Eric Kroupa

@gregzimpleman You forgot to buckle up your lunchbox @gregzimpleman!

When you go from happy to sad all in just seconds…..🤬

@johnspigfarm Sorry to hear it… They are like family and it’s so hard!

Wife just called me, she was moving her truck in the driveway and ran over our little white Westie. RIP Chief, you were an amazing little puppy that was very disciplined and fun to be around for only 9 months old. Oakley and I will miss you and will keep an eye on the cows in your honor.

@VernonQuaal Someone is going to be disappointed!

Feel sorry for the person who’s got the bid.

@bradyhuck_ Good luck Brady!

𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝘁𝗵 | 𝗗𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗞𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘀 Link below ⬇️ We lead off the DVAR Liberate sire group with this Maternal brother to DVAR Comanche. He should be marked on eveyone's catalog. As a sire group, the Liberate bulls post an impressive 117 average IMF ratio, 102 Ribeye ratio, 104 wean ratio and 102 yearling ratio on 9 bulls offered with 7 of the 9 being sure shot heifer bulls. They certainly bring it all to the table and we start the group off with a banger. Lot 132 - DVAR Liberate 50N -Top 10% Wean -Top 5% Yearling -Top 2% Marbling -Top 3% Docility

@roesch_scott Got the essentials covered.

Southern buyer sent pic this morning…..i thought he was just greedy with someone elses money

@AnnaKKraken Hopefully they can get something figured out soon and you can get to rocking it again soon! Prayers

@ksufarmboy It hasn’t been too bad this year.

Can any of my South Dakota friends tell me how the pheasant hunting is up there this year? I've always wanted to go up there and try it.

@AnnaKKraken Prayers that everything turns out well for you. Take care.

@BenSasse Sorry to hear Ben. Thoughts and prayers.

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do. I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all. Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints. There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come. Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son. A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears. Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet. Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective: “When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.” I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape. But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9). With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices, Ben — and the Sasses

@ChetEdinger @bl_ag_inc I’m going to have to agree with Chet on this one.

@bl_ag_inc When we rebuilt our house after the fire we hired a construction manager. It was expensive, however if I had to do it all over I would hire him again. When it was done we moved in and there was zero issues. There’s a ton of details he caught that I would have never seen.

The difference between hiring a GC to do construction projects vs being the GC yourself is insane I’m sure there’s a level where it pays to hire a GC I know I’m not at that level yet 😂

@Nebraskero Awesome

A few pot-loads of our 3-year-old February bred cows broke into the 5-handle territory 👀🤠🤷‍♂️💰

@yearlins @AJRichards Agreed

@AJRichards Absolutely

Walmart already killed your local grocery store.
 Next up: your local rancher, farmer and dairy.
“Vertical integration” = Walmart owning the cow, the feed, the slaughterhouse, and the shelf.
 It’s not competition against the Big 4 packers.
 It’s Walmart replacing them.

@farmerjim13 @laneallenw Most 18/30 in this area are @Geringhoff .

@laneallenw 2 were Drago series 1 &2 and one was a Deere 618c. He said he also has a Claas (Capello) that he lengthened from 16 rows but he didn't get it done in time. 4 running at once will be pretty crazy to see.

Remember everyone, there's more to life.

@jacine71 @6Shittalkerffs SDSU lost

@6Shittalkerffs Who is winning

SDSU!!!!!

@CBKimbrell @DustinMashino @FarmerTheta Congrats on 32!

@DustinMashino @FarmerTheta It was pretty crazy. Got married 3 months later.

@PUKU2Feeders @QuintenChriste2 @wcchristen Seems like a great idea!

New Christensen Charolais Ranch hats? @QuintenChriste2 @wcchristen

@sanegrain Happy advent to you and your family Cully. Your brother and whole family is one of the best I’ve ever met. Peace be with you.

@HRT_USA Louder for those in the back!

Who were the first auctioneers that charged a buyers fee on a land sale and why did no one hang them?

@Dusty3080467325 @BrettOelke @LineRed8039 61-69 was a monster hybrid here. In it’s day. Count me in.

@BrettOelke @LineRed8039 It didn’t bring it in Goss’s is much like Southern it’s environmental One year it’s a issue The next you never see it

Who remembers these 2 powerhouses SeedWarsSeedCo @LineRed8039 In 2027 we can have these to sell for $125 per unit How many units do you want ?? Taking orders now ……

@HemmerleinLee Everything that you said and the fact that everyone wants to hit the easy button.

Considering how economical it is to shop at places like Walmart or Amazon where they deliver items to your front steps or a car pickup, it will be difficult for direct Farm sales to compete on price and convenience.