's probably gonna come off the wrong way but some of the ethnic holidays because they're the biggest they're the biggest buyers of those lambs and we you know we leave our male lambs intact we don't castrate them we don't dock their tails just send them because that's what the buyers want so we try to grow about a 65 to 80 pound lamb that'll hit during those ethnic holidays that way we can capitalize the most grain out of it and then most of our ewe lambs we try to keep and grow the flock

I was talking to a young man over at the Molly booth today.

He was like, man, we've got these circles, and we've been irrigating.

We're growing winter wheat.

We're great.

We've got 350 head of mama cows, and we're weaning our calves, and we're grazing them there.

And we've even got some circles that my dad had in the CRP program, and it's native grasses.

And we're thinking about busting those out and growing corn.

I'm like, why?