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Ozarks schools honored: Two schools in the Arkansas Ozarks have earned top honors in the Arkansas Grown School Garden of the Year contest. According to information from the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, there were 28 entries from across Arkansas. The contest was open to any school in the state with a working garden during the 2014-2015 school year. Yellville-Summitt Schools in Yellville, Ark., was named the Overall School Garden Winner, and the Best Nutrition Education Based School Garden went to Kingston School, in Kingston, Ark. Judge grants extension in swine farm suit: A judge is giving two federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Services Agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration, three more months to assess the environmental impact of a northern Arkansas hog farm in the Buffalo National River watershed. The agencies had asked for the extension, citing “an unexpectedly large” amount of public comments on a draft environmental assessment of C&H Hog Farms in Mount Judea, Ark. The farm sits on Big Creek, about 7 miles from where it flows into the Buffalo National River. A lawsuit filed against the agencies in 2013 argued that a 2012 environmental assessment was incomplete. The assessment allowed the two agencies to back loan guarantees that helped the farm open. The agencies were ordered in 2014 to do a new assessment complying with the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. The order carried a one-year deadline, which was extended to March 1.

Student awarded scholarship: Wells Clark, a student in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, has been awarded $1,000 scholarship from Farm Credit of Western Arkansas. Clark, a 2015 Bentonville (Ark.) High School graduate, is a double major in agribusiness and agricultural education.

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lot of people will probably be surprised to find out revthat, onweven orC yatrremy J yB advanced age and despite the fact that I have been involved in agriJerry Crownover farms culture my entire life, I had never in Lawrence County. He set foot in a combine until about a month ago. is a former professor of I was in the northern part of the state for a few Agriculture Education at days, helping out an old friend on his farm while Missouri State University, he was recovering from surgery, when we went and is an author and by another old college buddy’s place for a short professional speaker. visit. Stony was harvesting corn and invited me To contact Jerry, go to to ride a few rounds with him while it was still ozarksfn.com and click daylight. As I climbed up into the behemoth on ‘Contact Us.’ machine and took a seat beside him, I marveled at all the digital displays that surrounded us.

Surely, a modern-day passenger jet couldn’t have too many more monitors to observe than this state-of-the-art corn picker.

As my friend started pushing levers and buttons, the machine picked up both speed and noise as we approached a fresh set of 16 unpicked rows of corn. I was mesmerized as the combine slid through the rows at about 6 to 7 mph. Looking through the window to my rear, I could see a stream of golden-colored kernels filling the bin.

My eyes must have been wide with amazement because Stony commented, “I can’t believe this is your first time in a combine.”

Even though Stony has been to my farm before, I had to remind him that our 2-3 inches of topsoil (and that’s a generous estimate) is not suited for growing crops and, even if it was, a combine would most surely turn over on our steep slopes. He nodded in agreement.

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all colors are alive and well in Northwest Arkansas. I can look outside and Jody Harris is a freelance see the majestic changes happening communications specialist, right before my very eyes. It’s such a gardener, ranch wife and short “season” in this part of the counmother of four. She and try, I feel like I have to savor every second of it. her family raise Angus beef Soon we’ll all be freezing. cattle and other critters on One of our first priorities in the fall is to fill the their northwest Arkansas deer feeders and begin preparations for what has ranch. She is a graduate come to be known as deer camp. The next few of Missouri State University. weeks we’ll be sighting in our rifles and dusting To contact Jody, go to off our orange vests and stocking caps. ozarksfn.com and click on I love deer season! It means we get to eat end‘Contact Us.’ less pots of chili, corn bread and sheet cake. It also means swapping lies about the big bucks we just couldn’t get a good shot at around a roaring bonfire. We are blessed with a large wooded area with a plentiful deer harvest for several of our town buddies. Everyone anticipates this is the year they’ll score “the big one.”

Here’s what I think. I think this is MY year. Ya know why? I finally got my Hunters Education Card. As many of you hunters know, this card is typically earned during the youth years (around the age of 10-12). Not the case for me. I have always loved getting up early and tagging along to the woods to scope out deer. I didn’t have my card and so I didn’t have my license or get to carry a gun into the woods.

I tried earning my card by watching the online videos offered to prepare for the Hunter’s Education test. We are talking about SEVEN HOURS of video online. I got through two of them. With four kids racing around, the phone ringing and a husband who felt I should be able to multi-task – it didn’t happen!

Last December, a friend of mine was kind enough to invite me to day-long course in Bentonville, Ark. All I had to do was sit through the class, take notes and at the end of the day pass a test. I was looking forward to it. I made arrangements for my family and I was ready to go.

I was one of the last students to arrive and entered into a classroom filled with preteen boys anxious to obtain their cards.

Oh brother! The teacher called everyone’s name and we had to write down our date of birth. He kindly acknowledged that I was the oldest student he’d ever had.

I was determined not to be embarrassed but to press on just like all the other “kids.”

I endured seven hours of classroom instruction. We worked in groups to demonstrate appropriate fence crossing safety with a weapon as well as many other safety lessons. We ate pizza together, reviewed our notes and finally it was test time.

The importance of hunting and gun safety had been stressed and I had learned a few new things. By this point I was ready to get home. Being the life-long learner that I am, I finished my test first and passed with flying colors. A few weeks later my card arrived and I’ve been waiting for the season to start ever since.

All the best to my deer hunting neighbors for a good and safe hunt this year! I hope we all get the big buck this year, neighbor.

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believe in the future of farming with a faith born not of words but of deeds – achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the Julie Turner-Crawford better things we now enjoy have come to us from is a native of Dallas the struggles of former years.”

County, Mo., where she grew up on her family’s As many of you know, that is the opening parafarm. She is a graduate graph of the FFA Creed, or my recollection of it of Missouri State more than 30 years ago when I joined the Future University. To contact Farmers of America as a freshman in high school.

Julie, call 1-866-532-1960 Oh how I wanted to win that chapter Creed or by email at editor@ Speaking contest so that I could go on to area ozarksfn.com. and, hopefully, district competition and maybe even state. I practiced and practiced for weeks, saying it out aloud, repeating it over and over to myself. But alas, I didn’t win. I got beat out by a guy named Mark. I guess he had better stage presence than I did.

Over the years, the Future Farmers of America simply became known as FFA, and the original creed written by E.M. Tiffany was updated, but I still believe in the future of farming.

In this edition of Ozarks Farm & Neighbor, we are highlighting some of our future agriculture leaders from right here in the Ozarks, and they are an impressive bunch.

While they have different backgrounds and plans, they all share the same desire to keep agriculture a part of their lives, and with young people such as this, the future of the industry looks pretty bright.

As adults in agriculture, we need to encourage the next generation to continue their quests. After all, they will be the ones to carry on the tradition after we are all gone.

According to the last U.S. Census of Agriculture, the average age of the American farmer has increased eight years over the last 30 years. Today’s average farmer is 58-yearsold. That statistic has some worried about where food and other agriculture products will come from once today’s farmers retire, but there is a resurgence of young people returning to or staying on the family operation, or starting their own from scratch. They feel — Continued on Next Page

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page the “need” to raise livestock and/or till the soil. They want to be at the frontline of food and fiber production.

With the new generation also comes new opportunities in the agriculture industry.

Colleges and universities, and even high schools, are seeing the need to increase educational offerings in the field of agriculture. Today there is much more than animal science, horticulture and agronomy degrees being offered. Agroecology, organic and sustainable crop production, EcoGastronomy, and ecological food and farming systems are just a few of the fields of study being offered around the country.

In May 2015, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that there would be “tremendous demand for recent college graduates with a degree in agricultural programs,” with an estimated 57,900 high-skilled job openings annually in the food, agriculture, renewable natural resources and environment fields in the United States.

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I also believe in the future of agriculture every time I see my young nephew get a big smile on his face when he talks about driving the tractor to help his dad and grandpa haul hay. I believe it when I see my nieces show their goats. I believe it when I see my older nieces and their husbands take their small daughters to feed cattle or hogs.

I might be a little partial, but I think my family’s tradition of agriculture is in pretty good hands.

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Continued from Page 3 acres of corn to feed our hogs and dairy cows. “How did you harvest it?” he asked, “With a one-row picker?” I stuck out both hands, as I began to describe corn harvest on the 1950s Crownover farm.

Our huge corn harvest (no more than ten or twelve acres) was completed by hand-picking the corn and tossing the ears into an old four-wheeled farm wagon, pulled by Ol’ Buck and Maude, Dad’s last team of draft horses. As I remember, Dad would usually pick five rows on one side of the wagon, Mom would pick three rows on the other side, and I would pick the two rows ridden down by the wagon. So, I guess you could say we had a 10-row picker.

I can remember always getting a new pair of brown, jersey gloves before beginning each harvest. I would pick corn for

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a few minutes, pick cockleburs off the gloves for a few minutes, and then keep repeating the vicious cycle until the end of the field was reached. It would take us about a week to complete the harvest and the brown, jersey gloves would be worn out to the point that the cockleburs would be stabbing my hands in the holey spots. It was not fun.

Based on the time it took Stony’s 16row combine to cover 10 to 12 acres, I concluded that he could have picked our entire crop in quite a bit less than one hour. I pondered the profound changes that progress and technology have brought to us. “Would you like to drive it for a round?” Stony asked, jolting me from my sixty-year-old daydream.

“I would,” I answered, “but I don’t have any brown, jersey gloves.”

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Tom Woods purchased a dairy operation at the age of 18 Tom Woods from Westville, Okla., comes from a long line of cattlemen.

One of Tom’s ancestors was the second largest cattle shipper on the Kansas City Southern Railroad. His grandfather was the superintendent of schools in Westville, Okla., owned a beef processing plant and runs beef cattle. Tom’s father, Breck, worked for Franklin Electric in Siloam Springs, Ark., for 20 years, retiring in 1999 to start running a dairy he started in 1992 fulltime. Tom was only 4 years old.

“I never really saw my dad doing anything other than running the dairy,” Tom said, adding that he started building his herd with one cow and a heifer calf given to him by his father. “I started when I was 12 and started accumulating a herd.”

Tom bought a dairy from Breck and started running it when he turned 18.

“When I first rented the dairy, I rented 49 cows from him and moved 30 of my own over there,” Tom said. “I milked about 80 cows until spring of the next year and then I bought 40 more. I was milking 110 when I turned 19.

“I bought my own place around April of this year. There is 111 acres with three ponds. I have 105 bred heifers on my place.”

Tom, who turned 20 in the spring, also has 40 head of stock cows and steers on rented property near his parents.

“I’d like to give some credit to Farm Service Agency (FSA) and People’s Bank for helping me. Without them, I would probably be flipping burgers somewhere,” Tom said. “I started working with FSA in high school and again when I turned 18 and wanted to buy the dairy. When I got that going, they NOVEMBER 9, 2015

helped me expand into stock cattle with what I made.

They helped me buy my place.”

Tom bought his beef heifers from Tom Woods started his the Stillwell Liveown dairy farm at the age stock Auction. of 18 in Westville, Okla.

“Some are from Rod Garman’s, some are from a couple of farms in house doesn’t make any money.

Tahlequah and the last bunch Danny Issacs “The Natural Resources Conservation delivered himself out of Oklahoma City,” Service (NRCS) is going to help me cost Tom said. “They were 750 to 800 pounds share on cross fencing, waterers and probwhen I bought them. I grained them, vac- ably the feed lane. We haven’t gotten it cinated, worked them and put a bull with all worked out yet and I haven’t been apthem in June. They are about four or five proved yet but, we are talking about helpmonths bred now. The majority of them ing to put the facilities up,” he said. were bred when I bought them.”

Tom wants to divide his pastures and place Tom’s beef cattle are a mix of Angus waterers before moving his dairy cows to his and Hereford females, with Angus bulls. new place to obtain better production.

“In about 15 to 20 days, I’m going to “A cow does a lot better on well or ruhave the heifers’ preg. checked and give ral water than do on a pond,” he said. them another round of shots and safe As for the future, Tom plans to keep his guard or worm them,” Tom said. He dairy and stock cattle operation growhopes to have 80 heifers bred for spring ing, and is considering chicken houses. calves. “I’ll separate the 20 that aren’t “My major goal is to be diversified. I don’t bred and put the bulls back on them,” want to owe a lot of money and have it all he said. “That will give me two groups riding on one thing doing well,” he said. of calves.” He also plans to improve his “Right now the dairy supports everything. dairy operation.

That is why I have spent the last year fo“By spring, I would like to build a feed cusing on getting more stock cows. I’d like lane, finish my calf barn, a commodity to continue to do that until I can make barn and a double 10 some changes to the dairy. So whenever I parallel dairy barn. sell a calf off, I can put it back into buying Westville, Okla.

It kind of depends more or paying debt down. My goal is to upon what the bank build the farm up and maybe one day get wants to help me big enough to hire a little bit of help and build,” Tom said. take it a little easier. The dairy has been “A house is the last good to me. I always liked being my own priority because; a boss. I’m working toward that.”

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KVI Bucking Bulls is just a short drive away from Coweta. The barn is set back well from the road and heavy pipe fencing surrounds the gathering yard. The herd itself is at pasture under shade trees in the morning heat during a visit from Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. They come in a trot, urged on by Kyle and his working partner this morning, a black and white border collie.

Kyle Kilgore hopes to make bucking bulls and being a rodeo announcer part of his future career.

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The ranch has 43 momma cows with bamaking the switch to bucking stock, and after a lot of research picked their first bull bies at their side. They currently have about and trailered him back to Coweta, Okla., 20 bulls of varying ages, including six yearfrom Duncan, Okla. After that bull, Pistol lings, a 4-year-old named Spook-Eye (who Pete, there was no turning back and KVI was ranked sixth at the end of the year) and their “old man.”

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“Everything on our place is registered “It’s really all I have ever known,” Kyle said. “I didn’t really have any options and raised to produce bucking stock,” Kyle explained. “Every but to be in this, but rodeo-bred animal I wouldn’t have it goes through the any other way. I Coweta, Okla.

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One of the bucking bulls owned by the Kilgore family.

The farm is home to 43 cows that produce ABBI calves.

like blood work and collect hair. They can look at one piece of hair and go back five to nine generations back with DNA.” He continued by explaining that many bucking bulls are descendants of wild cattle discovered by a man on an island in Hawaii.

“He caught them, brought them back to the mainland and started breeding them,” Kyle said. “There’s some mixed breeding in there and there is a lot of Brahman influence in them, but there is no set breed for what they have to be.”

All bulls take January as their birthday and stay with their mothers for 12 months.

Supplements are offered for muscle and bone mass, each animal takes a somewhat different blend. Nothing comes easy or on the cheap, and nutrition is carefully thought out. Kyle, explained that on hot days, the herd shelters in pastures under the shade trees and have constant access to water, but he does not feed grain or supplement until evening.

The weaned bulls are tested in the arena in late December. Using a mechanical rider, the bulls are graded on intensity, spin, height of jump and kick.

“It’s really kind of hard to tell what a calf is going to do, but you know if one has the heart,” Kyle said. “After that, they go on full feed, then sit around and chill out.

Usually about mid-year and in the fall, we will start pulling them up and getting them to buck and get them into a set pattern so that it becomes instinct to them.

Then they will go back to pasture and on full feed. When they get to be 2-year-olds, that’s when we start hauling them up and down the road pretty hard. We’re really into the competition aspect of it.

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“A lot of people think that they are just bulls, but that is wrong. Today, the competition in the bulls is bigger than the competition in the riders. … The big picture for us is to send them off to the PBR, which is the top of the top in the game. Anybody can raise a bull and take him to an armature bull ride to buck off a kid wanting to show off for his girlfriend. That isn’t our goal. Our goal is to get to the top and stay at the top.”

A bull bred by the Kilgores actually competed at the PBR in October.

“People think just any bull can go to that level, but it’s a different ball game when you send one to the finals like that,” Kyle said. “It proves something.”

Kyle added that just like any athlete, performance-enhancing drugs are not allowed in bulls, and the ABBI requires testing for steroids or other drugs by a veterinary certified to the ABBI’s code.

Blood and urine samples may be collected at ABBI discretion and owners of an animal that tests positive for a banned substance are liable for lost prize money, fined, banned from competition and lose year-end-bonus money.

Kyle plans to attend Conners State at Warner, Okla., and then on to Oklahoma State University in hopes of an agriculture business degree.

“I’m not sure what route I want to go into after that, but I would like to have that in my arsenal,” he said. “As a kid looking at my future goals, all I can imagine ever being is a pro rodeo announcer. That’s all I have ever wanted to be. I would love to continue the family business and try and continue to take bulls to the top, plus be a top rodeo announcer at the same time.”

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Cookson Hills: A Place for Healing

By Pam and Terry Lamb

More than 50 years of helping at-risk children with care, education, therapy Cookson Hills started 55 years ago with a single home and a dream for their kids. The level of oversight at Cookson Hills is different than most facilities for at risk youth and is overseen by a 12- member board of directors. to offer help, hope and healing to families of at risk youth.

Cookson Hills provides a home for the kids; offering structure, encouragement, spiritual Sitting on a 1,000 acres near Kansas, Okla., they now house a staff of 65 and have an accredited, private Christian school, recreation center, grocery store, horse development and a personalized plan of care. Cookson Hill’s work is solely funded by individuals and organizations and does not receive fund from state or federal sources. They stables and a post office.

“Normally, our kids have suffered from neglect or abuse and often the father figure provide a Christian environment, which is a first for many of the children.

Life at Cookson Hills is designed to is absent,” Heath Hostetler, executive Photos by Pam and Terry Lamb help kids take responsibility for themdirector said. selves. To successfully achieve their misRaising kids is challenging and is even sion, they take into account every part more difficult when you don’t have all of a kid’s world developing a personalized the resources you need. Cookson Hills plan of care for each child, considering tries to provide resources for families and their physical, spiritual, educational and kids so the kids may become productive emotional needs. members of society.

Cookson Hills has two tracks for kids Cookson Hills partners with local to follow, a short track and a long track. church ministries and works with kids reThe short track, or family reunification ferred through state agencies, individuals track, hopes to reunite kids with their and private agencies. Cookson Hills atfamilies. About 70 percent of Cookson tempts to work with the biological family Hill’s kids are on the short track. Kids on before government systems need to step the short track will be at Cookson Hills in. Cookson Hills operates on a volunfor one to two years, allowing kids and tary basis, allowing families and children parents working on specific issues. the opportunity to use their services and “We offer training and services for the the opportunity to leave if they choose.

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ozarks roots ily system, communication and interaction so when we put that child back with their family they have a better chance of moving forward well,” Heath said.

The long-term track is when a child’s home is replaced by a home at Cookson Hills for the duration of their childhood.

These kids stay at the facility until they have turned 18, graduated from high school and become an adult.

Because of the trauma our kids have experienced, many are behind in school.

Cookson Hill believes in a strong work ethic so regardless of educational status, kids are offered plenty of opportunities to work and learn practical skills.

If a child is interested in going to college, Cookson Hills will help them apply for scholarships. If the child’s desire is to graduate and go into the military, Staff will provide them with information and help all along the way.

“We are going to try to support them whatever those steps will be. We are really trying to get them to adulthood and to be productive members of society,” Heath said.

Cookson Hill uses equine services for therapy and recreation. The center has found that horses can create opportunities for families to discuss issues and learn to work together. Cookson Hills offers families time together over designated weekend designed to provide activities for families to learn communication skills and to interact with one another.

“Horses can sense what is going on and create opportunities to talk about things especially when families come for visits,” Heath explained. Cookson Hills has miles of trails and offer horses for recreation, too.

The campus has a new dining hall and school, and is completing 12 new houses, all paid for by donations and contributions by individual donors, churches and foundations that believe in their work. Once construction is completed in the summer of 2016, Cookson Hill’s capacity will increase by 30 beds.

“We are very deliberate in managing the growth opportunity in front of us. We need to make sure we have the required resources and can continue to offer high quality services to kids and families in need,” Heath said.

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Bored Boers are not a good thing so I spent time researching the business. I learned about containing the goats with net electric fencing, poisonous plants they should avoid and who would be interested in hiring goats. The business opened in April 2015. My first official client saw a flyer at Westwood Gardens in Fayetteville, Ark. I also volunteered the goats for two weeks in June at Wilson Park for the cities Adopt-aPark program. The press release interested local TV, newspapers and radio. When the Associated Press and National Public Radio picked up the story, it went worldwide.

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Starting Off Small

By Terry Ropp

Dover, Ark., teen wants to show that agriculture is not limited to those with substantial acreage An old African proverb states, “It takes a village to raise a child.” That is even truer today when interest and knowledge are so diverse.

Dover (Ark.) High School senior, Baxter Wallis, son of Randall and Wallis, is a perfect example, owing his future career in agriculture to an agriculture community that extends help and support for those like Baxter who have both passion and dedication.

Baxter started showing in 4-H when he was 5, moving from chickens and goats to pigs and finally to cattle.

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age is home to three show calves, show chickens in an old-fashioned type coop and a show pig housed in an ample pen.

Baxter believes people need to be aware of how little acreage is needed to raise some livestock and works to spread the word so others with little land can become part of the agriculture community When Baxter reached the point of wanting to show cattle, his grandfather, Billy Wallis, bought him a steer. Meanwhile, Jim Taylor, one of his Sunday school teachers Baxter Wallis raises his show cattle, pigs and chickens on a little more than 2 acres.

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“Chickens are smelly and goats have and a Farm Credit agent, lent Baxter $1,500 way too much personality for me,” he through a special youth loan program with said. “I am not a fan of anything that Farm Credit. Baxter used the money for the baas or maas. I have a connection with purchase of a show heifer.

Because Baxter wanted to retain his my animals and really enjoy raising them, but I never forget their purpose – first heifer to start his own herd, neighbor Hartsel Hankins lent Baxter a steer which is to feed the world.”

An important aspect of Baxter story is calf to raise, allowing Baxter to retain profits from premium sales and that he does not have access jackpots to help pay back the to 40 acres or even 10. He loan. Hartsel then reclaimed is raising calves on a little Dover, Ark. the finished steer, which grew more than two acres, demlarger due to Baxter’s care and onstrating that involvement use of enhanced feed. The adin agriculture is not limited to those with substantial acreage. The Wallis acre— Continued on Next Page NOVEMBER 9, 2015

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Continued from Previous Page vantage for Hartsel was more money at the eventual sale while also getting judging evaluation to improve his herd.

After Baxter paid off the first loan, he received another, which he used to purchase a second heifer.

“You have to buy what you can afford,” Baxter said. “I watched the (online) videos over and over to select the best I could afford using what I learned from FFA livestock judging.”

Baxter has been successful in the show ring. His first heifer was Grand Champion Heifer at the county fair and Reserve Grand Champion English Commercial Heifer at the State Fair. That year his steer also won Grand Champion at the county fair.

Because the two heifers will be the beginning of his foundation herd, Baxter has tried to breed his first heifer three times, twice using AI and once by live cover through the generosity of Eric Walker, show stock breeder in Prairie Grove, Ark. The heifer was at the Walker ranch for three cycles but apparently still has not become pregnant.

Successfully breeding first time heifers is becoming a broader issue, Baxter said.

“Apparently, long-term land usage has depleted Arkansas soil of magnesium and may be the cause of my problem,” he explained. “My heifer is going to be tested by Arkansas Tech to determine if she is infertile or magnesium deficient.”

The educational side of Baxter’s agricultural environment is also important.

Dover had not had an FFA chapter since 1962. When Baxter’s ag teacher, Courtney Wilkins, wanted to reactivate the Dover chapter and approached Baxter, a freshman at the time, about running for president. He won and served for two years while Sydney Marple served as vice president. For the last two years he and Sydney have switched positions. The two young people were and are pillars supporting the reorganization, which is about 60 members strong after four years.

“We now have a core group ready to take our place,” Baxter said.

Baxter is considering becoming a FCS agent like, Jim Taylor, after attending Arkansas Tech and earning a degree in agribusiness in order to help others the way he is being helped.

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Lyndon Walke Family: A 2-year-old daughter Ella Hometown: Verdigris, Okla.

Town Life: “My dad, John, and his brother, Bill, started Walke Brothers Meat Company in Claremore, Okla., in 1996 with a custom processing business. I have worked here since I was 16 but seriously since I was 20. I have been manager for four years and now we have moved from state inspected to a full USDA inspected facility. We custom process, thermal process in a smokehouse built in 2001 and have expanded our facility to incorporate a retail venue as well as our wholesale market. We have cases of different sausages, both smoked and fresh, as well as steaks, smoked cheese, roasts and other meats. We have won more than 100 awards from the Oklahoma-Texas Meat Processing Association, and in 2014 and 2015 won national awards for our smoked snack sticks and andouille sausage.”

Country Life: “The business sits on seven acres where I raise Longhorns which are more pets than anything else. Last year I had nine and sold them all. I especially like raising the Longhorns from just weaned calves to adults up to 1,700 pounds. I used to breed them myself but time became a huge issue as the meat company expanded. I am planning on purchasing four new calves in November and increasing that number after deer season to a total of 10.

I started with Holsteins, but they did not have the pet personality I was seeking. My typical buyer is someone I know who is seeking a herd ornament or pet. My calves are fed daily with creeper feed. Because of their purpose, they are treated more like show stock and pets than commercial stock, which includes frequent grooming, a process that relaxes me as much is them.”

Future: “I want to expand our wholesale business and products nationwide. I plan on keeping Longhorn sidelined as it is because it’s fun and personally rewarding but not where I see my short-term future. On the other hand, I’m a long ways from retiring and have no idea at this point what I will do when that time comes. I have always been around and loved animals.”

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(Week of 10/25/15 to 10/31/15) Arkansas Cattle Auction

93.00-105.00 †

Ash Flat Livestock Barry County Regional Stockyards Benton County Sale Cattlemen’s Livestock Cleburne County Livestock County Line Sale - Ratcliff Decatur Livestock Auction

100.00-105.00 † 100.00-108.00* 79.00-105.00 † 82.00-113.00*

beef

Not Reported † 100.00-115.00* 97.00-150.00* 9

Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita Farmers Live Ft. Smith Livestock I-40 Livestock - Ozark Joplin Regional Stockyards Mid-State Stockyards North Arkansas Live

cattle

Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

91.00-103.00 †

70.00-108.00 † Not Reported †

GOATS: Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 30-80 lbs 230.00-265.00.

Selection 2 30-97 lbs 180.00-205.00. Selection 3 35-80 lbs 145.00-170.00.

Replacement Does: Fancy Dairy Does 100-150 lbs 100.00172.50 Per Head.

Slaughter Does: Selection 2 70-145 lbs 120.00-180.00; 200 lbs 95.00. Selection 3 78-155 lbs 90.00-115.00.

Bucks: Replacements: Selection 1 100-130 lbs 152.50195.00; 115 lbs 410 per head.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1 75-155 lbs 160.00-205.00.

Selection 2 70-170 lbs 132.50-155.00.

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 130.00-139.00; wtd. avg. price 133.98.

Heifers: 130.00-139.00; wtd. avg. price 134.73.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 207.00-217.00; wtd. avg. price 209.77.

Heifers: 207.00-216.00; wtd. avg. price 209.58.

Milking Cows: Supreme few 1800.00-1825.00, Jerseys 1800.00-2000.00, Approved few 1525.00, Jerseys 1525.001750.00, Medium few 1225.00-1250.00, ind Jersey 10/11/15 1300.00, Common 750.00-1025.00.

Springer Cows: Approved few 1525.00, ind Jersey 1375.00, Medium 1175.00-1335.00, few Jerseys 1250.001285.00, Common 700.00-1075.00.

Bred Cows: Supreme 1685.00-2000.00, ind Jersey 1700.00, Approved few 1525.00-1540.00, Medium ind 1250.000, Common 750.00-1000.00, ind Jersey 675.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein heifers 330.00-410.00, Holstein bulls 330.00-380.00, small 190.00-290.00, Jersey heifers ind 310.00, Jersey bulls few 160.00-230.00, crossbred heifers few 170.00, crossbred bulls few 290.00-410.00, few small 150.00-210.00.

dairy cattle

Not Reported †

National Sheep Summary

10/30/15

Compared to last week heavy slaughter lambs were steady to 3.00 lower; light slaughter lambs were firm to sharply Springfield, Mo. • Springfield Livestock Marketing Center 10/27/15 higher. Slaughter ewes were steady to 15.00 higher, except 80.00-107.50 † at New Holland, PA and San Angelo, TX where they were Receipts: 585 85.00-105.00 † OKC West - El Reno steady to 10.00 lower. Feeder lambs were steady to 10.00 The demand was good. The supply was light with near Ouachita Livestock Auction Not Reported † higher. At San Angelo, TX 3431 head sold in a one day sale.

05 percent springer heifers, 18 percent bred heifers, 32 86.00-115.00 † Ozarks Regional Stockyardd 10/27/15 Equity Electronic Auction sold 330 slaughter lambs in North percent open heifers, 04 percent fresh cows, 04 percent Buffalo, Mo. • Buffalo Livestock Market 102.00* Stilwell Livestock Auction Dakota and 376 slaughter lambs in Nebraska. In direct milking cows, 06 percent bred and springer cows, and 06 Receipts: 1010 Tulsa Livestock Auctionn 82.00-110.00 † Supply was good and demand was very good with a near trading no comparison on slaughter ewes and feeder lambs. percent baby calves. The balance was steers, bulls and 5900 head of negotiated sales of slaughter lambs were 1.0050 70 90 110 130 150 170 slaughter cows. Prices reported are on a per head basis standing Room only crowd on hand. Sheep markets 2.00 lower. 7900 head of formula sales under 55 lbs were were mostly steady compared to last month while goat and for Holsteins unless noted otherwise. markets were higher. The supply made up of 51 percent not well tested; 55-65 lbs were 2.00-3.00 higher; 65-85 lbs Springer Heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme slaughter and feeder Lambs, 21 percent ewes and rams, were 2.00-5.00 lower and over 85 lbs were not well tested.

1750.00-2175.00, ind crossbred 1900.00, Approved 1400.00-1600.00, ind crossbred 1575.00, Medium 1150.00- 16 percent kid goats, and 5 percent Does and bucks. All 6,237 carcasses sold with 45 lbs and down 13.51 lower; 45-55 lbs .69 lower; 55-65 lbs 3.61 higher and 685 lbs and prices are per hundred weight unless noted otherwise.

1325.00, Common 925.00-1130.00.

(Week of 10/25/15 to 10/31/15) up .20-.96 lower. All sheep sold per hundred weight (CWT) SHEEP: Heifers bred three to six months: Supreme 1600.00unless otherwise specified.

Arkansas Cattle Feeder Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 Wool 30-40 lbs 1810.00, Jerseys 1775.00-1825.00, crossbreds 1690.0057.00-86.00 † 5 Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 90-160 lbs: Ash Flat 1800.00, Approved 1300.00-1575.00, few Jerseys 1475.00, 210.00-225.00.

50.00-86.00 † Slaughter Lambs: Wool: Good and Choice 2-3 68-115 lbs San Angelo: shorn and wooled 100-165 lbs 125.00-135.00. crossbreds 1300.00-1385.00, Medium 1100.00-1275.00 Barry County Regional Livestock 75.00-94.00* VA: wooled 90-110 lbs 135.00; 110-130 lbs 175.00. ind crossbred 1100.00, Common 800.00-825.00, ind Jesey 150.00-170.00; 131 lbs 102.00.

Benton County Sale 60.00-86.00 † Hair: Choice and Prime 3-4 45-78 lbs 190.00-215.00; 83- PA: shorn and wooled 110-130 lbs 182.00-184.00.

910.00.

Cattlemen’s Livestock 70.00-96.00* 103 lbs 167.50-186.00. Good 2-3 45-79 lbs 162.50-185.00; Ft.Collins, CO: no test.

Heifers bred one to three months: Supreme 1500.00Cleburne County 57.00-84.00 † 80-110 lbs 131.00-155.00. Utility 1-2 70-79 lbs 70.0-75.00. South Dakota: shorn and wooled 105-160 lbs 151.00-153.50.

1550.00, ind Jersey 1525.00, Approved 1290.00-1310.00, County Line Sale - Ratcliff Not Reported † Billings, MT: no test. few Jerseys 1435.00, crossbreds 1315.00-1475.00, Medium Replacement Hair Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2 125 lbs 65.00-88.00* Decatur Livestock Kalona, IA: shorn 145-160 lbs 148.00-154.00; wooled 120-175 122.50. few 1225.00, ind crossbred 1225.00, Common 750.00Farmer’s & Ranchers 68.00-127.00* Slaughter Ewes: Wooled Ewes: Cull-Utility 1 105-155 lbs lbs 142.50-150.00.

1000.00, few crossbreds 1100.00.

Farmers Livestock 57.00-80.00 † Missouri: no test.

40.00-43.00.

Open Heifers: Approved 195-290 lbs 380.00- 600.00, Ft. Smith Livestock Not Reported † Equity Elec: 100-130 lbs 149.75; 145 lbs shorn 154.25.

Hair Ewes: Choice 3-4 3-5 85-126 lbs 102.50-120.00; few crossbreds 460.00, 320-365 lbs 630.00-790.00, few I-40 Livestock - Ozark Not Reported † Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 1: 140-153 lbs 85.00-89.00. Good-Choice 2-3 90-139 lbs crossbreds 570.00-590.00, 415-490 lbs 620.00-760.00, Joplin Regional 60.00-90.00 † San Angelo: 40-60 lbs 234.00-248.00, few 254.00; 60-70 lbs 72.50-98.00. Utility 1-2 105 lbs 62.50-65.00.

504-577 lbs 740.00- 930.00, 602-695 lbs 980.00-1100.00, Mid-State Stock 55.00-91.00* 220.00-240.00; 70-80 lbs 190.00-220.00; 80-90 lbs 200.00Rams: Few Replacement Hair Rams Medium and Large crossbreds 960.00-1140.00, 703-807 lbs 990.00-1160.00, 60.00-87.00 † North Arkansas 202.00; 93 lbs 180.00.

1-2 115-260 lbs 135.00-153.00. few crossbreds 930.00-1160.00.

64.00-90.00 † OKC West - El Reno Pennsylvania: 50-60 lbs 300.00-305.00; 60-70 lbs 235.00Slaughter Rams: Hair Rams: Good 2-3 110-200 lbs Medium: 390-395 lbs 470.00-590.00.

Not Reported † Ouachita Livestock Auction 255.00.

60.00-90.00.

Replacement Cows: Fresh Cows: Supreme 1725.0058.00-90.50 † Ozarks Regional 1975.00, Approved 1550.00-1650.00, ind Jersey 1525.00, Stilwell Livestock Auction 85.00* Medium few 1200.00-1400.00, ind crossbred 1425.00, Tulsa Live 51.00-89.00 † Common 800.00-1175.00, crossbreds 1025.00-1075.00.

89.00-114.00 † 81.00-99.00*

sheep &

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.

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70

90

110

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Ash Flat Livestock

510

130

stocker & feeder

150

Benton Co. - Siloam Springs 10/29/15

Cattlemen’s Livestock*

10/30/15

Barry Co. Regional Stockyards* 10/31/15

10/28/15

Cleburne Co. - Heber Springs 10/26/15

1040

595

615

998

294

Uneven

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Uneven

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225.00-255.00 200.00-237.50 180.00-205.00 170.00-185.00 -----

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230.00-280.00 190.00-235.00 172.00-208.00 170.00-185.00 150.00-178.00

243.00-283.00 209.00-248.00 190.00-226.00 183.00-195.00 175.00

220.00-265.00 195.00-230.00 180.00-220.00 175.00-197.00 -----

217.50-267.50 195.00-224.00 184.00-200.00 174.00-184.00 -----

----170.00-205.00 160.00-185.00 160.00-174.00 155.00-162.50

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222.00-289.00 206.00-235.00 185.00-220.00 169.00-182.00 170.00-175.00

205.00-259.00 190.00-218.00 180.00-215.00 165.00-180.00 150.00-168.00

----170.00-208.00 163.00-192.00 160.00-174.00 -----

170.00-220.00 180.00-217.50 165.00-188.00 160.00-170.00 -----

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198.00-262.50 170.00-195.00 162.00-190.00 158.00-173.00 150.00-174.00

204.00-219.00 185.00-217.00 175.00-195.00 170.00-193.00 -----

200.00-231.00 185.00-217.00 170.00-200.00 160.00-183.00 150.00-168.00

200.00-215.00 180.00-209.00 157.00-184.00 164.00-177.00 -----

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767

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235.00-265.00 221.00-235.00 200.00-221.00 196.00-200.00 149.00-196.00

235.00-275.00 217.00-248.00 190.00-221.00 170.00-180.00 170.00-176.00

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220.00-251.00 207.50-240.00 183.00-209.00 165.00-168.00 150.00-155.00

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195.00-240.00 187.00-206.00 180.00-192.00 174.00-185.00 165.00-175.00

213.00-247.00 191.00-213.00 179.00-191.00 183.00-179.00 162.00-183.00

195.00-232.50 180.00-206.00 171.00-199.00 165.00-167.00 -----

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Farmer’s & Farmers Ranchers Livestock Vinita, Okla.* Springdale 10/28/15 10/30/15

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202.00-220.0 185.00-207.0 174.00-196.0 170.00-188.0 180.00

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replacement

Kalona, IA: 77 lbs 215.00; 85 lbs 205.00. on 1 30-80 lbs 230.00-265.00.

Ft. Collins: 54 lbs 185.00; 70-80 lbs 169.00-177.50; 80-85 lbs 80.00-205.00. Selection 3 35-80 lbs 170.00-172.50; 90-110 lbs 157.50-165.00.

Missouri: 45-80 lbs 160.00-215.00; 80-105 lbs 147.00-186.00. ncy Dairy Does 100-150 lbs 100.00- Virginia: 30-60 lbs 175.00; 60-90 lbs 150.00-185.00.

South Dakota: no test. ion 2 70-145 lbs 120.00-180.00; Billings, MT: no test. n 3 78-155 lbs 90.00-115.00.

Selection 1 100-130 lbs 152.50head. ction 1 75-155 lbs 160.00-205.00.

132.50-155.00.

$265 $230

800.00-1675.00 † 1250.00-1750.00* 12 1350.00-1900.00 † 1300.00-1850.00 * 105.00-136.00 † Prices reported per cwt

$160

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OKC West - El Reno, Okla.

10/28/15

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429

1090

5226

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St-5 Higher

Uneven

1-10 Higher

255.00-275.00 210.00-267.50 192.00-231.00 180.00-209.00 166.00-202.00

225.00-265.00 222.00-241.00 202.00-219.00 185.00-199.00 -----

231.00-258.00 216.00-239.00 191.00-217.00 185.00-195.00 179.00-190.00

255.00-335.00 220.00-267.50 201.00-232.00 179.00-211.00 169.00-198.00

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211.00-251.00 195.00-220.00 180.00-205.00 168.00-185.00 -----

222.00-238.00 205.00-227.00 188.00-214.00 172.00-183.00 166.00-173.00

255.00-280.00 204.00-235.00 183.00-223.00 180.00-185.00 167.00-170.00

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200.00-233.00 183.00-212.00 179.00-189.00 161.00-177.00 -----

198.00-227.00 181.00-210.00 165.00-188.00 172.00-175.00 162.00-169.00

237.00-257.00 202.00-229.00 171.00-207.00 176.00-196.00 169.00-195.50

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1000

191.37 185.16

164.00 ** 170.68 173.00 162.18

179.17

167.24

181.03

177.24

190.56

180.00

185.25 191.27

173.94

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** 208.10

196.18

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201.41 188.89 193.27 **

171.33 164.87

Week of 10/11/15

200.60 181.50

181.85 181.19 174.97 ** 168.60

186.56 195.13

175.58 172.48

190.46 193.92

174.85 184.38

213.73

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** 190.24

207.62

1300.00-2300.00 †

205.39

2400.00* None Reported †

175.83 173.42

198.19

3000

4000

5000

Ouachita Livestock Ola, Ark. -----

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1384

4594

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Higher

4-9 Higher

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Week of 10/4/15

182.11 **

Not Reported † Not Reported †

2000

164.27 155.37

188.10 205.28 196.97 206.31 188.00

177.07 188.85 191.00 177.67 170.00

187.67

176.23 176.72 173.08

195.81 196.09

182.71

209.81

186.09

210.93

*

*

190.85

210.99

242.00-272.50 220.00-242.00 200.00-225.00 190.00-208.00 190.00-192.50

289.00 249.00 233.00 204.00 175.00

280.50 241.00-250.00 202.00-226.00 186.00-193.50 165.00-180.00

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223.00-235.00 205.00-225.00 180.00-215.00 172.50-181.00 157.00-165.00

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245.00-255.00 226.00-244.50 201.00-220.00 172.50-190.00 160.00-173.50

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217.00-238.00 192.50-211.00 180.00-202.50 176.00-190.00 172.50-180.00

289.00 209.00 214.00 180.00 170.00

235.00-243.00 200.00-243.50 189.00-208.00 187.00-193.50 177.00-179.00

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175.43

202.18 188.24 200.39 ** ** **

174.13

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4.76 3.56

191.00 168.00

193.25

1400.00-2100.00 † Mid-State Stockyards 1250.00-2050.00 * North Arkansas Livestock - Green Forest None Reported † 1700.00-2300.00 † OKC West - El Reno Not Reported † Ouachita Livestock Auction

5.06

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166.33

Week of 10/18/15

6.22

5.19 4.01

Joplin Regional Stockyards 10/26/15

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8.92

8.66

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175.55

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heifers 550-600 LBS.

198.93

pairs

avg. grain prices

149.75; 145 lbs shorn 154.25. e and Prime 1: 34.00-248.00, few 254.00; 60-70 lbs 190.00-220.00; 80-90 lbs 200.00-

May 15 June 15 July 15 Aug. 15 Sept. 15 Oct. 15

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cow/calf

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

1125.00-1850.00 † Not Reported † Not Reported †

Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.5950 and 40# blocks at 865.00-1900.00 † eavy slaughter lambs were steady $1.6200. The weekly average for barrels is $1.5590 (-.0240) Mid-State Stock 800.00-1800.00 * ghter lambs were firm to sharply and blocks, $1.6085 (-.0130).

North Arkansas Livestock 1000.00-1725.00 † were steady to 15.00 higher, except Fluid Milk: Farm milk production is seasonally lower in d San Angelo, TX where they were the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Pacific Northwest, Utah, and 1100.00-1950.00 † OKC West - El Reno eeder lambs were steady to 10.00 Idaho. Milk output remains steady in the North Central Ouachita Livestock Auction Not Reported † TX 3431 head sold in a one day sale. states, Florida and Arizona. Milk intakes are mixed in the 1000.00-2250.00 † Ozarks Regional Stockyardd on sold 330 slaughter lambs in North Central region. The remnants of Hurricane Patricia did 2100.00 * Stilwell Livestock Auction er lambs in Nebraska. In direct not affect the milk yield in the Southwest. Thus, milk Tulsa Livestock Auction 1225.00-1825.00 † n slaughter ewes and feeder lambs. production is improving in California and New Mexico.

250 750 1250 1750 2250 2750 sales of slaughter lambs were 1.00- Bottled milk demand eased in Florida. However, is mostly of formula sales under 55 lbs were steady in the rest of the country with some unticks in s were 2.00-3.00 higher; 65-85 lbs California and Arizona. In the Central region, prices on spot nd over 85 lbs were not well tested. milk loads range from flat Class to $1.00 over Class. Cream h 45 lbs and down 13.51 lower; demand continues strong in all regions of the country.

-65 lbs 3.61 higher and 685 lbs and SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM, $ PER eep sold per hundred weight (CWT) POUND BUTTERFAT F.O.B. producing plants: Upper (Week of 10/25/15 to 10/31/15) d.

Midwest - $3.0085-3.3044.

Arkansas Cattle Auction None Reported † e and Prime 2-3 90-160 lbs: Ash Flat Livestock 1200.00 † wooled 100-165 lbs 125.00-135.00.

Barry County Regional 1700.00-2200.00* 35.00; 110-130 lbs 175.00.

Benton County Sale Barn None Reported † 10-130 lbs 182.00-184.00.

Cattlemen’s Livestock 1550.00-1900.00 * Week Ended 11/3/15 Cleburne County Livestock 1570.00 † d wooled 105-160 lbs 151.00-153.50.

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Nov. 14 Dec. 14 Jan. 15 Feb. 15 Mar. 15 Apr. 15

Week of 10/18/15

Ash Flat Livestock Barry County Regional Stockyards Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction Cleburne County Livestock Auction County Line Sale - Ratcliff Decatur Livestock Farmer’s & Ranchers Farmers Livestock - Springdale Ft. Smith Livestock I-40 Livestock - Ozark Joplin Regional

10/30/15

$195

900.00-1460.00 †

Arkansas Cattle

10/30/15

60 lbs 148.00-154.00; wooled 120-175

550-600 lb. steers

(Week of 10/25/15 to 10/31/15)

dairy sales

National Dairy Market at a Glance

cows

12 Month Avg. -

$300

178.03 ** ** ** 173.56

186.21 192.61

187.02 177.41

196.60 208.58

189.30 185.56

207.43 160

184 208 232 256 280 * No price reported in weight break **USDA Failed To Report *** No Sale - Holiday

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“It’s working with all of the technology ily was living in a subdivision in Vilonia, that’s associated with agriculture,” Travis over the county line in Faulkner County, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “So far, I’m Ark., when his older sister Emily came just taking a lot of basic classes, just basic home from a 4-H meeting with a desire to understanding of animals and plants. I can’t raise rabbits. Eventually the enterprises grew to 25 rabbits and 30 chickens. wait until I jump into it even farther.”

“Our neighbors were wondering what After two years, he plans to transfer to we were doing,” Travis said. “We said a four-year college, and from there? we should probably move out “I’ve thought about that a of the subdivision to some lot, and I really like Extenland where we can expand sion,” he said. “Extension El Paso, Ark. a little bit.” They lived in a puts on 4-H at the local small building on the property level, and they do a lot of in El Paso for a year and a half, cool research and activities. until they were able to build their I really hope that’s where my own house. degree leads me but really,

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He called the farm a “joint cooperation.

“We share responsibilities; we share interest,” Travis explained. “We just kind of give and take as to what we do. I want to raise this animal, and everybody kind of pitches in a little bit, and we do the same for each other.”

They introduced the swine after the move.

“We fell in love with them,” Travis said.

“At first we just did show hogs, so we bought the pigs in the spring and fall and that was it. Then we said, ‘Why not keep one of them as a sow?’ I always wanted to raise pigs, but I’m just going to get a degree and see where that takes me. If I get a chance to work on a hog farm, I’ll definitely take that opportunity.”

As several piglets from the last litter scurried around in a pen, Travis explained they’re a common mixed breed for market hogs, Hampshire and Yorkshire with some Duroc.

“I really do like the Yorks the best, because I think they have the best personality,” he said. “One will stay on the place as a sow, one has been promised to another farmer as a boar, and the rest will be butcher hogs.

“We don’t actually keep a boar on the farm, because it’s a lot easier to artificially inseminate all of our sows. We ordered from a company that had this red-andwhite-and-black-spotted pig, and we got some cute little piglets out of him.”

They’ve tried several meat lockers, and currently use one in Bentonville, Ark. “You have to get a USDA certified butcher in order to sell the meat,” he said. “There’s not really much you have to do for the eggs other than they have to be clean, and after they’re refrigerated they have to stay refrigerated as we take them to markets.”

The Clarks’ laying chicken flock has swelled to 200, and the whole family tends to them. They sell the eggs at a farmers’ market, and also participate in an Internet marketing venture through which they sell eggs, pork and bread.

Travis said it’s getting to the point where the operation is a full-fledged farm.

“It does feel like that sometimes, but at NOVEMBER 9, 2015

this point it’s still just a hobby,” he said.

The swine enterprise and other farm chores, a full load of college courses, and being 4-H president sounds daunting, but Clark said he just takes things “one day at a time.”

The 4-H role involves making speeches promoting the educational organization; he spoke recently before the Arkansas

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Clark was district vice president last year, and decided to run for president in 2015.

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Maddie Kiefer works to achieve the ‘ultimate’ Alpine

Photo by Jocelyn Fortner

On a pleasant hillside overlooking the north end of Yellville, Ark., Maddie Kiefer resides with her husband, Al, and lots of animals. Most prominent are her French Alpine goats, Maddie’s pride and joy. She’s quick to say, “They are part of my family.” Maddie has raised, bred and milked Alpine goats for 20 years.

Maddie raises her goats for their milk.

She doesn’t sell the goat milk to a processor, but she has a list of individuals who buy all the milk she can produce.

Her animals are highlysought as show goats, in addition to being great Maddie Kiefer has a list of customers who will milkers. Maddie shows buy all the milk her Alpine goats produce. her own goats, winning prizes at many local “I will purchase a buckling probably every competitions. Her goal other year,” she explained. “I’m looking for is to continually better her herd.

“I raise them to improve the breed, his mother and a grandmother, hopefully to get something better than what I’ve on both sides… I don’t want a flash in the had,” she said. “And then I cull what I pan. You want to have both mom and dad don’t think, in my mind’s eye, was what genetically coming down well.”

Maddie belongs to the American Dairy I was looking for.”

Maddie enjoys trying to improve the Goat Association and keeps excellent breed and raise the “ultimate” Alpine. records. Maddie said good records are Quality and healthy animals are the the best tool for improving any breed.

From the looks of her two bucklings most important things to her.

Traveler and Leprachaun, she Maddie’s dad was a cattlereally knows her stuff. man, so she’s been around farm Yellville, Ark. Of course it’s also imporanimals all her life and for the tant for the females to be last 20 years she has perfected well bred as well. her line of French Alpines.

“You want mom and dad genetShe uses AI, but also purchases ically coming down well,” Madbucklings. She is particular die said. She chooses the females about their bloodlines.

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meet your neighbors because they have what she calls “beautiful udders.” The milk production is the allimportant thing.

Although there are many different kinds of goats, Maddie chose French Alpines because of their milk.

“I like their milk,” she said. “Each breed has just a slightly different taste.”

Maddie hand-milks her goats. Depending on the goat, it might take her 15 to 20 minutes per goat, twice daily. But Maddie doesn’t mind the milking.

“That’s my down time,” she said. “I get to sit and milk and talk to the girls and tell them about my day. It’s relaxing to me and the girls. I just enjoy it.”

Maddie milks the does for 10 months, then they’re dry for two months, then are bred. After five months gestation period, the cycle begins again.

When the kids are born, they’re all Maddie’s.

“The minute they’re born, I catch ‘em and they’re mine,” she said. “I feed them with a bottle and that way I’m their mother. I show them and I want them to behave.

You don’t want them doing flips in the air and screaming and other things like that.”

On the Kiefers’ eight acres of Marion County land, Maddie also has three dogs for the protection of her herd. Two Pyrenees and one Anatolian keep watch night and day. But these aren’t the only animals that come onto the property.

Maddie is a pet groomer and has owned and operated Shear Pleasure for 21 years.

Mostly she gives the spa treatment to dogs, but occasionally she’s also been known to trim a few goat toenails.

Maddie loves what she does. The grooming business and the Alpine herd keep her busy and happy and allow her to work without leaving her farm.

The French-Alpine is a breed of goat that originated in the Alps. The goats of Alpine breed that were brought to the United States from France where they had been selected for much greater uniformity, size, and production than was true of the goats that were taken from Switzerland to France.

Size and production rather than color pattern have been stressed in the development of the FrenchAlpine. No distinct color has been established, and it may range from pure white through shades of fawn, gray, brown, black, red, bluff, piebald, or various shadings or combinations of these colors.

Both sexes are generally short haired, but bucks usually have a roach of long hair along the spine.

The beard of males is also quite pronounced. The ears in the Alpine should be of medium size, fine textured, and preferably erect.

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FFA Chapter: Inola FFA Advisor: Mitchell Hankins What is your favorite aspect of agriculture?

“Right now my favorite part is showing hogs because I to go around the country and meet new people as well as care for animals I enjoy.”

Who is the most influential person in your life?

“At this point in time it is my ag teacher, Mitchell Hankins because I want to become an ag teacher. He is coaching me on what I need to pursue and learn to get there. I want to give back to the organizations and systems that have given me so much. I may start my future education at the College of the Ozarks or Northeast Oklahoma College, then transfer to OSU to complete my ag education degree.”

What is your current involvement in agriculture?

“Agriculture is actually the center of my life. I raise mostly Duroc pigs but just bred Yorkshire gilt and donated three. I participate in meat judging, cattle grading and some livestock judging. I bale hay and help other farmers and ranchers work their cattle.

I attend FFA sponsored academies in the summertime.

One I particularly enjoyed was the Future Agricultural Teachers Education Academy at Oklahoma State University, which showed us how to pursue the degree and also how to make a lesson plan. I have attended Alumni Camp, which is a leadership camp, for the last three years. They call it ‘the happiest place on earth,’ and I agree. You meet a group of strangers, and you become family by the end of the fourth day. I really like showing because it’s really family time and we all work together.”

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liquidation. Cattle prices spiked to unprecedented values based on national head counts lowering to what the cow herd was in 1950.

Nobody stopped to compute what the carcass weight was in 1950 vs. 2010-15. Needless to say, nobody was going hungry. Farmers saw a great opportunity and retained heifers for breeding to sell to the

By Ray Tubaugh people who just couldn’t resist to enter the market at its peak and ride it down. We didn’t listen to the voice in our head planted in his too shall pass is a proverb indicating that all material the past by wise people…….This too shall pass. conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. How true The effects to producers who varied from their practices have or for production agriculture. soon will be, coming to light. As they exit, they will leave excess Since 2010, the grain crops region experienced a spike machinery and livestock on the market further exasperating the upwards in prices that provided a sense of euphoria to Ray Tubaugh is a current situation. The truisms in production agriculture that have most producers and a sense that they could do no wrong. Mother Regional Loan Manager been in place over the years that should have been practiced are: Nature had just handed us two years of widespread drought in for Arvest Bank covering • Keep your crop rotation and cycle in place 2011 and 2012. This drastically lowered inventories while dethe Pittsburg, Kan. and • Expand into the capacity of your operation over time mand was constant or increasing. With the “I can’t fail” mentality Nevada and Lockwood, • Make improvements and investments in profitable years supported by crop insurance, farmers all over the country changed Mo., markets. Tubaugh • Mother Nature will always even you out their long term practices by planting crops on hills and under trees is a life-long resident of Remember these and you should be able to weather the storms. plus buying back Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acreage.

Jasper County and is an Good, long-term producers practice what they do well and vary With the extra production acreage and Mother Nature providing Ag Business Major from little from the proven path. They see production agriculture as a decent to good weather for crop development, we are now back Missouri State University. marathon not a sprint. It is a lifetime of investment and sacrifice, to where we started. We didn’t listen to the voice in our head and the prize at the finish line is a long time in coming. The Ameriplanted in the past by wise people….This too shall pass.

In the same time period for beef producers, Mother Nature supplied dry weather can farmer is efficient and invested in modern production techniques and continues throughout the Midwest and storms in the north that forced dramatic national herd to feed more and more people per day both in the USA and overseas.

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Cow/calf producers can improve their herds, see higher profits with simple changes What are some common mistakes made by cow/calf producers? Dr. Tom Troxel would rather describe them as missed opportunities.

“Mistakes sounds negative,” the associate director of the University of Arkansas Department of Animal Science told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor.

Among those missed opportunities is the failure to castrate bull calves.

“Some producers have the perception that if they don’t castrate their bull calves, they’ll have a higher weight at weaning time than steer calves,” Troxel said. “We just completed a trial at the University of Arkansas where we castrated bull calves at birth and we found out that at weaning time bull calves, and steer calves did not have any difference in weaning weights. Bulls are discounted compared to steers, so by not castrating the bull calves they’re taking a severe discount at selling time.”

He said producers who do castrate bull calves, but don’t implant them, are missing another opportunity. “Growth implants have been around for 50 to 60 years,” he said. “They’re very, very safe, and generally what we see is a return of $20 on that $1 investment. It increases gain by 5 to 6 percent, or about 20 pounds, so that would be a tremendous return on their investment in the marketplace today.”

The myth here is that buyers discount implanted cattle, but Troxel said a new study involving 2 million head of cattle indicates that is not the case.

On the reproductive side, Troxel said producers would benefit from a short, defined breeding season, rather than leaving their bulls in with the cows year round. A 75to 90-day breeding season would let producers better organize their time and labor, match up the nutrient requirements of their cows to the quality of their grass, and better market their calves because they would be more uniform to sell in groups. Having all the calves at the same age would also make it easier to work them. And he recommended producers have their forage tested, so they know its nutrient value and can calculate the best, least-cost ration to balance the nutrients with the cows’ needs.

University of Missouri Regional Livestock Specialist Eldon Cole said producers need to better coordinate the quality of feed with the cattle receiving it.

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“We will figure out how to increase production agriculture whether livestock or crops through smarter land use.”

“Many of them run their spring calving and fall calving cows together, maybe with some heifers that they’re just getting ready to breed,” Cole told OFN. “They cannot do a good job of matching the feed quality that they have with the nutrient needs of those various classes of cattle.”

He said producers aren’t managing forage well, and would be better off harvesting it at an earlier stage of maturity, when it has more nutritional value.

“You shouldn’t just look at how many bales you can wrap up,” Cole said.

He added that many small producers do not take advantage of improved genetics.

To them, bulls are “just bulls,” and their owners know nothing about their background, their genetic makeup and whether they can pass on favorable traits like calving ease, good growth or carcass merit.

“Following right along with that is the failure for more people to artificially inseminate their cattle,” he said. “Right now it looks like we only have about 10 percent of our commercial cattle bred AI. We have heat synchronization programs now where we don’t have to watch them real closely several times a day; we can set them up for a timed artificial insemination, and where we realistically should get about 50 percent bred one time through the chute, maybe up into the 60s. We’d like to think we can get 65 percent or better when they are all timed AI.” Why don’t producers do these things?

“They don’t go to enough Extension meetings,” Cole laughed. “They look at a cow herd, especially if they just have one bull and small acreage, and think, ‘If I make a little money on it, good, but I’m not out here striving to be the very best.’ I think they need a little more attitude adjustment and to look at this as, ‘Maybe I can make a little more money if I invest in this technology.’ But not everybody is going to buy into some of the technological things that are out there; some feel like they wouldn’t make them much more money and are a lot of trouble. They think it’s just an expense, but it can be an investment towards producing a better feeder calf or market animal.”

“Technology will be the key to more efficiency in technique and my generation will be the ones to develop that technology.”

Courtney Adkins Leflore County, Okla.

“I think our generation will make farming easier especially in feed efficiency and the AI conception rate.”

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“I think we can develop new fertilizers and cross forage and grazing plants to produce foraging and grazing with more nutritional value.”

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Managing Manure

By Gary Digiuseppe

Experts recommend that producers test their soil to see what is needed first You can get all the nutrient performance on your pastures from manure that get from commercial fertilizer; in fact, you may even get a little bit more.

That’s according to Tim Schnakenberg, University of Missouri Extension forage agronomist. Schnakenberg told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor manure “is a slow release fertilizer, and you’re getting additional micronutrients you can’t necessarily get out of commercial fertilizer. Plus, you’re able to get microorganisms that also help in the process of improving the soil health and the properties of the soil.”

There are a few factors to consider before using chicken litter or dairy manure as fertilizer. First, soil test your pastures, hayfields and crop fields to determine your nutrient needs.

Dr. John Jennings, University of Arkansas professor of animal science, said poultry litter offers many benefits.

“Poultry litter can have the most value to the producer where the soil test shows that they need nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, because litter generally contains all three nutrients,” he explained. “When the soil test on the producer’s particular field has high phosphorus and high potassium, the nutrient content of the litter has no value to them, because you wouldn’t get a crop response.”

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Next, analyze the manure source. This can be tricky, due to its nonuniformity.

Schakenberg recommended sampling multiple places in the piles, and using that as a guideline for what will be an average for your applications. Also, measure moisture, especially for chicken litter.

“Turkey litter usually has a little more moisture to it and is a little harder to spread sometimes,” he said. “And the cleanouts are different; sometimes it’s a one year cleanout, sometimes two years, and sometimes it’s a four week growout versus an eight-week growout.”

Prioritize the fields to be treated; some will need nutrients more than others, particularly those that have had a lot of hay or crop production, or any that have not been performing up to par.

Also, identify the buffer zones.

“Most haulers understand how close they can get to wells and property lines, along with houses and streams. In Missouri, buffer zones are anywhere from 50 to 300 feet, and there are guidelines from the state Department of Natural Resources,” Schnakenberg said.

Counties may also have separate regulations.

And finally he said, it’s important to calibrate the application equipment, and make sure it’s putting out what it needs to.

“So much of the time, equipment gets old or in disrepair, and it’s not applying uniformly,” Schnakenberg said.

Jennings added there are many factors involved in getting the spreader calibrated.

“If you overapply, you’re wasting money,” he said. “If you’re putting a limited amount of litter on a certain number of acres, you can spread that out. If you underapply, you’re not going to get as much forage growth response as you’d like to have. There are a number of methods to calibrate, and make sure you get close on your application rate.”

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Keeping your kids safe on the farm through education, common sense Raising kids on the farm is your kids are, you should also be aware of many people’s idea of the Amer- the hazards on your farm.

According to the National Safety ican dream. Folks love to hear about Council, producers should children showing sheep and inspect their farm on a regucows at 4-H fairs, and seeing lar basis for hazards that can photos of kids chasing chickinjure children wandering on ens and digging in the garden. your farm. Correct obvious Sadly, you also often hear hazards immediately. about accidents on the farm Taking an extra few steps to involving children. Farms are secure your equipment is one wonderful places for kids to way to prevent a hazardous grow up and learn responsibilsituation. ity and work ethic, but they The council also advised can also at times be dangerous. that farmers always turn off Teaching your children a solid foundation about how things ext.ozarksfn.com equipment, lower hydraulics and remove keys before leavwork on a farm, and making it ing equipment unattended. a point to keep an eye on them, Sometimes, a hazardous situation may can help keep them safe from accidents. come up that might not be the best time for a teachable moment.

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Train them to let you know where they are going, and try to keep small children from wandering without an adult to keep them safe.

As children get older and more knowledgeable, they will gain more independence and freedom on the farm, but it is still a good practice for them to inform you of where they will be. One of the best ways to know where your children are is to simply take them with you when you are out and about working on the farm – not only can you keep an eye on them, but you can give them countless opportunities to learn from you.

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The key to building a good foundation to keep your kids safe both on and off the farm is common sense. Setting a wise example encourages children to follow suite.

While boundaries are important for safe and successful learning, it is also important to trust them and provide patience and a little freedom as you teach them processes and responsibilities.

Collecting wood, gathering eggs and making children responsible for their own possessions, such as toys or their tools, help prepare children for tasks as they get older, based on what’s appropriate for their age and skill level.

The National Safety Council recommends that children who are physically able to be involved in farm work should be assigned age-appropriate tasks and continually trained to perform them.

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By Pam and Terry Lamb

Oklahoma Quality Beef Network offers producers information on value enhancement The Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association (OCA) was established in 1953 by regional cattlemen’s organizations to assist producers on a statewide level. The OCA’s purpose today is to advocate for producers at the local, state and national level, as well as educate, communicate and provide a forum for discussion for Oklahoma cattlemen.

In an attempt to aid cattlemen, the OCA joined forces with the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service to form the Oklahoma Quality Beef Network (OQBN). The purpose of the OQBN is to offer unbiased information on beef cattle value enhancement. An advisory board made up from the OCA and faculty from Oklahoma State University’s Animal Science, Agricultural Economics and Veterinary Medicine departments oversees the OQBN. “At its core, OQBN provides improved communication among producers of all segments of the beef industry and allows for increased education,” Gant Mourer OQBN Coordinator said. “The OQBN is available to aid producers in making preconditioning decisions and capturing value of preconditioned calves when it becomes time to market,” Gant said.

The OQBN provides producers and others in the beef industry with education and enhanced access to value-added programs.

The programs include health management verification, age verification, source verification, production system verification, genetic verification, individual animal identification and traceability, alignment with appropriate value-added cattle markets and increased access to export markets. Cattle producers in Oklahoma and adjacent states may participate in OQBN programs.

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mand and feedlot performance. “In 2014, OQBN participants realized almost $20.00/ cwt premium over cattle that had no weaning or health history. The value of gain for those calves continued to be well over a 1$/lbs and cost of gain continued to hover around 0.75$/lbs with death loss less than half a percent and many producers seeing none,” Gant said. “Buyers offset purchase prices by very low death loss themselves with many turning cattle out on wheat pasture right when they got home. Those cattle also gained two to three pounds from day one.” For a producer to take advantage of these value-added opportunities; the cattle must be enrolled in the OQBN Vac-45 program following one of three health protocols, be weaned by the OQBN set deadline and be third party verified by extension personnel. “The OQBN Vac-45 health verification program assists producers in meeting management requirements so cattle can be marketed as OQBN Vac45 cattle,” Gant said.

“Last winter proved to be challenge for many in the state due to lack of rain, and this summer has presented challenges for some producers with too much rain.

Pasture conditions are in good shape,” Gant Mourer said. “At this point many producers are deciding how to market calves this fall. With continuing high cattle prices, the decision to precondition calves prior to shipping will be much harder for some. Many management options exist and even with increased prices, those management options are still valuable to producers and may have more value than many think.”

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Controlling Weeds in the Fall

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Herbicides may be less effective if weeds are stressed Fall weed control can contribute to better pasture growth next year; it depends, though, on which weeds, and how many of them, are growing in your pasture.

“Some perennial broadleaf weeds can be controlled pretty well in the fall before the plants start going dormant,” Dr. John Jennings, professor of animal science at the University of Arkansas, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “However, summer annual weeds like ragweed, pigweed and woolly croton all die in the fall so attempts at weed control in the fall really don’t do any good, and the herbicides that you apply wouldn’t have any effect on next year’s weed growth.”

Even on the perennials, herbicides will be less effective if the weeds are so stressed they can’t take up the chemicals. It’s also valuable to conduct a weed inventory before spraying; Jennings said if there are just a few scattered weeds, an herbicide application will only help keep your fields clean. If there’s a tremendous weed encroachment, though, it can make a difference.”

To conduct an inventory, walk a line across the field. Stop at every fourth or fifth step, and record a tally mark on the sheet next to the category corresponding to what is at the end of your right toe, whether it is a grass, legume, weed or bare ground. Continue walking across the field until you collect at least 50 and preferably 100 such data points. Record the data for each pasture on different tally sheets.

“Our rule of thumb is if it’s 20 percent weeds, you can do some control,” Jennings said.

University of Missouri Extension Forage Agronomist Tim Schnakenberg said fall is a good time to address biennials like thistle, poison hemlock (carrotweed) and spotted knapweed.

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“Usually, the biennials will be in a rosette stage starting in October, so they’re very susceptible to herbicides,” he said. “These species can also be sprayed in the early spring.

Schnakenberg said, “If we have a mild winter, sometimes there will be biennials that will continue to germinate throughout the winter. If you wait until early spring and spray the rosettes then, you can probably even catch a few more.”

It’s particularly important to catch buckbrush (coralberry) in April, when its leaves are just emerging, because the weed can be very difficult to control in the summer.

As of mid-October, producers were still applying brush control. Schnakenberg said MU research has found blackberry control is enhanced two to three weeks prior to the first frost.

“We’ve also found that some brushier species, like oaks, persimmons and locusts, can be sprayed as long as their leaves are green and healthy,” he said.

“When they yellow or turn shades or red and start to die, we’re not going to get anything done...The rule of thumb for most brush species is to spray when the leaves are fully expanded and new; the plant needs to be happy and healthy, which means it’s had some rain recently, and it’s still in a young vegetative stage.”

Winter annuals and some of the thistles start to emerge in the fall, and Jennings said they should be controlled from late October into November and early December.

“If we can kill them while they’re still small we can have a good effect on next spring’s production, “ he said. “Most people don’t get excited about trying to control those until next March, but March is usually too windy or too muddy so they can’t get into the field.” You can also apply a lower rate of herbicide when the weeds are just emerging in the late fall.

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Laminitis: Key Causes

By Gary Digiuseppe

Excessive inflammation causes degeneration of the lamina For horse owners, laminitis or founder can be tragic. “Many of these horses are eventually euthanized due to the chronic pain and the permanent deformity of their hooves” Dr. Heidi Ward, Arkansas Extension veterinarian.

Laminitis is inflammation of the lamina, which secures the hoof wall to the skin or dermis that sheathes the horse’s foot. Ward likened the hoof to a single human finger, where the fingernail is the wall, the nail bed is the securing lamina, and the connecting tissue is the subcutis, which attaches everything to the coffin bone. “Excessive inflammation causes degeneration of the lamina, so it is no longer allowing the wall to support the deep structures in response to force,” she said. “As a result, force makes the bone rotate, causing pain and lameness.”

One of the biggest causes of the affliction is diet. Horses can develop laminitis from consumption of lush, green grasses or large quantities of soluble carbohydrates like grain, bread or even black walnut shavings. It can also be the result of systemic disease or severe injury that cause the animal to favor one limb and place more stress

on others. Age is a factor as well, and Ward said horses greater than 20 years of age are three times more likely to develop laminitis.

A veterinarian can diagnose laminitis by looking at a radiograph, or X-ray; the higher the degree of rotation of the coffin bone, the worse the diagnosis. The vet also checks the palmar digital artery on the back of the hoof; if the pulse is bounding, that’s a sign that laminitis may be forming. Ward said non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, vasodilators and anticoagulants can decrease the inflammation, and a cold compress along with corrective hoof trimming and shoeing can alleviate the pressure and pain.

As for prevention, “The best thing people can do for their horses is proper condition and care,” Ward said. Make sure hooves are trimmed properly; don’t let them get too much greens or grain. “And of course, if they become ill – particularly with colic or diarrhea – get treatment from the veterinarian right away, because they will already be in danger of laminitis at that point and can be monitored and started on therapy,” said Ward.

Some horses, but not all, respond to sugars in their food with high releases of insulin, which is toxic to the foot.

The Oral Sugar Test is the standardized way of evaluating whether an individual horse or pony in sensitive to ingested sugars. The animal ingests a small quantity of corn syrup, and its blood insulin level is measured; some horses have high insulin responses to the test, and can be identified as being at risk to laminitis.

The connection between insulin and risk of laminitis has only been known since 2007. Like humans with Type 2 diabetes, susceptible horses can be administered the drug metformin, which reduces sugar uptake by the bowel.

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