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Fryar appointed to board: Ed Fryar, an agricultural economist and founder of a poultry processing company, has been appointed by Gov. Asa Hutchinson to the 10-person University of Arkansas System board of trustees. In 2000, Fryar co-founded Ozark Mountain Poultry. He served as the company’s board chairman at the time of its sale last year to George’s Inc. Proposals approved for poultry operations: The Oklahoma Board of Agriculture has approved proposals for new or expanding poultry operations requiring them to be a certain distance away from homes and schools. The board voted 3-2 for the rules that include “setback” requirements that operations with fewer than 150,000 birds be at least 500 feet (152 meters) from homes and larger operations be at least 1,000 feet (305 meters) away. All operations must be at least 1,500 feet (457 meters) from schools. All operations must be 200 feet (61 meters) from streams, 100 feet (30 meters) from private wells and 500 feet (152 meters) from public wells. The proposal now goes to the Legislature and, if approved and signed by the governor, would go into effect in September. White County, Ark., added to disaster list: U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue has announced that producers in White County, Ark., who suffered losses caused by excessive rain that occurred Aug. 1 through Nov. 15 are eligible for USDA Farm Service Agency emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used for various recovery needs, including the replacement of essential items such as equipment or livestock, reorganization of a farming operation or the refinancing of certain debts, according to a USDA news release. Producers in Cleburne and Faulkner counties are also eligible to apply for emergency loans. The deadline to apply for the emergency loans is Oct. 15. The Farm Service Agency will review the loans based on the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability. Oklahoma officials warn of increased cattle thefts: Recent cattle thefts, including about 100 head taken in Pryor, Okla., have prompted Oklahoma Department of Agriculture chief agent Jerry Flower to urge people to report unusual activity to authorities. “Get nosy,” he said. “Be nosy. See who is driving up and down the county roads and, if you see something out that doesn’t belong there, get on the phone, call 911.” He also suggests livestock owners use game cameras to catch the thieves. “Cattle theft actually goes up this time of the year because cattle are out on wheat and they are easily seen and easier to get to,” Flower added.

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Jody Harris – True to the blue and gold

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MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS 7 Cattle production is a family tradition for the Phifers

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alving out a bunch revoofnwheifers orC yisrrealJ yB ways a challenge, but this year has been more demanding than usual Jerry Crownover is with all of them having been artia farmer and former ficially inseminated and synchroprofessor of Agriculture nized to give birth on specific dates (none of them Education at Missouri calved on their due date). State University. He is a The first seven arrived without incident and native of Baxter County, even included one set of twins, but it all went Arkansas, and an downhill after that with my wife and I having to author and professional assist each one of the next four. speaker. To contact Jerry, The first two that required assistance came in go to ozarksfn.com and relatively mild weather, where it really wasn’t unclick on ‘Contact Us.’ comfortable to shed my coat, before putting on the shoulder-length OB gloves and getting right to work. The third one came in a cold rain which had left the corral resembling a pit that would have been perfect for a mud-wrestling event, but by that time, my vet assistant (Judy) knew the routine so perfectly, she was handing me the instruments before I even had to ask. On the morning of the fourth event, it was 15 degrees, spitting a mixture of snow and freezing rain, with the wind blowing about 30 mph. Over breakfast, Judy commented, “I sure hope we don’t have to pull one today.” I nodded in agreement. As I fed hay and checked everything that morning, everybody looked safe, although there was one heifer that was acting a little “cowy.” I only hoped that she would head to the wooded area and have it on her own. I checked on her again, about noon, and she still showed no signs of labor, so I breathed a sigh of relief, because the weather had gotten progressively worse as the day went on. Judy rode with me in the UTV late that afternoon as I checked all the cows at three locations before sundown. Heifers were the first stop and, sure enough, the heifer that had — Continued on Page 6

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page My big pipe dream was to become an archeologist. I dreamed of traveling the world to dig in ancient ruins and discover the past. In elementary school, my classmates and I learned about the tomb of Tutankhamun, more commonly known as King Tut. It was fascinating and I was ready to pack my bags for my own adventures. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of a call for budding archeologists in my hometown, and Mom wasn’t a fan of “archeological digs” in the yard. Today I settle for what others are digging up on the History Channel, and what treasures I can find at auctions, thrift stores and flea markets, and one day I will make it to Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park. No matter what I wanted to be as a kid, I always wanted to be involved in agriculture in some way, especially working with livestock, so being a veterinarian made sense, but I don’t think a farmer archeologist would have worked too well in the Egyptian desert. I discovered a new dream later in life after being laid off from my night factory job

for the second time. With the factory permanently closing, I returned to college in my mid 20s as a “non-traditional student” in the agriculture department at what was then Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. There I found a new path, a path that would eventfully lead me to various newspapers, and finally to OFN, where I have proudly been for four years. I may not have fulfilled my childhood dreams, but I found new ones and I only look back fondly at the “what might have beens” along the way. I don’t have the show string of heifers or picturesque farm I always wanted, but I do get to share the stories of those who are working toward their goals. I’m not giving up on all of my dreams just yet, because if you give up a dream, you give up part of yourself. I just have to get those six numbers right!

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acted suspicious earlier in the day, was in the edge of the woods, straining like crazy, with two feet and a nose protruding. I told Judy that we’d give her some more time while we checked the cows at the other two locations. An hour later, she hadn’t made any progress, so I decided to try to drive her the quarter-mile to the corral. With Judy following in the UTV, I did my best to coax her out of the woods and into the open pasture towards the pen. The freezing rain was stinging my face and all of us went directly into the frigid north wind. The windy trip took about 20 minutes and I was fairly certain that Judy was appreciating the heater in the UTV. Luckily, the young heifer was easy to get up and Judy parked right beside the squeeze chute with all my tools already loaded. The first problem occurred when I went to raise the tailgate on the chute

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– it was frozen solid to the bottom of the chute. I finally kicked and hammered enough until it broke loose. Next, as I tried to open the head gate, it, too, was frozen tight. After more kicking, hammering and strong language, it opened. We got the heifer in and secured, and for the first time in my life, I had to break off frozen remnants of the water bag to get to the business at hand, when I had one of those great ideas. Judy has been hounding me for three years, to let her go up in the cow and attach the OB straps to the legs of the calf. “Here’s your opportunity, dear. I’m going to let you do the honors today.” Her shivering voice was hardly audible through the layers of coats, mittens and scarves, but I’m pretty sure she said, “#$%& NO! You do it and be *&^% quick about it!” MARCH 11, 2019

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Father and son Larry and Mark Phifer continue a family tradition in the cattle business Larry and Mark Phifer are cattle farmers from Baldknob, Ark. They have their homes out at the farm and play equal roles. They usually start out their day checking on their cattle and feeding, then they get to work on whatever needs to be done on the land or equipment. Larry retired from the Kohler Co. in Searcy Ark., in 2009 after 32 years when the company moved to Mexico. Larry

hol counselor for the prison system. She is also very involved at the farm and caring for their daughter Adeline. They mostly run black Angus and Salers cattle, with a few Hereford and Charolais. They tend to keep a few replacement heifers every year. They have three Salers bulls with their cattle and currently raise between 60 and 70 momma cows on 316 acres, in addition to a leased 60 acres that Photo by Veronica Hicks

The Phifer family has been raising cattle for five generations. Pictured, from left, are Larry and Janie Phifer, granddaughter Adeline Phifer, daughter-in-law Shelly Phifer, and son Mark Phifer. All live on their family farm in Baldknob, Ark.

has been devoted to farming ever since. adjoins their farm. They grow hay on 86 “It just has to be something you enjoy acres, keeping what they need for their own herd needs and selling the rest. doing,” he said. “Keeping up with the land is a good deal Mark keeps busy as a territory manager for Witcher Auctions in Wynne, Ark. He to take care of but you just have to get after spends a lot of time handling business on it,” Mark said. “There is more land to clear the phone or out on the road, but when but we just haven’t gotten that far yet. “Over the last several years we have he isn’t at work, he is at the farm. Larry’s wife, Janie, raises Quarter Horses cleared more land to establish new pasand has done so for 20 years. Janie is very ture and have worked with the NRCS (Natural Resources Conserdedicated to the farm, where vation Service) on pasture she spends most of her time. Baldknob, Ark. improvement, cross fencing She also has future plans to and a water pipeline to send show miniature horses. fresh water to the tire waterShelly, Mark’s wife, is in her ers in the different fields. This final semester at the University has allowed us to set up rotational of Central Arkansas and would grazing. We plant cool-season forlike to become a drug and alcoMARCH 11, 2019

age to help conserve hay. In the winter we feed hay, and Pro Lix liquid feed, and always keep free choice minerals out.” They have started the last several years keeping vital records on the cows and calves, this helps them be able to look back and see what cows are performing best over time. They market their calves after they are weaned, at either West Plains, Mo., or Mid-State Stockyards in Damascus, Ark. Mark is looking at selling beef straight to the consumer from the farm and will hopefully be able to try it later this year after they get the building and the freezers set up, but it’s still in the planning stages. “All of my great-grandpas had cattle and/or vegetables,” he said. “My grandpa Eugene Phifer worked with a road construction crew and raised cattle. And my dad has had cattle all my life. “We get a lot of help on everything on the farm from Janie and Shelly, whether it’s working cattle, tagging calves or building fences. We also get a lot of help from my uncle Tommy Phifer, he’s always just a phone call away in hay season or any other time.” All of Larry and Janie’s grandchildren – Adeline, Mason and baby Dalton, Casey, Carley and Tyler – help out where they can. Adeline is the only child who lives on the farm, but they are all involved and really enjoy helping out at the barn and helping care for the animals. “One of the best parts of being involved in agriculture is that it gives everyone in the family a chance to work together and you’re able to see the progress in your work,” Mark said. “In the future we want to keep improving the land, the cattle herd, and continue looking for new innovative ways to grow, and maybe expand into some new things and just stay on top of the obstacles that you would face in farming like the weather, market prices and in general just the overall cost of farming.”

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What do a lumberjack, trucker, touring country singer, cattleman, competitive fishermen and turkey farmer have in common? They are all parts of the life of Martin Sims. Martin and his wife Liz own 300 acres in Marble, Ark., and lease more than 1,200 additional acres for an extensive order buying and backgrounding cattle business. Martin grew up around his grandfather Ryan Holt who ran a cow/calf operaMartin Sims has tion and was in the lumber worn many hats industry. One of his favorite over the years, memories occurred when but his focus his grandfather and neighis as an order bor Joe Carter were helping buyer and each other work cattle. A backgrounder. 700-pound bull got loose. Martin and Joe’s son Pete were 7 and 8 at the time and very excited. They were told to rope the tions. By the time Martin was in his early 20s, he figured the lumber industry was bull so he could be castrated. Wanting to prove themselves, they did going to be his life. Then he had a serious exactly that and were dragged around accident that revealed many more possibilities. Well accustomed to trucks and because they didn’t want to let go. “We couldn’t let go of that rope fast hauling cattle, Martin decided to start a enough and had the rope burns to prove cross-country hauling company, which worked well until fuel prices rocketed in it,” Martin recalled with a laugh. Another of Martin’s significant memo- 2009. The business couldn’t withstand ries is going to cattle sales with his grand- the financial pressure. Now Gary Tharp of Dixie Grove Farms father and watching order buyers pull in Siloam Springs, Ark., hauls cards out of their pockets. 90 percent of his cattle, Wanting to be like them, the Marble, Ark. which mainly go to feedlots young boy put cards in his in Nebraska. pocket and believed everyIn 2003, Martin decided to one thought he was an order add three turkey houses to his still buyer. The memory stuck and thriving trucking operation and he added order buying to his ever present cattle. Helping was a turkey and cow/calf opera-

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meet your neighbors neighborhood youngster named Hunter Villines who has worked for Martin since he was 12. He transitioned into a full-time employee a year ago. The houses run on a 13-week rotation, starting the day the poults are born. The turkeys are raised to 15 pounds and then taken to Cargill in Springdale, Ark., for processing. In the midst of cattle and turkeys, Martin also began a successful country music career which included frequent visits to Nashville every other week and touring around the country as the lead singer. Music was a childhood dream and singing fulfilled another of his passions. He loved everything he did but had too much to do. One of the feedlots he worked with kept telling Martin that backgrounding and order buying rather than his current cow/calf operation had a really strong income potential. Marty mulled it over. “Like a log chain, you can drag me anywhere but you can’t push me. Three years ago, I finally pulled the trigger and began the transition which really made sense once I hired Hunter fulltime. We do everything ourselves. While the workload is crazy busy, it is doable leaving enough time for my love of competitive fishing and for Hunter and his wife Hailey to pursue their lives,” Martin explained. An important part of what makes Marty’s workload doable was eventually choosing cattle over the music industry because they demanded complete attention. While he still performs four concerts a year to feed his passion for music, his professional life is now with Crossroads Cattle Company whose catchy motto is “a steer in the right direction.” Martin’s backgrounding is relatively new with his land divided into two sections. One is a preconditioning section used for custom feeding and healthcare

to ensure every animal is ready for the second section which is devoted to pasture. The first section is also used for preparing cattle to be sent to the feed yards. Martin develops his own feed ration from commodities he purchases in bulk according to price points available at the time. He then consults nutritionists on how to best balance his current profile of commodities for the desired daily weight gain taking into consideration appropriate fat content and 16 percent protein. His commodities include corn, corn gluten, distillers grain, hominy, soy pellets, soy hulls and cottonseed hulls with rations comprising 60 percent of his farm overhead. A group of 1,200 head is pastured beginning March 1 before being sent to a feedlot July 1. Another group of 700 head is pastured beginning August 1 and sent to a feedlot December 1, with Martin sometimes retaining ownership until the cattle are processed. “We are now at max capacity for what two men can handle which includes continuing to expand facilities,” Martin said. An important part of Martin’s ability to multitask is the use of cell phone and computer technology because of the time saved. A feedlot that he sometimes shares cattle ownership with gave him a program they developed for their business which he uses for his operation. He has a vast network of contacts across the country. He believes integrity, fairness and honesty are the key to success personally and professionally with one result being he has never had to advertise. Two of the most important aspects of Martin’s life are his religion and his wife. He readily admits that he’s not the easiest person to live with because of the diversity within his life and is deeply appreciative of Liz who supports everything he does and who stands by his side through every undertaking.

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Alice Weger teaches all those who wish to learn at Alice’s Canning Club Alice Weger was born in Pryor, Okla., on a farm in the days when people put up their own food, knew their neighbors and had a sense of community. As a teenager, the family relocated to Oklahoma City where they attended a local Catholic church. She almost became a nun, but another type of service lay ahead of her. In 1968 she joined the Army and became a supply specialist. Military life took her from Oklahoma to Okinawa, Japan. It was there that she became ill and many years later she would leave the military as a partially disabled veteran. After the military, she worked for various companies, such as AT&T, utilizing the special inventory control skills she gained while in the military. However, her health declined until she was 100 percent disabled. Undeterred, she saw it as an opportunity to serve others and travel across the nation teaching the Baha’i faith. She has crisscrossed the nation encountering people of all walks of life. Something entered Alice’s mind… people forgot how to be part of a community and how to interact with each

other like the good ole’ days, on front porches or at quilting bees. After moving back to the Grand Lake area near Grove, Okla., she dreamed of a way to not only help people but to also bring back a sense of community. That dream birthed a new, yet old, notion. Create a non-profit club that would teach people how to preserve various foods and develop real relationships in the spirit of the quilting clubs of days gone by. A canning club. Quilting get-togethers became a symbol of cooperation arising out of a desire to have pleasurable conversations, a method to pass on knowledge and, finally, to fill a need. Alice knew that a canning club would meet all these needs and more. “I grew up canning since I was 10 years old with mother and grandma,” Alice said. “I wanted to teach people how to do it because it is a lost art.” Her mother and accomplished artist, Alice T. Weger, had an art shop west of Grove, Okla. After her mother’s health declined and she was unable to continue the art shop, Alice refurbished it for the canning club. Her sister bought a new sign and named the club, Aunt Alice’s Canning Club.

Her mother, 93, passed away in December 2018. The building is now home to freezers, new stoves, dehydrators, a freeze-drying machine and rows of canning supplies. “I have ladies who do canning that come and help teach those that don’t. We enjoy each other’s company,” Alice said. “We help each other out and people end up with food.” There are no club dues or money exchanged. People bring what they are able. Some bring new canning jars, others garden produce and others, such as, farmers or hunters donate meat. Some cannot bring anything but the willingness to work preparing the produce, but no one goes away empty handed. Work done equals a share of the bounty. Alice feels blessed to be able to provide a building and equipment to educate club members on different food preservation techniques. Techniques like: pressure canning, water bath canning, dry canning, steam juicing with a French steamer, dehydrating and freeze drying. Different types of food require different methods, although, some methods maintain the flavor and nutritional value better. Freeze drying retains the nutrients, color

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History: Dr. Vic Boyer considers himself a country boy, having spent his early years near Buffalo Creek in Newton County, Mo., until his father’s job with Empire Electric required that they relocate to Oklahoma when Vic was a teenager. He can not remember a time when he did not want to be a veterinarian, growing up around cattle and in the country only solidified his passion to work with animals. Vic graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1982 and started his practice the same year, first from his garage and then on to the current facility, which was built in 1993. He married his wife Brenda in 1980 and she has worked by his side ever since in various roles at the hospital; receptionist, vet assistant, and now, bookkeeper. The couple has three children, two sons and one daughter, scattered across the nation. Some of the strangest animals visiting his practice was a $700 rare Korean turtle, an iguana and a small kangaroo – like rodent called a jerboa. While he started out with roughly 80 percent of his practice consisting of large animals, pets and small animals are a growing market. Today he attributes more than 50 percent of his practice to that growing niche. “Times have changed. Used to be as a veterinarian you helped people keep their cattle and horses goin’ because that was their way of life,” Vic said. “We still do some but the demand for companion animals has increased tremendously.” Products and Services: Fairland Veterinary Hospital offers routine animal care and health services, such as, vaccinations, spay/neuter, and various other types of surgeries for critters of all shapes, species and sizes. He still works on cattle and does have some equine patients, which tend to be more pleasure sport animals these days. “But this will always be a rural practice,” he said. Goal for the future: “My hope is to pass the business on to a young veterinarian and slow down some,” Vic concluded. “I don’t really want to entirely quit. And we are thinking about maybe building a house back around the old homeplace near Buffalo Creek in Newton County.”

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Sarah Hamm was diagnosed one who ran the farm while he worked. When the couple married, the event was with breast cancer in January 2017. She lost an unbelievably hard fight as much a merger as a marriage. Both Bill after more than two years, plus rounds of and Sarah came from long lines of highly chemo, other treatments and two surger- productive cattle people spending their ies. She passed with her husband Bill and lives on their two farms: the 90 acre Polled Hereford breeding stock Circle S Farm in sons, Jimmy and Austin, by her side. Sarah was an accomplished and active Elkins, Ark., and the 100-acre Hamm’s cattle woman who showed for 51 years at Polled Herefords in Fayetteville. Bill remembers a childhood routine of the Washington County Fair and 49 years at the Arkansas State Fair. Sarah also getting the mail, going to Mitchell Dotson’s showed her family’s cattle at the national nearby store/post office in Bass, in Newton level and was one of only two junior ex- County, Ark., the original home place of hibitors in the United States to show at Bill’s dad and mother. Grandpa bought the all of the first 12 Junior National Polled kids a Coke and a Hershey Bar before ridHereford Shows. She also served the 4-H ing on top of the hay in Grandpa Howard’s organization, the University of Arkansas and Uncle Farris Cook’s old hay truck while Cooperative Extension Service, was past Grampa fed square bales the cattle out of junior beef superintendent and Bill served the back. Their older son James remembers as open beef superintendent at the Wash- being 3 and helping his dad feed a couple ington County Fair. Her passing not only of show heifers which looked huge to the youngster but were as tame as left the grieving family but a pets. Younger son Austin refarm still trying to regain balmembers going into the show ance. Sarah worked side-by- Fayetteville, Ark. ring at an open show at the side with Bill in every aspect same age with his mom because of the operation. Though that was the only showing venue Bill is now retired from the Fayetteville Fire Department after 29 years, Sarah was the — Continued on Next Page MARCH 11, 2019

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meet your neighbors Continuing On Continued from Previous Page for someone so young. Sarah held the halter, but Austin showed the cow using the show stick. Now James drives full-time for Goodman Distributors and hurries home to help his dad as much as he can while younger son Austin is working on his master’s in industrial and agricultural technology at Iowa State. Austin comes home whenever possible to lend a hand. The Hamm breeding Polled Hereford herd has well refined genetics so calves are very seldom culled. Calves are sold as breeding and replacement stock. Buyers have a difficult time picking out the best animals because the herd is so uniform. Many heifers are kept as replacement stock on the farm and for showing, though some are sold as bred heifers. “I don’t like the term ‘show heifers’ because if they can’t go both ways, they are not for us. I believe a show heifer has to

be a superior pasture heifer,” Bill said. By 1970, Bill’s family had tried many breeds but began switching to Polled Herefords in 1973 because they were easy keepers with good milk production, high feed efficiency, easy calving and a gentle disposition. By 1975 the switch was complete. “Recently we found our oldest registered paper for a polled heifer. It was on Sarah’s side of the family and dated 1930,” Bill said. While EPDs are helpful, Bill believes they need to be taken with a grain of salt and prefers to select bulls out of national champions because the genetics are already proven. Bulls are changed every three to five years, depending on how many heifers are retained with three bulls in service at a time. Bill also believes heifers should not be bred until they are 16 to 18 months old even though the Hereford Association recommends calving before 2 years of age. “If I breed older, the heifers and calves have fewer problems and the new mothers accept their calves which sometimes

doesn’t happen if they calve before 2 years of age.” Healthcare on the Circle S has three specific practices not many follow. One is administering straight vaccines rather than combos because Bill believes that provides better immunity. Another is administering a flu vaccine. According to Bill, calves have some residual immunity from the mothers but with the additional vaccine they also get their own. This practice came about when he observed a few animals displaying respiratory symptoms in spite of getting a respiratory vaccine, and the flu vaccine seems to be the solution. Finally, Bill prefers an oral drench of Valbazen as a wormer because it is also effective on liver flukes which can be this far north. The product destroys both the flukes and eggs. If an animal is in poor shape because of them, he has given a heavy dose the first time and again three to four weeks later with great success. The feeding regimen is also highly specific. Heifers and bulls receive 16 percent protein during the winter with heifers having

better udder development as a result of controlled fat content. Cows receive less feed which translates into a more productive cow that can take care of herself. Nonetheless, during winter and spring calving, cows do receive a protein tub for an extra boost. Bill uses Sure Champ with his breeding bulls, an overall vitamin supplement with some additional protein. During summer, Bill uses a medicated mineral for foot rot with free choice minerals available all the time; though in spring magnesium is important to combat grass bloating. Bill sells his cattle through his website and other media. One of the more recent additions is the use of videos in addition to pictures which has increased the breadth of his customer base. An example is a buyer from Puerto Rico who spoke no English but wanted Bill’s bulls badly enough that the buyer used a cousin in Florida as a translator and gobetween. In the end, customers deeply appreciate Hamm cattle dressing out at 80 percent hanging carcass weight.

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Wagyu cattle, generally resemble small bling is very rich to the palate. Although knowledge is growing, most Americans dairy animals rather than beef animals. have not experienced the dining delicacy They are shorter and smaller in the rear offered by Wagyu beef, one of the most with all fullbloods being horned, not what most commercial growers consider attracexpensive beef varieties in the world. Earl and Annette Rowe of Lincoln, Ark., tive. Based on continuous research, the delved into the Wagyu business a decade Rowes seek the best genetics for marbling ago. They are now seeing a steady rise in and other desirable qualities. The Wagyu the sale of Wagyu bulls, embryos, semen, gene pool is limited because fewer than 200 full blood Wagyu were resteers and seedstock heifers. leased into the U.S. in the Some ranchers want a bull to 1970s through the 1990s. Regincrease meat quality by rais- Lincoln, Ark. istration requires DNA testing ing F1 calves while others are and pedigrees must traceable to interested in calving ease. Wathese original imported animals. gyu, with decreased bone density, especially noticeable in — Continued on Page 20 the black ones, throw smaller MARCH 11, 2019

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Dax Moreton By Terry Ropp

Howetown: Summers, Ark. Family: Wife Christina; and daughter Brinkley In Town: Dax Moreton is the loan manager and executive vice president of the Prairie Grove, Farmington, Lincoln and West Fork Arvest Bank. He has worked in Prairie Grove since September 2000. “I started as a loan officer after graduating from Arkansas Tech with a degree in agribusiness and I later graduated from the Southwest Graduate School of Banking at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. One of my major responsibilities is competing for quality loans by making the client part of the process so his needs, expectations and future plans are met. I am also president of the Lincoln School Board and want to make what is already a superior small school into a better place for my 11-year-old daughter Brinkley and others.” In the Country: Dax and his wife, Christina, own and lease 185 acres in Summers, Ark. “We have a cow/calf operation with 110 Angus/Gelbvieh momma cows bred by four registered bulls, two Angus and two Gelbvieh. They are paired by EPDs with an emphasis on small birth weight, good milk production and a high weaning weight rather than yearling weight because I sell my calves at 200 to 225 days, when they weigh 500 to 600 pounds. Bull calves are castrated rather than banded because I believe two or three days of stress is better than the two to three weeks with banding After receiving shots, the calves are sold at the sale barn in Joplin because they pick up my cattle and because they have been good to both my parents and me. “I retain 10 percent of my heifers to introduce younger breeding mommas while improving herd genetics as I cull the older mommas. I feed my weaning heifers a 28 percent ration in addition to providing access to a lick tub. My breeding age heifers receive the same feed but only half as much, although I up the ration on my second calf heifers to promote breeding back. I fertilize in late April with poultry litter purchased locally to encourage Bermuda rather than Fescue growth. I boom spray with Grazon P + D for weeds, their follow up with spot spraying for honey locust using Remedy. I also help my folks on their farm.” Present and Future: “This farm requires ‘all hands on deck.’ That means we have good family time and Brinkley and I have special father-daughter time. While Brinkley loves working on the farm, her heart is currently captured by pitching on a traveling softball team. My future plans are to increase acreage and finally retire to the farm.”

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slaughter

market sales reports

bulls

cattle

875.00, Jersey 650.00-875.00, crossbreds 700.00- 850.00; Medium - 550.00-720.00, Jerseys 550.00-675.00, crossbreds 575.00-675.00; Common - 400.00-510.00, Jerseys 360.003/3/19 475.00. Baby Calves: Holstein heifers - 110.00-220.00, Holstein bulls - ind 90.00, No Jersey calves, crossbred heifers - 120.00-180.00, crossbred bulls - 60.00-160.00, beef cross bulls - few 240.00.

265.00, Medium and Large 1-2 27-38 lbs 238.00-255.00. Slaughter Hair Lambs: Prime 2-3 50-60 lbs. 265.00-275.00. Choice 2-3 45-60 lbs. 242.50-255.00. Good 1-2 70 lbs. 215.00. Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy 65.00-84.00 † Replacement Ewes: mostly hair, some wooled, Medium and Ash Flat Livestock 67.00-84.00 † Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle Large 1-2 85-96 lbs 100.00-132.00; 90-105 lbs. 75.00-90.00. Benton County Sale Barn - Siloam Springs 57.00-94.00 † 5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Medium and Large 2 125-150 lbs 67.50. Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction Not Reported* Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Slaughter Wooled Ewes: Good 1-2 134-165 lbs. 47.50-58.00. County Line Sale - Ratcliff 50.00-85.00 † Steers: 127.00-131.00; wtd. avg. price 128.30. Utility 1-2 few 95-105 lbs. 30.00-45.00. Decatur Livestock Auction Not Reported* Heifers: 127.00-130.00; wtd. avg. price 128.12. Slaughter Hair Ewes: Utility and Good 1-3 95-120 lbs. Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita None Reported* Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice 65.00-87.50. Farmer’s Stockyards - Springdale Not Reported † Steers: 202.00-206.00; wtd. avg. price 205.09. Rams, hair: 145-170 lbs. 85.00-93.00. Fort Smith Stockyards Not Reported † Heifers: 202.00-207.00; wtd. avg. price 205.01. Buffalo, Mo. • Buffalo Livestock Market 2/26/19 Families: Medium and Large 1-2 mostly one baby at side, some I-40 Livestock - Ozark 55.00-82.00 † twins 85.00-95.00 per head. Medium and Large 2 several ewes Receipts: 522 Joplin Regional Stockyards 62.00-94.00 † with twins 42.50-67.50 per head. SHEEP: Feeder Lambs: Mostly hair: Medium and Large 1-2 Mid-State Stockyards 70.00-90.00* 20-40 lbs 260.00-265.00; 40-50 lbs 240.00-245.00. Medium and GOATS: Feeder kids: Selection 1 30-47 lbs. 305.00-340.00. North Arkansas Livestock Auction - Green Forest None Reported † Selection 1-2 30-45 lbs 270.00-300.00. Selection 2 30-40 lbs. Large 2 35 lbs 237.50. Springfield, Mo. • Springfield Livestock Marketing Center 2/26/19 OKC West - El Reno 65.00-95.00 † Slaughter Lambs: Wool Choice 2-3 pkg 85 lbs 100.00; 90-160 230.00-252.50. Pygmys 30.00-60.00 per head. Ozarks Regional Stockyards 68.00-92.00 † Receipts: 736 Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 52-65 lbs 310.00-338.00. Selection lbs 70.00-95.00. Hair Choice and Prime 2-3 lot 29 head 56 lbs Stilwell Livestock Auction Springer Heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme 68.00-81.00* 1-2 50-72 lbs. 270.00-305.00; 80-95 lbs 190.00-220.00. Selec260.00; 60-70 lbs 225.00-235.00; 70-80 lbs 215.00. Good and Tulsa Livestock Auction 900.00-1125.00, ind crossbred 875.00; Approved - 700.0066.00-99.00 † tion 2 50-80 lbs. 180.00-235.00. Selection 3 65-80 lbs. 150.00. Choice 1-3 55-65 lbs 210.00-235.00; 75-80 lbs 165.00-175.00; 880.00, ind Jersey 750.00, few crossbreds 710.00-780.00; Welch Stockyards 75.00-97.00* Replacement does: Selection 1-2 65-105 lbs. 142.50-175.00. 80-90 lbs 128.00-150.00, pkg 14 head 163.00. Medium - 600.00-675.00, ind crossbred 650.00, Common Selection 2-3 94-170 lbs. 120.00-131.00. Slaughter Ewes: hair, Utility and Good 2-3 85-155 lbs 60.000 20 40 60 80 100 120 - 550.00-585.00. Slaughter Does: Selection 2 134-170 lbs. 125.00-127.50. 75.00. Cull and Utility 1-2 85-245 lbs 45.00-67.50. Heifers bred three to six months: Supreme - 910.00-1010.00, Slaughter Rams: Mostly hair, Utility and Good 1-3 55-225 lbs Selection 2-3 61-128 lbs 90.00-122.50. Selection 3 75-105 lbs. ind Jersey 920.00; Approved - ind crossbred 670.00; Medium - 60.00-89.00. 50.00-80.00. few 635.00- 725.00, few crossbreds 625.00. Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1-2 few 105-190 lbs. 155.00Replacement Ewes: Hair, Medium and Large 1-2 100-175 lbs Heifers bred one to three months: Supreme - 875.00-900.00; 70.00-82.50 per cwt. Pkg 26 head 174 lbs 122.50 per head. 170.00. Selection 2-3 70-161 lbs. 120.00-130.00. Selection 3 Approved - few 800.00-825.00; Medium - ind 700.00; Comfew 110-150 lbs 112.50-115.00. Families: Medium and Large 1-2 does 110-150 lbs mostly mon - ind 360.00. Families: Selection 1-2 mostly twins at side 65.00-72.50 per newborn twin babies 185.00-210.00 per family. Open Heifers: Approved: 190-278 lbs 160.00-210.00, ind (Week of 2/24/19 to 3/2/19) GOATS: Feeder Kids: Slaughter Goats: Selection 1 45-60 lbs head. Jersey 255 lbs 240.00, crossbreds 140.00-230.00, 314-400 lbs Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy 29.00-65.00 † 295.00-305.00. Selection 1-2 45-55 lbs 260.00-275.00; 65-85 Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards 2/14/19 270.00-280.00, Jerseys 210.00-300.00, 420-480 lbs 310.00lbs 235.00-252.50. Selection 2 45-55 lbs 245.00-255.00; 55-65 Ash Flat Livestock 33.00-65.00 † 350.00, ind Jersey 420 lbs 350.00, 540-595 lbs 400.00-510.00, Receipts: 511 lbs 217.50-227.50. Selection 3 40-60 lbs 185.00-220.00. Pygmy Benton County Sale Barn 30.00-70.00 † crossbreds 330.00-410.00, 608 lb pkg of 8 at 500.00, ind cross- 35-61 lbs 175.00-220.00; couple pkg pygmy cross 35-50 lbs SHEEP: 341 head mostly hair breeds. Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction Not Reported* bred 695 lbs 500.00, 705-785 lbs 500.00-680.00, ind crossbred 230.00-245.00. Feeder Lambs: Medium and Large 1 35-47 lbs 270.00-295.00. County Line Sale - Ratcliff 31.00-56.00 † 735 lbs 520.00. Medium and Large 1-2 30-44 lbs 245.00-260.00. Slaughter Does: Selection 1-2 80-145 lbs 105.00-133.00. Decatur Livestock Auction Not Reported* Medium: ind Guernsey 435 lbs 190.00; 508-580 lbs 240.00Selection 2-3 90-110 lbs 80.00-110.00. Selection 3 thin 50-100 Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 50-53 lbs 267.50Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita None Reported* 380.00, crossbreds 220.00-240.00; ind 630 lbs 170.00, ind 280.00, 70-84 lbs 215.00-230.00. Good and Choice 1-3 55-67 lbs 50.00-77.50. Farmer’s Stockyards - Springdale Not Reported † crossbred 685 lbs 350.00. Slaughter Bucks: Selection 2-3 few 85-175 lbs 137.50-147.50. lbs 230.00-250.00, 76-90 lbs 195.00-205.00. Fort Smith Stockyards Not Reported † Replacement Cows: Fresh Cows: Supreme 925.00-1000, ind Pygmy 68-100 lbs 117.50-143.00. Slaughter Ewes: Good 1-2 88-125 lbs 95.00-100.00. Utility and I-40 Livestock - Ozark 40.00-65.00 † at 1175.00; Approved - 750.00-875.00, few Jerseys 750.00Good 1-3 90-179 lbs 57.50-75.00. Replacement Does: Selection 1-2 65-85 lbs 147.50-165.00. Joplin Regional Stockyards 20.00-74.00 † 800.00, ind crossbred 800.00; Medium - 550.00-675.00, ind Slaughter Rams: Good 1-2 135-155 lbs 100.00-110.00. Utility Replacement Bucks: Selection 1-2 few 90-100 lbs 170.00Mid-State Stockyards 40.00-65.00* Jersey 600.00, ind crossbred 500.00; Common 300.00-400.00, 195.00 per head. and Good 1-3 145-210 lbs 75.00-80.00. North Arkansas Livestock - Green Forest None Reported † Jerseys 275.00-500.00, ind crossbred 350.00. Replacement Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2 85-144 lbs 95.00Families: Selection 2-3 100-150 lb does mostly twins few singles OKC West - El Reno 45.00-78.00 † Milking Cows: Supreme - 925.00-1175.00, ind Jersey 1000.00, 125.00-205.00; mostly 150.00-185.00 per family. 105.00 per head. Ozarks Regional Stockyards 20.00-67.50 † crossbreds 950.00-1000.00; Approved - 730.00-875.00, crossReplacement Rams: Medium and Large 1-2 125-130 lbs Bottle babies: Few 15-20 lbs 27.50-30.00 per head. Stilwell Livestock Auction breds 725.00-790.00; Medium - 600.00-700.00, few crossbreds 225.00-250.00 per head. 38.00-63.00 * 2/21/19 625.00-700.00; Common - 410.00-585.00, few Jerseys 285.00- Diamond, Mo. • TS Whites Sheep and Goat Sale Tulsa Livestock Auction 29.00-67.50 † Families: Medium and Large 1 100.00-117.50 per head. Me525.00, crossbreds 425.00-585.00. dium and Large 2 65.00-90.00 per head. Welch Stockyards 50.00-75.00* Receipts: 640 Springer Cows: Supreme - few 900.00-1000.00, ind crossbred SHEEP: Feeder Lambs, hair: Medium and Large 1 42 lbs 0 20 40 60 80 110 900.00, Approved - 750.00-875.00, Medium - few 625.00. Bred Cows: Supreme - 900.00-1275.00, Jerseys 900.001100.00, crossbreds 875.00-1070.00; Approved - 800.00(Week of 2/24/19 to 3/2/18)

beef

sheep &

goats

dairy cattle

slaughter

cows

stocker & feeder

300-400 lbs. 400-500 lbs. 500-600 lbs. 600-700 lbs. 700-800 lbs.

18 18

155.00-185.00 130.00-167.00 134.00-148.00 123.50-145.00 120.00-129.00

184.00-218.00 174.00-190.00 157.00-182.00 146.00-154.00 138.50

170.00 145.00-155.00 130.00-154.00 120.00-135.00 100.00

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155.00-179.00 144.00-163.00 130.00-158.00 132.00-135.00 127.00

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174.00-180.00 164.00-173.00 146.00-161.00 135.00-151.00 135.00-136.00

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143.00-148.00 141.00-148.00 136.00-141.00 133.50-138.00 135.00-137.50

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I-40 Livestock Ozark 2/28/19 850

Joplin Regional Stockyards 2/25/19 6,873

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Uneven

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192.50-210.00 170.00-195.00 147.50-172.00 142.00-150.00 135.00

185.00-200.00 167.00-196.00 153.00-192.00 136.00-165.00 137.00-150.00

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175.00-183.50 151.00-167.50 130.00-162.50 130.00-144.00 128.00-130.00

177.00 160.00 133.00-152.00 123.50

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162.50-181.00 141.00-167.50 132.00-147.00 132.00-138.00 120.00-129.00

155.00-169.00 141.00-168.00 137.00-156.50 128.00-140.50 124.00-136.00

127 5(3257('

Heifers, Med. & Lg. 1

178.00-201.00 162.00-195.00 135.00-165.00 136.00-146.00 117.00

Uneven

Farmer’s Stockyards Springdale* ---------

Fort Smith Stockyards*

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Farmer’s & Ranchers Vinita, Okla.* 2/27/19 432

127 5(3257('

300-400 lbs. 400-500 lbs. 500-600 lbs. 600-700 lbs. 700-800 lbs.

Steady 160.00-180.00 150.00-170.00 140.00-164.00 125.00-150.00 131.00-142.00

Decatur Livestock*

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County Line Sale Ratcliff 2/27/19 271

127 5(3257('

Bulls, Med. & Lg. 1

St-5 Higher 177.50-213.00 170.00-210.00 156.00-172.00 143.00-150.00 139.00

Cattlemen’s Livestock*

3/1/19 1,736

Benton Co. - Siloam Springs 2/28/19 1,575

127 5(3257('

300-400 lbs. 400-500 lbs. 500-600 lbs. 600-700 lbs. 700-800 lbs.

Ash Flat Livestock

121( 5(3257('

Steers, Med. & Lg. 1

Ark. Cattle Auction, LLC - Searcy 2/26/19 1,316

prices

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

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4.90

4.84

8.86

4.90

4.58

3.85

3.61

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I-40 vestock Ozark 2/28/19 850

Joplin Regional Stockyards 2/25/19 6,873

Mid-State Stockyards* 2/25/19 350

N. Ark. Livestock Green Forest 2/27/19 2,305

t-5 Higher

Uneven

St-5 Higher

Uneven

Little

County Line Sale - Ratcliff

500

2000

2500

Welch Stockyards*

14,167 St-3 Lower

2-8 Higher

Uneven

1-6 Higher

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193.00-208.00 177.50-200.00 156.00-188.00 144.00-161.00 135.00-148.00

198.00-213.00 169.00-188.00 149.00-170.00 130.00-141.00 114.00-135.00

200.00-220.00 187.00-207.00 161.00-183.50 139.00-160.50 125.50-139.00

170.00-210.00 165.00-189.00 150.00-183.50 145.00-166.00 128.00-138.50

75.00-183.50 51.00-167.50 30.00-162.50 30.00-144.00 28.00-130.00

177.00 160.00 133.00-152.00 123.50

180.00-205.00 150.00-175.00 130.00-152.00 125.00-142.00 105.00-130.00

177.00-197.00 155.00-178.00 132.00-158.00 136.00-141.00 -----

210.00 176.00-178.00 182.00 ---------

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192.00-208.00 172.50-192.00 153.00-177.00 136.00-153.00 129.00-139.00

160.00-196.00 150.00-180.00 135.00-157.00 125.00-146.00 100.00-129.00

MARCH 11, 2019

140.00-156.00 140.00-151.00 133.00-147.00 121.00-132.00 114.00-125.00

139.86

167.00-177.00 150.00-167.00 135.00-154.50 123.00-136.00 120.00-130.00

150.00-181.00 150.00-173.00 130.00-165.00 125.00-141.25 116.00-131.00

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137.07

166.88 148.57 * 156.78

138.24

140.39

130.29

152.30 165.58

142.94 134.99

162.43 165.89 159.78 147.67 159.54 161.43

144.91 135.90 137.55 137.90 136.58

164.28

139.78

165.39 137 164 191 218 * No price reported in weight break **USDA Failed To Report *** No Sale

140.29

170.50 163.25

110

144.62 133.18

135.16

164.52

2/26/19 1,658

200.00-220.00 179.00-200.00 162.00-187.00 144.00-162.00 131.00-147.50

152.50-162.50 145.00-165.00 132.00-154.00 130.00-143.00 122.00-135.00

162.69

Tulsa Livestock Auction 2/25/19 2,513

170.00-187.50 150.00-171.00 138.00-157.50 125.00-147.00 120.00-136.00

144.48 138.48

159.22

199.00-207.00 170.00-199.00 142.00-182.00 146.00-157.00 -----

150.00-165.00 148.00-160.00 130.00-151.00 133.00-138.00 126.00-131.00

127.31 137.38

154.48

180.00-210.00 172.00-195.00 160.00-171.00 140.00-155.00 130.00-140.00

150.00-170.00 140.00-164.00 128.00-145.00 125.00-139.00 120.00-128.00

130.00

162.16

Stilwell Livestock Auction* 2/27/19 949

2/26/19-2/27/19

139.27 133.00

169.52

Ozarks Regional West Plains 2/26/19 4,528

OKC West - El Reno, Okla.

150.49 *

None Reported †

1500

143.04 139.17

163.00

1000.00-1235.00 * None Reported † 950.00-1350.00 † 650.00-1250.00 † 950.00-1260.00 * None Reported †

1000

130.40

160.47

975.00-1650.00 †

185.00-200.00 167.00-196.00 153.00-192.00 136.00-165.00 137.00-150.00

155.00-169.00 141.00-168.00 137.00-156.50 128.00-140.50 124.00-136.00

139.55 136.06

160.95

92.50-210.00 70.00-195.00 47.50-172.00 42.00-150.00 135.00

62.50-181.00 41.00-167.50 32.00-147.00 32.00-138.00 20.00-129.00

134.65

165.48

850.00-1930.00 †

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

134.10

164.14

Not Reported †

Ozark West Plains

125.00

147.62

None Reported * Not Reported †

Farmer’s Stockyards - Springdale Fort Smith Stockyards I-40 Livestock - Ozark Joplin Regional Stockyards

Joplin Tulsa

137.20

167.66

pairs

El Reno Green Forest Searcy Siloam Springs

133.57

158.49

975.00-1225.00 † Not Reported * 1075.00 † Not Reported *

Decatur Livestock Auction Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita

Roc

149.19

900.00-1450.00 †

Welch Stockyards le hevil

Ash Flat Ratcliff

142.16

147.22

1025.00-1600.00 †

Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy Ash Flat Livestock Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction

Sorghum

8.99

heifers 550-600 LBS.

136.00

160.41

2000

Jan. 19 Feb. 19

125.99

148.50

(Week of 2/24/19 to 3/2/19)

dium and Large 1-2 125-130 lbs

ices

Corn

1500

Ozark West Plains

174.48

Daily Report 3/5/19

Soft Wheat

1000

Joplin Tulsa

151.86

750.00-1280.00 *

500

Green Forest Siloam Springs

165.37

725.00-1125.00 * 935.00-1425.00 †

El Reno Searcy

Oct. 18 Nov. 18 Dec. 18

145.82

500.00-1100.00 † 300.00-1300.00 †

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

avg. grain prices Soybeans

Ash Flat Ratcliff

Week of 2/3/19

Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.4100 and 40# blocks at $1.6100. The weekly average for barrels is $1.4100 (-.0050) and blocks, $1.6075 (+.0125). Fluid Milk: Cold weather in the Midwest has not changed increased availability of milk for all uses. Eastern and most Western contacts report a similar storyline. However, moderately cold and wet weather in California is creating flat production levels. Elsewhere in the West, a plant closure has led to some reports of milk being discarded. Bottlers in the center of the country are seeing ordering and production slowdowns. Lower cheese production schedules in the West and Midwest are forcing milk handlers to reach out and send milk further down the road in some cases. Ice cream production perked up slightly for the first time this year in the Midwest. That being said, cream availability remains widely available, and butter churners are taking on the majority share at similar prices to last week. F.O.B. cream multiples are 1.07-1.20 in the East, 1.10-1.21 in the Midwest, and 1.00-1.17 in the West. SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM, $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT F.O.B. producing plants: Upper Midwest - $2.5700 - $2.7278.

July 18 Aug. 18 Sept. 18

steers 550-600 LBS.

County Line Sale - Ratcliff 48.00-95.00 † Prices reported per cwt Decatur Livestock Auction Not Reported* Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita None Reported * Farmer’s Stockyards - Springdale Not Reported † Fort Smith Stockyards Not Reported † I-40 Livestock - Ozark 750.00-1450.00 † Joplin Regional Stockyards 600.00-1200.00 † Mid-State Stockyards 550.00-1050.00 * North Arkansas Livestock Auction - Green Forest None Reported †

3/1/19

Apr. 18 May 18 June 18

Week of 2/10/19

y hair breeds. and Large 1 35-47 lbs 270.00-295.00. 0-44 lbs 245.00-260.00. e and Prime 2-3 50-53 lbs 267.50230.00. Good and Choice 1-3 55-67 lbs 195.00-205.00. -2 88-125 lbs 95.00-100.00. Utility and 50-75.00. 1-2 135-155 lbs 100.00-110.00. Utility s 75.00-80.00. dium and Large 1-2 85-144 lbs 95.00-

Mar. 18

Week of 2/17/19

2/14/19

$80

575.00-1200.00 † Not Reported *

Week of 2/24/19

uction Yards

$120

600.00-1500.00 † 6 525.00-1275.00 †

Ash Flat Livestock Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction

Week of 2/10/19

ion 1-2 few 105-190 lbs. 155.00-161 lbs. 120.00-130.00. Selection 3 15.00. mostly twins at side 65.00-72.50 per

$160

Prices reported per cwt Prices reported per cwt Prices Prices Prices reported reported reported per per per cwt cwt cwt Prices reported per cwt

Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy

dairy sales

National Dairy Market at a Glance

cows

(Week of 2/24/19 to 3/2/19)

Week of 2/17/19

85.00-93.00. arge 1-2 mostly one baby at side, some ad. Medium and Large 2 several ewes er head. election 1 30-47 lbs. 305.00-340.00. 70.00-300.00. Selection 2 30-40 lbs. 0.00-60.00 per head. n 1 52-65 lbs 310.00-338.00. Selection 5.00; 80-95 lbs 190.00-220.00. Selec235.00. Selection 3 65-80 lbs. 150.00. ction 1-2 65-105 lbs. 142.50-175.00. 120.00-131.00. on 2 134-170 lbs. 125.00-127.50. 90.00-122.50. Selection 3 75-105 lbs.

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meet your neighbors Building a Wagyu Operation Continued from Page 15 Another factor raising the cost of Wagyu beef is slower maturation. The desired fine marbling begins at 16 months of age and with F1s generally finishing around age 2, while fullbloods usually aren’t processed until around 2 1/2 to 3 years of age. The Rowes are helping cattlemen introduce the advantages of the Wagyu bloodlines into their herds. Purchasing the animals outright is a faster yet more expensive means of getting started, making the purchase of semen and embryos more viable for some. The Rowe’s have collected semen on three to four bulls from select bloodlines. Semen is collected at an off-ranch facility and stored at a business that specializes in semen sales. The Rowes receive a check periodically for their part of sales. Further, the Rowe’s have a few fullblood females they flush periodically, an uncer-

tain process yielding anywhere from zero to 30 embryos per flush. To maintain reproductive health and after flushing a couple of times, the female is allowed to have a calf. Though invitro is another viable method, the Rowes only offer conventional embryos and utilize many with their own small herd of recips. “Not every female can carry an embryo, but the ones that can are much more valuable to our herd. Unfortunately, we don’t know until we try,” Earl said. “This has been an unexpected way to make a few extra dollars along the way without extensive effort,” Annette added. The couple started with cattle as a hobby, which progressed to a business as Earl started raising Wagyu. Annette is the business manager. She built a website, makes invoices, submits sales listings and maintains a Facebook presence. Their main market is people with a smaller herd who want to introduce Wagu bloodlines into their herd. “We price very reasonably because it’s really not about making money. We

want to share our lifestyle and to offer great-tasting beef. Earl spends a lot of time sharing what he’s learned with others,” Annette explained. They use rotational grazing to extend pasture use and to aid in parasite control. They also maintain as stress-free an environment as possible, an acknowledged benefit for marbling production. Another is line weaning. “I read about weaning using nose rings and am considering that in the future to reduce stress during the initial days of separation,” Earl said. Other practices include using Scour Boss to minimize scouring, vaccinating with Covexin 8 and Vira Shield 6 Plus VL5, using Multi Min injectable at least twice a year, using basic minerals throughout the year, feeding Onyx mineral during reproduction seasons and using freeze-proof tanks with clean water sources. Wagyu come with their own disadvantages. They are smaller, milk supply can be an issue and EPDs on the breed are not

available at this time. Breeders often use F1 cows as recips instead of fullbloods to utilize stronger milk production of other breeds. The upside to that for the Rowes is that if you have an F1 cow that doesn’t make it as a calf producer, she’s a superior candidate for the freezer. While the Rowes are developing their genetics market and selling only a few animals, others are breeding Wagyu bulls to larger herds of commercial animals. These can be sold to feedlots at the top of the market, plus 10 to 20 cents more per pound. Earl and Annette want to be ambassadors for Wagyu and to spread the word about the various opportunities in this market including farmers markets, farm-to-table restaurants, semen and breeding stock sales, and supplying feedlots. As part of their efforts, they attend Wagyu cattle conferences a couple of times a year and have had two groups to their ranch: Grassroots Grazers and new county Extension agents. They hope to expand their activities perhaps by speaking to different cattlemen’s groups.

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When a former ag professor, a former practicing veterinarian turned consultant, and a young ag lawyer come together to produce grass-fed beef, the result is a science driven operation that produces the quality of grassfed beef that many people seek. Ron Morrow retired from the University of Missouri where he taught beef cattle production. Ann Wells transitioned from her small ruminant veterinary practice to become a nationwide holistic animal health consultant. The two met while Ron Morrow is one of working at the University three partners in Ozark of Arkansas in a sustainable Pasture Beef, which agriculture information seroffers grass-fed beef. vice. Very recently added to the mix is Lauren Manning who teaches law and some ag Ozark Pasture Beef began in 2000 with classes at the University of Arkansas. These three are the current owner/oper- a grant and 50 animals of diverse breeds. ators of Ozark Pasture Beef, which started The purpose was to use paddock-based rowith 12 members from Grass Roots Graz- tational grazing with steers moved at least ing Group, which Ron and Ann founded once a day and cows at least twice a week. in 1997. Ron returned to his boyhood Carcasses were analyzed. One important home 23 years ago to take over the farm finding was that body type is far more imand apply cutting-edge advancements portant than breed. The ideal structure in agriculture. The beginning 12 own- for pasture-fed cattle is deep bodied with ers dwindled for a variety of reasons a large rumen or first stomach for converting large amounts of grass with Ron and Ann running into efficient growth. primarily solo for the last 10 After recognizing the imporyears. The mission, however, Fayetteville, Ark. tance of body type, genetics is the same: to consistently were explored with the current produce high quality/high closed herd made up of predomiquantity grass fed beef based nantly Red Angus females with a upon scientific analysis and South Poll bull, which is made up to develop viable markets.

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meet your neighbors of a four-way cross of Hereford, Senepol (a Caribbean breed), Gelbvieh and Barona, known for its hardiness and adaptability. “In our climate, red is better than black since heat and drought can be issues. Our current combination of breeds is the best we have developed so far,” Ron said. Through the years, Ron and Ann have noted the longevity of their cows who often produce calves until 18 years old. Heifers are not bred until 30 months old. While depreciation is often considered a farming issue, an 18-year-old cow has produced 15 calves with no depreciation. Consequently, the loss of one calf more at the beginning of female productivity is more than compensated for by more calves at the back end. Another contributing factor to the longevity is breeding females to bulls with known genetics, including longevity traits. Factors such as weaning and yearling weight are not important since cattle are totally grass fed until processing. Ozark Pasture Beef headquarters is on the far western border of Fayetteville, Ark. The total operation is actually made up of 200 acres, some at Ron’s boyhood home and supplemented by additional acreage in Prairie Grove. One of the traditional complaints about grass fed beef is lack of marbling which diminishes taste and tenderness. Ozark Pasture Beef is not processed when an animal reaches a certain weight but when a fat level score of six is achieved. This indicates a proper amount of fat on bones which in turn indicates marbling. Slaughter weight can vary from 1000 pounds to 1300 pounds. Until recently heifers have been retained but some are now sold as breeding stock. Through his years at the University of Missouri, Ron discovered he didn’t care for the taste of summer fescue-finished, grass-fed beef. This operation encourages different grass types with Ron’s favorites being ryegrass, crabgrass and Johnsongrass. The rotational grazing system is

based upon cool season grasses reaching 8 to 10 inches and warm season grasses 6 to 8 inches before cattle are allowed to graze a particular paddock again. Occasionally, cattle have access to alternative greens such as turnips and forage radishes. “To have healthy animals you have to have healthy soils and pastures. We provide salt and minerals free choice,” Ann said. Free choice trace mineral salt is always available with additional copper necessary for a healthy immune system and phosphorus to keep an appropriate calcium phosphorus balance for overall vitality. Because the healthy herd is closed except for occasional new breeding bulls, vaccination is typically unnecessary. “Controlling stress contributes to health which means fence line weaning, no ‘cowboying’ and our constant presence when we walk cattle from paddock to paddock,” Ann added. Another income stream comes from a 70-ewe purebred Katahdin sheep herd bred by two purebred rams. Running the cattle and sheep over the same areas helps manage parasites with the sheep not being allowed on a paddock until the cattle have already grazed the area. What Ann and Ron have learned is available to others. The operation produced the first checklist for a sustainable operation and has a 43-chapter notebook on topics such as sustainable pasture management and meeting the nutritional needs of ruminants on pasture. Both are active in the cattle industry and share willingly. Ozark Pasture Beef sells beef and lamb directly to customers and restaurants. Marketing is through their website and an Internet-based weekly newsletter, a newer medium that has rapidly grown to 325 recipients. Their customer base is diverse from young to old with a common feature being a customer desire to know who the farmer is and how that farm is managed.

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“I especially remember when I was only in first or second grade feeding hay when there was a snow day. I loved it because I got to help dad feed hay instead of going to school. When I was about 7, a cow was in the bottom field by herself and we were trying to load her to take her to the sale barn. She was mad crazy. My uncle, Trent, finally roped her and she dragged him down the field through the woods. They finally tied her to the trailer. She was so mad that my uncle got into the trailer and got her to chase him in there while my dad closed the trailer door on her and my uncle jumped out the side gate.”

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“I plan on going to Connors State College in Warner, Okla., to study animal science and finishing by transferring to the University of Arkansas or Oklahoma State. Eventually, I hope someday to have the opportunity to buy my grandpa’s farm and raise purebred Angus cattle. First, I’d like to work at a purebred ranch to get more experience in raising purebred cattle and selecting animals for the breeding program for a couple years before I start my own operation.”

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Providing younger mothers with the right nutrition is key to rebreeding success Getting first-calf heifers rebred can be a challenge, but it’s not impossible. University of Missouri Extension Livestock Field Specialist Randall Weidmier said first-calf heifers are still maturing when they have their first calf, so their nutritional needs differ from of mature cows. A first-calf heifer is expected to breed, carry a calf and produce enough milk to support that calf by the time she is about 2 years old, yet she will not reach full maturity until about the age of 4, Weidmier said. He added that a first-calf heifer at peak lactation requires about 60 percent TDN (Total Digestible Nutrition), when a mature cow requires about 3 percent less. “It’s what we call the partitioning of energy,” Weidmier said. “In a mature cow, they really don’t have that partitioning to body weight gain. The energy used for body tissue synthesis is used fairly inefficiently; it takes a lot of energy to put on a pound of gain on an animal. Usually the rule of thumb is that it takes 4 pounds of TDN per pound of gain. The heifer has a given amount of energy coming into her diet and she’s going to partition that for the most important things. Unfortunately, Mother Nature

what do you say? How do you evaluate heifers for breeding readiness?

says reproduction is not the most important of those functions, and Mother Nature just kind of sets them up so they won’t self destruct and says, ‘you won’t be reproducing this year.’” First-calf heifers are at the lower end of the pecking order in a herd, so older cows may push them away from hay and feed sources. Mature cows can also eat more feed compared to younger females. Research conducted at the University of Nebraska reported in the 2004 Nebraska Beef Report indicates that a first-calfheifer within three weeks of calving experiences a 17 percent decrease in daily feed intake. Intake is re-established to more “normal” levels by about one week after calving. “That’s why we recommend separating those animals out, so that they can be fed separately, and not have the competition and have a diet that more closely matches their requirements,” Weidmier said. “It does pay dividends if you can separate those first-calf heifers out and they can be fed separately. If you have that better lot of hay, it would be more efficiently used with those first-calf heifers than to go to the mature cows.” He added that many producers do not have the facilities or time to separate herds.

“We determine heifer breeding readiness by waiting until 30 months so they are more mature and breed back better.” Ron Morrow Washington Count, Ark.

“We just run those cows and heifers together and then we find out that only 60 percent of those first-calf heifers rebred,” Weidmier said. “A lot of times, if you are trying to make genetic improvements in your herd, those first-calf heifers are actually your best genetics. It’s a shame not to put the resources into them so that they can express their genetic potential.” Since it is nearly impossible to monitor the intake of each animal, producers can evaluate how their first-calf heifers are holding up by evaluating body conditions. “A lot of times we can’t weigh them, so we just have to use the Body Condition Scoring system. The BCS system says we can have a mature cow calve at a score of 5, then her chances of rebreeding in an 80-day window are fairly high,” Weidmier said. “For the producers I work with, I recommend to have heifers have their BCS at 6 when they calve. That gives them a little bank account, about an 80-pound bank account, to work with in case they aren’t getting adequate nutation from the diet, which is kind of common. If producers just get into the practice of doing that when they go out as a few heifers or cows go by, think ‘What would I score that cow? What would I score that heifer?’ and be mind-

“I no longer keep heifers and use one turnout time for fall calving while also concentrating on nutrition and minerals.”

ful of that. You might say, ‘I need to put a few more resources into them.’” First-calf heifers will often need more time to recover after calving, so it’s beneficial for the initial breeding to be earlier than the mature herd. “The Beef Herd Improvement Federation recommends that,” Weidmier explained. “If we can start breeding those heifers 21 days, a full cycle, before the mature cowherd, they can catch up on that postpartum interval. That means you have to have a lot of your heifers in puberty by 13, 14 months of age and that is quite a challenge at times.” Heifers born earlier in the calving season are a little more likely to breed and are offspring of the most fertile cows. This makes them a little more mature for earlier breeding. While many producers want those heifers to become mothers at the age of 2, waiting a little longer to breed firsttime heifers may be a better option. “There has been some studies where it does help improve the overall productivity of the herd if we can give those heifers an extra six months,” Weidmier said. “That kind of works in our part of the country because so many of our producers have a spring and a fall herd. Moving

“I look at size, conformation and disposition to determine readiness.”

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those spring-born heifers to the fall herd would give them an extra half a year to develop and they wouldn’t have the nutritional stress a 2-year-old would have.” Weather conditions should also be considered a factor during the rebreeding process, and recent bitter cold weather could result in slow conception. “The wet hair coat of an animal can affect how much energy they have to have to maintain their body temperature,” Weidmier said. “With a good winter coat, which most of our cattle have this time of year, our lower critical temperature is about 32 degrees. What that means is (the temperature) can get down to 32 degrees and (a cow) not have to burn any extra energy. Once that coat is wet and loses its insulation factor, that jumps all the way up to 59 degrees. In cold, wet conditions like we have had this winter, it takes 7 more pounds of hay to deal with the weather. Then when you have cows wading through the mud, it’s been shown that their dry matter intake can drop and start losing condition pretty quickly. That will just be extenuated with those heifers.” To keep condition up in heifers, Weidmier said adding a little feed will go a long way. “Although hay prices are just astronomically high, we had a good corn crop,” he said. “Eric Bailey, the state Extension beef specialist, was down a while back and he showed the producers that it was costing 16 to 18 cents per pound of TDN with hay. With a lot of the corn byproducts, like distillers dried grain and corn gluten meal and those types of things, the cost per pound of TDN was only 12 cents; considerably less than TDN coming from hay. That’s helped a lot of producers this year by substituting the hay with these high-energy corn byproducts because it has been a real blessing.”

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mentation may not drastically hurt herd health, but it could negatively impact ranchers’ bottom line. Cows with a higher than average body condition score can have issues breeding back, damaging reproductive efficiency and diminishing endpoint revenue. Though, none of this should keep producers from supplying their herd with the supplements they need. Before any issues arise, cattle ranchers can take measures to reduce harm from early supplementation early on. By developing a concrete, effective operating outline, producers will be able to more confidently balance the feeding goals of their cattle. One of the ways producers can plan is by determining calving seasons ahead of time. Beth Kegley, a professor of animal science at the University of Arkansas, said having a defined calving season can significantly impact forage needs in the cow herd. “If producers will have a defined calving season, which means they have a defined breeding season,” said Kegley. “When they wean, they have a bigger group of more uniform calves to market that is more optimal.” While this may limit income to a specific time of year, it can also be a more efficient way to lower forage and feed costs by keeping their herd’s nutritional needs easier to manage. Kegley said a cow’s nutritional requirements are greatest right after calving, meaning ranchers should more readily monitor body condition scores and ultimately keep feeding consistent among the cow base. MARCH 11, 2019

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without an agricultural background, can connect to. This has been beneficial for the consumer and Creamy Hills Dairy. “People were interested in local products and wanted to know where their food was coming from and what practices were going into that,” said Giebler. “A lot of people are less than three generations removed from a family farm, yet in that generational gap, they’ve lost so much of what has happened in agricultural history.” Giebler said her goal is to reconnect consumers with the farm. Pulling from their childhood memories, gardening hobbies, visits to local orchards, or other experiences, she wants people to step back and say, ‘Hey, I am a part of agriculture’. The most successful strategies for the Gieblers have been presenting information with an emotional or family appeal, and visuals, whether it be pictures or an eye-catching graphic. Giebler said she has seen interest in thorough explanations of why Creamy Hills does practices a certain way and anecdotal stories from the farm. Their website displays a collage of photos, ranging from jars of milk, to brochures and t-shirts, to family pictures in their field. Also used in social media promotion, these photos are one of many ways Giebler said Creamy Hills connects with its audience. Giebler said Facebook has proven to be their best social media outlet for reaching consumers, as it tends to appeal to family audiences. Using this to her advantage, Giebler uses this outlet to quickly and efficiently share information, as well as direct followers to the Creamy Hills website for more details about their products and practices. Giebler’s observation reflects the effectiveness of word-of-mouth marketing. Even in an era of interacting via computer and cell phone screens, people will always feel more connected to a face than to words alone.

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Udderly Serious About Colostrum By Katelyn Reynolds

All livestock need to have Colostrum shortly after birth for the passing of antibodies For the first month after birth, a newborn animal depends on the antibodies from the mother’s colostrum to prevent diseases. Colostrum has the first nutrients that a newborn animal ingests. It allows for the passing of antibodies and other nutrients for passive immunity to be formed. Most livestock animals need about 5 to 6 percent of their body weight in colostrum within the first six hours of birth. The animal will also continue to receive colostrum from its mother for up to 48 hours.

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The colostrum contains proteins that help build up the calf’s immunity against disease, according to Jeremy Powell, an animal science professor at the University of Arkansas. “Colostrum is the first milk that is produced following calving,” Powell said. “It contains components that help build the calf’s early immunity against disease.” Ideally, the calf needs to get around two quarts within the first two hours of life, and then two more quarts by six hours of life. It is recommend to have a backup supply of colostrum that can be easily accessed for use when calves can’t get enough. “I suggest keeping some available to be prepared for the calving season,” Powell said. The colostrum can either be stored fresh or frozen. Colostrum can be frozen for up to one year with minimal loss of antibodies. “There are commercial preparations of colostrum that can be purchased and kept on hand for use during the calving season,” Powell said. These artificial supplements and replacements can be purchased at some feed stores, but the levels of globin protein, or IgG, need to be considered. Replacements will have a full dose of the proteins and antibodies, while a supplement will only have about a half dose of the antibodies and proteins. Some calves need human help in order to get colostrum. They can be fed either via a bottle or a stomach tube, which is preferred with colostrum as it’s only able to be absorbed for a short period of time, Powell said.

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Small ruminants nurse every two hours, as they can only absorb important nutrients for about 12 hours, according to Elizabeth Walker, an animal science professor at Missouri State University.

“We call it gut block. This is when the gut no longer is able to absorb the large proteins that colostrum is made up of,” Walker said. It is recommended to have a backup supply of colostrum if the animal has multiple offspring or is unable to care for its young. One method is to collect colostrum from earlybirthing mothers in the herd to save in case others have problems later in the season. Like cow colostrum, goat and sheep colostrum can be frozen beforehand, if needed. “We had dairy goats, and some would kid beforehand and then we would freeze it,” Walker said. “My mom would use ice cube trays, if we needed some we could just pop some out.” It’s best to keep to the same species for colostrum. Aim to use colostrum from the same farm, if possible. “Goats need goat colostrum, ” Walker said, but if needed, sheep and cow colostrum will work. “It’s better (for the substitute colostrum) to come from the same farm, as the animal has been exposed to the same pathogens that the newborn is, this allows that passive immunity to work more efficiently.” When the animal has multiples, both twins should be allowed to nurse at the same time. The smaller twin’s side should then be milked out to supplement feeding and to prevent the mother from developing mastitis. “Twenty to 30 milliliters every couple of hours if you are supplementing,” Walker said. “Twenty to 30 is better than nothing.”

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The pigs need to nurse within 15 to 20 minutes of birth. After six to eight hours, the quality of colostrum begins to drop, according to Mark Crenshaw, an animal science professor at Mississippi State University. “Pigs have a low energy level at birth, so colostrum provides not only nutrients but also body heat,” he said. As with other species, it is recommended to have a supply of colostrum available in case the sow will not allow the pigs to nurse. “Sow’s colostrum is always preferred, but if needed, cow colostrum can be substituted,” Crenshaw said. “It should be administered via a syringe or a stomach tube.” Smaller pigs often need “a helping hand to ensure survival,” Crenshaw said. “One thing you can do is pull the bigger pigs who are over two and a half pounds at birth,” Crenshaw said, “and allow the smaller pigs to nurse without competition, while the larger pigs stay under a heat lamp.”

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The Great Mud Battle Pastures and fields are turning into muddy messes for many livestock producers this winter, making it difficult to negotiate trucks and tractors, but what kind of impact is it having on livestock? According to the University of Missouri Extension, wet and soggy conditions can have an impact on overall livestock health, especially young animals. Wet ground and mud can harbor bacteria, which can cause scours if young animals nurse mud caked udders. Persistent cold and wet conditions compound the problems, causing a loss of condition and performance in all ages of livestock as mud can negate the insulation value of the hair coat. Mud also creates suction on hooves and makes it more difficult for cattle to move around in a muddy area, forcing them to use more energy. Another concern for livestock producers during muddy conditions is foot rot. Information from the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension states that normal healthy skin will not allow the bacteria involved in foot rot to enter the deeper tissues. Mechanical injury or softening and thinning of the interdigital (between the toes) skin by puncture wounds or continuous exposure to wet conditions are necessary to provide entrance points for infectious agents. Injury can be caused when animals walk on abrasive or rough surfaces, sharp gravel, hardened mud or by standing in a wet and muddy environment for prolonged periods of time.

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