Its been a week of heat and storms. We have been out of the severe weather here at the ranch and haven't had any storm related damages, but the city of Leola has gotten hit pretty hard with hail. Here are some hailstones that were picked up in the city of Leola and did quite a bit of damage to the houses in town.

"After the Storm" clouds.

Hailstones picked up in the city of Leola, 9 miles east of the ranch. We didn't get any hail at the ranch in this storm!
We're almost done with our second cutting hay crop. After we bale the hay we move the bales off of the fields with our bale mover and row them.

Our spring cows and calves are all out on pasture and we're getting ready to pre-condition our spring calves. Here are some pictures of the calves out on pasture!




These three calves are out of our donor cows their sires are (from right to left) Schuler Endurance 2101Z (bull calf), Bieber Roosevelt W384 (heifer calf) and a Paringa Iron Ore E27 (heifer calf).

An Andras Fusion R236 bull calf.



Here is a Bieber Hard Drive Y120 bull calf.

Two heifer calfs also from Bieber Hard Drive Y120

A heifer calf from Paringa Iron Ore E27.

A heifer calf from LSF RAB Exclusive 2793Z.

Two heifer calves both from LSF SRR Triumph 3100A.


Two heifer calves out of Leachman Vision A278Z.


Four bull calves all out of Bieber Roosevelt W384.

A Bieber Roosevelt W384 heifer calf.

A Schuler Endurance 2101Z heifer calf.

Two shots of a Bieber Stormer Z433 heifer calf.