January:   During this time, ranchers would usually be feeding their livestock every day. Sometimes they would buy more cattle to replace old livestock or "open", or not pregnant, heifers.  

February: Most ranchers' responsibilities are basically the same until the end of February, when they are getting ready for calving. This is a good time for selling the stored grain, and hauling it to market because the prices are usually better.

March: Most farmers would be fixing equipment and cleaning up around the farm to help make the job easier.  Heifers (two-year-olds having their first calf) are usually calving during March. This is a difficult time.

Between March 15 and April 15 farmers usually plant spring wheat and oats. 

April: Now the cows, (those having their second or up calf), are calving. April is very hard on any rancher, both physically and mentally.  This is when most ranchers’ cattle are having their calves. The rancher’s main priority is to keep all his new calves alive and healthy. 

Between April 25 and May 10,  you can plant corn.

May: During the last half of May farmers can plant beans. On the 20th you can also start planting milo. Then you go on to sunflowers. 

From the middle of May to the end of May farmers start branding their new calves. They also have to put fly tags, tags that contain fly repellant chemicals, in the ear of cows and bulls. 

June: This is when most of their daylight hours are spent cutting and baling their hay land. You can also plant cane.

July: This month is when farmers spray for weeds. They start harvesting wheat around the 10 and you end in August.

August: During August farmers and ranchers finish combining wheat. At the end of August they stack their bales. They would also be bringing their bulls home.

September: This time  would spend combining your milo in the beginning of the month. In the end, they would harvest sunflowers.

October: They harvest beans and corn. They also work all of their livestock. They chop cane for silage.

November: They still are finishing up on harvesting corn. They would wean their cattle, and usually haul their hay home.

December: They grind hay for feed, and if there is no snow, spread fertilizer.