{"product_id":"the-dexter-way","title":"The Dexter Way","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttps:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0H2431BXN\u003cbr\u003eBook 1 of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Luna Mesa Method\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e — a series of working-rancher method books from Luna Mesa Ranch Press.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Dexter is a small-frame, tri-purpose, family-farm cow. She raises her own calf on grass. She gives milk in surplus to what the calf needs. She works under yoke when a man takes the time to train her. She has been doing all of it since long before the cattle industry forgot how.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Dexter Way\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the working manual for the small-scale rancher who wants to keep cattle the way cattle are supposed to be kept — beef on the rail, milk in the bucket, calves on the ground, and ground that comes back better for it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcross nineteen chapters and a working BCS scorecard appendix, Leonard Meyer covers the work end to end: the breed standard and what to look for in a cow worth keeping. Daily handling on a low-stress operation. Pasture, hay, mineral, and water. Internal and external parasites and the working eye that catches trouble early. Breeding decisions, bull management, and calving from the first signs through the first hours on the ground. Beef finishing on grass at household scale, and the cut sheet conversations that make direct sales work. Hand dairying — the house cow, the milk pail, and the butter, cheese, and cream that come out of a single Dexter. Draft and yoke training for the family operation that wants to keep the option of working oxen on the place. Building breeding stock. Teaching the next generation to do the same work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo theory the cattle have not signed off on. No claims the breed has not earned. No glossy photographs of show ring animals priced for collectors. This is the manual for the producer who runs a small herd on limited acres, finishes his own beef, sells what he raises directly to neighbors, and intends to keep doing it for the rest of his working life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten from a forty-acre operation on the Southern High Plains, with the actual numbers from the actual herd that walks the actual ground.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf you are running cattle on limited acres in a hard country, this is the book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Luna Mesa Ranch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755966214400,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0798\/6384\/1024\/files\/KindleCoverLunaMesaMethod.jpg?v=1779492670","url":"https:\/\/lunamesaranch.com\/products\/the-dexter-way","provider":"Luna Mesa Ranch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}