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By Burke Teichert
This title deserves a little
defining. Other words (nouns)
that provide some meaning are:
total, entity, entirety, totality,
everything and ensemble.
When speaking of managing
a ranch, we should think of
managing the “whole” or every
aspect of it and recognize that,
when we change any part,
that part is integrally linked
to and affects the whole. Not
only that, but each part affects
and is affected by the others.
Most of our formal education
conditions us to be linear
thinkers—change this and
you can expect that result.
More recently we have been
introduced to “systems thinking”
which helps us begin to
understand that there is not
simply a single result from
each action or change in our
management. And, in addition
to those initial results or effects,
there are “compounding
and cascading” (terminology
borrowed from Dr. Allen
Williams) effects that continue
on after the first effects.
PUREBRED
HOMO Polled Het Black COLE Architect 08A x COLE Miss Windfall 126Y
BW: 88
Adj. WW: 869
Adj. YW: 1,478
CD: 10 BW: 2.4 WW: 91 YW: 136 MK: 18 CM: 5 SC: 0.9
DC: 12 YG: -.60 CW: 34 RE: 1.32 MB: -.45 $MTI: 46
Top 1% for WW & YW
Top 2% for TM & CW
Top 15% for SC, RE & $MTI
COLE Explorer 22E topped Coleman’s sale in 2018. This powerhouse herd sire offers growth and
maternal efficiency in a thick-ended, homozygous polled, purebred package. Given his trait-
leading numbers, real-world performance and royal lineage, COLE Explorer has all the tools to
blaze a new trail in black, polled, purebred Limousin genetics. His first calves hit the ground this
spring and there were worth the wait—growthy, thick and stylish.
Give one of these breeders a call on Explorer progeny.
SEMEN $40 Contact Grassroots Genetics 866.305.9600
Larry & Trent Coleman - Charlo, MT
Larry - 406.644.2300
Trent - 406.644.2707
www.colemanlimousinranch.com
Steve Revell - St. Johns, FL
904.482.7197
srevell57@msn.com
Caleb & Tara Minor - Strafford, MO
417.576.6364
Gerald Gustafson - West Point, NE
402.380.8061
elkhornvalleylimousin@hotmail.com
Brad Beus - Pasco, WA
509.727.2082
beuscattle@gmail.com
James Weis - Cameron, TX
512.934.8103
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