S.L., Jenna, Caddo and Teddi Craft.
by Robin Kleine
Junior Show Achievements
LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL BREEDING PROGRAM at Brower/Craft Show Cattle
From her first national junior heifer show — 1996 in Wichita, Kansas — to her last — 2006 in Wichita Falls, Texas, Jenna (Brower) Craft lived and breathed showing cattle. She loved the time spent washing and working hair in the barn, planning matings and presenting her hard work in the showring. During her freshman year at Redlands Community College, she made a big investment for her fledgling cow herd with the purchase of CFCC Sleeping Beauty 031. “The weekend before the sale, I The matriarch of the Brower/Craft herd, CFCC Sleeping Beauty remember leaving Kansas City and 031, at the 2003 North American International Livestock Show. MAY/JUNE/JULY 2021
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telling my mom was I going to fly to Indiana to buy a heifer at Farmer’s,” Jenna says. “She just told me ‘better call your banker,’ and she was right,” she added. CFCC Sleeping Beauty, or “Big Momma” as Jenna called her, was a purebred Maine-Anjou female sired by KGST Fear This. She was the high seller in the 2003 Show Girls Elite Female Sale; 18 years later her genetics are the cornerstone of the Brower/Craft herd. Her daughters and granddaughters are making big time cows, repeatedly raising high sellers and major show champions.
