I have heard evangelical preachers shout about charging Satan with a water pistol.

After the stress and rigors of my first year at Auburn veterinary college, that idea seemed workable.

The same was true the first time I sat through a couple-hour presentation with the late Terry Gompert, a Holistic Management educator from Nebraska, talking about high-density grazing with stock densities of 70,000 pounds per acre or more. I got excited about the promises and went home and started moving cattle with sucker-rod posts and homemade reels and polywire.

A few years later I purchased some store-bought reels, higher-quality polybraid wire, and pigtail posts. I thought I’d landed in heaven. When I learned how to go gateless and a few other techniques I just knew the rest of the world would jump on board.

Very few have jumped in, but we have seen a shirttail-full accomplish in three years what it took some of us 30 years to attain. I heard one of the most successful producers in the US make the statement the other day that the first question he asks people who call him is, “How often do you move your cattle?” If the answer is less than once daily, he says the conversation is over.

But a common remark I personally continue to hear from people, some of whom are PhDs, is why should anyone move cattle every day?”

With that in mind, here is a less-than-exhaustive list of good reasons to move cattle every day:

I have about beat my point to death, but I would challenge you folks to do some add-ons and e-mail them to us at [email protected].