Author: The Cattleman
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Grassroots Marketing for Farms: 5 Ways To Reach Customers
As a farmer, you’re a growth expert. You can turn seeds into delicious produce, coax a bountiful harvest from even the poorest of soil, and take livestock from scrawny to hefty. But for financial success, you also need to become an expert in growing your customer base.
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Learn by Example: 7 Successful Small Business Marketing Campaigns
Marketing is an important tool for businesses of all sizes. Small businesses can use marketing techniques and strategies to attract more customers, gain market share, boost brand awareness and create new revenue options. Through these techniques, small businesses can market themselves to existing and potential customers, investors and even other businesses. A marketing campaign’s success is determined…
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Get Camera Ready: Livestreaming Is the Future of Social Media
Many social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, have livestreaming functionality. But livestreaming isn’t just for celebrities and influencers; businesses are increasingly using livestreaming on social media as a marketing tool. Businesses can use livestreaming as a form of social media marketing to connect with customers, generate more followers, demonstrate products and services, and educate and entertain…
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Video Marketing Statistics 2025
We gathered the video marketing statistics below by surveying 205 unique respondents in late 2024. Our sample included both marketing professionals and online consumers. We separated these groups with a preliminary question, to make sure that respondents were only asked questions relevant to them.
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Fly Control
It’s that time of year. The flies have arrived in most US states by now. It takes a multi system approach to keep the fly population down and protect your cattle. Whether it be a topical pour on, spray on, a feed through mineral, garlic, solar fly traps, fly predators, etc, it takes several different…
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Dial in your irrigation
Lumo is an all-in-one precision irrigation system designed to get you up and running quickly and at a lower cost. Wireless, solar-powered, cloud-connected, and US-patented, our smart valves simplify installation and come standard with a built-in flow meter.
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Buying and selling livestock
If you are selling livestock, it is your responsibility to ensure that any form of representation (including advertising) made in connection with the sale of your livestock, in order to promote the supply or transfer of ownership, is true.
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What is the Best Way to Sell Your Cows?
Online sales, live auctions, on-farm sales, Facebook (if they don’t delete your post), Craig’s list, your own website…how do you get the sale? The secret is…it doesn’t really matter what platform you use. The secret is to educate your buyer. Whether you are dealing with a person brand new to cows or to your…
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Dry-Aging – Why It’s Important
Dry-aging is a key factor in creating high flavor profiles in your beef.
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What Could Be
There I was, eating dinner, an Irish Dexter tri-tip with potatoes. They were asking where someone could buy Irish Dexter beef. What timing, I had just finished creating my online store. I had never had an actual online store before where anyone could go and buy the products our farm had for sale. I got…
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the facinating history of the dexter
Many people ask me, “why Dexter’s?”. I believe it’s no accident that theyhave survived so long and won a special place in many hearts and mindsworldwide, including mine. Dexter’s have always been a small breed whichhave not been miniaturised, and I believe have special characteristics tooffer the people who keep them. Here, briefly is their…
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DEXTERS survive for decades in national park
The relocation of a feral herd of 16 Dexters that lived in the Addo Elephant National Park’s Wilderness area has caught the attention of scientists after the South African Dexter Cattle Breeders’ Society became aware of the herd roaming in the park a few years ago. The society initiated the relocation of the animals to…
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Try Pl@ntNet now!
Pl@ntNet is a tool to help to identify plants with pictures. It is organized in different thematic and geographical floras. Choose the one that corresponds to your region or area of interest from the list below. If you don’t know what to choose, select “World flora” which has the widest coverage but will give less…
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Bringing Home Our Mini Cow (Irish Dexter)
Daisy’s Home!!! After over a year of waiting and planning, our mini dairy cow, an Irish Dexter named Daisy finally comes home
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Social Media Selling Strategies
10 Social Media Selling Strategies There’s never been a better time to be in sales right now. In this era of social media, buyers are constantly connected online. They’re learning more about your company, your offerings, and your competitors Read More
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Tips for milking cows By Deanna Clark from Simple Pulse
Photo from Deanna Clark, Lane’s End Iggy There are over 270 million cows producing milk across the world with about 10 million in North America alone and now you own one or more of those milk cows, congratulations! I bet you spent lots of time considering age, breed, reproductive status and temperament before you got your precious new cow…
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Immunity and Raw Milk
We are the HOST and we have an immune system that protects us if it is strong.
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Welcome to Spring:
By Shelley Hatfield/Whippoorwill Pines Farm Spring is a beautiful time of the year!! All the new babies, flowers popping their heads up showing off their colors, everyone itching to get their hands in the dirt!! But that also brings some problems if you have cows. Here are a few things that I have found that…
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Dairy and Homeopathy submitted by Riley Wohlemuth
An interesting approach to dairy that should be considered! https://nodpa.com/n/515/Homeopathy-The-Mechanics-and-Its-Application-for-the-Dairy-Farm
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Getting Dexters is like eating chips, you can’t just have one!!! Written By Shelley Hatfield Whippoorwill Pines Farm
I kinda want to go back to the beginning. We are getting several new Dexter owners and several people asking questions. So I will post some articles on getting started. These articles aren’t necessarily directed to Dexter cattle in particular, but the basics are the same. First of all, you do need to decide what…
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Welcome to the Online Farmer’s Gazette – Orginally Established in 1887
The original Gazette, published by the Royal Dublin Society, was a “Register of Pure Kerry Cattle and Dexters” in Ireland and three years later became the Kerry and Dexter Herdbook, with volume 1 appearing in 1890. This new, updated Irish Dexter Cattlemen Gazette, first published in 2024, is not so much about the Dexter cattle.…
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An article for the Irish Dexter Cattleman website
Good afternoon, I’m sitting down to write up an article for the Irish Dexter Cattleman website. I’m going to write this one up myself but I will include a few articles that you can go check out for yourself. I don’t feel that I have any experience with this production yet as I’m just starting…
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Mineral Supplements for Beef Cattle
Beef cattle require a number of minerals for optimal growth and reproduction.
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Keeping cattle hydrated and healthy
Each summer in Texas, farmers and ranchers are on the gambling side of the weather.
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Feeding Kelp to Livestock
Eric Zielinski is a health coach and skilled researcher who specializes in natural topics
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Low Stress Cattle Handling
Stockmanship expert Curt Pate shares some more keys about the best way to safely handle bulls.