To reach our goals and achieve success with our ranches, we must develop and restore balance in our immediate pasture eco-system. The foundation for balance rests upon one paradigm, predator versus prey.

Good grass, clean water, a mineral program designed specifically for our grass environment and a manager who cares and understands about how the first three interact.

For many years I concentrated on becoming a legitimate cattleman. I may have been concentrating on what I believed a good cattleman should be and not on what makes a good cattleman. There is a big difference between the two.

Before we step into another program engineered by companies that operate on the periphery of our industry, with costs that will probably outdistance predictions, maybe we should expose this concept for what it really is.