Category: Selling
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Do you know how to do a tail stick to get blood for Pregnancy and Tenet Beef testing?
Here is a video that Nancy Bowers, Lonestar Ranch did on blood testing one her Dexters. This the same technique that you will need for testing for Tenet beef tenderness, except you will need much less….lol. I have sent in 7 tenet tenderness tests to see if our Dexters have this genetic trait. Unlike other…
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SUNFLOWER SEEDS FOR LACTATING DAIRY COWS
Consider BOSS, Black Oil Sunflower Seeds when milking your Dexter. – Submitted by Riley Wohlgemuth
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Advantages of Marketing Your Beef Directly
Small-scale livestock producers who direct market their animals or their products have more control over variable market prices and can increase their profit potential.
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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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Do you struggle with sales…listen up!
Building a customer base, rather than selling at the sale barn is essential to our Dexter businesses. In this podcast, they discuss how to build your business and attract your customers . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/working-cows-regenerative-ranching-to-maximize-profitability/id1307361758?i=1000704417367
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COUPON EXPIRES END OF MONTH…DON’T MISS OUT! Why I use the Irish Dexter Cattlemen to help me market my homestead.
I wanted to share the great experiences I am having using the Irish Dexter Cattlemen (IDC) to sell Dexter semen, Nubian goats, soaps and shampoos…I don’t have any Dexter stock available, or I would be using the site for them too. I love using the site to write my ad once. Load pictures once. And…
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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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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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Do you want to subscribe, but you don’t know at what level?
Hope this simple spreadsheet shows you the different levels that you can participate. An example of an entry level participation is … access to our gazette and all the past articles in the Tips and Tricks Newsletter, many magazines , the ADCA, PDCA and Legacy publications in clipboard formats with an easy to use search…
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Start with why — how great FARMERS inspire action
This lesson is a game changer. It is probably the most important lesson you will ever learn about how to market your farm, yourself, and your products. WARNING! Watching this will change everything you thought on how to market your farm.
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Understanding the rumen
Anatomy and functions of cattle rumen. https://extension.msstate.edu/sites/default/files/topic-files/cattle-business-mississippi-articles/cattle-business-mississippi-articles-landing-page/mca_feb2011.pdf
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ADCA dun testing
If you have dun cattle, esp golden dun or dark dun and would like to help with genetic testing see link below. https://www.facebook.com/share/14twfHYU4S/?mibextid=WC7FNe
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The Art of Farm Branding
How to Create a Unique Identity for Your Small Farm https://blog.eggcartonstore.com/the-art-of-farm-branding-how-to-create-a-unique-identity-for-your-small-farm
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Partnerships for Your Food or Farm Business
Resources you need to successfully start your own food or farm business.
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Top 3 Mistakes Selling Direct-to-Consumer
Don’t make these mistakes if you’re just getting started on your farm!
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Growing my business with GrownBY
By Eliena Bodtke, Stay’N Put Farm I have had a small soap business for years. It has been a very manual order process. So, when someone was needed to test the GrownBy site for the next phase of the Irish Dexter Cattlemen website, I decided it was time for me to have an easier way…
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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Farmers use the phrase “CSA” and its framework to describe all kinds of selling strategies. https://support.grownby.com/portal/en/kb/articles/how-to-use-grownby-for-different-csa-types-including-custom
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Did they have it right?
1928 documents are very interesting!! Why the CHANGE? – Submitted by Ruth Umphrey
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Selling Dexters by Sue Pollington
There is this thing that happens when you have Dexter cattle and really any kind of cows. It’s called cow math. The cows just keep multiplying and it’s all your fault. In my Dexter journey this happens 2 ways. I got my fist Dexter cow, she had her yearling steer by her side and was…
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Training a Dexter to lead.
By Sue Pollington I have just been a Dexter owner for 3 and a half years now, but I have had to halter train 1 cow and 2 heifers. Luckily for me, I grew up with horses and it’s pretty similar although I think my Dexters have been far more willing and patient with training…
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If You buy a trained Dexter milk cow….
By Sue Pollington If you spend the money to buy a trained Dexter milk cow please define what you expect by this and tell the seller you choose. Does this mean halter trained, lead trained, stanchion trained, milking trained, trailer trained? When I was buying my first cow, I wanted a trained milk cow that…
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Buying an Irish Dexter. Part 2
By Sue Pollington So, now you are ready to buy your first Irish Dexter. You have your land, fencing, a water source, a farm vet who makes farm calls (or a trailer to take them to the vet), a shelter, hay or a hay source, a mineral source and the money to buy. Now you…