Cameron Nykoliation

@bigkev232 @rhofford Wild Trek was my favorite Jim Kjelgaard book. Passed it down to my kids, but not before I took a quick re-read.

@rhofford If he liked it and hasn’t read Snow Dog by Jim Kjelgaard I’d highly recommend it. Same author has more good ones as well but Snow Dog is one that always stood out to me

My boy read this book loved it

@hamiltondw2 Hope so too. I like winter but this is starting to wear me down. Time for some warmth

@NYKCattle Really hoping this is the last one this cold till next December. 3rd morning in a row like this.

No mud today.

@NYKCattle Same but I have an electric pump

Never stress about when to pull the trigger to buy bulk fuel with my one simple trick I use, don’t have any bulk fuel storage. #agtwitter

@efarmsfive @gwiesefarms That's fair. Part of the issue is that the margins were so small that to even have a viable "side gig" you needed 200+ cows or 500+ feeders. At current margins 100 cows would be a great cash flow boost and a way to add value to poor grain, poor crops, etc.

@NYKCattle @gwiesefarms I’m just sour on labor intensity. I’ve done it. Nothing to a 600 head backgrounder. My son grew up while I was constantly feeding or working on infrastructure/equipment. We sold it and now I get to play golf on weekends with him. Wasn’t worth it to me looking back

Diversification of income within the operation can be your saving grace. There are synergies and huge market advantages to having both crop and livestock. Why do people shy away from this financial superpower so much?

@efarmsfive @gwiesefarms But you're right, adding cows TODAY is maybe not the right time from a cash allocation standpoint especially if cash is tight in your grain operation.

@NYKCattle @gwiesefarms Yep I’d agree there.

@efarmsfive @gwiesefarms Easy to covert a small number of crop land to annual forage crops and you have the equipment to do so.

@NYKCattle @gwiesefarms I was assuming guy already farming I guess. There’s a small with purchasing said cattle also. $$$. And finding grass but that’s another story altogether. None of it great either way for a grass roots operation

@efarmsfive @gwiesefarms I'd argue the opposite. Cattle are easier to incorporate into a grain operation than grain into a Cattle operation. Overhead for grain (equipment and crop land) are far more of a hurdle than fence/pasture/water.

@gwiesefarms Cattle overhead expenses are huge if you don’t have infrastructure in place. The work and $ required is a huge hurdle in my opinion.

Nice looking heifer calf showing off in the sun yesterday before the cold returned

@KamikaziKoala @seasunsoulful @JusperMachogu @LarryMillerMP Pretty warm last night. Shouldn't be frozen at least.

Out looking for calfsicles at 1 am. We try to ID the close ones & put them in the barns but gotta check the rest. @seasunsoulful @JusperMachogu @LarryMillerMP

Calving camera problems

Living the dream over here

@standardhill He's a DUDE! Best of luck.

Lot 2 in our March 13, 2026 sale!

@lesleyraekelly @ThatEricAlper We love telling our daughter about seeing Swift on that same concert tour. Makes her so jealous lol.

@ThatEricAlper …..Taylor swift was Brad Paisley’s opener. It was an incredible concert (back in 2008/2009 I believe)

Have you ever been to a concert where the support act went on to become famous?

@inchcreekjr Heifers are the devil

@garrett_wolf3 @Chance2FarmLtd A better spot to look at it is about 7 or 8 years ago when everything went way up, except cattle. We're just getting caught up now. Most guys (including me) are just working to get back out of that hole before thinking about expansion or investment.

@Chance2FarmLtd Really? I can’t think of a single one of my expenses that has tripled in the last 3 years.

🔥$3,688.69CAD for 666lbs heifers 🔥

One of our junior herdsires posing. SLCC RIGHT TIME 1M is a direct son of the legend Leachman Right Time. On the cow side he has some of the most proven genetics the Youngdale Angus program has to offer. We are excited for the influence 1M will have on our herd.

@jdschopfer @desrochersfarm It's warm enough that the cows have quit calving the last couple days. Waiting for colder weather 🙄

@desrochersfarm Thats crazy, that was us a couple weeks ago. And generally we’re used to calving in that (through the barn). But i just had probably my tenth full night of sleep of calving because its been nicer than -4° and i’m not worried about ears freezing

They were calling for -31 overnight. This is much colder. Better dress warm to feed the cattle this morning.

@knd8700 We do raise black lim-flex too! We are sold out for this year but we'll have a bigger group of them next year.

@NYKCattle Wish he was black 😭 Dude is a unit

The last lim-flex available by private treaty is a good one. Only 11 months old, he's heifer safe, homo polled, and out of our best Lim-Flex cow. Open to offers. He's going to make someone very happy this spring.