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Taking Cattle to The Stockyard! #farming #cow #farmlife

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Video by Stoney Ridge Farmer

Stoney Ridge Farmer

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This video documents the process of moving cattle across a farm to a specific pasture for loading onto a trailer the following day. The farmer explains the decision to sell certain older cows, demonstrates the movement of the herd through various sections of the farm, and details the preparations for their eventual transport to a stockyard.

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These are my girls. My girls and my boys. This big bud, this is 38. 38 is probably, I hate to say it, going to go on the trailer. We've got two mama cows going on the trailer. Number 38 and number 40. They're going to leave the farm. They are aging out and they're starting to I don't know. They're just aging out. You don't keep all your animals forever. We have some that are kind of pets like Suzie and Sweetie and Buttthead and they'll stay here. They'll retire here for sure. But we've got to make good sound financial decisions with our farm. Today we have been rushing the cattle across our farm as fast as I possibly can. You can see there's plenty of grass out here for them to eat, but I've had to bring them from way over on the other side of the farm all the way hop bop bop bop bop bop hopscotching all the way up to here. And today we're moving them up to here through the woods and into a section of pasture that's right ahead of where our loading equipment is. So I'm going to start moving cows and then I'll take you up there. I got a little bit of fencing to build today and I'll explain all of this what we're doing. My stepdad Barry is coming up. We're going to load the cows up in the morning. We're going to take them up to Spring Lake Stockyard in Monita,

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