Ice chopping is a pain, literally! If it’s not your face, fingers, and toes freezing, it is your shoulders and back burning!

Normal people consider summer, fall, winter and spring the seasons that they turn their calendar too. But, if you have ever spent much time talking to farmers to ranchers and you know that our seasons haying, weaning, ice chopping/feeding, and calving season.

Welcome aboard Creighton Livestock Market, Inc. Owners Joel Kumm and Ryan Siecke specialize in taking care of stock with clean pens and plenty of feed! Hot Barn Report welcomes this family owned business serving Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska!

Thanks for making it through your holiday season and tuning back in to Ranch Raised. At this point I feel like I need congratulate all of you if you made it through the weekend without frostbite or any major cold weather complications. WhooHoo! That was a blast, I mean not so much, more of an arctic blast.

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But before we slam the door the year, let’s celebrate the #1 highlight of the year! Without a doubt, it would have to be the conception of Ranch Raised!

Today I want to talk about the Annual Cabinet luncheon that we have been having for more than 40 years. It all started with President Reagan’s Cabinet in 1981. Vice President Bush led our team of twelve for our first Cabinet luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.

Our #2 highlight of 2021 here on Ranch Raised is walking along side our girls and raising them on the ranch. Both my husband and I grew up on farms and ranches. I would not know how to raise our kids any other way.

I know that Ranch Raised is in its infancy but I thought it would be fun to round out the year with Top 3 highlights of 2021!

You picked a great day to tune in to Ranch Raised! As I’ve said before, I feed a family of big breakfast eaters! Some mornings, serving breakfast around here resembles opening a barn darn and the animals fleeing the barn to run to their grain troughs.