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The Iowa Maine Anjou board of directors approved a motion that will permit any animal that is registered as a MaineTainer to show as a MaineTainer in Iowa. In the past, MaineTainers shown in Iowa had to be sired by a registered Maine bull. The exception to this rule is the IOWA BEEF EXPO bull...

The information/catalog for our private treaty bred female sale is now available online at www.cowpower.com  If it doesn't show up at first, when you click on COWPOWER females, you need to refresh. They are available on a first come/first serve basis. Contact me for details!  Thanks.  Juli Nelson

This is what the calves sold for on Labor day:  $2000 - Lot 31 steer  $1600 - Lot 29 red heifer  $1700 - Lot 8 heifer.  Please feel free to look at our website for the video of these calves. that would be at www.cowpower.com , click on the link to Club Calf Paradise.  It will have  all of the...

Here are the three calves. Lot 31: Black One and Only Steer, Lot 29: Red Cool Customer heifer, Lot 8: Walks Alone heifer.  All of these calves have really come on since the pictures were taken. The pictures were taken in mid August. The calves are really hairing up and putting on condition.

This may be an opportunity for somebody still looking for a couple of really nice calves! I have three calves from our Labor Day sale that the owner, Neil Ketchum of Oklahoma, can not pay for. They have been here at our farm for over a month and he has told me that he is sending the money but...

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We have some early pictures, consignor information and the new bidding format/rules should be up very soon. Keep checking back. There will be new "stuff" all the time.  Also, we are now members of the West Central Iowa Club Calf Producers group. We are working on a facebook page that should be a...

I am looking for a person to help out during our fall Club Calf Paradise sale. Start August 15 and work until Sept 6. I am great to work for...so they say...but I expect you to work hard until the work is finished each day. We have a LOT of fun but we work very hard. Most of the work is rinsing...

I agree! Let's be RED!!  And I will also try to post my annual RED calf.  Sorry, it's a boy this year. But RED MAPLE thru and thru!!

Here's a picture of Bazinga that was taken in late October last fall. He is at Nichols being collected and is currently freezing successfully!

Bazinga's mother:

I recently had an opportunity to sell a tremendous young Maine Anjou bull to a young man from my area. This young man has been at our farm many times over the last few years watching and looking for a bull that he could put his faith into promoting and changing the breed. I have to be honest, at...

Gidger...I have about every combination in my family from tree hugging vegan to raw beef-eating carnivorous redneck. When we sit down at the dinner table we all expect to receive the respect that we were raised to give one another...not matter what our beliefs or food preferences. If somebody at...

Oh, that is REALLY interesting. Thank you for sharing. Does that say something about our cattle trends? 

tb,  I would stay FAR away from WD40 to remove adhesive. There are a lot of other ways to cut corners on supplies but breaking down adhesive is NOT one of them in my book. My rule of thumb is if I am afraid to use it on MY hair then I certainly am not using it on my show cattle. WD40 is...

I wasn't going to comment but caved. I really was certain this was the same animal but there are two things besides the obvious loss of condition that I noticed. Did you put some kind of tag in his left ear? It appears that there is something in his ear in the video and nothing at all in the...

Keep working with her several times a day. The more that she can stand the more it will strengthen her muscles and increase her ability to stand alone.

O.K., I'm in. I agree with Jack. I like to see a big foot on cattle. It's a great indicator or longevity and soundness although it probably isn't always an indicator of bone size. I have seen a lot of cattle with very small feet and yet huge boned. I hate a small foot as it will quite often lead...

#1:  FIND SOMEONE YOU TRUST!!!     If you are just getting started you should not set a goal to go out and win the big ones your first few years. Be realistic. Set a price range and stay within that range. There are a lot of good calves out there for less than $1500. But most importantly, take...

We wean all of our February-April calves by the 15th of July as a group. Not everyone has the luxury of day weaning but if you can make it work it is the best way to transition them at weaning. We day wean for about two weeks. Then we just let the cows in with the calves to suck once at night...