Diamond K Ranch Wyoming

10/22/2025

That sounds like a good idea.

08/23/2025

Now you should start wondering where your beef comes from...

U.S. CATTLE REPORT 🌎📈 U.S. Beef Imports Surge to Record Highs Despite Adjustment

U.S. beef imports were trimmed this month to a projected 5.274 billion pounds, down from 5.377 billion pounds, but still marking a new all-time high.

Imports had dipped to just 2.06 billion pounds in 2011, the lowest point in modern history, before steadily climbing higher. From 2011 to 2025, imports have increased by about 156%, underscoring the scale of growth over the past decade and a half.

Since 2019, volumes have consistently exceeded 3 billion pounds, while the long-term average since 2000 stands at 3.15 billion pounds (including 2025). U.S. beef imports have exceeded 2 billion pounds every year since 1984.

🌎📊 U.S. Beef Imports by Year (Billions of Pounds)

🥩 2025 (P): 5.274B (📈 Record High)
🥩 2024: 4.635B
🥩 2023: 3.726B
🥩 2022: 3.391B
🥩 2021: 3.344B
🥩 2020: 3.340B
🥩 2019: 3.058B
🥩 2018: 2.998B
🥩 2017: 2.994B

U.S. CATTLE REPORT: https://www.nationalbeefwire.com/u-s-cattle-report

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06/30/2025

So that's how...

01/18/2025

Babies are coming! If you want to actually see one being born, watch the first video!

12/29/2024

We already have a couple babies!

08/13/2024

Well, well, well...Look who can walk again!

We've noticed her (the black heifer) in different positions in the stall and have questioned whether she was drawing out her injury so she could continue to get special treatment. Hay set right in front of her as she lounges...water poured directly into her mouth...a fan blowing on her...all that was missing was hand feeding her some grapes.

Not that she wasn't in bad shape when Todd found her in the tire! But Todd also found her standing two afternoons ago and let's just say her gig is about up.

We *are* relieved she has recovered. And the blind calf is loving having a friend in the stall with him. However, he'll be listed for sale soon and when he goes her ride on the gravy train will end.

08/07/2024

We are running a regular bovine infirmary these days.

First off - how is the calf we saved from dehydration and dying? Alive! And living in a barn stall at the house. He is blind, however. If he can see anything it has to just be shadows. However, he is still taking a bottle and he has learned where his hay is. We'll be trying to sell him at some point, but for now he's alive and doing well.

Yesterday afternoon, Todd randomly decided to check how the water was doing at one of the windmills. He and our friend Ron had been working on this windmill recently and he wanted to make sure it was still working alright. Todd said he heard the tiniest weird sound. He looked around and happened to see a flash of yellow - an ear tag - INSIDE of a tire. The tire is a temporary way to keep the cows from going between the windmill tower and trough, busting pipe up along the way. A permanent exclusion is in the works.

Anyway...this yearling heifer was INSIDE the tire. Todd went home for the skid steer and was able to get the tire off of her and pull her out. She wouldn't stand, however. After being cramped in a small space for who knows how long her legs didn't want to work. He called the house for extra hands and a bottle of water.

I went out, but no matter what we did she couldn't stand. I went home to get some electrolytes and my sister, who is visiting this week. We tried lifting her with the skid steer. Didn't work. We tried giving her the bottle. She doesn't like it in her mouth. Todd had been giving her water that he poured out of his cowboy hat over her. We tried to trick her by pouring the water from the hat over her and when she would open her mouth we squeezed the electrolyte water in. That worked for awhile then she wizened up.

We eventually left her there for the night. Todd and our son went to check her this morning and she was still there and more weak. We loaded her into a livestock trailer with the skid steer and brought her home to share the stall with the blind calf.

They're now keeping eachother company and we're running a hospital wing!

07/17/2024

On Monday, Todd went out to gather some cattle for a butcher date we had on Tuesday. While out there, he came across a calf that wasn't doing well at all. In fact, we suspect he was probably a day or less from dying.

He was severely dehydrated and had an eye gouged out. His other eye was sunken in from dehydration, we suspect, but we also believe he is mostly blind in that eye as well. We don't know what caused the loss of his eye or blindness. We are guessing his inability to see well is what contributed to him being separated from his mother and herd, and ultimately almost dying.

Todd, our friend Ron, and Quinten headed out on 4 wheelers Monday afternoon to find the calf again. Rosie and I headed out with a truck and livestock trailer.

Quinten spotted the calf. Todd was able to get a rope around it, but ultimately had to wrestle it to the ground - getting cactus needles in his legs in the process! Todd and Ron held the calf down while Rosie gave it an electrolyte bottle. It was hot. Quinten helped by pouring water over the calf to help it cool down.

We got most of the electrolytes in him and was able to get him loaded in the trailer *just* before the best storm we've had all summer hit! After it passed, the guys rode back and Rosie and I hauled the calf home.

We noticed immediately after arriving home that the sunken-in eye had popped back to normal size after giving the electrolytes. Amazing!

The calf stayed in the trailer for two nights getting milk bottles, electolytes and some antibiotics. We wanted to be able to monitor it in an enclosed space, but this morning, we moved him into one of the stalls of the loafing shed.

We're making decisions on what to do with him, but are happy he is doing so well now given that he was on the brink of death.

07/02/2024

When we first took over the ranch most of the posts on our page were about getting windmills built and working. Todd and Ron have been back at it!

The head on this windmill, that Todd, Ron and another friend, Ray, built from the ground up, has needed replaced for awhile. We bought a windmill from a neighbor to change out the head. Todd and Ron got everything swapped out and water is pumping on the north side of the ranch again!

05/27/2024

Memorial Day.

05/08/2024

One. More. Load. This was the last of the animals that were at the barn. Todd is on the road to Torrington with them. Getting them out is a huge relief because now we don't have to feed and water in two places! 👏👏

05/05/2024

Goodbye yearlings! Todd hauled another load to Torringron today. That's 11 less mouths to feed. We're getting down to our last three bales of hay, so it was time for these animals to be moving on.