Who raises this herd, how each calf is cared for, and what the ranch stands for.
We kept writing the same notes to each other after every morning feeding the Bullock and checking the Heifer in the east pasture, and eventually stopped pretending that was not a journal. The first issue went out to eleven neighboring ranchers before the cows even started their Moo.
Every entry starts out in the barn or out in the pasture, never at a desk, and gets checked by someone who has actually worked the herd that day. A claim about a Steer's weight or a fence line that cannot survive someone walking out to check it a second time simply does not make it into print.
Nothing about the Bovine herd gets described unless one of us stood right there and watched it.
The mornings when the Silage runs out stay in. They're usually the most useful part.
Mistakes about herd counts or Manure records get fixed on the page, with a note on what changed.
One long dispatch from the Farmstead and one short field note, sent the morning they go out.
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