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Arkansas governor makes appointments: William Anglin, Bentonville, Ark, was recently appointed to the Arkansas Milk Stabilization Board by Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Anglin’s appointment expires Sept. 12, 2021.

OSU agriculture students tour Cuba: Rachel Metzger, an animal science/agricultural communications major from Stillwater, Okla., was one of 13 Oklahoma State University College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources students to journey to Cuba as part of the Oklahoma Agricultural Leadership Encounter Class XIII. As part of the weeklong excursion, students visited a Cuban organic farm, where in addition to touring the facilities, they enjoyed a farm-to-table lunch onsite.

Arkansas FFA member wins national award: Marissa Davis a graduate of Springdale Har-Ber High School, was the National Proficiency winner in Food Science and Technology – Entrepreneurship/Placement at the 89th Annual National FFA Convention, which was held in Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 19-22. Marissa has learned to grade beef carcass, poultry and eggs. In her position as a sensory analyst intern at Tyson Foods, Inc., she also tested new food products in the product development process. Marissa was one of 188 finalists in 47 categories at the National FFA Convention, and the only finalist from the state of Arkansas.

Teams from the Ozarks place: The Arkansas Ozarks were well represented at the 89th Annual National FFA Convention, held Oct. 19-22 in Indianapolis, Ind., in Career Development Events. In the FFA Food Science and Technology competition, the Lincoln Middle FFA from Lincoln, Ark., placed fourth. Team members are McKenna Cunningham, Shayla Fox, Kaitlyn Kelly.

The Agricultural Communications team, also from Lincoln Middle FFA, was sixth. Team members are Lauren Cole, Shaina Denton and Ayden Massey. Agricultural Technology and Mechanical Systems CDE team from Greenbrier, Ark., placed third. Team members are Matthew Burroughs, William Burroughs and Jacob Tapley.

The Farmington, Ark., team was third in the Livestock CDE. Team members are Jessika Calhoon, Corrine Burrus (high individual of the contest), Dixie Miller and Blayke Allison Rogers. In the Poultry Evaluation CDE, the Har-Ber FFA of Springdale, Ark., was fourth. Team members are Madison Mick, Josie Kutz, Ashleigh Mueller and Lauren Laverty (high individual of the contest).

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Jody Harris – A weekend with the girls

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Julie Turner-Crawford – A little hard work

MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS

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A community comes together to revitalize a more than 100-year-old store

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Eye on Agribusiness features Helton Forge

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Taylor McNeel reflects on a whirlwind year

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Town & Country spotlights Tammy Kester

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Modoc Tribe maintains 168-head bison herd

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Youth in Agriculture features Jordan Linley

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FARM HELP 23 So you want to be a farmer?

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.W. runs a pretty sizable, cattle operation a couple of counties reast andyropts evoof nwme orC reJ yB to calve out all of his cows during the fall season. Visiting with him recently, he Jerry Crownover is told me that he had over 300 calves born a farmer and former in August alone, and that in the mix of calving this professor of Agriculture year, he was also calving out over 100 first-calf heifEducation at Missouri ers. I can’t even begin to imagine the number of State University. He is a sleepless nights the cattleman had to endure. native of Baxter County, My friend is a respected producer that does Arkansas, and an things right, by pelvic-measuring the heifers beauthor and professional fore breeding and using only the most proven, speaker. To contact Jerry, low-birth-weight bulls, for their first experigo to ozarksfn.com and ence of motherhood. Still, there are going to be click on ‘Contact Us.’ problems, but J.W. stated that the process was so much easier, now that he was able to inject the cows that need assistance.

“I don’t have to get the females frightened and worked up, by running them into a corral,” my friend stated. “I can just medicate them where they are, get the calf out, and give them another injection of ‘wake-up’ medication. Easy-Peezy!”

J.W. also keeps all the heifers in a pasture close to his house so that constant checking is not a problem. The field is almost completely open, with just a few shade trees along a small stream that runs through it.

On a recent morning, he noticed one heifer off by herself at daybreak. He made a mental note of which one it was, and began his day of checking all the cows and calves while tagging the newborns. Throughout the morning, the lone heifer continued to stay under a shade tree beside the stream, until about noon when J.W. saw the appearance of two feet and a black nose protruding from the heifer’s business end.

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rkansas autumn is amazing. Ours is not called the natural state by mistake. Arkansas is beautiful all year.

Fall color accentuates its loveliness.

A few weeks ago, a group of mothJody Harris is a freelance ers and I loaded up 15 Girl Scouts and drove them communications specialist, to their own Camp NOARK near Huntsville, Ark., gardener, ranch wife and to experience this new season up close. I know I’ve mother of four. She and shared before, I like to camp. However, I am not a her family raise Angus beef fan anything that creeps and crawls on the ground. cattle and other critters on These girls were participating in Buffalo River Adtheir northwest Arkansas venture Patch days to raise funds to help keep the ranch. She is a graduate Girl Scout Camp NOARK open and maintained. of Missouri State University.

Our first task as parent chaperones was inspecting To contact Jody, go to the cabins to spray for insect pests. I didn’t volunteer ozarksfn.com and click on to help with this. The two moms stuck doing the job ‘Contact Us.’ discovered a baby snake in one of the cabins. Very few of our troop members are country girls. We were all pretty creeped out by a baby snake winding its way up one of the cots. Thankfully, the reserve ranger came and shooed it on its merry way and the girls were able to set up camp.

Later in the evening underneath a beautiful starry sky the girls cooked their own dinner, complete with hot dogs, popcorn and s’mores over a bonfire. We were joined by reserve rangers and friends of the camp for a talk about safety during hunting season. This was followed by several rounds of campfire songs. It had been a long day and the girls were ready for bed. The adult chaperones followed.

In my own creaky cot I was willing myself to sleep under the noisy tin roof without thinking about creatures lurking in the night! After what seemed like an hour of sleep, we started waking early. Bunsen burner coffee was brewed, kids fed and cars were packed as we set out on a day of adventure near the Buffalo River.

Our first stop was the Whitely/Villines Grist Mill tour near Boxley, Ark. This was a special tour of the old mill building and old fishing cabins. The mill was built in 1870 and gave the scouts a little taste of Arkansas history. Next, we traveled over to the historic Kingston square. The girls explored the old Bunch store and all of its antique treasures. Our hungry campers feasted at the local café on the square for lunch and topped it off with old fashioned ice cream cones from the counter at the Bunch store.

We then headed out to the Ponca colorfest where scouts interviewed local artists and helped paint a natural state mural. The girls were able to explore at the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission’s Elk Education center. The story of this beautiful herd of wild animals is incredible. The wildlife in Arkansas is breathtaking. We finished our trip with a hike up the Lost Valley trail. The short hike ended at a magnificent waterfall in an enchanted Arkansas setting. The final stop was on the way home to collect their hard-earned patch.

I’m not a big fan of giving kids extravagant gifts like i-Watches and X-boxes. I’m a fan of giving kids experiences in their natural surroundings and passing on life skills to the next generation. This event was a great experience for the adults and kids to unplug and explore. We were also able to raise some additional funds for Camp NOARK which is near and dear to my heart.

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n one of my recent “I’m up way too early on a Sunday” mornings, there was a marathon of “The Andy Griffith Show” on television.

Julie Turner-Crawford In one episode, widowed farmer is a native of Dallas Sam Jones was excited about the arrival of his Italian County, Mo., where she friend, Mario Vincente, who was coming to America grew up on her family’s and Mayberry to help Sam out on the farm. farm. She is a graduate As Sam and Andy waited at the train station, of Missouri State Sam said it was getting harder and harder to find University. To contact help for the farm.

Julie, call 1-866-532-1960 “Farm life just don’t seem to appeal to too many or by email at editor@ people around here anymore,” Sam said. ozarksfn.com.

“Just too rugged, I guess,” Andy replied.

Granted farm life was a lot different in the 1960s than it is today with the advancements of technology and machinery, but farmers still continue to struggle to meet the labor needs of their operations; be it someone dependable to milk a day or two a week, or someone with enough cowsense to close a gate. Producers are often left to do the chores themselves, and we know there are often times not enough hours in the day to get everything done.

Then there are those folks who think farming is an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. job, with an hour off for lunch, and those who don’t like to get dirty. In my previous life at a daily newspaper, I actually had a young reporter flat refuse to cover a county fair because he didn’t want to step in anything in the livestock barn and he thought there would be too much dust kicked up for him at the tractor pull.

The young reporter’s refusal didn’t go very far. If I recall correctly, he covered not only a livestock show and a tractor pull, but a few other “dirty” events that year at the fair.

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page Thankfully for many farm families in the Ozarks, there are young people who help out on their family farms, and many of those young people have plans to continue in the agriculture industry after high school and/or college.

We are honoring some of those young agriculturalists and their dedication to farming and ranching in this edition of Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. We hope their stories will inspire other young people to take an active role in the industry.

For generations, farm kids have opted to move away from rural America. Their reasons are varied, but for many moving was the only way they felt they could make a living. Today, however, America is seeing a resurgence of young people who think the grass is a little greener on the farm than in the larger metropolitan areas.

With the average age of the American farmer getting a little older each day, America needs more of these Millennials back on the farm.

So, to all of us who are Baby Boombers and Generation X’ers, let’s share our knowledge and love of the farm with those who are following in the footsteps of their parents and grandparents, as well as with those who are carving their own path in agriculture. Let’s teach them that life on the farm isn’t always a bed of roses and the rewards may be few and far between at times, but a little dirt and manure never hurt anyone.

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Continued from Page 3 His assistant, a neighbor who works a job in town during the evening shift, reminded J.W., “You do remember that I have to leave at 2 p.m., to go to my real job?”

“Yeah,” J.W. answered, “No worries …I practically have my own O.B. clinic now.”

By 2 p.m., the helper left and the heifer had still not calved. Not wanting to get her agitated, J.W. rode down on his ATV to within a 100 yards of the expectant mother and watched her through his binoculars. Up and down and up and down the young cow nervously fidgeted, until 3 p.m., when my friend thought he detected the unborn calf’s tongue was beginning to swell. It was time for him to intervene. He rushed back to the barn to get the bottles of sedative and antidote.

The rancher was back in less than 5 minutes and the heifer was facing him now, so he patiently waited until she turned her head and when she did, he injected her.

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tical to kick in, he wondered why she kept looking down toward the creek and gently mooing. After a couple of minutes, the young female started wobbling and then laid down and actually rolled over as she slid, out of his sight, down the creek embankment. J.W. grabbed his calf puller and quietly walked toward the sedated cow, but, as he peered over the stream bank, he was shocked to see the anesthetized cow lying partially atop the legs of a newborn calf. The heifer had given birth in the 5 minutes that J.W. had been gone to retrieve the medicine.

Hurriedly, my friend pulled the youngster from under his mother and cleaned his nose and mouth. A few minutes after administering the antidote to the mother, she awoke and started caring for her baby as if nothing had happened.

J.W.’s experience reminded me of the old adage, “a watched pot never boils.”

Given this event, I think we could add, “make sure your pot is full.”

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High Achievements

By Larry Burchfield

Arkansas FFA President Kinsey Watkins became ‘hooked’ on FFA in eighth grade Kinsey Watkins has always been surrounded by agriculture.

Growing up on her family’s Guy, Ark., farm, she showed market goats and lambs in 4-H at the age of 5, but it wasn’t until she reached junior high that she discovered her true passion.

“I was heavily involved in my local 4-H Club and I had many leadership opportunities,” the 18-year-old freshman at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia, Ark., said. “When I was in eighth grade, I took my first agriculture class and from then on I was hooked. In ninth grade, I was considered an official FFA member and from then on my FFA career sky rocketed. I tried to get involved as much as possible and sought out every opportunity I could partake in. I continued showing and raising livestock, held leadership positions, and competed in leadership events many times at the local, district and state level.”

The Guy-Perkins FFA Chapter member has continued to excel in the youth agriculture organization since her first year in high school, and on June 3, during the 89th Arkansas FFA State Convention at Camp Couchdale in Hot Springs, Ark., she was elected to lead the state FFA Organization as the 20162017 state president.

Kinsey said she school as well as servworked very hard to ing the association, be elected president, but I knew all of this and it took a couple before I ran for office. of days for her win to I plan to work hard “sink in.” in college and always While serving as the stay focused and compresident of the state mitted to the FFA Asassociation, Kinsey will sociation as well.” have to balance her She is majoring in first year of collage with agriculture business her FFA duties. at SAU. “I will be helping She plans to conwith hosting leadertinue her Supervised ship camps, meetAgriculture Experiing and touring with ence project, which Agriculture Industry is sheep production.

Representatives, trav- Photo Courtesy of the Arkansas FFA Association “FFA has allowed eling across the state me to develop my to different FFA Chapters, and attending SAE,” Kinsey said. “This SAE allows me many conferences,” she said. “I will also to raise and sell market lambs. This projbe attending the National FFA Conven- ect has grown and will continue to grow tion and serving as a national delegate and through the years.” discussion group leader for a Over the years, Kinsey has committee at nationals. seen a great deal of success in “One of the many reasons the show ring with her liveof why I chose Southern Arstock, including toping marGuy, Ark. kansas University was of how ket and showmanship classes supportive they are of Arkanwith both sheep and goats, insas FFA State Officers. It will cluding the Arkansas State Fair be little more difficult to juggle Grand Champion Market Lamb

Ironically, she is not the first member of her family to hold the position of Arkansas FFA President. Her cousin, Sam Harris, who is also from Fulkner County, Ark., was the 2015-2016 president.

Kinsey credits her parents, Mitchell and Diana Watkins, with her success in FFA and agriculture.

“I honestly don’t think I could have had a more supportive set of parents,” she said. “If there was ever a competition or livestock show, they were always there helping me and cheering me on.

They always knew what my goals were and tried their hardest to help in any way they could to allow me to achieve those goals. I could never repay or thank them enough for all they have done for me.”

In addition to many 4-H and FFA honors, Kinsey has been recognized for her achievements in academics and leadership. She has served not only as the president of the Guy-Perkins FFA Chapter, but as Future Business Leaders of America vice-president, Beta secretary, Student Council vice-president, 4-H president and class president from seventh to 12th grade. She was also the 2015-2016 Arkansas Junior Sheep Council president.

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Tori Welsh’s goal is to have a career behind the judicial bench, but she plans to keep Quarter horses as a big part of her future.

“I love horses and I love the idea of being an advocate for children,” she said. “The pathway to becoming a judge is long and I need income along the way, though I will never give up my horses.” Tori’s goal is to keep both careers and balance her life through maintaining both passions.

Tori was only two days out of the hospital when her grandmother, Vickie Wyman, took her riding on a race horse escort pony, called a pony horse, which was a red roan named Sleepy.

When horse women were barely acknowledged, Vickie was training

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him, but he was perfect for me and had no ‘little man syndrome,’” Tori recalled fondly. “He even let me cut his hair.”

Grandfather Charles Pratt bought Tori her first horse when she was 6, a brown and white 6-year-old gelding named Apache because he had “a patch here and a patch there.”

When she was placed on Apache for the first time, he took the bit in his mouth and ran off with Tori hanging on and enSallisaw, Okla. joying every minute of it while Charles was not happy, to say the least. Tori OCTOBER 31, 2016

meet your neighbors still has the horse, which will be 20 next year, and recently took him to a birthday party for kids to ride.

Tori believes in diversity of income so she trains and sells both barrel racers and miniature horses. The miniature horses are a more recent addition after seeing an acquaintance train them for pulling a wagon and driving.

“I saw those and figured I could do it too,” Tori said.

She recently sold a miniature for $1,500.

“A good market exists for ponies and miniature horses of all kinds, including pony-size draft horses,” she said.

Barrel racing, on the other hand, has been a passion for Tori since she was very young.

She started with her mother in lead line events when she was 3 or 4, but was riding on her own by the time she was 5. At 8, she won the sweetheart competition at the Garrison Creek Rodeo, which included dressage, speech and ticket sales.

That day she also won four trophies, a plaque, a 14-carat gold ring, three or four buckles, a saddle, two sashes, a diamond tiara and a two-horse trailer.

Tori typically keeps three or four horses in training, as well as four or more miniatures on hand so she always has stock to sell. When selecting Quarter horses, she usually, but not always, selects registered stock so that she also has horses for sale even for those who cannot afford registered animals. Color is unimportant.

She looks for horses with clearly defined shoulders that indicate good potential for pushing off when turning, clearly defined hips for efficient pivoting and large nostrils for exceptional breathing capacity, which helps to ensure she does not get a “bleeder,” a fairly common performance

horse issue. She selects horses between 2 and 8 years old. Before 2, they are not yet developed enough for barrel training, and after 8 they are not as easily trained and therefore provide less income potential.

Tori’s training regimen is far from fast paced.

“I believe horses learn best through slow motion and repetition,” she said.

This translates into the horses not practicing at full speed. She follows a progression that she uses when beginning training at a slower pace and after a race at a more condensed pace.

She begins by walking them through the path and progresses to trotting between the barrels and walking around them. This is followed by trotting the entire pattern. Next she lopes between barrels and trots around them and follows with loping the entire pattern. After a horse has been trained for the first time she will run them once or twice to evaluate their potential and performance, but never after that. They only run in the ring, and she has been very successful. She recently sold a trained barrel racer for $3,500.

Tori is not only an experienced horsewoman, she’s also a smart businesswoman. Half of her income goes to paying for her truck and the other half towards her horse business, which includes buying more horses and maintaining them. In addition to raising Corgis, she also works for the Heart and Soul Horse Company, also in Sallisaw, Okla.

“The biggest challenge in our local horse industry,” explained Tori, “is the lack of stock to choose from. The solution is more people being involved in competing as well as raising and training.”

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Community comes together to revitalize century-old store to a historical library Gentry, Ark., began as an agricultural community named Orchard City in western Benton County in the mid-1800s. The track construction and trains of the Kansas City Southern Railroad fostered its produce industry and population growth to 1,000 by 1903.

That year a grateful public petitioned county officials to incorporate the town and change the name to Gentry in honor of a railroad official in charge of the construction. A year earlier, Thomas Marvin Carl, along with his three partners including his father, Jesse J. Carl, built the Gentry Hardware on Main Street. Thomas is quoted as saying, “You must remember in the hardware business, the recollection of the prod-

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uct is remembered long after the price is forgotten.”

In 1912, the brothers constructed a new store, daunting because the site was swampy. The fill process took longer than the actual construction of the building, which remained in family hands until 2002.

Then owner and library volunteer, Joe Carl, offered to sell the building, empty since 1994, as a proposed new location for a new Gentry Public Library. The original was across the street and bursting at the seams. After being paid $120,000, Joe donated $20,000 to the library fund.

The town rallied as well, raising money through campaigns and rummage sales and through the citizens voting for a sales and use tax to pay for construction, operation and maintenance of the new library.

According to full-time librarian Darla Threet, pictured above, the library has always had a progressive mission to provide “a vital gathering place that informs and inspires.”

This was to be no Carnegie style library featuring only books. The new library opened in November 2007, and began its new life as carefully blended combination of old, now serving as a repository for numerous displays of Gentry and Arkansas history, as well as books and computers.

The exterior walls are original brick, while the first floor features the original metal ceiling tiles. Original, but refinished, pine flooring supports the second story displays and reference books. The second floor also contains an original skylight area highlighting a new atrium staircase, which

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adds modern airiness to what is definitely not a dim, musty old library. The library also boasts an original and still functional freight elevator in transferring bulky materials from first to the second floor. It currently holds a fashionable 1900s era buggy, a favorite display of Darla’s. The library also boasts a modern elevator.

Even before construction was completed, the town rallied and began donating artifacts and family heirlooms to be included in displays, including a vintage radio, numerous old toy cars, and fashion accessories from different eras.

“This was a perfect job for me because I’ve been collecting books and other collectibles all of my life,” Darla said. “Now I not only organize and manage the library collection but also get to develop OCTOBER 31, 2016

ozarks roots and arrange displays featuring history of our beautiful town.”

The first collage display Darla created is located in a women’s corner and holds some of her family’s treasures, including two sets of hair curlers, one belonging to her when she was a child and another to her grandmother. The area also includes sewing machines, a high chair and an old iron.

Another example of family heirlooms is a collection from the Pvt. Robert Franklin Hardcastle family. Robert served during World War II and the display contains medals, letters, pictures, his Bible and his casket flag among other treasures, most of which are housed in a beautiful glass and oak cabinet purchased by the family for display in the library. Not long ago, the library received the old four-way stop light from Main and Collins, as well as a highly-treasured metal variety store sign from a local store.

The reference books on the second floor focus on genealogy and local history. One recent addition is a reference book containing local commercial information from 1922 including produce data. On April 20 of that year the Gentry area produced 200 bushels of beans, 150 carloads of apples, an additional 40 carloads of peaches along with 10 carloads of blackberries and 4,000 crates of cherries. A real estate ad featured a 40-acre tract of fenced and cross fenced land 5 ½ miles outside of town. Half included existing fruit trees, while the other half was split between pasture and timberland. The land also contained a three-bedroom house, a stable and the chicken house. The property was listed for $1,000 with $600 cash down and the remaining $400 on a four-year loan at 8 percent interest.

Darla believes the success of any collection, whether books or artifacts, is constant tinkering with the displays. She fondly remembers antiquing with her mother and learning how moving just a few objects changes the entire perspective.

“The hardest thing for me to learn was that accessibility was more important than perfect organization,” explained Darla said. “Kids are always shoving books back, and that’s okay. Nonetheless I must always be aware of what and where I put everything for protection of both people and artifacts.”

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“The blacksmith was foraging an ‘S’ hook or drive hook. That day I found both a God-given skill and a hobby. Two years later I believe the Lord also prepared me financially for a new life. With my wife Lisa’s support, I made blacksmithing my fulltime occupation. Then Lisa took classes in engraving and is now part of the business.

I demonstrate at community events in order to pass on what heritage blacksmithing is and some of its history. People are usually surprised to know that the first blacksmith arrived on the Mayflower in 1607 with most of our blacksmithing traditions coming from England. Blacksmithing’s importance was especially critical in agriculture with essential everyday agricultural items such as horse shoes and tools, a part of our agricultural history most have forgotten. Most people need to see a process to understand it, and I provide that experience. I was on the very first episode of ‘Forged in Fire’ on the History Channel and am a journeyman smith in the American Bladesmith Society.”

Products and Services: “For me, blacksmithing is both an art and recycling at its best. I get discarded horseshoes from farriers and turn them into something else. Some products, such as horse picks, S hooks, and steak turners, echo back to our early years, even though they are not the hammerheads or plow blades of our first farmers. Other products include campfire tripods and cooking sets, in addition to knives, which range from hunting knives to kitchen knives while other products such as names and plaques are more art. I am best known for Damascus or layered knives with patterns and am always finding ways to adapt what I see to blacksmithing.”

Philosophy and future: “Success in this business is dependent upon a relationship with the customer. This is especially easy on Facebook because they get to know me personally, most times without us ever meeting face-to-face. Personal contact sells. As far as the future, I will do this until I die. You just don’t retire.”

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For Taylor McNeel, recently retired National FFA President, a year has brought more knowledge and change than she ever imagined. Taylor, a native of Vilonia, Ark., was a student at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia when she attended the 2015 National FFA Convention in Louisville, Ky., where she was elected national president. She spent the year traveling the country, as well as visiting Japan, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, far afield from her earliest agricultural memory of riding a horse her grandmother, Mary Lou McNeel, bred especially for her.

Taylor started with horses and rabbits in 4-H, and moved to on to show pigs and both Boer and market goats in FFA, where she also competed in prepared speeches on policy isTaylor McNeel pictured showing one of her sues such as the Farm Bill.

Boer goats, has traveled across the country “My parents have always and around the world over the last year been supportive and behind me while serving as the National FFA President. rather than trying to lead me where they thought I should go,” Taylor said. all aspects of the school farm to raising An experience like Taylor’s provides a reptiles and rodents. wealth of personal learning. One aspect “Everyone can find a place and pasof that was a new awareness of the diver- sion because agriculture connects us as sity among the FFA chapters and projects people,” Taylor said. “All projects, no as she traveled across the country visiting matter what they are, look toward feednumerous local chapters. ing the world and educating the public.”

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Country Life: “Dale and I were born and raised as local country kids. We now have 2 acres with 10 mommas and one bull, leasing additional land as needed. I have had knee replacement surgery, therefore I am somewhat limited in what I can do. Nevertheless, I’ve got my finger in every aspect of our little operation. Our bull is with the cows all the time so we are on a continuous breeding/birthing cycle, which makes sense in our small, part-time operation. Since our herd is by the house, we see them twice a day and know if a cow happens to calve while we are working because it is obvious ‘the deed is done.’ We supplement with hay and cubes as needed, though the herd has constant access to a mineral lick and salt block. We normally sell all the calves at the Stilwell auction at 500 pounds, although we will occasionally keep one from a really good heifers as a replacement. Our biggest challenge is time management, and we strive to vaccinate twice per year. We are an animal loving family and have just discontinued show pigs in favor of cows and chickens. While we’ve always had cows, I am now learning about these crazy chickens. We hatch out game chickens, those that have free run of the forest and pasture land, and sell or give them to people interested in more wily birds. Dale and I are also highly involved in community and county agriculture. Dale has been president of the fair board for seven or eight years, though he has recently decided to have more time on the farm and is now simply an active member. Meanwhile, I am the high school 4-H leader.”

Future: “We are homebodies. We want to retire and grow old together on the farm with God’s love and guidance. Our hopes are to increase both the herd and land acreage as well as having our grandchildren involved in agriculture.”

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Ash Flat Livestock 40.00-80.00 † Barry County Regional Stockyards Not Reported* Benton County Sale Barn 53.00-77.50 † Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction 60.00-80.00* Cleburne County Livestock 65.00-83.00 † † County Line Sale - Ratcliff Not Reported Decatur Livestock Auction Not Reported* Not Reported* Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita Farmers Livestock - Springdale 70.00-76.00 † Ft. Smith Livestock Not Reported † I-40 Livestock - Ozark Not Reported † Joplin Regional Stockyards 63.00-91.00 † Mid-State Stockyards 60.00-82.00* North Arkansas Livestock 60.00-86.50 †

30

50

70

slaughter

90

110

cows

(Week of 10/16/16 to 10/22/16) 44.00-61.00 †

Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy

30.00-67.50 †

Ash Flat Livestock

Not Reported*

Barry County Regional Stockyards Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Cleburne County Livestock Auction County Line Sale - Ratcliff Decatur Livestock Auction Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita Farmers Livestock - Springdalee Ft. Smith Livestock I-40 Livestock - Ozark Joplin Regional Stockyards Mid-State Stockyards North Arkansas Livestock

35.00-71.00 † 40.00-63.00* 47.00-60.00 † Not Reported † Not Reported* Not Reported* 41.00-62.00 † Not Reported † Not Reported † 38.00-65.00 † 35.00-55.00* 41.00-64.00 † 43.00-64.00 † Not Reported † 42.50-69.00 † 45.00-61.00*

OKC West - El Reno Ouachita Livestock Auction Ozarks Regional Stockyards Stilwell Livestock Auction Tulsa Livestock Auction Welch Stockyards

Steers, Med. & Lg. 1 300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Bulls, Med. & Lg. 1 300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Heifers, Med. & Lg. 1 300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

16 16

40

60

80

Ark. Cattle Auction, LLC - Searcy 10/18/16

Ash Flat Livestock

674 Uneven

St-5 Lower

118.00-146.00 113.00-131.00 104.00-125.00 103.00-110.00 102.00-109.50

--------116.00-121.00 ---------

----105.00-120.00 90.00-117.00 90.00-103.00 85.00-93.00

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106.00-137.00 86.00-115.00 96.00-111.00 82.00-105.00 -----

100

Receipts: 368 At this month’s special dairy sale at the Producers Auction Yard, demand was good on a moderate supply. The supply consisted of 3 percent Springer Heifers, 14 percent Bred Heifers, 15 percent Open Heifers, 7 percent Fresh and Milking Cows, 1 percent Bred Cows and 23 percent baby calves. The balance was made up of weigh cows and beef animals. All quotes are on a per head basis for 130 Holsteins unless noted otherwise.

Springer Heifers Bred Seven to Nine Months: Approved 1250.00-1385.00, Crossbreds 1325.00-1360.00, Medium 1000.00-1150.00, Common Individual 900.00.

Heifers Bred Four to Six Months: Approved 1150.001320.00, Crossbreds 1100.00-1200.00, Medium 1000.001075.00, Individual Crossbred 1010.00, Common 700.00925.00, Crossbreds 675.00-775.00.

Heifers Bred One to Three Months: Approved Pkg 10 hd 1050.00, Individual Jersey 1075.00, Pair Milking Shorthorn 900.00, Medium Pair 900.00, Individual Jersey 775.00, Individual Crossbred 775.00, Common Pkg 4 hd 825.00.

Open heifers: Approved 200-300 lbs 300.00-320.00, Crossbreds 280.00-310.00, Pair Jerseys 325.00, 300-400 lbs 325.00-450.00, Pair Crossbreds 450.00, 400-500 lbs Pkg 5 hd 685.00, 500-600 lbs Pkg 3 hd 850.00, 600-700 lbs Individual 825.00, Medium 300-400 lbs Individual Crossbred 320.00, Pkg 3 hd Jerseys 250.00, 600-700 lbs Individual 700.00, 800-900 lbs 900.00-950.00.

Milking Heifers and Cows: Medium Individual 925.00, Individual Jersey 900.00, Common 725.00-800.00.

Fresh Heifers and Cows: Approved 1475.00-1500.00, Individual Crossbred 1375.00, Medium 1100.00-1300.00, Common 650.00-825.00, Individual Crossbred 720.00.

Bred and Springer Cows: Supreme Individual 1425.00, Medium Individual 1225.00, Common Individual 875.00, Individual Crossbred 875.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein Bulls Large 85.00-135.00, Small

Cattlemen’s Livestock*

10/21/16

Benton Co. - Siloam Springs 10/20/16

10/19/16

Cleburne Co. - Heber Springs 10/17/16

683

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778

904

374

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Uneven

2-8 Lower

St-4 Higher

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139.00-158.00 115.00-131.00 109.00-122.00 106.00-115.00 105.50-113.50

110.00-134.00 105.00-123.00 102.00-120.00 100.00-113.00 95.00-105.00

120.00-141.00 112.00-125.00 107.00-118.00 100.00-110.00 106.00-107.00

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121.00-130.00 114.00-129.00 100.00-115.00 95.00 85.00-92.00

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----110.00-120.00 100.00-112.00 84.00-105.00 83.00-90.00

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110.00-135.00 100.00-112.00 95.00-107.00 96.00-100.00 -----

105.00-130.00 90.00-111.00 80.00-106.00 75.00-93.00 70.00-89.00

112.00-126.00 98.00-115.00 90.00-100.00 90.00-100.00 -----

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10/21/16

goats

stocker & feeder

120

Barry Co. Regional Stockyards* -----

127 5(3257('

20

121( 5(3257('

0

36.00-75.00 † 52.00-64.00*

10/13/16

National Sheep Summary

Compared to last week slaughter lambs were mostly steady to 5.00 lower. Slaughter ewes were mostly steady to 6.00 lower. Feeder lambs were steady to 8.00 higher, except lambs over 100 lbs at Sioux Falls were 6.00-8.00 lower. At San Angelo, TX 5151 head sold. No sales in Equity Electronic Auction. In direct trading slaughter Diamond, Mo. • TS Whites Sheep and Goat Sale 10/6/16 ewes and feeder lambs were not tested. 7400 head of negotiated sales of slaughter lambs were steady. 8700 Receipts: 1,394 head of formula sales had no trend due to confidentialSupply was good and demand was very good with a near ity. 3,732 lamb carcasses sold with 65 lbs and down no standing room only crowd on hand. While the Slaughter trend due to confidentiality and 65 lbs and up .52-1.70 lamb markets were somewhat lower than last month, lower. All sheep sold per hundred weight (CWT) unless the remainder of the markets were mostly steady. Supply otherwise specified. included 10 percent slaughter ewes and rams, 34 percent Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 90-160 lbs: Slaughter lambs, 25 percent kid goats, and 10 percent San Angelo: shorn and wooled 100-140 lbs 120.00-140.00. bucks and does. All prices are per hundred weight VA: wooled 90-110 lbs 158.00.

(CWT) unless noted otherwise.

PA: shorn and wooled 110-130 lbs 167.00-185.00; 130-150 SHEEP: lbs 158.00-182.00.

Feeder Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 28-54 lbs 130.00Ft.Collins, CO: wooled 120-165 lbs 140.00-147.00.

150.00.

South Dakota: shorn and wooled 120-170 lbs 135.00Slaughter Lambs: Wool lambs: Prime 2-3 110-150 lbs 141.00, few 117.00-120.50.

122.50-132.50. Choice 1-3 73-90 lbs 145.00-167.50.

Billings, MT: no test.

Hair lambs: Prime 2-3 40-55 lbs 167.50-187.50; 60-85 lbs Kalona, IA: no test.

150.00-167.50; 105-115 lbs 130.00-135.00. Choice 2-3 48- Missouri: no test.

59 lbs 155.00-160.00; 80-190 lbs 135.00-145.00. Good 1-3 Equity Elec: no sales.

70-95 lbs 115.00-127.50.

Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 1: Several replacement Hair Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2 San Angelo: 40-60 lbs 198.00-214.00, few 222.00; 60-70 110.00-135.00 Per Head. lbs 186.00-204.00; 70-80 lbs 172.00-182.00; 80-90 lbs Slaughter Hair Ewes: Good 2-3 80-120 lbs 102.50-120.00. 146.00-162.00; 90-110 lbs 134.00-150.00.

Utility 1-2 80-125 lbs 70.00-95.00. Cull 1-2 90-137 lbs Pennsylvania: 50-60 lbs 235.00-265.00; 60-70 lbs 225.0050.00-62.50. Replacement hair rams Medium and Large 1-2 240.00; 80-90 lbs 190.00-200.00; 90-110 lbs 180.00200.00-375.00 Per Head.

197.00.

Slaughter Hair Rams: Good 2-3 130-190 lbs 80.00-95.00; Kalona, IA: no test.

145-225 lbs 62.50-65.00.

Ft. Collins: 100 lbs 160.00.

Feeder kids: Selection 2 30-40 lbs 170.00-190.00. SelecMissouri: no test. tion 3 25-37 lbs 137.50-152.50.

Virginia: 30-60 lbs 169.00-200.00; 60-80 lbs 155.00Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 70-120 lbs 242.50-267.50; 173.00.

90-160 lbs 200.00-225.00. Selection 2 45-72 lbs 170.00South Dakota: no test.

192.50. Selection 3 45-73 lbs 140.00-160.00. Several Billings, MT: 64 lbs 117.50; 89 lbs 125.00; 126 lbs 115.00.

Replacement does 100.00-225.00 Per Head.

Direct Trading: (lambs fob with 3-4 percent shrink or Slaughter Does: Selection 2 65-175 lbs 160.00-185.00. equivalent) Selection 3 65-125 lbs 100.00-125.00. A few replacement 7400: Slaughter Lambs shorn and wooled 123-165 lbs bucks 380.00-400.00 Per Head.

133.00-165.00 (wtd avg 146.03).

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1 185-200 lbs 120.00-140.00; Slaughter Ewes:

sheep &

dairy cattle

Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards

78.00-86.00*

Welch Stockyards

10

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 96.00-102.00; wtd. avg. price 98.80.

Heifers: 97.00-102.00; wtd. avg. price 98.86.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 153.00-160.00; wtd. avg. price 156.34.

Heifers: 153.00-160.00; wtd. avg. price 155.31.

63.00-74.00 † Not Reported † 62.50-91.00 † 65.00-83.00* 50.00-84.00 †

OKC West - El Reno Ouachita Livestock Auction Ozarks Regional Stockyard Stilwell Livestock Auction Tulsa Livestock Auction

cattle

Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

110-115 lbs 140.00-150.00. Selection 2 95-135 lbs 120.00135.00. Selection 3 70-185 lbs 85.00-110.00.

County Line Sale Ratcliff ---------

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Decatur Livestock* ---------

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Farmer’s & Farmers Ranchers Livestock Vinita, Okla.* Springdale ----10/21/16 -----

467

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Uneven

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131.00-150.00 113.00-131.00 102.00-112.00 103.00-110.00 -----

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132.00-137.00 106.00-120.00 100.00-109.00 93.00-102.00 -----

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113.00-122.00 99.00-113.00 93.00-104.50 90.00-97.00 -----

Ft. Smith Livestock ---------

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I-40 Livestock Ozark -----

Nati

Che $1.6 (+.1 Flui Ariz and New of C are need Con is re yogu crea selle 201 1.28 SPO POU Mid

Joplin Regional Stockyards 10/17/16

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3,818

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St-15 Lower

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120.00-147.00 115.00-131.00 109.00-127.25 107.00-124.50 109.00-125.00

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--------107.00 ---------

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129.00 99.00-116.00 95.00-115.00 104.00-121.00 109.00-112.50

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

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San 1-3 55.0 (ex Pen (thi Ft. (fle thin

prices 127 5(3257('

Arkansas Cattle Auction

65.00-85.00, Holstein Heifers Large 210.00-280.00, Small 130.00-185.00, Jersey Heifers Large Individual 210.00, Small Ind. 120.00, Crossbred Heifers 165.00-170.00, 10/23/16 Crossbred Bulls 75.00-130.00, Beef Cross Heifers- Large Ind. 230.00, Small 135.00-180.00, Beef Cross Bulls 115.00-180.00.

127 5(3257('

beef

65.00-80.00 †

127 5(3257('

(Week of 10/16/16 to 10/22/16)

127 5(3257('

bulls

127 5(3257('

slaughter

OCTOBER 31, 2016

es reports

.00-200.00; 60-80 lbs 155.00-

Soybeans

Soft Wheat

Corn

Sorghum

s shorn and wooled 123-165 lbs g 146.03).

ices 127 5(3257('

I-40 Livestock Ozark -----

Joplin Regional Stockyards 10/17/16

16 12

9.96

8

4.36

10.01

9.81

5.26

5.43 4.41

4 3.41

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3.49

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3.44

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3.44

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10/17/16

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Ouachita Livestock Ola, Ark. -----

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3,818

388

504

6,673

St-15 Lower

Steady

Uneven

St-7 Lower

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120.00-147.00 115.00-131.00 109.00-127.25 107.00-124.50 109.00-125.00

110.00-140.00 110.00-138.00 110.00-123.00 100.00-112.00 -----

128.00-129.00 123.50-126.00 102.00-122.00 95.00-106.00 105.00-105.50

131.00 127.00-152.00 110.00-136.00 110.00-125.50 112.00-124.25

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--------107.00 ---------

105.00-140.00 98.00-119.00 90.00-110.00 80.00-98.00 75.00-93.00

120.00-134.00 105.00-124.00 88.00-114.00 88.00-98.00 75.00-85.00

----122.00-134.00 108.00-113.00 ---------

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129.00 99.00-116.00 95.00-115.00 104.00-121.00 109.00-112.50

102.00-120.00 100.00-107.00 88.00-112.00 82.00-102.00 -----

OCTOBER 31, 2016

117.00-120.50 102.00-116.00 92.00-105.00 87.00-91.00 -----

500

OKC West - El Reno, Okla.

10/19/16

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127.00-134.00 110.00-129.00 104.00-117.00 98.00-122.50 116.25-119.50

129.00 123.07

108.04

131.61

112.16

128.66

111.99 118.03 123.82

*

* 125.02

122.48 **

**

100.48

119.97 111.94 126.71 ** ** **

** 104.99 106.51

2000

Tulsa Livestock Auction 10/17/16

109.97

123.01

114.09

*

*

120.44

123.19 **

** 96.82

115.35

2500

111.37 132.10 ** ** **

1,927

777

3,068

1118

Uneven

St-4 Lower

St-Lower

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125.00-141.00 118.00-134.00 115.00-130.00 117.00-130.00 108.00-116.00

145.00-165.00 120.00-140.00 101.00-121.00 90.00-109.00 89.00-108.00

138.00-160.00 120.00-135.00 109.00-122.00 108.00-123.00 107.00-119.50

130.00-151.00 120.00-131.00 115.00-124.00 110.00-118.50 108.00-117.50

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120.00 112.00-117.00 105.00-109.00 ---------

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120.00-130.00 107.00-120.00 97.00-115.00 90.50-106.00 82.00-106.00

125.00-150.00 105.00-122.00 105.00-112.00 95.00-101.00 ----105.00-119.00 100.00-116.00 100.00-112.00 100.00-108.00 90.00-109.00

** ** 96.46 96.79 94.91

105.50

115.19

116.04 128.74

114.06

**

116.00

112.53

123.02 **

** 108.52 112.12 115.86

** ** **

108.33 108.02 175

Prices Based on Weighted Average for Steers and Heifers 550-600 lbs.

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** **

94.80

118.15 95 115 135 155 * No price reported in weight break **USDA Failed To Report *** No Sale

110.19 **

99.69

116.85 105.05

75

93.29 95.33

103.57

109.08

110.87

111.00-128.00 104.00-124.00 99.00-113.00 94.00-112.50 100.00-111.00

106.13 **

115.96

10/18/16

5-10 Lower

95.89

114.44

Welch Stockyards*

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102.00-122.00 95.00-115.00 90.00-110.00 77.00-97.00 70.00-90.00

**

120.64

975.00-1150.00 † None Reported †

115.00-121.00 110.00-125.00 104.00-114.00 105.00-111.00 103.00-104.50

119.35 **

127.99 124.49

1050.00-1250.00 † Not Reported † 950.00-1700.00 † 1100.00-1500.00 *

Stilwell Livestock Auction* 10/19/16

103.90

*

119.02

800.00-1475.00 † 800.00-1425.00 * 1050.00-1500.00 †

1500

Week of 10/2/16

Not Reported*

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113.61 *

130.79

None Reported † Not Reported †

Ozarks Regional West Plains 10/18/16

123.88 **

137.53

985.00-1010.00 † 700.00-1125.00 * None Reported † Not Reported †

1000

Week of 9/25/16

114.25

Not Reported*

Not Reported *

Welch Stockyards

Mid-State Stockyards*

146.85

2550

pairs

Not Reported †

112.87 113.07

**

900.00-1000.00 †

Barry County Regional Stockyards Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Cleburne County Livestock Auction County Line Sale - Ratcliff

Mid-State Stockyard North Arkansas Livestock OKC West - El Reno Ouachita Livestock Auction Ozarks Regional Stockyards Stilwell Livestock Auction Tulsa Livestock Auction

9.96

2050

None Reported †

Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy Ash Flat Livestock

126.68 121.77

127.15

(Week of 10/16/16 to 10/22/16)

127 5(3257('

7.50; 89 lbs 125.00; 126 lbs 115.00. fob with 3-4 percent shrink or

cow/calf

Ash Flat El Reno Ft. Smith Green Forest Heber Springs Joplin Ouachita Ozark Ratcliff Searcy Siloam Springs Springdale Tulsa West Plains

*

775.00-1400.00 † 785.00-1180.00 *

1550

heifers 550-600 LBS.

130.99 129.46

595.00-1300.00 † 650.00-1285.00 * 700.00-1075.00 †

1050

July 16 Aug. 16 Sept. 16

129.07

Not Reported † 500.00-1250.00 † 1050.00-1375.00 *

550

Apr. 16 May 16 June 16

*

730.00-1300.00 † Not Reported † Not Reported †

775.00-1300.00 †

Farmers Livestock - Springdale Ft. Smith Livestock I-40 Livestock - Ozark Joplin Regional Stockyards

20

Ash Flat El Reno Ft. Smith Green Forest Heber Springs Joplin Ouachita Ozark Ratcliff Searcy Siloam Springs Springdale Tulsa West Plains

Not Reported* Not Reported *

OKC West - El Reno Ouachita Livestock Auction Ozarks Reg Stilwell Livestock Auction Tulsa Livestock Auction Welch Stockyards

Feb. 16 Mar. 16

steers 550-600 LBS.

750.00-1250.00 * 860.00-1060.00 † Not Reported †

Decatur Livestock Auction Farmer’s & Ranchers

Week Ended 10/25/16

Oct. 15 Nov. 15 Dec. 15 Jan. 16

Week of 10/9/16

avg. grain prices

0.00.

$120

Not Reported* 610.00-1085.00 †

Week of 10/16/16

Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.5700 and 40# blocks at $1.6500. The weekly average for barrels is $1.5670 (+.1020) and blocks, $1.6530 (+.1250). ice and Prime 2-3 90-160 lbs: wooled 100-140 lbs 120.00-140.00. Fluid Milk: Farm milk output is up in Florida, California, Arizona and the Central region, but steady in the Northeast 158.00.

110-130 lbs 167.00-185.00; 130-150 and Mid-Atlantic. Meanwhile, milk production is down in New Mexico, the Pacific Northwest and the mountain states of Colorado, Utah and Idaho. Nationwide, milk components d 120-165 lbs 140.00-147.00. are improving and milk supplies are in balance with processing nd wooled 120-170 lbs 135.00needs. Bottled milk sales vary throughout the country. .50.

Condensed skim usage into NDM processing is strong. Cream 50 is readily available in all regions and demand from sour cream, yogurt and cream cheese manufacturers is improving. Heavy cream volumes continue clearing into butter churning. Some sellers and buyers are finalizing cream contracts for Q1 of ice and Prime 1: 2017. Cream multiples range from 1.22-1.37 in the East, 1.19198.00-214.00, few 222.00; 60-70 1.28 in the Midwest, and 1.03-1.20 in the West.

0 lbs 172.00-182.00; 80-90 lbs SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM, $ PER lbs 134.00-150.00. s 235.00-265.00; 60-70 lbs 225.00- POUND BUTTERFAT F.O.B. producing plants: Upper Midwest - $2.1372-2.2989.

0-200.00; 90-110 lbs 180.00-

700.00-1150.00 †

Ash Flat Livestock Barry County Regional Stockyards Benton County Salee Cattlemen’s Livestock Cleburne County Livestock County Line Sale - Ratcliff Decatur Livestock Auction Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita Farmers Livestock Ft. Smith Livestock I-40 Livestock - Ozark Joplin Regional Mid-State Stockyard North Arkansas Live

Week of 9/25/16

10/21/16

$160

875.00-1025.00 †

Arkansas Cattle Auction

dairy sales

National Dairy Market at a Glance

$200

Week of 10/2/16

slaughter lambs were mostly laughter ewes were mostly steady ambs were steady to 8.00 higher, lbs at Sioux Falls were 6.00-8.00 TX 5151 head sold. No sales in tion. In direct trading slaughter were not tested. 7400 head of ghter lambs were steady. 8700 had no trend due to confidentialses sold with 65 lbs and down no ality and 65 lbs and up .52-1.70 er hundred weight (CWT) unless

cows

(Week of 10/16/16 to 10/22/16) Prices reported per cwt

Week of 10/9/16

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viewed new technologies at work and saw not fit all. Another insight relates to the the forefront of continuing research. relationship between goals and the journey Taylor saw a robotic dairy farm in Min- getting there. nesota, where cows wear transponders so Taylor will still have the same drive, a computer knows which cow is choos- but she has learned to enjoy the journey ing to be milked. This information selects and small joys such as feeding someone the proper container for that milk such else’s cattle in Missouri to sharing a meal as production milk, milk with colostrum, in Japan. and milk from a cow that has been treated Perhaps the most important personal for an illness or injury. Each cow receives change is added options in Taylor’s caan exact amount of grain based upon its reer plans. Doing prepared speeches in individual milk production. Milk produc- FFA moved her interest from being a vet tion increases as cows choose when they to working in policy. milk which typically is three times per However, her experience as National FFA day as opposed to the typical two, and President expanded to include government costs go down as grain is proportioned to programs, such as being part of the USDA each individual cow’s production. or even international affairs in order to help Another new piece of equipment that developing nations better their agricultural amazed Taylor is a tractor that needs no practices and production. driver. This is sepaPart of her travels rate from self driven included both Puerto tractors that needed Rico and the Virgin

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place and the next run. to accomplish that passion because Traveling overseas same goal is to teach showed Taylor differagriculture connects at the high school ent production methor college level to us as people. ods. While Japan is prepare others to do – Taylor McNeel the hands-on work very dependent on the US for food, their in other countries. farmers, with an averAll of this means age of only 5 acres for production, are ex- changes in her education plans. She plans pert in producing superior products fostered on finishing her degree and increasing her by meticulous care such as turning a water- exposure to various aspects of agriculture melon every day so the fruit has no flat side. so she can later narrow more efficiently her Projects varied as much as farms and choice for a master’s degree. technology. One student was devising a Taylor offered advice for the new offiless expensive drone explicitly for agri- cers. First was to keep a journal that the cultural use while another was measur- small moments learned were so important. ing protein amounts in cockroaches and Second was to always remember the peocrickets to determine protein needs in ple left behind such as family and friends protein starved areas. Big research com- because returning home is possible once panies are not the only ones pushing ag- only every six weeks. Phone calls, text and riculture forward. Sometimes, the young pictures are critical and need to be done have the most innovative insights. on a continuous basis. Her third piece of Taylor’s experiences led to some sig- advice was to see being an officer as part nificant personal changes. of growing rather than a pinnacle never to Obviously Taylor is a leader and she will be exceeded. Taylor quoted McDonald’s now actively canvass different opinions founder Ray Kroc: “If you’re green, you’re because she has learned that one size does growing; if you’re ripe, you rot.”

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Sometimes a story goes be- tribal numbers in the yond what we think we will find Inter-Tribal Counon the surface until we dig into cil of Northeastern the history that gives the story Oklahoma.

The tribe, known deeper meaning.

Agriculture has impacted the lives of for its tenacious spirit, people for centuries and remains one of was determined to the most important industries globally. maintain its identity But perhaps the most important impact and became federally on individuals comes from the historical recognized in 1978. significance found in the efforts to keep Shortly after, the tribe traditions alive by raising livestock spe- brought bison from the north country, becial to those individuals or groups.

One such effort is being realized by the ginning their quest to Modoc Tribe in Ottawa County, Okla. maintain herd purity ever since. through their Bison program.

Bison ranch managOklahoma is home to approximately 38 federally recognized Native Ameri- er, David Sappington can tribes. The northeast region of the of the Shawnee Tribe, state is possibly the most diverse by has worked for the area with nine Native American tribes, Modoc tribe since the among which is the Modoc Tribe, which late 1990s, becoming was relocated to the state in the late the bison manager in 2010. Their 168-bison 1800s by the government.

The Modoc Tribe is the only tribe to herd comes from Yelbe re-located from the Northwest re- lowstone and South Dakota, where herd gion of the nation. Their homeland in ancestors are thought to have survived for Northern California and Oregon was centuries. The herd is considered “top of vastly different than their new home on the line” regarding their ancestry.

“There may be some bovine in the the flat grasslands of Oklahoma.

According to the National Park Ser- blood line simply because of the roamvice website detailing the history of ing nature of the animals, but generally the tribe; After “one of the most tragic their DNA is from the old wild herds,” of the Indian Wars: the Modoc War of David states.

The ranch is roughly 600 acres near 1872-73…155 Modoc…were transported as prisoners over rail 2,000 miles to Wyandotte, Okla., with various pastures the Quapaw Reservation in Oklahoma,” to separate out the heifers, breeding stock and calves.

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While David and ticle further notes his staff respect the that only seven of animals for their the original anceswild nature and tor’s descendants potential to harm are currently living in Oklahothem, he respects ma, making the collective group them for another numbers one of the smallest in Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com

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David Sappington is the herd manager for the Modoc Tribe in Ottawa County, Okla.

reason. This may also be why tribal Chief Bill Follis has been known to say:“Only a few men can handle buffalo.”

David admires the breed for their toughness and intelligence. The bison are easy keepers but extremely protective. When a cow is giving birth, it is not unusual for three other cows to stand guard and if threatened, they take their calves to the cover of nearby trees.

He notes that he onced pulled a bull calf off its mother and moved it to a pasture a mile section over. The mother, trying to locate her calf, went through six or seven fences to find him, mostly by crawling underneath. Three and half hours later the calf was back by its mother’s side.

“Once a storm rolled in and I went to check on them to see where they were at,” David said. “Even though the creek OCTOBER 31, 2016

meet your neighbors bed was dry, the lead cow jumped up and started running away from the creek and up onto a nearby hill. Within minutes the creek was hit by a flash flood. I was amazed that the old lead cow knew that and led them to safety.”

Working bison is different than working cattle in that beef cows can be driven.

With bison, if you don’t have the alpha female collected, they all head for cover.

Routine doctoring occurs in the spring and fall. Even though there is a corral system designed for working bison, the danger of calves being trampled is very real. Which is why dart guns are used to vaccinate the herd and only in extreme cases of illness or injury, do the staff use the corral.

“As long as, you keep them healthy and well fed you have no problems,” David notes.

The pasture is fenced with seven wires but the secret is placing the seventh wire just over nose height.

“If they can get their nose over and see over the top wire,” David adds. “They know they can jump the fence.”

Beyond the tradition associated with the bison, the health benefits make them attractive for commercial meat sales. The tribe’s long-term goal is to build a packing facility but currently the tribe only sells meat through the tribal office located in Miami, Okla.

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This is a parasite that invades red blood cells and destroys them. Cattle actually die of anemia. These animals can get very upset. If we push them too, hard they will get very angry and try to hurt us, (due to the lack of oxygen to the brain), and then fall over dead very quickly. They are anemic. Which means they do not have enough red cells to carry oxygen to all parts of their body, brain included.

There may not be much saving these animals without a whole blood transfusion.

Treatment for the disease is actually tetracycline dosed at 9 mg/pound of body weight for two weeks. Now one dose of good old fashion LA 200 will save the cow, but they will revert back and become carriers of the disease in our herd. Now we have an animal in our herd spreading the disease to everybody else. But, if we continue giving LA 200 every three days for two weeks this will eliminate the carrier state. This means we are giving them at least five treatments of this medicine. We can also use a long acting tetracycline that lasts for one week and give it just three times to do the same thing.

Now the biggest thing to remember is that it takes at least 28 days for red cells to regenerate or for the cow’s body to make new red blood cells. So, these affected animals need to be treated with kid gloves for at least 30 days. Take it easy working these animals and do not cowboy them through the chute. We will need to work them very low stress. Otherwise we could have one or more get upset and just fall over dead.

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Treatment of the disease is not the same for beef cattle Mastitis is can be a huge problem in some cow/calf operations.

Mastitis is the inflammation of a heifer or cow’s mammary gland.

University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service Veterinarian Heidi Ward said the vast majority of cases are caused by common bacteria in the environment such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and E. Coli.

“The infection spreads from one teat to another via suckling of the calf,” Ward said.

The bacteria are usually spread by flies.

“Fly control is also very important,” Ward said. “The more manure, the more flies, the more likelihood of mastitis.”

Wet, muddy environments have also been a concern in spreading the bacteria.

Ward said mastitis can affect weaning weights. “[Mastitis] is a problem to cow-calf operations because mastitis causes a decreased yield in milk resulting in reduced calf weaning weights,” Ward said. “Furthermore, mastitis can disrupt the interplay of hormones that bring cows back into estrus, thus delaying breed back.”

Mastitis usually occurs in the first month of lactation or the drying off period after weaning.

Ward said signs of mastitis in beef cattle differ depending on the severity of the infection.

“In severe cases, the udder is red, swollen and painful and the cow has a fever which causes depression and a decreased appetite – if untreated these cows may die,” Ward said. “A cow with mastitis will not want to walk much and will keep her ears down.”

In milder cases, the udder may appear normal and the cow will not have a fever.

It is tough for a beef producer to spot mastitis unless the cow-calf pairs are observed very closely throughout the day Ward said.

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Ward said that the antibiotic and route of administration depends on the infection.

“Mild infections, if detected in the first place, usually aren’t treated in beef cows as long as the calf is not bawling and the cow is eating well,” Ward said.

An infected teat can have an off taste or not produce at all – causing the calf to not nurse.

Ward said that the reason most mild cases go untreated is because sometimes medicating beef cows is hazardous.

“The reason mild cases are not treated is that it is very difficult and dangerous to give beef cows intra-mammary antibiotics, Ward said. “They are simply not as docile as dairy cattle.”

However, if the case is more severe antibiotics could be required.

“If more severe and showing systemic signs, a systemic injectable antibiotic along with an intra-mammary antibiotic is typically used for 3-5 days along with an NSAID injection to reduce fever,” Ward said.

While the mother is being treated, it is important that the calf be bottle fed or grafted onto another lactating cow.

Ward said mastitis can cause future production problems.

“It is important to note that even with treatment, that particular teat may have scaring that prevents milk production in the future,” Ward said. “If teat conformation is leading to mastitis, then that cow/heifer should not be used for breeding. “ Prevention is always the best way to deal with mastitis.

Ward said keeping the environment clean by giving cow-calf pairs plenty of room is important – especially in indoor winter calving facilities.

Ward said she also recommends good nutrition and vaccinations.

“Along with controlling the environment, every effort should be made to maintain the cow’s immune system through nutrition and vaccination,” Ward said.

“The biggest issue is public misunderstanding especially in terms of the safety of GMOs and how well farmers treat their livestock.

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By Klaire Howerton

Should you have a planned breeding season for your cattle?

If you spend much time around the cattle, chances are that you have heard the term “breeding season” tossed around. So what exactly is a breeding season, and should you have one for your herd?

The University of Florida IFAS Extension said that controlled breeding in beef cattle production is defined as developing specific predetermined strategies on when to begin and end a breeding season.

The length of a controlled breeding season varies depending on factors such as the marketing objective, size of the operation, and personal preference.

Some controlled breeding seasons last only a few weeks, whereas others last several months.

A controlled breeding season will help the producer time a calving season to suit their regional and economical needs on their farm or ranch.

The season or time of the year that calves are born influences the calf crop percentage and should be dictated by the available forage supply, labor and market for the calves.

Cows that calve about 30 to 60 days before the most abundant grass production

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will usually wean more calves annually than cows that calve during other seasons.

Properly timing a breeding season will allow you to manage the health of your herd much better than if you left your bull in year round and had spotty calving dates.

When you know the timeframe of calving, you can better monitor your herd for any birthing issues, as well as keep records of what cows did not take by the end of the breeding period and make appropriate choices to keep or cull cows for next year.

Other breeding season advantages, according beef cattle production experts, fall into the monetary category.

For example, “the calf crop will be more uniform in weight and age for marketing” and “application of management and labor can be concentrated” which in turn concentrates your costs and helps you plan for and spend each dollar purposefully, and track your income from the calf crop.

Having a controlled breeding season means removing the bulls from the herd after your preferred breeding date, so some additional facilities are required if you are moving to utilizing a breeding season. Bulls require sturdy fencing to

keep them from escaping and re-joining the cows; some producers also opt for purchasing or leasing acreage to keep bulls elsewhere off the farm until they are needed again the next season.

Part of preparing for a breeding season is getting heifers and cows into good shape, and utilizing a breeding season can aid you in adjusting herd nutrition to the physiological needs of all the cows and heifers at once.

Drovers Cattle Network recommends to “breed heifers for 45 days and then check them for pregnancy at 60 to 90 days. Cull open heifers. Feed heifers to gain about a pound per day until calving. Some producers underfeed pregnant heifers in an attempt to reduce calf birth weights. But, underfed, thin heifers experience more calving problems, poor milk production, weak calves and failure to breed back.”

According to the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Okla., there is a significant problem of feedlot heifers that calve out on feed. This situation can be deterred, by a controlled breeding system.

Information from the foundation states that by having all calves born and consequently weaned at a set time, the chance of

Food for thought…

pecialists who recommend controlled breeding seasons note that benefits include the ability to better manage cow nutrition, cow and calf health, cow culling, weaning programs and marketing of calves and cull cows. With a continuous calving system, a herd always consists of cows in different stages of lactation and/or gestation with attendant varying nutritional requirements. Thus, with uncontrolled calving, if the herd is fed to meet the needs of the lactating cow(s), the average cow may be overfed, resulting in feed costs that are higher than is necessary or, alternatively, if nutrition is not balanced, the lactating cow is malnourished leading eventually to lesser beef production. Similarly, the potential of seasonal income averaging and cash flow benefits of a continuous calving system may be more than offset by failure to capture price premiums for consistent, larger batches of calves that may be sold if the calving season is controlled and calves are sold once per year.

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The National Research Council reports that a pregnant heifer has a 35 percent higher nutritional requirement than does an open heifer. Therefore, it stands to reason that bred heifers in a pen of feeder heifers would gain at a lower rate and at a decreased efficiency of gain.

Some producers opt out of a controlled breeding season due to concerns about housing and feeding idle bulls for up to 10 months out of the year.

The Noble Foundation states that producers can easily alleviate the concern by incorporate a small “bull trap� in pastures, which can be constructed of a two or three wire electric fence. If the majority if the females are bred, the bull should be fairy easy to contain.

Another reason why some producers opt not to practice a season breeding is the fear of lost income if they hold an open cow to fit into the cycle.

The foundation says that several studies have shown that the cow that calves out of sequence will rarely produce a calf that is heavy enough to cover the cost of owning that cow.

The move to a controlled breeding season should not be a drastic, one-year decision where a large number of outof-synch cows are sold. The change can be made gradually over a two to three year period by gradually shortening the breeding season by two or three weeks a year.

While it does take a little more advanced planning, developing a breeding season for your herd will help streamline your operation and lead to better organization and a healthier herd, which in turn will aid in improving your bottom line on the farm each calving season.

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Registered or Commercial?

By Meghan Anderson

Which side of the business should you be in?

For a new producer wanting bull and turn in with the cows –which is to start a herd there are many something he has discussed with his wife many times. questions.

“But we then think about our daughFinding the right land? Bale or buy ters – especially for their children to hay? Supplementing grains?

Not to mention the pharmaceutical have (cattle to) show,” Moyer said.

Moyer said tradition is important and and animal health side.

Many think about the bred they prefer is obligated by that tradition to say in – however do they think about whether the registered business.

“I can remember when in Washington to raise a registered or commercial herd?

Producer Jerry Moyer has raised regis- County (Ark.), there were 10 registered tered Herefords for many years. Moyer Hereford herds – now there are probsaid raising registered cattle is quite dif- ably three,” Moyer said, adding that the ferent from raising commercial, and reg- breed became unpopular in the 1980s.

He said for many it was too costly to istered is more for someone interested in keep going or the producer retired and the pedigrees and genetics. got out of the business “If someone is interpermanently. ested in seedstock – “Selling registered catregistered is the way to

The biggest tle] is a little harder in go,” Moyer said. thing is this area – but it has gotHowever, the regis- ten better in the last six tered cattle business is expense – to stay up to seven years,” Moyer not easy on the pock- with the trends and said. etbook. Moyer said it genetics – like AI Moyer said in the does not come cheap.

Ozarks it was hard to “The biggest thing and flushing cows. bulls at a premium. is expense – to stay up – Jerry Moyer sell Many producers did with the trends and not care about genetgenetics – like AI and ics when it came to their herd. flushing cows,” Moyer said.

“That has changed a bunch in the last The American Hereford Association, for example, requires a producer activa- six or seven years,” Moyer said. “Markettion fee every year, requires annual EPDs ing has become easier.”

Moyer said if the producer’s main goal per animal and herd inventory.

“Hereford’s require full DNA on all is to go to the sale barn, a registered herd the calves,” Moyer said. “It adds lot of isn’t a good idea.

“A registered Hereford isn’t going to expense to raising calves.”

The requirements also call for extra make as much as a black baldly at the time and labor that commercial produc- sale barn,” Moyer said.

The decision between a commercial or tion doesn’t necessarily require.

Moyer said three quarters of producers in registered herd is up to how much time the cattle industry are part-time producers. and money someone prefers to spend.

Moyer said the registered business can be “For part-time livestock producers or ranchers, it is hard to maintain a regis- a successful one with the right mind set.

“It takes a person willing to realize it’s tered herd because it’s so time consumnot simple as buying a bull and putting ing,” he said.

Moyer said it is easier just to buy a black it in a herd,” Moyer said.

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Time to Evaluate Pastures for Fall

By Meghan Anderson

U of A professor recommends that cattle be pulled from fescue to save it for winter grazing As producers begin to stack their barns full of hay, they reflect about the summer season, and think about what is ahead for the winter.

Livestock producers were pleased this summer with the mild, wet weather, until the rain progressively slowed and then stopped.

Evaluating pastures this fall grazing will be crucial and will affect the forage producers will have stored for the winter.

Warm season grasses such as Bermudagrass, are drying out and beginning to go dormant early because the lack of rain.

In fear of a severe winter – producers are preparing forage for their herds.

University of Arkansas Animal Science Professor Dr. Ken Coffey, said it is a good time to move herds off of fescue.

“As soon as we get rain, new green fescue will grow. To conserve as much as we can, it is a good time to get herds off fescue pastures to save the pastures for winter,” Coffey said.

Moving herds off of fescue would give them time to grow into a better forage

for the winter months.

“Low production cows that have weaned off their calves, can be left on dormant summer grasses, letting the cool grasses grow for a while and hold the cattle for higher quality forage,” Coffey said.

Most producers think about feeding hay during the winter months, however Coffey suggests supplementing the summer grasses by feeding hay as well.

“If a producer has plenty of hay, it is a good idea to feed hay now and strip graze hay later,” he said.

Many producers depend on one last good rain – however they did not receive that this year.

“Usually we get a good rain around Labor Day, but we didn’t this year,” Coffey said.

Annual forages haven’t had enough moisture and are limited quality Coffey said.

“Moving the cattle off fescue and feeding hay are the most important things right now,” Coffey said.

Coffey said he is putting his recommendations into practice with his own herd.

“That is what I am doing at home,” Coffey said. “Holding off until we get a good rain and limit into the winter.”

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As soon as we get rain, new green fescue will grow. To conserve as much as we can, it is a good time to get herds off fescue pastures to save the pastures for winter.

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Serving More Than 24,000 Readers Across Northwest Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma

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THE TRUCK SPECIALISTS! We know what you want ...

Big Selection + Low Prices!

We’re farmers, too! We know what farmers want, and we keep the most popular models in stock at the lowest prices you’ll find in North Arkansas!

Family owned and operated for over 43 years!

Absolute Top Dollar offered on all trades!

See why we are the area’s #1 Truck Volume Dealer!

We’re BIG on Heavy Duty Trucks!

600 Highway 62-65 Harrison � 870-741-8211

WoodMotor.com

North Arkansas’ Volume Dealer!

FINANCING AVAILABLE!

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Call Mark Hanshaw: 870-715-9177 (cell) 870-741-8211

We stock the trailers farmers use most!

Whether it’s a golf cart, a 4-wheeler trailer or one of the big boys, you’ll find it at Wood Motor Co. We’ll NEVER be undersold!

Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com

OCTOBER 31, 2016