Hands down the cattle are my favorite part of farming. I couldn't care less if I never plant another seed, but take away my cows and I would feel my life was not worth living. I calve twice a year, which lately has worked out to be about 9 months of the year. The fall calving cows are much less effort, so even though I had 110 calves last fall, they came with much less fanfare then the 80 or so I will have this spring. I have 34 of the spring calves on the ground now, and have managed to get most of them tagged with just a little snot blown down my collar from mama. Our 70F day today will be replaced by thunderstorms tomorrow and snow tomorrow night. It is forecasts like these that make me try to remember why 80% of the cows in Kansas are calved in February and March, and to tell you the truth, I don't have a clue, I guess we just like pain and misery.