Weather: Moderate and breezy.
(BW-2 for cows and LS-5-4 for calves): Calves move into 1st split in LS-4. Some geese starting to arrive and feed on straw feeding grounds. Big reservoir is low to harbor the arriving geese.
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Weather: About 3" of snow on the 14th with strong winds and cool temps. Winds and some melting on the 15th and 16th.
(BW-2 for cows and LS-5 for calves): Cows move to second split in BW-2 on the 15th. Calves have worked over LS-5 hard, and I plan to move to a fresh paddock tomorrow Weather: Nothing changed.
(BW-2 for cows and LS-5 for calves): Cows move to new paddock BW-2 along creek bottom. I begin to head to Boise with an evening stop at Bozeman and a fun Harry Potter reading to Jack. Weather: Cold morning winds give way to calm pleasant, lovely afternoon.
(BW-1 for cows and LS-5 for calves): Last move in the morning in BW-1. Calves have plenty of grass to hold them in LS-5 while I will be gone to Boise and the SRM meeting starting tomorrow. Really pleased with the condition of all the animals. Bulls (14) and Ryan Horses in WG-3 since 1.01/23 Weather: Bitter gusty SW winds begin the day and calm and continued thawing end it.
(BW-1 for cows and LS-5 for calves): Cows move twice, and calves stay put. Lots of grass left in LS-3, yet just not enough time to create splits. 10 Ravens follow me around in LS during afternoon check. Weather: Off and on strong winds during this three day period.
(BW-1 for cows and LS-5 for calves): I was attending the MT Soils Health Symposium during these three days. I did make one cow move on the 7th, another early in the morning of the 8th, and one more late afternoon on the 9th. One of the days the calves found an open gate and blew/drifted all the way back to the corrals. Ryan was able to get the calves back to where they belonged. Sent to butcher cows to Kilby Butte for. Processing. Weather: Almost too nice as the ground continues to thaw out.
(BW-1 for cows and LS-5 for calves): Cows move through 2 splits creating enough forage for me to attend the Mt Soil Symposium tomorrow afternoon. Calves move into LS-3. Dana and I visit bank and secure annual loan approval even though budget cash flow will be challenged by decreased returns from CNB due to health issues and increased feedlot costs. Weather: A little cooler and overcast all day.
(BW-1 for cows and LS-5 for calves): Cows move to 3rd split in NB-1. I need to create much higher stock density to level old, crested wheat patches and even wolfy green needlegrass (a native bunch grass). For now, not enough time for preparing the splits necessary to get such a result accomplished. Hopefully I can get calves moved to next paddock in LS where broken terrain makes building more splits even more challenging. In the end, we are capable of shrinking our splits small enough to get most of standing forage laid on the ground, yet it will require multiple splits during one day. Weather: Winds strong in the morning tapering off with more melting of remaining patches of ice and snow.
(BW-1 for cows and LS-5 for calves): No moves. Cows broke out and were quickly contained. Max, my young border collie, while still a bit aggressive, certainly calls the shots when it is time to move. A little information insertion to the journal. This approach (leveraging collective experience and wisdom) to realize best possible outcomes for teams and communities has been foundational to almost everything I do. And I can point, even recently, to decisions I made on my own, without applying this approach, that turned out badly.
Why changing your mind is a feature of evolution, not a bug If argumentation led to nothing, it would soon be thrown into the evolutionary dustbin. By David McRaney January 31, 2023 Kenny Eliason / Unsplash Excerpted from HOW MINDS CHANGE: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney, published by Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 2022 by David McRaney. Research shows people are incredibly good at picking apart other people’s reasons. We are just terrible at picking apart our own in the same way. Reasoning is biased in favor of the reasoner, and that’s important, because each person needs to contribute a strongly biased perspective to the pool. And it is lazy, because we expect to offload the cognitive effort to a group process. Everyone can be cognitive misers and save their calories for punching bears, because when it comes time to disagree, the group will be smarter than any one person thanks to the division of cognitive labor. This is why so many of the best things we have produced have come from collaboration, people working together to solve a problem or create a work of art. Math, logic, science, art—the people who see the correct path from moment to moment are able to guide the others and vice versa. With a shared goal, in an atmosphere of trust, arguing eventually leads to the truth. Basically, all culture is 12 Angry Men at scale. |
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