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Ozarks couple tapped for national committee: Billy and Kalena Bruce of Cedar County, Mo., were recently named to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s national Young Farmer and Ranchers Committee. The Bruces have a cow-calf cattle operation in Cedar County, near Stockton.

Billy, 33, and Kalena, 30, have been farming full time for four years. They both grew up in the area and followed their parents’ leads with involvement in agriculture and organizations.

Fair receives awards: The Ozark Empire Fair received more than 20 honors of recognition during the recent 125th Annual International Association of Fairs and Expositions (IAFE) Convention with a total of nine first-place awards.

In the agriculture divisions, OEF received six first-place honors. An agricultural education programming venture between the Ozark Empire Fair, Greene County 4-H Extension and the Missouri State University Darr School of Agriculture was recognized by the IAFE as a Best of Division Winner. Best of Division is an award recognizing the best overall agriculture program from Division 2 of fairs with an annual attendance of 100,001 – 250,000. The Dig into Ag-Venture Camp received two first-place awards for a new program that was established to promote agriculture and a fair/partner joint program. In addition, the Ozark Empire Fair received first-place honors for its overall program for competitive agriculture exhibitors, overall program for the non-agricultural fairgoing public, agricultural video and non-fair agriculture event for the Lawn and Garden Show.

Man sentenced for cattle, equipment thefts: A southwestern Missouri man has agreed to a 15-year prison sentence after admitting he stole thousands of dollars worth of cattle and farm equipment. Howard Perryman, 66, pleaded guilty in Greene County, Mo., to two counts of stealing and one count of tampering with a motor vehicle. As part of Perryman’s 2013 arrest in Greene County, Mo., authorities say they recovered stolen equipment from Greene, Christian, Webster, Jasper, Dade and Lawrence counties.

Ozarks Farm & Neighbor begins email notification: Ozarks Farm & Neighbor has launched an email update service, offering information about upcoming issues, agriculture-related news and events, as well as educational information that producers will find useful for their operation. To sign up for the free email notification, go to join.ozarksfn.com and fill out the online form.

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Jerry Crownover – Going high-tech Julie Turner-Crawford – Proud of the jacket

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Circle B Ranch is home to more than 360 happy hogs

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Paul Jones: A pioneer in agriculture

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Taressa Rankin is making great strides in the trail horse world

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Haired sheep help feed the market at Thoreson Ranch

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Town & Country features Mike Richner

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Youth in Agriculture spotlights Hanleigh Young

Lucas Cattle Co., strives to produce bulls for every cattleman

Eye on Agribusiness spotlights Birk Photography

Families learn about goat production together in 4-H

FARM HELP 29 Insuring my bull 30 Do dairy cattle get enough energy on grass alone?

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Among my peers, I was the last one Jerry Crownover farms to obtain an e-mail address and I would in Lawrence County. He most certainly still be using a typewriter if one is a former professor of could still be purchased. The only reason I use Agriculture Education at a smartphone is because my wife bought it for Missouri State University, me, after she threw away my old flip-phone and and is an author and disconnected our land line. Five years later, professional speaker.

I’m only able to use its most basic functions.

To contact Jerry, go to Knowing these facts, everyone (including me) ozarksfn.com and click was shocked when I opened the Christmas gift on ‘Contact Us.’ from my wife and found myself staring at an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. That’s right – a drone.

Evidently, she had heard me comment over the past couple of years how I thought the device could have some very practical uses here on the farm. I had jokingly remarked that I could use the vehicle to find missing cows during calving season, check on fences when portions of them were not accessible by truck, and it could even be used to scout the neighbor’s barbecue grills to enable me to show up, unannounced, at their place at exactly the right time.

Unfortunately, flying a drone is not as easy as unpacking it, charging it, and putting it in the air. After I took it from the box and spent two days reading the 25page “easy start-up” booklet, I then had to spend three days downloading something called “firmware.” I don’t know what it is, but I assumed it to be something halfway between “software” and “hardware.” Actually, I didn’t perform this operation, but rather my youngest son, fresh off a degree in computer science. Once it was uploaded into the drone, emergency lights flashed on every device (drone, controller, and computer) warning me of a “gimble overload.”

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It’s not that I don’t care about animals, because I do (and I have a very spoiled Julie Turner-Crawford 65-pound dog that sleeps with my husband and is a native of Dallas I every night to prove it), but what I don’t care County, Mo., where she for are the tactics of the organization or its ungrew up on her family’s educated accusations about animal agriculture. I farm. She is a graduate typically just shake my head and move on when of Missouri State I hear or read something about PETA. I really University. To contact don’t think it is worth my time, but a recent Julie, call 1-866-532-1960 or by email at editor@ PETA blogger drew my attention. ozarksfn.com.

This young woman, who claims to be a former FFA member that is proud of her “Animal Liberation” tattoo, said when she joined up with PETA, she “learned about the horrors of the dairy industry,” and she had to do “something” to help. I guess blogging is her contribution to the world.

In a recent blog entry, the young woman claims that the FFA has a “very hypocritical code of ethics.”

The blog is riddled with the same old videos and photos that we’ve all seen before, as well this woman’s take on the horrors that young FFA members are exposed to and encouraged — Continued on Next Page

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page to participate in, twisting the things taught in agriculture classes and in FFA to suit her own agenda. The blogger attacked animal agriculture and claimed that FFA promotes inhumane actions towards animals. “(The) FFA holds contests in which members try to identify what body part a piece of flesh came from (like some sick murder mystery game),” she wrote.

I was on the meats team one year. It was cool to learn how to evaluate a carcass and about grading – something every consumer really should learn more about.

“FFA encourages students to raise and slaughter animals for food,” the blogger wrote. “If members are working to develop their personal growth and to do the best they can, they should also hold themselves accountable for the harm that they’re causing when they eat animals or raise animals who will be killed and eaten.”

Despite my differing opinion, I read the whole blog, which concluded with a video about animal captivity being slavery and an online form to fill out to become a vegan. I opted out of both.

I think the blogger took it a step too far in her quest to destroy animal agriculture by targeting children.

Life Is Simple Continued from Page 3 My tool box full of wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers and hammer were unable to fix it (I may have needed a larger hammer), so I called the toll-free number in the booklet and the nice gentleman stated, quite emphatically, “Shut down everything immediately, and send it back! You have a defective unit.”

Two weeks and one drone later, I repeated the same process.

When everything finally worked, I patiently waited for a calm day and proceeded to my first lift-off. I was overly cautious, but all systems were go (that’s the way we talk in aerospace terminology) and I successfully flew the vehicle over pastures and woods at an altitude somewhere around a hundred feet, for about twenty minutes.

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If Farm Bureau, the American Cattlemen’s Association, American Pork Producers Council or Dairy Farmers of America targeted an organization made up of high school and junior high aged vegans (maybe something like the Bean Sprouts), PETA would be holding protests, writing more blogs calling for the resignations or firings of officials associated with the offending organization.

It’s just too bad the blogger didn’t like FFA, she might have actually learned something if she had paid a little more attention in class – like thinking for herself, achieving a goal, working with others and real life skills.

I am thankful for the guidance given to me by my FFA advisors at Buffalo High School. Just like my dad and my mom, John Anderson, Gregg Alsup and Terry Halleran taught me how to be a leader, not a follower.

FFA also gave me much more. I was never much of a ball player, never felt like I was part of the “in” crowd, couldn’t sing or play an instrument, and I wasn’t really one of the smart kids, but my ag classes and FFA made me fell like I was finally good at something.

I was (an still am) a proud FFA member.

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A few days later, I was feeling more confident in my ability to pilot the rig and began to range out higher and farther from home. Spotting a herd of cows in the north pasture, I decided to swoop down and get a good count on them since calving season has just started for me. As I lowered the machine closer to the cows, the picture was clear enough that I could start to see heads and ears rise on the animals. Yet, closer, the cows with new calves started forming protective circles around the newborns. Cows without calves began to run from the copter – a nice little trot at first, then a full-blown panicked run – straight for the nearest fence.

As it turns out, I was right. A farmer can use these new, high-tech devices to find, or unfortunately create, holes in their fences without ever getting out of the house.

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A leaky washing machine sprouted a new farming operation When people think of having a farm, a mushroom farm is probably not one of the first things to come to mind.

It wasn’t the first thing Matt and Nora Trammell, of Trammell Treasures Mushroom Farm, in Humansville , Mo, thought of either. In fact, Matt admits that when growing mushrooms as a business first became a possibility for the Trammell family, he didn’t even like

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the Trammell’s return, had grown mushrooms. Matt and Nora were fascinated.

“I started researching mushrooms,” Matt said.

After learning about the health and environmental benefits of growing edible mushrooms, Matt purchased a mushroom growing kit – and from there, they were hooked.

Matt and Nora soon discovered that there was a niche market for mushrooms, and they decided to try growing and sell-

Matt Trammell of Trammell Treasures Mushroom Farm sells his home-grown product to local grocers and at farmers markets in Springfield, Mo., and Overland Park, Kan.

them. In 2013, Matt, Nora and their two children, Sara and David, were living in an apartment in Chicago, and had taken a growing interest in learning ing their product at the Kansas City how to grow and raise their Farmers Market and the Overland own food. They moved to Park Farmers Market. They puran apartment in Overland chased and installed a pop-up Park, Kan., and shortly after greenhouse and another – unwere introduced to fungi.

During their family vacation, Humansville, Mo. til they had mushroom growing houses from their mastheir washing machine had beter bedroom to their patio gun to leak, creating a damp, in order to try and keep wet environment that, upon FEBRUARY 15, 2016

up with the market. The demand for the Trammell’s mushrooms continued to grow, and eventually led them Warrensburg, Mo, and then to their current mushroom growing facility, the old Mill Street Market building in Humansville, Mo., right off of Highway 13.

Matt and Nora have created climatecontrolled growing and clean rooms, where they grow pink oyster, gray oyster, lion’s mane and shiitake mushrooms, plus a few other specialty varieties depending on the time of year.

The growing medium for the mushrooms (typically sawdust) is hydrated before being inoculated with mushroom spawn for the given variety, and stuffed into plastic bags perforated with small holes to create an artificial log. As the mushrooms develop from the spawn, they push their way out of the bag through the holes, and continue to grow until they are ready to be harvested.

There are a few challenges to be had with growing mushrooms.

“We really have to balance the moisture,” Matt said.

Mold and contamination of the spawn/ growing medium mixture can also come into play without careful regulation of the moisture and temperatures. Oxygen levels are also a factor – this affects the color and cap size of the mushrooms, Matt said.

Today, Trammell Treasures Mushroom Farm sells their mushrooms at a select grocery store or two, as well as at the Overland Park (Kan.) Farmers Market and Farmers Market of the Ozarks in Springfield, Mo. Along with selling the mushrooms, Trammell Treasures Mushroom Farm also sells mushroom spawn and plugs for the majority of mushroom varieties they grow, valueadded products like mushroom jerky and imported truffles. They also hosts mushroom growing workshops and educational classes periodically throughout the year, where participants learn about the benefits of fungi and have the opportunity to make their own mushroom logs.”

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Because of the number of He said there are about 1,100 cattle, the operation calves head of breeding-age females Cross Timbers, Mo. in both the spring and fall. in the commercial herd, and Breeding groups are made about 1,200 on the registered up of 20 to 25 females and one side of the operation.

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“They’ve been here since Forrest bought the place,” Jeff said. “Forrest likes looking at them, but they are really hardy animals. You can put them off in the brush and they will do well. We will put a good homozygous black, polled bull on them and it will take a lot of the color and the horns off them and we sell those calves pretty well. We normally put a heavy birth weight bull on them that a lot of people would be scared of, but those Longhorns will have a small calf that will jump and go like crazy.”

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“We want to get them through all of the stress of weaning, then make that first cut of the real obvious ones and those that we don’t feel are going to make a great bull,” Jeff said. “We’ll wait a couple more months and look that them again, making a second or even a third cut on what will make a great bull and what won’t, so that we can get our numbers down to where we feel like we have the right number of bulls to offer.

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That is the motto of Circle B Ranch, located in Douglas County near Seymour, Missouri. Owners John and Marina Backes work hard to keep their 360 heritage hogs happy.

They started their hog business in 2010 with the purchase of nine gilts and one boar. They chose Berkshire and Red

John is from New Jersey and Marina is from Brooklyn, but the couple made their way to the Ozarks a few years ago.

“My son wrestled for Iowa State and so we traveled all around the Midwest,” John recalled. “We came to St. Louis for Nationals many times. We were there one year on March 21, my birthday, and it was 71 degrees, I believe. So I said, ‘This is the kind

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Wattle hogs for their “heartiness, docile of weather I like.’ Since we’ve moved here nature, productivity, and for their taste,” we’ve had nothing but the harsh winters.”

They have been involved in the “slowJohn said, as well as “for their heartiness food movement” for many years. and fast dollar turnaround.”

“The slow-food movement is basically “We considered beef (cattle), but it’s a huge investment and a very slow and slow, naturally raised food,” John explained. risky return. At the end of the gestation “For instance, if you look at all naturalperiod, you could lose the calf, or the raised food, on the whole, it probably takes longer to get to market than your comcalf and the cow.” mercially raised does because it’s free of They have always raised all the growth stimulants and artifitheir hogs in a natural envicial fertilizers. So it does take lonronment. ger to get there. That’s why they “I think Berkshire are the best call it slow-food. pick for a farmer,” John said. “You Seymour, Mo. “A lot of your better chefs have to think about making monare involved in the slow-food ey, not just raising hogs. This isn’t movement because it’s more a hobby for me; this is a business.”

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meet your neighbors farm to table,” Marina added. “That’s one of the major reasons we got involved with it, and also slow-food will teach people how to cook so they don’t have to eat fastfood every day.”

John believes it is a struggling movement and things are, well, slow.

“Right now I think commerciallyraised is winning just because of the money factor,” he said.

What is a heritage breed of swine?

“The heritage hog was brought here many years ago,” John explained. “The Berkshire happens to be an English hog, which dates back some 300 years or more. The Red Wattle is an American breed that dates back a couple of hundred years. Both are bred for different reasons. Berkshire is a good allaround hog. The Red Wattle is also a good all-around hog. The meat is very red and more beef-like on a Red Wattle. Whereas the Berkshire has a slightly different taste.

It has a buttery, nut-like flavor.”

Any bred of hog can be raised naturally, but John said their natural instincts are bred out of them.

“We tried this with some Durocs; beautiful animals. We brought five gilts here from a confinement raising operation and it took four months, living with another Berkshire hog, to teach them how to be hogs again,” he said. “They don’t exercise any instincts like rooting, wallowing, nothing. When they came here, they had to be taught how to be hogs by the other hogs. A Duroc is a very hearty breed once it recovers those instincts. We kept one cross and it happenes to be one of the best we have.”

Their pigs are between 7 and 8 months of age when they are butchered.

“Our target is 250 pounds live weight and between 185 to 200 pounds hanging weight,” John said. “We truck them to a processer either in Carthage or Hermann, Mo. They process them for us.

Then we bring it all back here.”

They market 400 to 500 pigs to awaiting customers.

“Everything from pork chops to bellies. We’re a complete snout to tail,” John said. “A lot of private customers are kind of hobby chefs. We also service a lot of high-end restaurants who want different cuts. Belly is a big thing right now. They’re also starting to use heads a lot to make head cheese and a crispy head meat. We have our value added products, which are our German brat, Italian sausage, breakfast sausage, and our bacon and cured hams.”

The Backes are doing a few farmer’s markets; one at the Battlefield Mall, in Springfield, Mo., one at University City in St. Louis, and another in Ferguson, Mo. Their pork is also served in restaurants such as Metro Farmer, Farmers Gastropub, The Order in the Vandivort Motel, Big Cedar Lodge and Chateau on the Lake.

“We also do country clubs; Hickory Hills and Highland Spring,” John said. “Our products are in all the MaMa Jean’s stores, Harter House and Homegrown Foods.”

They also ship their products. He said, “We do all our specialty sauces through Amazon, plus we get orders from the internet that we ship out.”

HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE HOGS The Berkshire hog was discovered by Oliver Cromwell’s army in winter quarters at Reading, the county seat of the shire of Berks in England. These veterans carried the news to the outside world of the of Berks; larger than any other swine of that time and producing hams and bacon of rare quality and flavor. The carcass quality of the Berkshire hog made him an early favorite with the upper class of English farmers.

According to the best available records, the first Berkshires were brought to the United States in 1823. They were quickly absorbed into the general hog population because of the marked improvement they created when crossed with common stock.

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On Feb. 25, 1875, the American Berkshire Association was founded, becoming the first swine registry to be established in the world. This society drew an enthusiastic response from those working with the breed both in this country and in England. The first hog ever recorded was the boar Ace of Spades, bred by Queen Victoria.

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Paul Jones has farmed, raised cattle all of his 98 years Over the last 100 years, there have been numerous changes in agriculture.

Gas and diesel tractors have replaced teams of horses and mules, and the days of the steam-powered machines are now just nostalgic glimpses of the past.

Paul Jones, of Buffalo, Mo., knows a thing or two about the days gone by in agriculture, having been a farmer and livestock producer all of his life.

“I think I have seen more changes than anyone has,” Paul said, who will turn 99 in April. “Not many people get to be my age and still do what they want to do. I think farming and working has kept me going and healthy. I’m out there everyday and doing what I need to do.”

Paul’s roots in agriculture run deep. Paul grew up on a farm near Woodward, Iowa, where his family raised cattle, hogs, and grew corn and soybeans.

“We lived on 160 (acres), which was a pretty big farm back then. We would take the binder to cut the corn and then shucked it, feed it to the hogs and to the cattle,” he recalled. “When I was young, there wasn’t any electricity or running water. You did everything by hand.

Farming is about all I have ever known; I’m staying in the business because I would go crazy if I didn’t do it. I have just got to be out and going.”

Paul said perhaps the biggest change in farming he has seen has been the evolution of farm equipment.

“You would plow with a team of horses and a two-bottom plow, now there are these huge plows and disks,” he said. “It was a big thing when the threshing crews would come in.

They would have to plank the bridges when they would bring in the thrasher; they would just ease it across.”

His first combine was an Allis-Chalmers 60 that would cut a 5-foot swath.

“It was just a little combine, one of the first ones, but it was really something then,” Paul recalled.

For more than two decades, Paul and his late wife, Hallie rented 600 acres in Iowa, where their family grew corn and soybeans, and they also fed out cattle and hogs, which were purchased in Missouri and taken back to Iowa for finishing and slaughter.

The farm was close to the packers in Des Moines, Iowa, and he annually feed out about 500 head of steers, and selling them directly to the packer, 20 to 25 head at a time.

“Even back then, the packers liked black cattle,” he said. “Angus were built a lot different than they are today, but you wanted to buy black because that’s what sold. They were smaller, but grew. We would just take then down to the packers, they would dress them and send us a check. Back then a steer was fat at 800 pounds because they were short and wide. …We’d buy semi-loads of hogs and run them behind the cattle in the feedlot and they finished out well,” he recalled.

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At one time, he bought 150 young lambs, fattening them out on corn stalks left over from the corn harvest.

The family also did custom harvesting and hay baling.

“Hallie was the best trucker I had,” Paul said. He added that Hallie was also pretty good at tying hay bales from their old stationary baler.

Paul was in his late 80s before he purchased a cabbed tractor and has decided it was a good investment. He still used the tractor daily.

Paul and Hallie moved to Dallas County, Mo., in 1980 after purchasing a farm in 1975.

“We were married 25, 26 years before we ever had our own place,” Paul recalled.

“Hallie said we had to get out of there because we would die there working.”

Once in Missouri, the couple began raising rd Turner-Crawfo cow-calf pairs, primarily Black Angus.

Photo by Julie Paul currently runs about 150 pairs on about 500 acres.

“When we moved to Missouri, it was an entirely different operation,” Paul said. “Up there, we had the gain to feed the fats; here you don’t feed grain too much, so now I just have the grass, and the cows and calves.”

Paul was recently honored at the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association’s annual Cattle Industry Convention and Trade Show with one of two Pioneer Awards. Paul didn’t know about he award, and hadn’t planned to attend the event, but an invitation to go bowling, which is another one of Paul’s passions, from friends was just the roués needed to get him to the awards ceremony, which was held at Tan-Tara Resort at the Lake of the Ozarks.

“I was totally surprised,” he said. “I really don’t think I’ve done anything special, I’ve just done what I have always done. I’m not more deserving than anyone else.”

Despite his age, Paul has no intentions to slowing down, or giving up his cattle.

Paul splits his females into breeding groups, which are serviced by Angus bulls. He currently is utilizing five bulls.

“I like a big heifer,” he said. “Years ago, Angus were stubby and short, and 800 pounds was a full-grown cow. Now we want them to weight 1,100, 1,200 pounds that will produce a bigger calf.”

Paul prefers to keep his herd relatively young, selling his cows at 6 or 7 years of age.

“She might be a good cow, but I would rather keep something that is a little younger and less prone to problems,” he said.

Paul continues to take care of his cattle daily, along with a little help from time to time from son-in-law Roy Stroud, and some longtime family friends. He also cuts and bales his own hay, while Roy runs the tedders and/or rakes.

When asked if it as hard to keep up with Paul, Roy simply nodded and laughed.

“It really is,” he said.

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While at the university pursuing a master’s degree, he received the opportunity to coach the livestock judging team, which won the American Royal. It was at the American Royal that Don was offered a job with Drovers, selling advertisements and working sales.

“I got into working the sale management business with National Cattle Service out of Oklahoma. That is when I started doing photography,” explained Don. He worked for National Cattle Service for four years until he established his photography business in January 1982. Don started by shooting pictures of Hereford cattle and continued to expand to other breeds as his contacts grew.

“I have traveled all over the United States doing this crazy business,” he exclaimed.

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Don will shoot pictures of cattle for online and print sale catalogues and has expanded into shooting videos in the recent years. Don’s method of working with the cattle to get the best shot is straight-forward. “I always tell people this is a simple game plan. There is just one play in the book. Do it until they do it right,” he said.

“I try to keep them as authentic looking as possible,” he said.

Don was inducted into the Livestock Marketeers Hall of Fame at the National Western Stock Show in Denver in January.

“It is a great honor,” remarked Don. “I like doing this, I don’t know what else I would do.

“A lot of my best friends are my clients and have been for a long time.”

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An Aspiring Horsewoman

By Laura L. Valenti

Dallas County, Mo., woman makes great strides in Competitive Trail Horse compeition

Taressa Rankin, pictured with her husband Chais and sons Camden and Cuylar, has been around horses most of her life. Taressa recently won the overall at an American Competitive Trail Horse Association event.

Taressa Rankin of rural Lebanon, Mo., is a young wife and mother, who refers to herself as an aspiring horsewoman.

While she may not have been born on horseback, she was there soon afterwards, riding as an infant and toddler with her mother. By age 6, she was sporting her very own half a dozen stitches, courtesy of a riding accident, but even then, like a true competitor, she climbed right back on her horse.

By age 16, Taressa, who grew up in Galena, Mo., where her parents, Vicki Photo by Laura L. Valenti and Terry May still reside, was working a summer job in Branson, Mo., “I’d attended a weekend clinic with Tim Brock at BC Tables and Training as a trail guide and ranch hand. In 2012, she became a riding instructor Center in Fair Grove, (Mo.) about a year ago,” Taressa said. “That’s where I through the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship Interreally began to learn so much more about horsemanship. That was a whole national (PATH Intl) at Horses of Hopes therapeutic riding center in Buffalo, new turning point for me toward natural horsemanship.”

Mo. Completing her bachelor’s of science in animal science in 2013, Taressa Lebanon, Mo. Taressa explained that natural horsemanship is using communication, has continued to trail ride and work around horses.

A few years ago, she was introduced to the field of horse obstacle competi— Continued on Next Page tion, but it was this fall before she did any obstacle competition training.

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Continued from Previous Page understanding and psychology to train a uated on a 10-point system, and you can horse instead of the traditional training also get pluses for finesse. Of course, it methods of mechanics, fear and intimi- looks bad if the horse scores higher than dation. The general public tends to call the rider, so you really have to work on your own horsemanship skills as well as it “horse whispering.”

“I do not consider myself a horse whis- good training for your horse.”

Taressa’s horse, CM Lucy’s Baby Girl, perer,” she said. “Groundwork plays a big part in fundamental training to get aka Baby Girl, is an 11-year-old Quarter a horse to be confident in you. Going to horse, raised by her in-laws, Curt and clinics, working with and learning from Dawn Rankin. Taressa has had her for other great horsemen in the field like a year.

“I was pretty intimidated to compete Pat Parelli and John Lyons. Even watching videos on YouTube, with discretion, in such a big event, the Great Ameriof course, can teach you something new can Trail Horse Festival, especially in a and helpful. competition style where I am so new,” In October, Taressa attended her first Taressa said.

American Competitive Trail Horse AssoParticipation in the new venue did ciation (ACTHA) event at the Von Hol- not deter this young horsewoman, howten Ranch in Mora, Mo., near Sedalia. ever, who won the Overall High Point “I did surprisingly award at the ACwell,” she said of her THA’s biggest comfirst experience. “I petition, which inwas hooked.” cluded close to 100 I’ve really enjoyed the From there, she riders each day in a training involved, for registered to ride, three-day event. me in horsemanship albeit somewhat “It was really excitas well as the training nervously, for their ing to hear my name for my horse. I’ve also 2015 Great Ameriannounced as the can Trail Horse Overall High Point been surprised at how Festival in Novemwinner, especially many people are ber, which was also since it was only my interested in what I do. at the Von Holten second ACTHA – Taressa Rankin Ranch in Benton event ever,” Taressa County, Mo. said. “I’ve really enShe explained that joyed the training there are two differinvolved, for me in ent kinds of obstacle contests, CTCs or horsemanship as well as the training for Competitive Trail my horse. I’ve also been surprised at how Courses and AOCs, originally Arena many people are interested in what I do.

Obstacle Courses, now ACTHA Obsta- A video that ACTHA shared on Facecle Courses, which include eight obsta- book of my son demonstrating a comecles arranged in a specific pattern in an over cue with his pony has received more indoor centralized location. Obstacles than 23,000 views, and led to several new include a variety of designs such as a tilt- friend requests, encouraging me to create ed bridge, a tarp being shot with a water a separate Facebook page.” pistol and something on the ground for Taressa looks forward to participating in more horse competitions in the future. the horse to walk over.

“I’ve even seen a gorilla costume with She lives with her husband, Chais and a bar through it to move it,” Taressa her two sons, Cuylar and Camden, on added. “The obstacles are pretty much their family farm, which includes land in anything that might spook your horse on both Dallas and Laclede counties.

They have about 30 head of commera normal basis and you hope your good cial cattle and four horses, including a training prevails.

“Both the horse and the rider are eval- Welsh pony for Cuylar.

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Producing for the Markets

By Megan Richner

Thoreson Ranch utilizes haired breeds of sheep to help feed the ethnic market demand

Ted Thoreson, pictured with his daughter Tannen Gurley, at Thoreson Ranch. Tannen makes most of the mangament decisions for the flock, but Ted still has a great deal of input.

Hair sheep dot the pastures of Thoreson Ranch located northwest of El Dorado Springs, Mo. Ted Thoreson is the ranch owner and operator but most of the sheep management decisions are made by his oldest daughter, Tannen Gurley.

The flock consists of 1,500 to 2,000 head of Dorper, St. Croix and Romanov breeds. Each breed exhibits their own set of characteristics, which add value to the flock. The sheep they produce are suitable for the terminal market or to enter the herd as replacement ewes.

The breed can be easily identified by their distinctive lion-like mane and have a “Dorpers are short, thick, fat and easy fleshing,” said Ted while pointlonger, more narrow body than that of a Dorper. ing to a white ewe with a black spot around her tail. “The Dorper is “We do not do accelerated lambing, we just do it once a year,” said Ted. more of a terminal cross. We use St. Croix and Romanov to give us They turn the rams out with the ewes in December each year. more of the maternal characteristics.” Lambing in litters is a unique trait “They will have them in May so we have grass on the ground and some El Dorado of the Romanov breed. It is not abnormal for a Romanov ewe to lamb four of the bad weather has passed us because we lamb out in the pastures,” Springs, Mo. to six healthy lambs. explained Tannen. “It works pretty well for us.”

“We put the Romanov in there to get our drop rate where we can get This year their lambing percentage was 138 percent. more lambs per ewe,” said Ted. “The St. Croix is a Caribbean breed and — Continued on Page 22 they will give you some parasite resistance,” he added.

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Mike Richner

By Megan Richner

Hometown: Pleasant Hope, Mo. Family: Wife, Jan; sons, Jordan and Kyle.

In Town: Mike is the only sales representative for Missouri Livestock Supplements in Brighton, Mo. They manufacture a variety of cooked molasses supplements for cattle, sheep, goats, equine, and deer using all-natural ingredients, such as probiotics and essential oils. “If it is a ruminant we can feed it,” exclaimed Mike. “My main job is to make the sales contacts,” Mike said he enjoys the freedom of working for a small company and works close with owner, Larry Lane.

“We can make corporate decisions in an office in Brighton, Mo., in 10 to 15 minutes or on the phone; we do not have to go through a bunch of channels,” Mike commented.

In the Country: Mike started showing registered horned Herford cattle as a young boy, and in 1975 he exhibited the Grand Champion Carcass Steer at the Ozark Empire Fair in Springfield, Mo. He transitioned to raising hogs when he was a freshman in high school when he won a pig at a pig scramble.

“We bred that gilt and raised a litter of pigs. That is how I got interested in hogs and before I knew it I had 40 sows when I was a senior in high school,” Mike recalled.

He eventually downsized his operation but continued to raise a few show pigs.

Mike shifted his operation from farrowing sows to finishing pigs for individuals. Demand drives the number of pigs he will feed; it ranges from five to 10 pigs each year.

“I do not feed medication or use antibiotics, and the pigs are on dirt,” Mike said. “I will normally buy these pigs at 40 to 60 pounds, depending on where I locate them, and I will put them on a 16-percent ground feed ration-full feed. I will hit them a couple times with dewormer.”

When the hogs reach slaughter weight he will take them to Turner Meat Processing in Fair Grove, Mo., to be processed for his customers.

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Camden County, Mo. - 115 acres m/l. Lake of the Ozark’s Waterfront/Hunting property. 900’ of lakeshore and stunning views fo lake from Rainey Creek Arm, great building & dock site with deep water. Rainey Camp Creek, Climax Springs, Mo. 65324 $299,999 Laclede County, Mo. - 418 acres m/l. Smith Creek Ranch features 6 live springs, 5 ponds & 1/2 mile of Little Cobb Creek. The property is set up for rotational grazing w/7 pastures that can support 100-125 cow/calf pairs. The Ranch features balance of grazing, hay & timber, all cattle & farm equipment can also be purchased w/property. Also includes a 3600 s/f brick & stone home, features 3 BR & 3 BAs. Also a guest home/foreman house which is 1568 s/f w/3 BRs & 2 BAs. 15331 Highway B, Lebanon, Missouri 65536 $1,350,000 Dallas County, Mo. - 657 acres m/l. An extremely nice farm that has 40 acres of tillable, currently cash rented & planted in soybeans, & 100 acres of pasture for cattle, along w/giant whitetail & paint brush tom turkeys. The property is located about 2 ½ hours from Kansas City, or about 45 miles northeast of Springfield. Water sources include multiple ponds throughout & a spring fed creek running diagonally across the entire property. This property is about 30% open, 70% wooded w/a perfect mix of bottomland, upland pastures & wooded areas. This property has electric & a water well all in place. Large neighbors are on all sides of the farm. This farm offers beautiful views for homesites & amazing potential for both wildlife, cattle & as an investment. With so many options & loads of potential, this property should definitely be on your list to check out! Property is priced under current appraisal. Earnestville Road, Long Lane, Missouri 65590 $1,116,900 Texas County, Mo. - 114 ac. m/l. Great hunting or grassland. area w/a proven track record. Located in Plato schools. Plato, Missouri 65552 $195,000

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Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

Not Reported*

Barry County Regional Stockyards

70.00-106.50 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

82.00-96.00 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

77.00-106.00 † 79.00-104.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

Not Reported*

Lebanon Livestock Auction

75.00-109.00*

Ozarks Regional Stockyard

80.00-102.50 †

Springfield Livestock Marketing Center

60

80

slaughter

100

120

140

cows

(Week of 1/31/16 to 2/6/16) Not Reported*

Barry County Regional Stockyard

69.00-89.00*

Buffalo Livestock Market

52.50-78.00 †

Douglas County Livestock Interstate Regional Stockyards

56.00-85.00 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

55.00-85.00 † 49.00-87.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auctionn Lebanon Livestock Auction

Not Reported*

MO-KAN Livestock

40.00-76.50 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyard

53.50-85.00 †

South Central Regional Stockyards

58.00-85.00 †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

53.00-85.00 †

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70

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110

130

pairs

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Buffalo Livestock Market

None Reported*

Douglas County Livestock Auction - Ava Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

None Reported † None Reported †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

1225.00-2100.00 †

Lebanon Livestock Auction

Not Reported*

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

None Reported † 1600.00-2300.00 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyard South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna Springfield Livestock

None Reported

1450

1950

replacement

2450

2950

979

cows

Steers, Med. & Lg. 1

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925.00-1825.00 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards

1160.00-1535.00 †

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Holsteins, Lg. 3 300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

675.00-2100.00 †

Kingsville Livestock

900.00-2025.00

Lebanon Livestock Auction

†

Not Reported*

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

None Reported †

Ozarks Regional

1000.00-2200.00 †

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna Springfield

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400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Not Reported* 1060.00-1750.00*

Douglas County Live

750

Ava Douglas County† 2/4/16

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1100.00-1725.00 †

950

250

sheep &

1250

None Reported † 650.00-1675.00 †

1750

2250

2750

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

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Steady 210.00-241.00 204.00-219.00 177.50-199.00 159.00-171.00 152.00-156.00 ------------110.00 ----182.50-200.00 162.00-182.50 155.00-170.00 142.00-150.00 134.00-139.50

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Receipts: 1245 Supply was very good and demand was good. Sheep markets were steady to higher than last month while goat markets fell slightly lower. Supply included 13 percent slaughter Ewes and Rams, 32 percent slaughter lambs, 43 percent slaughter kids, and 10 percent Bucks and Does. All prices are per hundred weight (CWT) Unless noted otherwise.

SHEEP: Feeder Lambs: Medium and Large Good 2-3 32-48 lbs 230.00-250.00. Utility 3-4 32-34 lbs 200.00220.00.

Slaughter Lambs: Wooled: Good and Choice 2-3 45-85 lbs 205.00-255.00; 130 lbs 135.00. Utility and Good 3 85 lbs 180.00-190.00.

Hair Lambs: Choice and Prime 1 55-65 lbs 270.00295.00. Good and Choice 1-2 40-120 lbs 245.00265.00. Good 2-3 61-78 lbs 222.50-242.50. Utility and Good 3-4 81-89 lbs 190.00-197.50.

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200.00-223.00 195.00-209.50 167.00-205.50 155.00-167.50 148.50-154.50

212.50-235.00 197.50-227.00 167.00-214.00 155.00-175.00 147.00-165.50

225.00-235.00 201.00-229.00 177.00-209.50 165.50-187.35 145.25-173.50

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165.00-185.00 161.00-181.00 150.00-160.00 142.00-155.00 132.00-135.00

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173.00-186.50 160.00-190.00 147.50-167.00 141.50-158.00 137.50-140.00

184.00-202.00 161.00-185.00 140.00-167.00 141.00-155.00 137.00-157.50

187.50-194.50 170.50-189.50 141.00-179.50 126.50-162.25 134.75-150.75

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Receipts: 581 Supply was good and demand was very good. All markets were higher compared to last month. The supply made up of 30 percent Slaughter and feeder Lambs, 7 percent ewes and rams, 36 percent kid Goats, and 19 percent Does and bucks. All prices are per hundred weight (CWT) unless noted otherwise.

SHEEP: Feeder Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 30-39 lbs 265.00-275.00. Good 1 25-30 lbs 245.00-255.00.

Slaughter Hair Lambs: Choice and Prime 1-2 45-62 lbs 260.00-285.00; 88-93 lbs 180.00-190.00. Choice 1-2 52-76 lbs 230.00-255.00; 90-110 lbs 130.00140.00. Good 1-2 87-120 lbs 135.00-155.00.

Herd dispersal Bred Replacement Hair ewes 2-5 yr olds: Good-Choice 1-3 90-105 lbs 125.00-145.00; 116 lbs 165.00; 132-170 Lbs 90.00-117.50.

Slaughter Hair Ewes: Good 2-3 88-118 lbs 115.00130.00; 116-135 lbs 85.00-92.50. Cull-Utility 3-4 70-73 lbs 135.00-165.00; 78-110 lbs 100.00-110.00.

Slaughter Hair Rams: Good 1-2 110-215 lbs 80.0095.00.

Feeder kids: Selection 1 20-39 lbs 250.00-260.00.

Selection 2 20-33 lbs 205.00-235.00. Selection 3 23-36 lbs 160.00.

stocker & feeder

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Kingsville Livestock Auction

450

Receipts: 561 The demand was moderate to good. The supply was light to moderate and included a herd dispersal. There were near 14 percent springer heifers, 21 percent bred heifers, 30 percent open heifers, 04 percent fresh cows, 04 percent milking cows, 06 percent bred and springer cows, and 04 percent baby calves. The balance was steers, bulls and slaughter cows. Prices reported are on a per head basis and for Holsteins unless noted otherwise.

Springer Heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme 1700.00-1960.00, Jerseys 1500.00-1940.00, crossbreds 1735.00-1885.00, Approved 1350.001650.00, few Jerseys 1325.00-1425.00, crossbreds 1375.00-1550.00, Medium ind crossbred 925.00, Common ind 870.00, ind Jersey 580.00, ind crossbreds 675.00.

Heifers bred three to six months: Supreme 1750.00-2000.00, Jerseys 1500.00-1885.00, crossbreds 1625.00-1785.00, Approved 1200.001600.00, few Jerseys 1000.00-1125.00, crossbreds 1340.00-1575.00, Medium 800.00-1200.00, few Jerseys 950.00, crossbreds 975.00-1200.00, Common 500.00-710.00, crossbreds 585.00-850.00.

Heifers bred one to three months: Supreme ind 1500.00, Approved few 1190.00-1200.00, Medium 825.00-1000.00, ind Jersey 860.00.

Open Heifers: Approved 215-290 lbs pkg 8, 285 lbs 630.00, ind Jersey 600.00, 315-393 lbs 630.00750.00, crossbreds 500.00-700.00, 410-495 lbs 750.00-800.00, crossbreds 570.00-710.00, 504-595 lbs 905.00-1040.00, ind crossbred 1000.00, 614-641 lbs 890.00-920.00, 700-801 lbs 1160.00-1360.00, few crossbreds 1030.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Wooled: Good and Choice 1-3 165-195 lbs 77.50-90.00.

Hair Ewes: Good and Choice 1-3 80-105 lbs 155.00-170.00; 120-145 lbs 100.00-125.00. Utility and Good 1-2 80-119 lbs 100.00-125.00. Cull 2-3 55-95 lbs 75.00-95.00.

Slaughter Hair Rams: Good 2-3 140-180 lbs 110.00-120.00. Utility and Good 1-2 120-190 lbs 85.00-95.00.

Feeder kids: Selection 1 25-35 lbs 270.00-280.00.

Selection 2 32-37 lbs 240.00-265.00.

Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 40-75 lbs 265.00287.50; 80-85 lbs 240.00-245.00. Selection 2 40-65 lbs 240.00-260.00; 80-160 lbs 205.00-225.00.

Selection 3 40-60 lbs 200.00-225.00.

Slaughter Does: Selection 1 75-165 lbs 150.00170.00. Selection 2 65-140 lbs 120.00-140.00.

Selection 3 60-85 lbs 100.00-117.5.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 2 80-115 lbs 160.00187.50. Selection 3 83-165 lbs 140.00-157.50.

Medium: ind 215 lbs 480.00, crossbreds 420.00510.00, ind 320 lbs 520.00, crossbreds 400.00-480.00, 518-565 lbs 680.00-700.00, 665-680 lbs few 800.00820.00, 740-765 lbs few 940.00-970.00, ind crossbred 810.00.

Replacement Cows: Fresh Cows: Supreme 1700.002075.00, crossbreds 1675.00-1700.00, Approved 1300.00-1525.00, crossbreds 1550.00-1600.00, Medium 925.00-1000.00, ind Jersey 1000.00, few crossbreds 1175.00-1300.00, Common ind 685.00, ind Jersey 750.00, ind crossbred 850.00.

Milking Cows: Supreme ind 1625.00, Approved few 1500.00-1550.00, ind Jersey 1450.00, Medium 1000.00-1075.00, Common few 725.00- 825.00.

Springer Cows: Supreme ind crossbred 1650.00, Approved few crossbreds 1175.00-1575.00, Medium 1000.00-1250.00, few crossbreds 1125.00, Common ind 950.00, ind crossbred 1050.00.

Bred Cows: Approved ind 1425.00, Medium 900.001150.00, Common 1nd Jersey 700, few crossbreds 635.00-800.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein heifers ind 320.00, Holstein bulls 170.00-260.00, beef cross bulls 310.00-490.00.

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Heifers: 129.50-136.00; wtd. avg. price 132.21.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 208.00-216.00; wtd. avg. price 209.96.

Heifers: 208.00-210.00; wtd. avg. price 209.84.

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Mo. Weekly Weaner & Feeder Pig

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Receipts: 5,040 Weaner pigs mostly steady to firm. Feeder pigs no recent test.

Supply light and demand moderate. (Prices Per Head.)

Early weaned pigs 10 lb. base weights, FOB the farm 0% negotiated, 2557 head, 10 lbs, 36.00-44.17, weighted average 39.83.

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2/5/16

Extreme temperature swings continue to be highlight of this feeding season seems Mother Nature just doesn’t know what season it really is. Hay movement remains quite light. At this point it appears many producers are likely to have a fair amount of carry over once feeding season is complete. The supply of hay is heavy, demand is light and prices are steady. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has a hay directory available for both buyers and sellers. To be listed, or for a directory visit http://mda.mo.gov/abd/haydirectory/ for current listings of hay http://agebb.missouri.edu/haylst/ (All prices f.o.b. and per ton unless specified and on most recent reported sales price listed as round bales based generally on 5x6 bales with weights of approximately 1200-1500 lbs).

Supreme quality Alfalfa (RFV <185): 180.00-200.00.

Premium quality Alfalfa (RFV 170-180): 150.00-190.00.

Good quality Alfalfa (RFV 150-170): 120.00-160.00.

Fair quality Alfalfa (RFV 130-150): 100.00-120.00.

Good quality Mixed Grass hay: 75.00-100.00.

Fair to Good quality Mixed Grass hay: 40.00-70.00.

Fair quality Mixed Grass hay: 20.00-35.00 per large round bale.

Fair to Good quality Bromegrass: 50.00-80.00.

Wheat straw: 3.00-6.00 per small square bale.

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157.38 146.66 160.99 162.66 150.53 159.93

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1 20-39 lbs 250.00-260.00.

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Week of 1/31/16

and Prime 2-3 30-39 lbs 25-30 lbs 245.00-255.00.

Choice and Prime 1-2 45-62 3 lbs 180.00-190.00. Choice 5.00; 90-110 lbs 130.0020 lbs 135.00-155.00. eplacement Hair ewes 2-5 1-3 90-105 lbs 125.00-145.00; 0 Lbs 90.00-117.50.

Good 2-3 88-118 lbs 115.0000-92.50. Cull-Utility 3-4 0; 78-110 lbs 100.00-110.00.

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2/9/16

Estimated Receipts: 425 Supply and demand are light to moderate.

Compared to Monday’s close: barrows and gilts are steady.

Base carcass meat price: 51.00-57.00.

Sows (cash prices): steady, 300-500 lbs. 32.00-39.00, over 500 lbs. 37.00-44.00.

Week of 1/10/16

CHEESE: Barrels closed at $1.4650 and 40# blocks at $1.4700. The weekly average for barrels is $1.4560 (+.0260) and blocks, $1.4660 (+.0060).

FLUID MILK: Milk production in the East is generally steady this week. However, some gains are noted in the Northeast and Florida milk production. Eastern bottling demand is increasing following winter storm Jonas. Central milk production is growing in both Northern and Southern parts of the region. Spot load sales are steady, with prices on spot loads ranging from $2.00 under to flat Class. Milk production is mostly steady or higher in the West. New Mexico milk output is flat due to residual effects of winter storm Goliath.

Milk volumes in some New Mexico balancing plants are tight.

Cream is readily available across the county. Multiples range from 1.10 to 1.25 in the East, 1.18 to 1.24 in the Central region and 1.05 to 1.26 in the West. Interest from ice cream and cream cheese makers is mounting. Some ice cream makers are interested in building inventories ahead of strong summer demand.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM: $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT, F.O.B., producing plants, Upper Midwest $2.5901-2.7218.

Interior Missouri Direct Hogs

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dairy & fed cattle

1 25-35 lbs 270.00-280.00.

40.00-265.00. on 1 40-75 lbs 265.000-245.00. Selection 2 40-65 60 lbs 205.00-225.00.

00.00-225.00. ion 1 75-165 lbs 150.00140 lbs 120.00-140.00.

00.00-117.5.00. ction 2 80-115 lbs 160.00165 lbs 140.00-157.50.

2086 head, 10 lbs, 43.99-45.00, weighted average 44.60.

Feeder pigs in all lot sizes, FOB 0% negotiated, No Sales Reported.

Feeder pigs in all lot sizes, Delivered 100% negotiated, 836 head, 40 lbs, 60.00. *Early weaned pigs are under 19 days old. **Most lots of feeder pigs have a sliding value from the negotiated weight basis which is calculated on the actual average weight of the load plus or minus .25-.40 per pound.

Some early weaned lots have a slide of .50-1.00 per pound.

Week of 1/31/16

Good 2-3 140-180 lbs and Good 1-2 120-190 lbs

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Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 48-60 lbs 270.00-290.00; 70-80 lbs 215.00-245.00. Selection 2 40-65 lbs 240.00-265.00.

Does: several drafts of Selection 2 bred Boer cross does and black Spanish does 90-129 lbs 150.00-215.00.

Slaughter Does: Selection 2 100-130 lbs 140.00-170.00.

Selection 3 68-125 lbs 140.00-165.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1 150-135 lbs 170.00-190.00.

Selection 2 63-175 lbs 120.00-150.00.

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While it is estimated that hair sheep comprise only 10 percent of the world’s sheep population, hair sheep numbers are growing, especially in temperate climates like the United States.

Many factors are driving the increase in hair sheep numbers: lack of profitability in the wool sector, paucity of sheep shearers, widespread development of anthelmintic-resistant worms, and the overall desire (need) for easy-care sheep.

Because of their easy-care qualities, hair sheep lambs are often “fattened” on pasture instead of in feedlots. Pasture diets allow lambs to grow more slowly.

– Source, Sheep 101 (Susan Schoenian, sheep and goat specialist, University of Maryland’s Western Maryland Research & Education Center)

Producing for the Markets Continued from Page 18 Lambs are allowed to nurse their mothers for six to eight weeks before weaning. Some of the ewe lambs will remain on the ranch as replacements for their flock, and they have also sold ewes to other breeders in the past.

Ram lambs will be put on self-feeders at weaning consisting of a soy hull diet.

They do not castrate the rams since they are headed to the ethnic market when they reach 35 to 40 pounds.

“The ethnic market does not like anything much over 80 or 90 pounds,” Ted explained. “If the ethnic market is not lucrative enough, we will go ahead and finish them and take them up to 115 to 120 pounds. We will sell them to a meat packing company, mostly Superior out of Denver. They have a packing house in Denver and one in Davis, Calif.”

Ted and Tannen incorporate rotational grazing into their management plan to decrease parasite infestation.

“It makes a difference,” said Tannen.

“If you could stay off a pasture for 50 days, you can break the cycle of those parasites,” added Ted. Pastures consist of a blend of five to six different grasses, such as Orchardgrass, Timothy, brome, rye and a fungus-free fescue.

“This winter we will go back overseed some legumes,” Ted explained. “Everything is synergistic; a lot of these grasses and plants have chemicals that are parasite resistant. They contribute to the overall benefit of the whole cycle. If you had what the native range used to have these animals were a lot healthier than

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Ted is not a stranger to the sheep business; he has also ranched in West Texas.

“Nobody likes to admit they are in the sheep or goat business for some reason,” said Ted. “You get to looking around in our part of the country and there are more sheep and goats than you might think.”

Ted used to raise Angora sheep, which were not as hardy, less resistant to parasites, and were more labor intensive than hair sheep.

“We would have 3,000 to 4,000 of them; we were in the mohair business.

We had shearing crew out of Texas, there would be a dozen of them shearing them,” he recalled.

Ted and his wife, Sue, have one son, Tate; and three daughters, Tannen Gurley, Ty Moran and Tedi Payne.

“Ultimately, it is a generational thing; the next generation will take over. Tannen and the girls are more interested in the sheep so they do most of the management now, but I put my opinion in. They decide when they want to breed and what pastures they want them in,” said Ted. Each member of the family plays an active part in the ranch; even the grandchildren like to be involved.

“All the sheep work is done by Tannen, Sue and Tedi. Every once in a while Ty will help,” Ted explained.

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Boer goat producers and their children learn as they go with 4-H When a few families in Southwest Missouri decided to get their children involved in 4-H and showing goats, they knew they were blazing a path that was unfamiliar to a majority of their friends and neighbors.

“Some people ask me, ‘What do you even do with a goat?’” laughed, 14-yearold Kiana Cowan.

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The 4-H club started in 2009 when a few families felt the need to find additional activities for their children.

“We wanted to do something to keep the kids off the streets and give them something to do,” explained Rod Cowan.

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The members of the Billings County consistent to properly care for your aniLiners 4-H Club range in age from 9 to mals,” commented Heather.

The 4-Hers assume care of their animals 16. They attend schools in Nixa, Republic but also the financial responsibility that and Crane, Mo., surrounded coincides with owning livestock. by students who find “show“It’s not a free ride. She (Kiana) ing goats” a foreign concept. has to keep her own money “It is good for the kids. It that buys the goats, buys the gives them something unfeed and she has to keep the known. It gives them the opporBillings, Mo. books,” explained Rod. tunity to educate and share,” said Through this venture, parHeather McCroskey, mother of ents uncovered that their two 4-Hers.

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children are eager to seize the opportunity to learn important life lessons. “It is really a good learning process for me because I am learning how to manage my money,” said Kiana.

Most of the families in Billings County Liners 4-H Club live on small acreages.

In fact, the McCroskey family runs their goat operation on “just shy of a half-acre.”

They own seven Boer does, one Nubian doe and one Boer buck.

“The size factor was important to us. We don’t own that much property. From my research the amount of land you need for a 100-pound goat compared to a 1,000-pound steer is significant,” said Quincy.

The Cowan family raises their Boer show goats on less than 5 acres. Proof, they say, that you don’t need a large amount of land to give your children a taste of farm life.

The families started, and have stayed with, the Boer goat breed. They wanted a meat goat that tends to be popular in the show ring. When they first began, they reached out to other goat breeders for help.

“For us, the goat community has been extremely helpful. We went to big goat operations to see what we need and what we need to stay on top of,” explained Quincy.

The wisdom from other goat breeders has proved invaluable as the 4-H families muddle their way through raising livestock.

“A lot of help has been on medications because there is a limited availability on some medications for goats. For example, FEBRUARY 15, 2016

if it says 1cc for a 500-pound cow then you give 3ccs for goats,” said Quincy.

The McCroskey family learned some lessons the hard way. For instance, they discovered stress from moving their goats or from the heat caused their animals worms to flare.

“We have a lot of experience in telling people how not to do things,” joked Quincy.

One particularly difficult lesson came when the McCroskey family lost two show goats to listeriosis. Their veterinarian told them the Chaffhaye, a brand of haylage, they had fed their goats may have grown Listeria. The Chaffhaye was fine to give their show goats, but because they had fed part of the bale and then a week later fed the rest, the deadly bacteria had a chance to grow.

“It is a constant learning lesson. Just when you think you have it figured out, then you get thrown a curve ball. It is a constant cycle,” said Heather. But the families take the failures in stride, recognizing every misstep presents a learning opportunity.

In the last couple of years, the members of Billing County Liners have taken their Boer show goats to numerous county fairs. They have all been successful in the show ring, winning overall grand champion at different fairs. But for the parents of the Billings County Liners, the true reward comes in watching their children learn positive habits that will stay with them for a lifetime.

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What has been in agriculture?: “I raised a crossbred steer for the (2015) Laclede County Fair but in the end, I didn’t get to show him. It was really disappointing I couldn’t show him. I only got to do showmanship, which is where I am judged, not the steer, and I had to borrow a friend’s steer, from Kaylee Bowman, to do that.”

So what did you think of raising your own steer for the first time?: “It was a lot of fun. I trained him to lead, to be halter broke. He was

cream-colored, a 700-pound calf when I got him and seven to eight months later, he weighed 1,080 pounds. I fed him corn, cottonseed to make him more marbled, and soybean meal.

“The best part was actually getting him ready for the fair, the washing, shearing, blow-drying and fluffing him to make him look real pretty. The worst part, was after raising him from a baby, having to sell him to a butcher house. I always knew that was the way it would be, but it was still hard. I had to be up at 6:30 every morning to work him, once in the morning before school and then again, later, so twice a day.

“He was kinda crazy and wanted to kick too much so I had to use a bull ring in his nose.”

What are your future plans?: “Next year, I plan to raise another steer that I will definitely show at the county fair.

“After high school, I hope to go my first two years at College of the Ozarks, because you can work for your tuition there and then after that, I’ll probably go on to Mizzou.

I’d like to be a pediatric intensive care doctor, so that’s another 14 years of school after high school.”

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You will have the opportunity to present witnesses on your behalf, including expert witnesses. You as a taxpayer usually will be a key witness to testify as to your intentions and expectations in carrying on the activity. You will need to explain your method of recordkeeping, articulate what the business plan was, what efforts were made to cut down on costs and increase revenue, who was employed as ranch manager (if applicable), how decisions were made, and other elements. If there were setbacks, such as casualty losses or economic downturns, these also will need to be narrated.

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very year sometime in February I have several producers ask what the new wonder-drug or treatment will be for calf scours in the upcoming calving season.

I always try to take time and explain the best treatment is good preventative measures but that discussion often occurs after the first cases of diarrhea have been spotted. A recent discussion with the head bacteriologist at a university diagnostic lab revealed that current strains of e.coli (the most commonly cultured bacteria in Dr. Brent A. Lower cases of scours of baby calves less than 2 weeks practices at his clinic, of age) are resistant to all strains of antibiotics Tri-Lakes Animal Clinic, in tested on a susceptibility panel.

Humansville, Mo. Lower In other words, we now have bacteria that are is a graduate of the resistant to the antibiotics we have to rely on in University of Missouri. He an outbreak of calf diarrhea. For this reason we and his family also raise need to work harder at measures that prevent commercial cattle. To scours instead of calling the fire department after contact Dr. Lower, go to the barn has already caught fire. ozarksfn.com and click Common causes of neonatal diarrhea can be on “Contact Us.” divided into bacterial, viral, and parasitic cases.

Bacteria can be treated with antibiotics but as stated earlier many strains have become resistant to these antibiotics. Viral causes of scours DO NOT respond to antibiotics and must be treated with supportive care much like influenza in people.

Parasitic causes include coccidia that are treatable but often times the severe intestinal mucosa damage has often occurred by the time the bloody stool is observed.

Another parasitic disease we are beginning to see more often is cryptosporidium and to date has no definitive treatment. This organism is most commonly observed in heavy confinement birthing areas involving immuno-compromised calves (poor colostrum intake/absorption) or heavily contaminated pastures with concurrent bacterial/viral infections. Most samples I send in have results showing multiple bacterial and or viral components leading to even more complicated cases to treat.

As bleak and depressing as all this sounds, there are things producers can do to try and prevent neonatal diarrhea.

The number one preventative measure is to provide the cleanest environment with the least pathogen exposure possible. The best example is called the Sand Hills calving system, which has had several articles covering it. In a nutshell this approach moves cows that have not yet calved to a fresh clean paddock every two to four weeks to avoid areas of heavy feces contamination.

Number two preventative is making sure that each calf receives an adequate amount and quality of colostrum. Many things can be done to supplement distressed calves and it would take a whole different article covering supplements, replacements, and methods of vaccination to stimulate colostral antibodies.

The best advice I can give producers to prevent beef calf neonatal diarrhea is ask for advice from your local veterinarian, area extension specialists, and even fellow producers who seem to have a good plan in place.

If you are unfortunate enough to have a severe scours outbreak, please contact your veterinarian early in its course so a plan to combat the causative agents can be implemented to lessen the diseases severity.

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A limited number of insurance companies will provide coverage You can protect high-value farm animals against a loss of breeding ability with insurance. High-premium insurance, that is.

“There are only a limited number of companies that will insure infertility, basically only bulls,” Kevin Charleston, president of Specialty Risk Insurance in Carthage, Mo. told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “And it’s fairly expensive, but some guys do buy that coverage for a bull in case he injures himself.”

Charleston said if there’s a lot of value in the bull – many people peg that at a minimum of $5,000 – it’s worth it to them.

“It just really has started to become more widespread than it used to be,” he said.

“People didn’t use to ever insure, but as the price of the cattle has gone up they’ve started to look at that option.”

Many producers have insurance on their overall farm package, and Charleston said that interest is remaining pretty static.

“As the values have gone up over the past two to three years, they have more money involved,” he said. “You see the lenders apply more pressure to protect those investments. Not a huge push, but people do pay more attention now because of the value.”

There are two types of coverage on livestock. The standard “Named Peril” coverage is called that because the reasons the insured can collect are identified in the policy – fire, lightning, windstorm, blizzard, drowning, flood, vandalism and so forth.

“This coverage is best suited for production livestock operations (feedlot, pasture, dairy, swine, poultry, etc.) where a veterinary exam of each covered animal is not required, but coverage for illness, sickness, and disease is also excluded,” according to Michael Elrod, vice president of Apex Insurance Consultants of Arkadelphia, Ark. He told OFN a swine or poultry policy can be amended to cover the death of cov-

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“We make sure the calving stalls and hot box are clean with a supply of straw and heat lamps on hand in case of bad weather since we calve in January/ February. We restock inventory of ear tags, colostrum replacer, Ecolizer +C20, Calf Guard and Convert paste to process each calf. And last, but not least, try to be well-rested.

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ered animals caused by a power interruption or mechanical breakdown, provided protective safeguard requirements like alarms and generators are met.

The other type of policy, “Broad Peril,” will cover the death of a covered animal caused by a covered accident, injury, sickness, or disease resulting from any non-excluded peril.

Since these are higher value animals, a veterinary exam is required to list an animal on the policy. For horses, owners can opt for Major Medical Expense and Loss of Use coverage options.

“Theft is covered under both policy types, but there must be visible signs of a theft for coverage to apply. So, mysterious disappearance or shortage upon taking inventory is not covered by either policy type,” Elrod said.

Premiums for either policy type will depend on the type of livestock covered, deductible selection, limits of insurance, coverage options selected and so forth, “Obviously, covering an animal with a ‘Broad Peril’ policy is much more expensive than covering an animal with a ‘Named Peril’ policy,” Elrod said. “This is only a very general description of Livestock Mortality Insurance. There are specialized livestock insurance policies available to cover nearly every major livestock industry – cattle, swine, poultry, equine, service animal, livestock transit, auction market, etc. Before making any insurance decisions, you should always rely on a knowledgeable livestock insurance agent to review your livestock insurance needs and obtain the necessary coverage details.”

Elrod stressed that all policies needed to be examined carefully to determine suitability for needs and to identify any exclusions, limitations, or any other terms and conditions that may specifically affect coverage.

“In the event of a conflict, the terms and conditions of the policy prevail,” he said.

“We start checking cows more frequently, especially heifers, and make it a point to spend a little time in the pasture rather than hurrying through while feeding, watching for signs and a change in demeanor as they get close.”

“We synchronize and AI breed for all to calve in either September or March, so one month before calving begins, each cow is given a Scour Bos shot as well as Multi-Min 90 injection. Upon calving in a clean environment, preferably a pasture not used in several months, each calf is given Multi-Min 90, probios, and tagged and weighed.

“I make sure all my cows and heifers are vaccinated against scours. I vaccinate my cows (against scours) about 30 days before they calve, then I make sure my heifers are vaccinated (against scours) 90 and 30 days before they calve.”

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To calculate their nutritional needs, you’ve got to know a couple of things.

One of those is what they’re eating; you have to both estimate their dry matter intake and send samples of your forage to a commercial lab to get the energy value of the forage.

In addition, you have to measure their actual milk output and compare that to

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“Even though we have a longer growing season than some farther northern places, you’re still going to have a good chunk of the year where grazing alone isn’t going to be able to provide the bulk of the animal’s diet,” she said. “If you’re in a situation where you’re providing supplement and you’re not seeing a production response, then you have to go back through the process and say, where is something essentially going wrong? Are you overpredicting how much those animals are actually consuming in terms of forage, or what the quality of that forage is?”

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farm help The quality of the milk output, measured by its components like butterfat and protein, can also be influenced by the diet.

Place said one way to enhance protein in the diet is to mix red clover or other legumes in with the grasses in the pasture; that will raise the protein in the forages to meet the animal’s needs. Because the emphasis with concentrates is with energy, they’re usually made from grains higher in carbohydrates like corn and barley, and don’t emphasize protein.

Butterfat content of milk, on the other hand, can suffer at times of the year in pasture fed herds.

Place said while confinement herds can yield higher fat percentages when they receive fermented forages like silage, “when forage is lush in terms of being fast growing in the spring, you can get into situations where you can actually get milkfat depression if they’re eating the bulk of their diet from that really fresh grass.”

The issue is one of microbiology and the rate of passage through the cow’s rumen.

“You want to ensure that you have adequate fiber in your diet. That will support a healthy rumen, and as a result you will see elevated fat production in your herd,” Reagan Bluel, University of Missouri Extension dairy specialist, noted.

Bluel suggested producers consult the Nutrient Requirement of Dairy Cattle, a National Research Council (NRC) publication, for recommendations on dairy cattle nutrition. However, the current version is 15 years old, and the NRC is in the process of updating it.

“I’m a big fan of TMR, or total mixed ration, and in the TMR you can include a high-quality hay,” Bluel said.

“It doesn’t have to be alfalfa, but alfalfa seems to be the ‘Queen of Forages’ and preferred by most dairymen.”

If you’re feeding TMR rations and butterfat is still depressed, she said particle size might be the culprit.

“I recommend conducting a Penn State particle separator and/or contacting your local Extension office and see if they can help you assess your TMR quality,” Bluel recommended. “If your particle size is correct to support a strong rumen mat, then perhaps it could be a function of the quality of the forage that you’re feeding. There are a couple different components, but it tends to lend itself to that forage particle length.”

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Good Hay vs.

Bad Hay

By Gary Gigiuseppe

Lower-quality hay could mean supplementing livestock with additional feedstuffs Is it better to have lots of bad hay, or not enough good hay?

Ideally, of course, producers would like to have the best of both worlds – plentiful, high-quality hay. But whether it’s preferable to have abundant hay of lesser quality depends on the price of supplements to that hay, according to University of Arkansas professor of ruminant nutrition Dr. Shane Gadberry.

“We’re going to have to make sure the cow’s daily protein and energy needs are met,” Gadberry told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “So if we’re in a situation where we have an ample supply of low quality hay we’re going to be able to fulfill part of the nutritional needs, but we’re going to have to supplement that hay.”

If feedstock prices are cheap, he said, the producer might be better off with both low-quality hay and not enough of it. Gadberry said that’s based on research into “program feeding” high protein, high energy by-product feedstuffs to beef cows with a limited hay supply.

“In situations where you have an abundance of low quality forage and you have to supplement it, that’s going to come with the long term expense of wasted hay,” he said. “The cows aren’t going to utilize that hay as effectively, at the end of the winter feeding period you’re going to have hay reserves that, if stored outside, are just going to deteriorate.”

When calculating whether hay stocks are adequate for the winter, waste has to be taken into account. Gadberry said waste can run as high as 40 percent if hay is stored outside after harvest, and fed unprotected without being put into hay rings. On the other hand, if hay is stored in a barn or under well secured tarps and is fed in hay rings, the loss may be as low as 10 percent.

If hay supplies are inadequate, one of the most cost effective supplementation alternatives is alfalfa hay, according to

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University of Missouri Extension Livestock Specialist Andy McCorkill.

“Feeding somewhere in the 5 to 10 pounds per head, per day range is often enough to fill the gap between what lower quality forages provide and what the cows actually need,” McCorkill told OFN. “If it isn’t practical to feed alfalfa every day, you can double up every other day or even triple up every third day, and still be OK.” Many producers use lick tubs or liquid feed, but McCorkill noted, “You are mostly buying convenience.”

It’s becoming more frequent for producers to have fall calving herds, and McCorkill said one of the big reasons is energy requirements. The beef cow’s highest nutritional requirements come from late gestation through the first 60 days of lactation, and with fall calvers that generally falls in the September through November time frame, when there is still standing forage available.

That reduces the need to supplement with additional protein and energy sources.

“With the use of stockpiled fescue pasture for winter grazing, in some instances the cow herd can be grazing almost up until weaning time,” he said.

McCorkill said he generally recommends that producers get their hay tested.

“At $20 to $30 per sample, it could be one of the cheapest investments you make on the farm and can pay back with big dividends,” he said. “If they aren’t getting fed what they need they are going to be stressed, which can lead to health issues, breed back issues and reduced milk production.”

Gadberry offered an additional tip to producers.

“The most common misconception about a 4-by-5 round bale is its weight,” he said.

“When we have surveyed cattle producers, the most common answer is a 4-by-5 bale is expected to weigh 1,000 pounds. The 4-by5 bales that we have weighed over time average closer to 750 pounds, so there’s a 250-pound difference.”

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Tips for getting your parasite control protocol in place before spring Winter is the season where most farmers go over their account books for the year, plan the coming year’s crops, and set new goals for the farm.

Winter should also be the time that farmers sit down and create an appropriate parasite control program before spring.

Spring parasite prevention begins in the winter. In order to get your cattle and other livestock ready to go for the spring grazing, you’ll want to deworm in the winter. Going from eating hay and feed concentrate to eating forages and suddenly being exposed to parasites that have been off the scene all winter can cause a bit of a shock to an animal’s system if they are unprepared. As the old saying goes, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Before running to the farm supply store or the vet to pick up a load of dewormer, carefully take stock of your animals’ needs to avoid overspending, buying the wrong product or purchasing an improper dosage. It doesn’t do any good to deworm your stock if you give them too low of a dose to be effective – or to overdose where it isn’t necessary.

To create an effective parasite program, you need to have an accurate weight on your animals. This can be challenging to achieve, but can help you save money and improve your animal’s performance in the long run by knowing the proper dose for deworming. Within your parasite prevention program, take steps to reduce the risk of parasite resistance.

“To prevent parasite resistance from developing, many experts now recommend rotating dewormer classes,” stated Hobby Farm Magazine in an article. Pyrantel, Benzimidazole and Ivermectin are the main three on the market. Hobby Farm also suggest that, “making sure an animal gets the appropriate dosage for FEBRUARY 15, 2016

its weight – and keeps it down, in the case of oral medications – is another way farmers can help prevent parasites from developing resistance to anthelmintics.”

Aside from deworming, there are other steps that farmers and ranchers can take during the winter to make sure livestock are relatively parasite free come spring.

For starters, don’t ever give the parasites a home to develop in the first place; keeping paddocks, stalls and feeding areas clean and dry, with little to no standing manure, doesn’t give most parasites an adequate environment to live. Keeping your livestock feed up off the ground whenever possible can keep them from coming into contact with many parasites – use hay rings and sturdy feed bunks to limit the risk of your critters picking up a bug. To keep the parasite population low not only heading into spring, but year round as well, consider working rotational grazing, or Management Intensive Grazing (MIG) into your farm plan.

Tom Landers, of Landers Lean Meats in Dadeville, Mo., recommends this practice.

“We use rotational grazing and that helps a lot,” Tom said. Rotational grazing spreads out the application of manure, therefore reducing the areas that parasites can develop in, and prevents livestock from overgrazing and potentially picking up parasites from eating the forage down to the dirt. This parasite preventing practice can easily accommodate a multi-species farm – Landers Lean Meats runs their pastured poultry behind their cattle, and Tom says that the chickens help prevent parasite issues by eating bugs and larvae, while also providing “added fertility for the grass.”

Parasites are one of those things that farmers and ranchers will always have to contend with – but having a prevention program can go a long way towards making a potentially devastating issue a minor one.

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A lactating cow will likely need a minespecially true after calving season when eral supplement to help keep her and calves are nursing.

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While some extra groceries during lachis article, Nutritional Requirements of tation are imporBeef Cattle. “Milk tant, be careful to contains a high not change up your concentration of cow’s menu too protein. Therefore, quickly. In their lactating cows, study Feeding Dairy particularly during – Eldon Cole, Cattle During Lacearly lactation, reUniversity of Missouri Extension tation, Macdonald quire nearly twice Livestock Specialist Campus of MacGill the daily protein of University notes, dry cows.”

Adequate protein during lactation is “major ration changes should be avoided.”

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

farm help

By Julie Turner-Crawford

While the cause of every late-term abortion is unclear, disease and infection are factors Calving season is well underway in the Ozarks, and thankfully Mother Nature, for the most part, has been kind to livestock producers.

Despite the mild weather, there can be other factors that can impact the future of a breeding program, including stillbirths or late-term abortions, but what causes them?

According to University of Missouri Extension Livestock Specialist Dr. Randall Wiedmeier, mystery surrounds many cases.

“When I was a younger man and studied reproduction in cattle and all of the things that can go wrong, I always thought it is a wonder that we have any calves on the ground,” he said. “One of my former students works at a veterinary pathology lab, and as those fetuses are coming in, in about 50 percent of those they can’t find any abnormalities, no infection that they can pick up.”

Wiedmeier said in other cases, abortions can be linked to disease, infection or even moldy hay.

Mold and bacteria, Wiedmeier explained, cause most infections and normally do not impact gestating animals, but if the mother is stressed or injured during the pregnancy, those typically minor infections can cause her to abort.

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The causes that can be kept at bay the most are disease.

“Diseases like IBR (Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis), BVD (Bovine viral diarrhea) and, especially around here, Leptospirosis can cause those late-term abortions,” Wiedmeier said. “In talking with veterinarians, Leptospirosis is the biggest problem we are seeing here in South Central Missouri as far as late-term abortions, and that can be handled with the proper vaccinations.”

Vaccinations against IBR, BVD and Leptospirosis typically protect for six months, so animals should be vaccinated twice a year.

Wiedmeier added that Brucellosis (Bang’s Disease), will also cause late-term abortions, but Missouri is considered a brucellosis-free state.

Wiedmeier recommended that producers develop a relationship with a local veterinarian, who can assist in developing a vaccination protocol, and be a source of information.

“They have been trained on what to look for,” he said. “With this new Veterinary Feed Directive, it really surprises me how many producers I talk to who don’t have a relationship with their veterinarian, and that it has been four, five years since a vet as even been at their place. I

think it is a good practice to have a vet out at least once a year, even if it is just to go over vaccination programs, and they have information about things going on that might impact your production.”

While the loss of a calf is not uncommon, when the number of lost offspring begins to grow, so should the producer’s concern.

“My best advice is if someone has two or three late-term abortions, they had better get with their veterinarian, and get the fetus, the placenta and other fetal tissues into the veterinarian diagnostic lab for testing,” Wiedmeier said. “You could have a big problem brewing. I recently had a call from a producer who had two or three (late-term abortions) and I told him that the flag has to go up when that happens.”

He added that he recently spoke with veterinary toxicologist who advised that producers are being urged to send fetuses and placentas to the lab for testing.

“He said it might not be just this particular farm that is having an issue. It might be something that could affect the whole area,” Wiedmeier said. “I know that a lot of people think about the expense of sending (the fetus and tissue) in, but if you think about the expense of having maybe a 50 percent loss to your calf crop, it is worth it.”

1 Contact your local veterinarian.

2 Identify and isolate the aborting females from the rest of the herd if possible; this may help prevent the spread of the disease and makes the animals available for sample collection.

3 Save the aborted fetus and placenta by placing them in a plastic trash bag and refrigerating. If fetus and/or placenta are frozen when found, keep frozen until submitting to a veterinary diagnostic laboratory. Do not wash the fetus or placenta.

4 Record all herd health practices, such as vaccinations used, date and route of administration; movement of cattle; origin of new cattle and bulls brought into the herd; results of semen evaluations; and diagnostic test results on bulls.

5 Keep a reproductive history on your herd/flock, including conception rate, birth rate, weaning rate, and dates when bulls are exposed to cows.

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February 2016 1/12-3/8 Building It from the Ground Up Short Course – Hermitage, Mo. – 417-859-2044 2/4-4/7 Building It from the Ground Up Short Course – Osceola, Mo. – 417-859-2044 15 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 10 a.m. – Sheriff’s Conference

Center, 13 W. Dakota, Butler, Mo. – call 660-679-4167 to register 15 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 6:30 p.m. – Polk County

Fairgrounds, Bolivar, Mo. – 417-326-4916 16 Beef Checkoff Meeting – 6:30 p.m. – Lebanon Livestock Auction, Lebanon,

Mo. – 573-489-6972 16 Economics of the Livestock Business – Hickory County MU Extension

office, 203 Cedar Street, Hermitage, Mo. – 417-745-6767 17 Cattlemens Association Meeting for Taney and surrounding counties – 6-9 p.m.

– Taneyville School cafeteria, Taneyville, Mo. – 417-546-4431 17 Jasper County Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 1-3:30 p.m. – Jasper

County Extension Office, Carthage, Mo. – Cost: $15 – 417-358-2158 18 Barton County Soil and Crops Conference – Thiebaud Auditorium,

Lamar, Mo. – Cost: $5 – RSVP by Feb. 15 – 417-682-3579 19 Taney County Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 1 p.m. – Cost: $15 –

Taneyville Municipal Building, Taneyville, Mo. – 417-546-4431 20 24th Annual IT’S A GAS! Swap Meet – 8 a.m. – Cowan Civic Center, 505 Elm

Street, Lebanon, Mo. – 573-864-1336 or www.itsagasswapmeet.com 20 Beginning Beekeeping Workshop – First Baptist Church, Osceola, Mo. –

register by Feb. 17 – 417-646-2419 or stclairco@missouri.edu 22 Dairy Profit Seminar – 9:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m. – registration: $20 each, includes

lunch – Pork Palace, State Fair Grounds, Sedalia, Mo. – 660-827-0591 22 Introduction to Local Meat Production – 5-7 p.m. – Cost: $5 – Crane

Library, Crane, Mo. – 417-334-4544 ext. 252 or 417-546-4431 22 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 6 p.m. – Dallas County Schools

Alumni Building, Buffalo, Mo. – 417-345-7551 22 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 10 a.m. – Fairgrounds Diner, Centennial

Blvd., Nevada, Mo. – call 417-448-2560 to register 22 Winter Ag Meeting – 2 p.m. – Cost: $10 – Vernon County Fairgrounds,

Centennial Blvd., Nevada, Mo. – call 417-448-2560 by Feb. 18 to register 22 Get Started with Organic Gardening Class – 6 p.m., Cost: $10 – Vernon County

Fairgrounds, Nevada, Mo. – call 417-448-2560 by Feb. 18 to pre-register 23 Stone County Livestock and Forage Conference – 6-9 p.m. – Cost: $8 if

pre-registered by Feb. 19 – Crane Baptist Church, Crane, Mo. – 417-357-6812 23 Howell County Extension Beef and Forage Seminar – 5:30-9:00 p.m. –

Meal is provided – Cost: $15, pre-paid registration is required – Howell

County Extension Office, West Plains, Mo. – 417-256-2391 23 Dallas County Annual Extension Meeting – 6:30 p.m. – Buffalo, Mo. – 417-345-7551 23 Dairy Profit Seminar – 9:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m. – registration: $20 each, includes

lunch – Springfield Livestock Market, Springfield, Mo. – 417-847-3161 23-4/12 Master Gardeners of Greene County Core Training – Botanical Center,

Greene County Extension Center, Springfield, Mo. – 417-881-8909 24 Dairy Profit Seminar – 9:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. – registration: $20 each, includes

lunch – MSU State Fruit Research Center, Mountain Grove, Mo. – 417-741-6134 24 Food Safety for Produce Growers – Webb City, Mo. – 417-358-2158 25 Taney County Livestock and Forage Conference – Forsyth High School,

Forsyth, Mo. – registration deadline is Feb. 22 – 417-546-4431 25 Laying Out and Developing the Farmstread / Facilities needed on a small farm –

Hickory County MU Extension office, Hermitage, Mo. – 417-745-6767 25 Dairy Profit Seminar – 9:30 p.m.-3:15 p.m. – registration: $20 each, includes

lunch – MU Extension Center, Jackson, Mo. – 573-243-3581

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25 Taney County Livestock and Forage Conference – 6-9 p.m. – Forsyth High

School Cafeteria, Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 25 Mid-Missouri Grazing Conference – Jefferson City, Mo. 26 Dairy Profit Seminar – 9:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. – registration: $20 each, includes

lunch – Hagie’s Nineteen Restaurant, Union, Mo. – 636-583-5141 26-28 Western Farm Show – American Royal Complex, Kansas City, Mo. 26-28 Spring Lawn and Garden Show Seminar Series – Springfield, Mo. – call

Greene County Extension Center for more information 417-881-8909 29 2016 Forage and Beef Conference – Knights of Columbus Hall, Cuba, Mo.

– RSVP by Feb. 16 – 573-364-6202 ext. 3 or 1-800-364-8732 29 Winter Ag Meeting – 2-4:30 p.m. – Cost: $10 – First Baptist Church,

505 Walnut, Osceola, Mo. – Call 417-646-2419 by February 25 to register 29 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 10 a.m.-Noon – First Baptist

Church, Osceola, Mo. – 417-646-2419 29 Get Started with Organic Gardening Class – First Baptist Church, 505

Walnut, Osceola, Mo. – call 417-646-2419 by Feb. 25 to pre-register 29-4/18 Potting Shed University – Springfield, Mo. – 417-881-8909 March 2016 1 32nd Annual Southwest Missouri Spring Forage Conference – University

Plaza Hotel, Springfield, Mo. – pre-register by Feb. 18 – 417-532-6305 ext. 3

or www.springforageconference.com 1 Equipment Needed on the Farm – 6-9 p.m. – Hickory County MU Extension

office, 203 Cedar Street, Hermitage, Mo. – 417-745-6767 1-3 50th Annual Technical Conference and Trade Show – Branson Convention

Center, Branson, Mo. – 573-657-5533 2-4/13 Gasconade County Master Gardener Core Course – Wednesdays 10 a.m.-Noon

and 1-3 p.m. – Gasconade County Extension Center, Owensville, Mo. – register

by Feb. 19 – 573-437-2165 or gasconadeco@missouri.edu 5 Optimizing Forage Production Efficiency, Utilization, Economic Considerations

in Beef Cattle Operations – Barton County MU Extension Center, Lamar, Mo.

– register by March 3 – 417-682-3579 or bartonco@missouri.edu 5 Spring Gardening Workshop – 8 a.m.-3 p.m. – Cost: $20 – Faith Lutheran

Church, Branson, Mo. – 417-357-6812 6 Rabbit Seminar – 1-5 p.m. – Bates County Fairgrounds, Butler, Mo. – 660-679-4167 7 Bull Breeding Soundness Clinic – Cassville, Mo. – 417-466-3102 7 All About Tomatoes – Springfield, Mo. – 417-881-8909 7 Vegetable and Raised Bed Gardening – Springfield, Mo. – 417-881-8909 8 Sew Native Class: Spring Ephemerals – Waynesville, Mo. – 573-774-6177 8 Hobbies that Pay – MU Extension office, Hermitage, Mo. – 417-745-6767 8 Programs available in my county to assist me in improving my operation –

– Hickory County MU Extension office, Hermitage, Mo. – 417-745-6767 10 Webinar for Missouri Fence Laws – Cassville, Mo. – 417-847-3161 10 Webinar for Missouri Fence Laws – 417-859-2044 10 Program to Discuss Missouri’s Complicated Fence Law – FCS Financial

Office, Nevada, Mo. – pre-registration recommended – 417-448-2560 or millerpd@missouri.edu 10 Dallas County Soils and Crops Conference – Buffalo, Mo. – 417-345-7551 11 Lawrence County Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 1 p.m. – Cost:

$15 – MU Southwest Research Center, Mt. Vernon, Mo. – 417-466-3102 14 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 2 p.m. – Bates County Health Dept.,

501 N. Orange, Butler, Mo. – 660-679-4167 14 Barry County Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 1:30 p.m., Cassville

Public Library, Cassville, Mo., or 5:30 p.m., Cassville High School Vo-Ag

Department, Cassville, Mo. – pre-registration is required – 417-847-3161

Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

ozarks’

auction block

February 2016 20 Overmiller Gelbvieh & Angus Bull & Female Sale – at the Farm, Smith

Center, Kan. – 785-389-3522 20 Magnolia Hereford Assn. Polled & Horned Production Sale – Southern

Arkansas University, Magnolia, Ark – 870-451-3624 26 Cow Camp Ranch Bull Sale – Lost Springs, Kan. – 785-965-7168 27 Smithson Farms Annual Black Hereford Sale – at the Farm, La Plato, Mo.

– 660-651-5877 27 Red Alliance Performance Tested Red Angus Auction – Brazos County

Exposition Complex, Bryan, Texas – 641-919-1077 27 Seedstock Plus North Missouri Bull Sale – Kingsville Livestock Market,

Kingsville, Mo. – 877-486-1160 27 LonelyValley Keeping Kind Annual Bull Sale – Preston, Neb. – 402-350-3447 27 Spur Ranch Spring Sale – Vinita, Okla. – 918-256-2493 27-28 Missouri Angus Futurity Sale – Columbia, Mo. – 573-694-6152 March 2016 1 Jindra Angus 16th Annual Production Sale – Creighton Livestock Market,

Creighton, Neb. – 402-920-3171 4 Express Ranches Angus and Hereford Bull Sale – at the Ranch, Yukon,

Okla. – 405-350-0044 5 Judd Ranch 38th Annual Gelbvieh Balancer & Red Angus Bull Sale – at

the Ranch, Pomona, Kan. – 800-743-0026 5 Linhart Limousin Inaugural Bull Sale – Leon, Iowa – 402-350-3447 5 Mead Farms Angus, Charolais and Hereford Bull Sale – at the Farm,

Versailles, Mo. – 573-216-0210 5 Peterson Charolais Top Pick Bull Sale – at the Farm, Mtn. Grove, Mo. – 417-926-5336 7 Flying H Genetics 36th Annual Roughage “N” Ready Bull & Female Sale

– Arapahoe, Neb. – 308-493-5411 8 Bar Arrow Cattle Company 26th Annual Production Sale – at the Ranch,

Phillipsburg, Kan. – 785-543-5177 12 2016 Genetic Power Bull Sale – Springfield Livestock Marketing Center,

Springfield, Mo. – 334-695-1371 12 Midwest Beef Alliance Bull Sale – Marshall Junction, Mo. – 660-895-5008 12 Bachman Redstock Red Angus, Gelbvieh and Balancer Sale – Litton Ag

Center, Chillicothe Mo. – 660-247-1112 12 Hall-Coyote Hills Ranch Annual Bull Sale – Chattanooga, Okla. – 580-597-3006 12 Jac’s Ranch Annual Bull Sale – at the Ranch, Bentonville, Ark. – 479-366-1759 12 Heart of the Ozarks Angus Association Sale – West Plains, Mo. – 417-842-5570 12 Valley Oaks Angus Open House & Private Treaty Sale – Oak Grove, Mo.

– 816-229-8115 12 Cattleman’s Kind Saler Production Sale – at the Farm, Billings, Mo. – 417-744-2025 12 Red Alliance Performance Tested Red Angus Genetics Genetics Sale –

Heart of Oklahoma Expo Center, Shawnee, Okla. – 641-919-1077 12 Wright Charolais 9th Annual Herd Sire Spotlight Sale - Kearney, Mo. 816-776-3512 19 Circle A Ranch Secret to Success Sale – at the Ranch, Iberia, MO – 573-280-5308 19 Texoma Beefmaster Sale – McAlester, Okla. – 254-541-4643 19 Pinegar Limousin Herdbuilder XVll Sale – Springfield, Mo. – 417-833-2688 19 Flying H Genetics 17th Annual Growing on Grass Bull Sale – at the Farm,

Butler, Mo. – 303-842-9071

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Cattlemen’s Seedstock Directory

Angus 4R Farms - Republic, MO 417-869-1462 - 417-844-4929 - www.4rfarmslowlines.com Clearwater Farm - Springfield, MO 417-732-8552 - 417-732-2707 Le Jeune Farms - Halfway, MO 417-445-2214 - 417-777-0894 - lejeune@windstream.net Matthews Coach’s Corral - Fair Grove, MO - 417-838-4088 - www. matthewscoachscorral.com matthewscoachscorral@gmail.com Mead Farms - Barnett, MO 573-216-0210 - 573-280-6855 Pitts Angus Farms - Hermitage, MO 417-399-3131 www.pittsangusfarms.com Balancers B/F Cattle Company - Butler, MO 660-492-2808 Bob Harriman Genetics Montrose, MO - 660-492-2504 Hilltop Farms - Asbury, MO 417-642-5871 - 417-529-0081 Charolais Aschermann Charolais - Carthage, MO - 417-793-2855 - www. aschermanncharolais.com Beiswinger Charolais Ranch Halfway, MO - 417-253-4304 Mead Farms - Barnett, MO 573-216-0210 - 573-280-6855 S&J Charolais - LaRussell, MO 417-246-1116 Gelbvieh 4AR Simmental/Gelbvieh Conway, MO - 417-689-2164 Hilltop Farms - Asbury, MO 417-642-5871 - 417-529-0081 Herefords Jim D. Bellis - Aurora, MO 417-678-5467 - 417-466-8679 Journagan Ranch - Mtn. Grove, MO - 417-948-2669 Kaczmarek Herefords - Salem, MO - 573-729-5923 Mead Farms - Barnett, MO 573-216-0210 - 573-280-6855 R&L Polled Herefords -Halfway, MO 417-445-2461 - 417-777-0579 Lim-Flex Le Jeune Farms - Halfway, MO 417-445-2214 - 417-777-0894 - lejeune@windstream.net Limousin Le Jeune Farms - Halfway, MO 417-445-2214 - 417-777-0894 - lejeune@windstream.net Locust Grove Limousin - Miller, MO - 417-452-2227 Pinegar Limousin - Springfield, MO - 1-877-PINEGAR Red Angus Dunseth Farm - Halfway, MO 417-445-2256 Salers Dunseth Farm - Halfway, MO 417-445-2256 Sim/Angus Bob Harriman Genetics Montrose, MO - 660-492-2504 Matthews Coach’s Corral - Fair Grove, MO - 417-838-4088 - www. matthewscoachscorral.com matthewscoachscorral@gmail.com Simmental 4AR Simmental/Gelbvieh Conway, MO - 417-689-2164 Matthews Coach’s Corral - Fair Grove, MO - 417-838-4088 - www. matthewscoachscorral.com matthewscoachscorral@gmail.com

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Fencing

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6/20/16

Livestock - Equine

The Horseman’s Horses &Horse Tack Source

Bought & Sold Daily

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Rain Date: Saturday • April 2 • 9 AM

Held at Diamond S Arena • Bolivar, MO Dennis & Mariellen Raucher Professional Auctioneer Mt. Vernon, Mo.

417-316-0019 417-316-0023 Cell

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JD 946 MoCo

One of Missouri’s Largest Annual Equipment Consignment Auctions!

Expecting over 50 Tractors • Large Line of Hay Equipment • Semi Trucks • Pick-Ups & Farm Vehicles • Skid Steers • ATV’s • Boats & RV’s • Building Materials • Livestock Equipment • Lawn & Garden Equipment • Expecting Over 50 Trailers • Bulldozers, Crawlers & Heavy Equipment • Plus Much, Much More!

Verona, Mo. • 16251 Lawrence 2220 3 mi. west of Aurora, MO 65769 between Bus. 60 & U.S. 60

2/15/16

Vets

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Storage Containers & Trailers Ground Level Containers 20’, 40’, 45’ & 48’ Available • Sale or Lease

Christian County Veterinary Service, LLC

Large & Small Animal Vet Clinic Darren Loula, DVM Joe Evans, DVM Katie Loula, DVM Cherie Gregory, DVM

417-743-2287 8748 State Hwy 14 West, Clever, MO

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Haybuster, Krone

417-498-6571

3/28/16

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40 Bulls 40 Females, Hereford, Angus and Baldy’s

www.smithsonfarms.com

Ford 8240 4x4

Luco Mfg. Co. Hydraulic Chutes • Working Circles Cake Feeders • Continuous Fencing Panels & Gates

Selling:

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2/15/16

‘99 Peterbilt 377

jobs easier

Falling Timber Farm Bull & Female Sale March 19th, 5:30 p.m., at the farm

12397 Jasper Ave. La Plata, Mo 63549

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When Quality Counts & You Want it Done Right, Call Richard!

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2/15/16

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EQUIPMENT AUCTION

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Saturday, February 20, 2016 • 9:00aM

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810 Main St., Lockwood, MO 65682 • Email: dadecounty@keinet.net

Graber Metal Sales Roofing • Siding •Trim • Insulation Overhead Doors • Windows, Etc,…

Serving the Metal Building Industry 8327 Lawrence County Ave. LaRussell, MO 64848 417-246-5335

800-246-5335

Poultry Litter Fertilizer Application Service Available • Application Rate 1-2 Tons Per Acre • GPS Guidance Green Forest, AR hostetlerlitter@emypeople.net

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Barn Repair Work & Paint • Doors & Siding • Replacement Windows • Concrete Work • Metal Truss Buildings • On Site Electric Generator • Home & Barn Metal Roofs • Patios • Excavating • Pole Barns • Remodeling & Repair • Much More!

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SEE WHAT’S NEW AT THE WESTERN FARM SHOW

See the latest equipment and technology for farmers and ranchers With extensive displays of new farm equipment, the latest ag technologies, livestock demonstrations and a high-horsepower tractor pull, it’s no wonder the Western Farm Show ranks as one of the Midwest’s most popular indoor farm shows. Now in its 55th year, the 2016 Western Farm Show will kick off Feb. 26 and run until Feb. 28 at the American Royal Complex in Kansas City, Mo. MFA, a major sponsor of the Western Farm Show, will have booths featuring precision agriculture equipment and services with plenty of expert staff on hand to answer questions.

MFA will again host Ronald Gill’s livestock handling demonstrations. The Texas AgriLife Extension specialists knowledge of cattle and safe handling practices is a favorite and can help cattle operations of any size. MFA sponsors the NCBA’s Stockmanship and Stewardship Low-Stress Livestock Handling demonstrations at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, in the Scott Pavilion adjacent to the American Royal Complex.

Admission is free to all Western Farm Show attendees.

MFA’s cattle handling systems and other MFA farm supply products will be featured at the show. MFA’s Feed Division will have a display representing its full line of feed products with staff on hand explaining how the range of feeds can fit on various farming operations.

Stop by participating MFA Agri Services locations and receive a $3 off coupon for admission.

2016 Western Farm Show Kansas City, Feb 26-28

Show hours : 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fri. and Sat. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sun.

• MFA experts on hand to discuss agronomic and livestock products and trends.

• Low-Stress Livestock Handling Demonstration sponsored by MFA Incorporated: 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27.

Admission: $8 for adults and free for children 12 and under.

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• Championship tractor pull with Doug Roberts and the Outlaw Truck and Tractor Pulling Association: Feb. 26 and 27.

• FFA day is Feb. 26; food is being collected for the annual Food Drive “Border War.”

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