The latest happenings of a Family Ranching Operation

• MMM #53 – Worm Ranching - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. This past week found part of our crew at the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition 2024 Soil Health Conference.  We took our two oldest with us, and they sat through all of it as a part of their school for the week, a total...
• MMM #52 – On the Mend - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. I have been wrestling to get this one down on paper for quite some time…somewhere close to three months. I have a bad habit of walking away from the working cows blog when I come up against struggles in ranching. What I feel most...
• MMM #51 – Happy New Year! - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. Happy New Years Day to you all. As I looked back at my post a year ago, I feel very similar as I close our 2023 and look ahead to 2024. We as a family have so much to be thankful for with the...
• MMM #50 – Diversification and a Shameless Plug - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. We recently received our first shipment of Sea 90 Ocean Minerals, a whole semi-load worth! We took this opportunity very seriously and spent quite a bit of time and prayer while deciding on becoming a distributor for our area. We have been impressed by...
• MMM #49 – Man Killer - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. Clay and I recently found ourselves working on a deadline to finish a fencing project. As we worked side by side, I was one fence post ahead of him pounding in a pre-drill hole for him to come behind with the post and pounder...
• MMM #48 – Happy Trails My Old Friend - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. The kid horse…everyone wants one, several people claim they have one for sale, and yet how do you get fortunate enough to have one cross your path and enter your cavvy? In our experience that beloved ol kid pony comes as a gift, an...
• MMM #47 – Pay Day - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. Pay day finally trickled down at the Conry ranch. I had posted a few weeks back that our summer grazers left, and it was nice doing business with family for us. My hope is that we pass the joy of doing business with family...
• MMM #46 – Puppy Love - Good Monday morning to all critter and land loving folks. It is cloudy and cool here on the ranch today, but the only thing it is raining is puppies!! Oh boy, seven pretty adorable livestock guardian pups dropped in the wee hours of the morning. Momma dog, Esther, is doing well and seems to be...
• MMM #45 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Good morning all you critter and land loving folks. Monday here on the ranch found us shuffling everything we own to wrap up our summer custom grazing, seems like ninety days goes by quickly. We did some pasture walking in the evening and enjoyed not being carried away by mosquitoes, I don’t know where they...
• MMM #44 – Bug Wars - Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. We have more moisture here than I think I have ever seen in July so far, and it has been amazing to look at! With more moisture than I have ever seen, I am pretty sure there are more mosquitoes than I have ever...