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Cashing in on Crops and Cattle Cody Hays’ secrets to success is customizing his rotations according to commodity prices and average yields
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Jerry Crownover - Giving the perfect gift 3 Dusty Richards - Surviving as a farmer 4 Lynzee Glass - Focusing on family farms 5 MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS Horse shows and pageants have been 7 a constant for Kim Holland
Nature’s Green Grass Farms takes a 8 natural approach to raising cattle
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Ray Heldermon knows the profit 12
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Three Forks Ranch designs their feeding 19 program for optimal performance
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oy, spring broke in like that polar bear who stuck his head in around Western novelist Dusty here last December. I don’t have any Richards and his wife cows to feed or have much about Pat live on Beaver Lake agriculture to worry about, but my in northwest Arkansas. friends have lost calves in the arctic weather, To contact Dusty, go to something we have not seen in many recent ozarksfn.com and click on years. It used to be that you could go to the sale ‘Contact Us.’ barn to buy an orphan dairy calf and put it on a cow that lost one and still have something to sell next fall. It isn’t like that now. Plus, that trick could become a lot of work. We once had a Shorthorn/Hereford cross cow that lost her calf so we bought a big Guernsey cross calf to put on her. She knew from day one that wasn’t her calf and she wanted no part of it. My partner Monty said, “Don’t worry, she’s a good mother. She will accept it.” So morning and night we locked her head in a stanchion and I guess swore at her stubbornness for not accepting Willy. But she never liked him and after several unsuccessful turnouts, we’d take her back to the barn, lock her head up and let her un-adopted baby suck. The last time we turned her out Willy was getting pretty big but to no avail she would not accept him. Out in the pasture one of us swore at her, she stopped and let him suck. He wasn’t going to miss a meal, boy, he was there and getting his share. So twice a day we had to threaten her verbally and she stopped for him. She was so mad that we made her do that she would actually tremble while he was nursing. We sold Willy that fall and he weighed about 400 pounds. Not bad for a calf that looked straight Guernsey. From then on she raised her own calf each year. A real good beef cow whom sure resisted adoption. In our efforts to start a beef herd we bought a weaned brindle-white face heifer at the sale barn. She was a big pet that was obviously raised and bottle-fed. She didn’t cost much as I recall and she grew out well. But when she calved she had enough milk for three calves. We even hand-milked her to ease her troubles. We didn’t intend to do that very long so we hit the sale barn trail and bought two small cheap calves. We put them in with her calf in a horse stall and turned her in twice a day until they bawled for her and her for them. She loved and licked them all and was very motherly, she led them around bawling until the last one came to nurse. It looked liked like a parade as they came across the pasture, one white-faced and two brindles after him. They were all one content family. When you’re a two-bit rancher you do lots of things to survive. The first two gilts I ever farrowed was another story. They were big good-natured sows my sister-in-law raised; we bought and had them bred by a neighbor’s boar. I built a nice farrowing house with a heat lamp on a 50-foot extension cord or maybe longer from the house. They worked fine. As they were bedded with straw in pens side-by-side they both decided to have pigs at the same time when a real blizzard blew in. They must have had 10 pigs apiece at the same time. Pat and I were taking them to the house but they were dying faster than we could run to the house with them. I bet there are lots of you can relate to those wrecks. They call it farming or ranching. If things can go wrong, they do. God bless you, your family and America, Dusty Richards
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Life is Simple Continued from Page 3 sort of backfired on me, though, because I had to use the next three gift-events to buy her a new squeeze-chute, a semen tank, and a pair of insulated coveralls for inseminating on those super-cold days. 2. A hot-tub spa, that my youngest son and I constructed out of an old livestock watering tank by using that gooey, black-tar for patching the holes and an old, electric, trolling motor to provide the whirlpool effect. However, I guess we forgot to insulate the wiring good enough on the motor, so it also provided a therapeutic ‘electric stimulation.’ 3. A set of genuine Black Hills Gold jewelry, that I won in a raffle at the National Junior Heifer Show. It was the first and only time I ever gave jewelry
to Judy, because I had to spend the next two weeks convincing her that I hadn’t been a bad boy on the trip. 4. Countless fancy dinners, such as the annual Farm Bureau meeting, the annual Cattlemen’s Convention, and the annual Implement Dealer’s customer appreciation dinner. While most all of these gifts were wellreceived and appreciated by my wife, I will leave you with one, last, sure-fire wife pleaser. They are getting more scarce and harder to find with each passing year and, as a result, very expensive, but I’ve found that you can never go wrong by buying her… more cows. Please convey, to your wife, my best wishes for a Happy Birthday!
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Kimberly Lockard Holland and her family play an active role with the county fair and on the farm Kimberly Lockard Holland was Rodeo Queen. She was also the crowned the 2013 Mrs. Van Bu- Van Buren County Fair Senior ren County and the 2013 Mrs. High Queen and competed in Arkansas State Fair, and it’s no the Arkansas State Fair pagPictured L to R: Taylor, Greg , Kim and Erin Holland surprise… but she may not be what you eants. In 1994 she was Miss might expect. She is a very impressive Rodeo Arkansas where she Photo Submitted By Rita Ward of RJ Ward Photography woman with a history steeped in fam- competed at the NFR in Vegas ily tradition. Her outlook is positive for the title of Miss Rodeo America. A fourth generation Van Buren Counand strong. Her inner beauty makes her Both girls are in 4-H, they have shown activities, competing in horse shows and outer beauty shine. Her knowledge of ty resident, Kim grew up in Shirley, Ark., pigs and chickens at the fair, have been queening at the county and state levels. horses comes natural. She can dress up and then attended college at Arkansas in the halter classes, have been in both So how does this active wife and mom and wear a crown with style and ease State University. She then transferred to the county fair pageants and rodeo pag- of two become the 2013 Mrs. Van Buren but she is most comfortable wearing the University of Arkansas Community eants. Taylor is the 2013 Junior Miss Van County Fair Queen and the Arkansas her jeans and cowboy boots. She can College at Morrilton, and now owns her Buren County Fair Queen. And what a State Fair Queen? Well, the Mrs. Van talk about her family at length and with own business Lockard Auto Sales in Bee humble queen, she gave hugs and thanks Buren County category was added and pride, or she can be a representative of Branch, Ark. to some of the fair association members. because she had been so active all her In 1996, Kim married Greg Holland, Erin had an entry in the county fair that life, it just seemed a natural fit for the the Arkansas State Fair with the poise whom she has been married to for 17 went to the state fair; a recycled dress – fair manager, Corrine Weatherly, to ask of royalty. Kimberly was 5 years old when she was years. They have two girls, 14-year-old her sewing project was a recycled feed her if she would be a part of the competiTaylor and 10-year-old Erin. first involved in the county sack with fringe. Erin is the Petite Young tion. She graciously accepted, and after “Taylor and Erin have been Miss North central district fair queen. fair. She took part in the winning she went on to compete at the involved in the county fair horse show and the pageants. Bee Branch, Ark. Greg is very involved as well. Greg and Arkansas State Fair, where she also won. and rodeo all their lives,” said Kim have seven horses on their farm in At 14 she was the Junior RoShe is representing the Arkansas State Kim. “We have only missed Bee Branch and the family is very active Fair throughout the year, most recently deo Queen for Van Buren one since they were born,” she with their animals – whether showing she attended the Arkansas State Fair County and at 16 the Senior said. That one year Kim was sick pigs or raising Grand Champion chick- Managers Conference. Rodeo Queen. In 1990 Kim with the flu. was the Arkansas State Fair ens for the fairs. They enjoy riding, rodeo
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beef, and that’s why they settled on this breed. Randy said, “We were wanting to sell meat, and we wanted a tender meat. tle is that they were brought to America This has been known to have good flafor the first time in 1623. If this rings a vor and be tender.” Bryan added, “Devons primarily are a historic bell, that’s because the Pilgrims landed here in 1620, so it was just a few gourmet beef and they finish better on years later that three Devon heifers and grass than other animals. Our animals a Devon bull first hoofed it onto Ameri- will finish about 1,100 or 1,200 pounds. The smaller the animal, the can soil. The herd that the less grass it takes to finish Benches and the Williamses Everton, Ark. their body. They utilize grass now have is descendants of better than, say, just a purethese cattle. Bryan is proud bred Angus cow that’s had to call Devons a heritage grain her entire life, and they breed, pure, not crossed with will marble and finish out at a another breed. A few changbetter tasting meat that’s tender es have been made since the
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Celebrating the Mother Church By Pam and Terry Lamb
For 185 years Long Prairie Church has been a foundation for education and religion for the Cherokee people “We have contentment. Should we have to walk, we walk. We don’t complain. We can live here peacefully. I can sing with joy. Knowing we have people left in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky all along this trail,” Rocky Carroll told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor while visiting at the Long Prairie Church and Cemetery just off of Highway 412 near Kansas, Okla. Rocky is Cherokee. His people, the Cherokee people walked the horrible Trail of Tears from the original Cherokee Nation in Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas in the harsh winter of 1838 and 1839 to Oklahoma. Rocky speaks of the loss of one forth of his tribesmen who perished along the journey. Missionaries of multiple faiths had established missions in Native American lands many years earlier including a mission established by Monrovian Missionaries in Springtown, Ga., in 1801. The Cherokee people had always been interested in education. Because the Monrovian Missions included education in their ministries, they were the most successful of missionaries among the Cherokee. Settlements, missions, schools and churches in the new Cherokee lands in Oklahoma were established by missionaries and the Cherokee who could and were willing to relocate prior to the removal. “At the end of the Trial of Tears some establishments were already in place like New Springplace, Long Prairie and New Echota by Westville,” Rocky said. Reverend Evan Jones a Monrovian missionary was sympathetic to the Cherokee people and openly opposed their removal. Working with Rev. Jones was Jesse Bushyhead and Stephen Foreman Cherokee tribe Baptist preachers and interpreters. They had remained with the Cherokee who disputed the removal. These three missionaries would travel with the remaining Cherokee to Oklahoma. The first Cherokee Baptist Church now called the Old Baptist Mission Church was in New Echota opening a year after the removal with Rev. Jesse Bushyhead as pastor. New Echota was nicknamed Breadtown because government supplies were distributed there during the first year after the removal. In 1869, eight of the Baptist churches met at Long Prairie to form the Cherokee Indian Baptist Church Association. “Long Prairie is known as the mother
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church of 24 churches in Delaware County and the surrounding area,” Rocky said. “Family cemeteries were established like the Mann Cemetery, the Russell Cemetery and the Buchanan Cemetery because of the loss of family members. The original Long Prairie Church building was established near the Mann cemetery,” Rocky said. Only a step remains in that location. “Caretaking is not always a priority. The cemeteries have been surrounded by outlaying fences and been long forgotten,” Rocky said. The church was relocated to the Kansas, Okla., area in 1906. “Basil Winfield, Walter Carnes, Walter Jackson and Rex Buchanan attended the first grade in 1906 after their fathers moved the church to Kansas,” Rocky said. Long Prairie Church served as both a church and a school after being moved. “The Bible was used to teach both English and Cherokee though the three r’s; reading, writing and ‘rithmatic,” Rocky said. In 1841 the Cherokee legislature authorized a system of public schools for Cherokee children. By 1845, 24 national schools were organized as a part of their advanced public education program. Church schools were closed. “The church and school was located in the town of Kansas after it was moved in 1906. Long Prairie was an established church staying in existence since the Trail of Tears. Cherokee decedents wanted the church to remain on allotted lands so it was moved to the present day location,” Rocky added. Some headstones in the cemetery are in Cherokee. Some are marked in English. Some graves are not marked. Many headstones have been damaged by time. “We hope the fence surrounds all the graves but, we just can’t know,” Rocky said. Rocky mentions the many Cherokee children who died and the people who died who do not have markers. He points to the oldest grave in the cemetery written in Cherokee. Rocky speaks Cherokee but cannot read it. He tells us a translator told him this stone only had two years and two words. “Cherokee believed in putting the year someone was born and the year they died,” Rocky said. “The only other information placed
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on a stone was whether the person was a friend or not. This stone is one for a child. It says Sing and Morning which means loved ones would sing for them with Jesus in the morning.” Long Prairie runs through five sections of land in Delaware County, Oklahoma along Spring Creek. The Old Military Road or Fort Road running from Fort Scott, Kan., to Fort Gibson, Okla., runs through Long Prairie. Long Prairie Church sits along that road. The grooves wagons made in the ground can still be seen in front of the church. Rocky stands by what he calls a witness tree pointing at its petrified bracket fungus and speaks of all the tree must have seen having been standing for over 185 years at Long Prairie Church. Long Prairie Church will celebrate its 185th anniversary the last weekend in March. Services are given in both Cherokee and English. Goblets and plates brought by the Cherokee through the Trail of Tears are still used today. The care and attention Long Prairie Church and Cemetery has received from its parishioners is a testimony to their respect for their ancestors.
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to eventually do what I love.” Ray’s wife, Donna, keeps his books in line so he can focus on the small herd of cattle. “My wife is a key player to all of this. I give her a lot of credit. There is no farm without her,” insisted Ray. Referred to as the ‘”butcher’s animal” in France, the natural selection of purebred
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Okla., and later to the family ranch in Limousin cattle is widespread. When they 1976. He worked as a herdsman while came to the U.S., the advertising phrase attending college, earning his degree in was the “carcass breed.” Breeding the full animal science and began breeding for blood and purebred Limousin bulls with the increase in the percentage of Limou- Angus cows brought Ray the hybrid vigor he was looking for which sin. When the created the Lim-Flex. “I Lim-Flex proam very selective. As a gram started, Oolagah, Okla. general rule, I like the both breeds fact the Lim-Flex have a had to have better calving ease, marregistered papers. “I always bling and milk increase.” wanted to do this. I was the first in my family to go to college and fortunate enough – Continued on Page 14
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Stilwell Farmers Cooperative Stilwell Branch Manager: Micky Longshore Locations: Tahlequah, Stilwell and Coweta, Okla. History: “We are a customer owned farm supply and retail store. We have been providing quality service for farmers and ranchers since 1951. The cooperative has a board of directors. They will hire a general manager. I am a branch manager. We have three locations, Tahlequah, Stilwell and Coweta. We were established here in Stilwell in March 18, 1976. I have been here since day one.” Products and Services: “When we opened in 1976, bulk fertilizer was the big thing the cooperative was interested in at the time. Bulk fertilizer continues to be one of our main drivers here. We sell bag and bulk feed. We are agriculturally based but, we also cater to the farm and homeowner. We sell cattle, equine and pet feed and supplies. We have tack, muck boots and Stihl products. We sell animal health, vet supplies and everything that goes along with that. Of course, we have fencing, garden and farm. We sell chemicals including herbicides and fungicides. Working in a place like this you’ve got to be about half veterinarian. You have got to be an agronomist too, among other things. You’ve got to be pretty diversified because you have to know about a lot of different things. One customer will come in and ask you about his lawn. The next guy will come in and ask you about his pasture.” Philosophy: “Of course, we are a cooperative. The reason for a cooperative is to supply its members with products at a reasonable and fair price they may not be able to get elsewhere. When the Coop came to town, one of the big reasons was to offer services. One of the things we feel good about is the guys that work here have several years of knowledge. A lot of us run cattle. I’m a poultry grower, well, my wife is. One of the guys here raised baby calves. I have one boy who runs stockers. When a customer comes in wanting to know how to treat scours in a baby calf, we are pretty knowledgeable about what it is going to take to cure it. We have some hands on experience ourselves in a number of different areas which makes it a lot easier to tell you what it takes to fix your problem.” Story and Photo By Pam & Terry Lamb MARCH 31, 2014
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In his top left pocket is where his EPD The split-calving season begins in mid(Expected Progeny Differences) book February until the end of April then is kept on every bovine he has on his September through October. “I will AI property – past and present. Ray said, them at each cycle then put them with “EPD is a big item. The more data you a bull and have great success. If they do have, the more accurate you will be in not breed the first 75 days then they are your strategy. It helps make decisions on culled out, whether for sale or slaughter,” how you will mate next, where you are said Ray. “There are several places we buy making progress and where you need to the semen from or attend the Oklahoma make progress.” Limousin Breeders Association’s auction EPDs are a highly useful tool in deter- and buy donated semen.” Ray has been mining the genetic quality of the future a member since 1974. The annual meetoffspring of a particular bull, cow or ings are held in Denver, Colo. heifer. When Ray Ray estimates that weans bulls he puts at least 7 acres of “EPD is a big item. The them on a ration, more data you have, the grazing territory eating 2 percent of more accurate you will be is needed for each their body weight, in your strategy. It helps of the cattle. “I do then after they turn make decisions on how not have much of a a year old, he will you will mate next, where problem with noxhave an ultrasound you are making progress ious plants and have done to measure the and where you need to maintained conbody fat, muscle and make progress.” trol of it for over – Ray Heldermon, 15 years. They eat carcass values. The Lim-Flex breeder mostly bermuda and data is sometimes requested from prenative grasses. Some vious buyers or popastures get liquid tential buyers. “My main business is sell- feed and I will supplement with a mix of ing great bulls even though the majority soybean hull, wheat middling and corn of what I have are cows. As far as what gluten pellets from the first of November buyers wanted, it used to be that all peo- until spring.” The water sources are curple would want is purebred Limousin but rently ponds and Oolagah Lake. now they mostly want Lim-Flex. I still Help on the farm throughout the years have a handful of those who still want has been mostly by other youngsters full blood,” stated Ray. from the area and by his son, Coy Don Lim-Flex can be any percentage of ei- Heldermon – who earned his M.D. and ther Limousin or Angus as long as the PhD from the University of Oklahoma sire and dam are both registered. Limou- College of Medicine. “I am impressed sin gives the muscle and efficiency while with those who have helped because it the Angus gives the finishing ability and has taught them responsibility and good maximum hybrid vigor of maternal traits work ethics. My son’s interest is in resuch as fertility and mothering. The steer search on hereditary diseases due to progeny are highly sought after in the his primary caseloads, which includes commercial and domestic markets. Lim- all different types of cancers. He also Flex heifers have more muscling than a teaches at the University of Florida. The purebred Angus. Lim-Flex calves from others who have helped now own their purebred Angus cows will be mostly own businesses, while another is earnblack with an occasional red calf result- ing his PhD.” Genetic awareness on the ing from the red gene in the sire or dam of farm may have sparked the interest in either breed. Breeding a polled Limousin his son to pursue his career in hereditary or a Lim-Flex bull will somewhat ensure diseases. “If that is the case,” Ray said, the dominate black gene and polled trait “then I am happy it did because he is over generations to come. very successful.”
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Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards
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Receipts: 311 The supply and demand was moderate. The supply included 25 percent slaughter and feeder lambs; 5 percent slaughter ewes and bucks; 5 percent replacement ewes bucks and pairs; 36 percent kid goats; 19 percent slaughter nannies and billies; 10 percent replacement nannies and pairs. All prices per hundred weight unless noted otherwise. Sheep Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 traditional few 110-165 lbs 165.00. Hair 50-60 lbs 180.00-200.00; 60-70 lbs 190.00-197.50; 70-80 lbs few 177.50-180.00. Stocker/Feeder: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 30-40 lbs 178.00-190.00; 40-50 lbs 160.00-190.00. Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-3 hair: 85-115 lbs 52.50-85.00. Bucks: hair 155-170 lbs 75.00-85.00. Replacement: Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2 wooled few 160-170 lbs 67.50. Pairs: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 100.00-190.00 per pair. Bucks: wooled few 150-185 lbs 75.00 cwt. Goats Slaughter Classes: Kids: Selection 1 40-50 lbs 245.00-260.00; 50-60 lbs 245.00-250.00; 60-70 lbs 240.00-252.50. Selection 1-2 70-90 lbs 195.00-230.00. Selection 2 50-60 lbs 230.00-240.00; 60-70 lbs 210.00-225.00.
Doe/Nannies: Selec Billies: Selection 2 f Selection 2-3 Aged Replacement Nann 95.00-115.00. Select Pairs: Selection 1-2 110.00-165.00 per p Feeder/stocker kids 270.00; 30-40 lbs 24 lbs 145.00-150.00.
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Receipts: 876 Supply was modera included 28 percen 5 percent slaughter replacement ewes; slaughter nannies a nannies and pairs. unless noted otherw Sheep Slaughter Lambs: C non-traditional 50-7 100 lbs 140.00-150. 145.00. Hair: 60-70 175.00-235.00; 70-8 150.00-180.00; 90-1 Feeder/Stocker Lam 30-50 lbs 200.00-23 Ewes: Utility and G 58.00-110.00. Hair: Bucks: hair 145-18 Replacement Sheep Ewes: Medium and 120-170 lbs 150.00Hair: 108-170 lbs 6 Pairs: Medium and L Bucks: wooled 180 Goats Slaughter Classes: 270.00-302.00; 50-6 225.00-272.50; 100 1-2 60-70 lbs 290.00 Selection 2 50-60 lb 235.00-257.50. Sele 70-80 lbs 170.00-21 Does/Nannies: Sele Selection 2 75-130
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Receipts: 549 Demand was good. Supply was moderate. There were near 9 percent springer heifers, 7 percent bred heifers, 27 percent open heifers, 5 percent fresh and milking cows, 1 percent bred and springer cows and 18 percent calves. Most of the common cows and heifers plus several beef animals were sold by the pound. Holsteins unless noted otherwise and all prices are per head. Springer heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme 1850.00-2125.00, Pair Crossbreds 1450.001475.00; Approved 1375.00-1775.00, Pair Crossbreds 1200.00-1275.00; Medium 1000.00-1250.00, Jerseys 700.00-975.00, Pair Crossbreds 725.00-985.00; Common 635.00-970.00. Heifers bred four to six months: Supreme 1625.001875.00, Approved 1325.00-1660.00, Medium 1000.00-1200.00, Crossbreds 800.00-1050.00. Heifers bred one to three months: Supreme Indiv 1750.00, Pair Crossbreds 1325.00-1375.00; Approved 1225.00-1475.00. Open heifers: Approved and Medium 200-300 lbs 310.00-450.00, Lot of 18 at 300 lbs 530.00, 300-400 lbs 575.00-625.00, Crossbreds 375.00-570.00, 400-500 lbs 600.00-740.00, Crossbreds 520.00-680.00, 500-600 lbs Crossbreds 750.00-840.00, 600-700 lbs Lot of 6 at 645 lbs 875.00, Indiv Jersey 700.00, Crossbreds 600.00-760.00, 700-800 lbs 890.00-1135.00. Fresh and open milking cows: Supreme Indiv 1675.00, Approved 1275.00-1625.00, Jerseys
200.89 198.07
1000.00-1285.00, Indiv Crossbred 1325.00; Medium 930.00-1125.00, Pair Jerseys 900.00-950.00, Few Crossbreds 1100.00-1175.00. Bred and Springer cows: Approved Pair 1475.001550.00, Indiv Crossbred 1400.00; Medium Indiv 1375.00, Indiv Crossbred 1375.00. Baby calves: Holstein heifers Few 200.00-270.00, small Pair 130.00-190.00, Holstein bulls 200.00240.00, small 75.00-190.00; Jersey heifers Indiv 170.00, Jersey bulls 105.00-135.00, small 60.0085.00; Crossbred heifers 210.00-290.00, small 135.00-165.00, Crossbred bulls 160.00-260.00, small 100.00-150.00; Beef cross heifers Pair 310.00, Beef cross bulls 240.00-480.00.
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229.00-249.00 214.00-237.00 190.00-210.00 176.00-183.00 153.00-181.00
195.00-245.00 190.00-225.00 185.00-215.00 170.00-190.00 155.00-165.00
215.00-250.00 195.00-227.50 180.00-202.50 167.00-182.00 165.00-168.00
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225.00-261.00 215.00-243.00 190.00-227.00 175.00-206.00 163.00-174.50
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198.00-225.00 187.00-209.00 170.00-199.00 152.00-177.00 135.00-154.00
205.00-227.50 191.00-198.00 185.00-192.50 182.50-190.00 140.00
200.00-239.75 198.00-216.00 187.00-207.00 160.00-175.00 155.00-163.00
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207.00-216.00 193.00-209.00 172.00-202.00 160.00-180.00 154.00-156.00
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Week of 2/23/14
170.49 182.87 185.69
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186.20 ***
None Reported † 1250.00-2475.00 * 1900.00-2400.00 *
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Farmers Livestock - Springdale None Reported † Ft. Smith Livestock 1325.00-1650.00 † 850.00-1750.00 † I-40 Joplin Regional 1200.00-2075.00 † Mo-Ark - Exeter Not Reported * North Arkansas 1280.00-2500.00 † OKC West - El Reno Ouachita Livestock Auction - Ola Ozarks Regional Stilwell Livestock Auction Tulsa Livestock Auction
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215.00-254.00 204.00-240.00 200.00-215.00 179.00-198.00 164.00-171.00
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209.00-226.00 201.00-209.00 179.00-201.00 172.00-179.00 -----
207.00-216.00 193.00-209.00 172.00-202.00 160.00-180.00 154.00-156.00
199.00-221.00 192.00-210.00 175.00-188.50 171.00 143.00-153.00
200.00-221.00 190.00-220.00 187.00-197.00 160.00-179.00 140.00-157.00
205.00-237.50 186.00-217.50 172.00-194.00 160.00-184.00 151.00-164.00
MARCH 31, 2014
170.72 175.43
805.00-1700.00 † 8 1060.00-1950.00 † Not Reported * 1130.00-1850.00 †
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prices
180.79 177.21
1375.00 †
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7.05 5.01
176.51 165.49
1400.00-1800.00 * 750.00-1750.00 †
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9.04 6.97
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14.48
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Soft Wheat
165.00
1000.00-1800.00 * 1225.00-1375.00 † 825.00-1775.00 * 8
OKC West - El Reno, Okla. Ouachita Livestock Auction - Ola Ozarks Regional Stilwell Livestock Auction Tulsa Livestock Auction
300
178.31
850.00-1585.00 † 1000.00-1850.00 † 1
County Line Sale Decatur Livestock Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita Farmers Ft. Smith Livestock I-40 Livestock Joplin Regional Stockyards Mo-Ark - Exeter North Arkansas Livestock
avg. grain prices Soybeans
182.76 160.65
1250.00-1600.00 †
Arkansas Cattle Auction, LLC Ash Flat Livestockk Benton County Sale Cattlemen’s Livestock Cleburne County Livestock Clinton Livestockk
3/21/14
Cheese: 40 lb. blocks closed at $2.4275 with a weekly average of $2.4150 (+.0835). Fluid Milk: Farm milk production is variable throughout the country. Bottler demand is declining seasonally. Some areas of the country experienced snowstorms that closed schools and kept children away from schoolbased feeding programs and pushed some fluid milk demand into next week. Spring break shutdowns are also cycling through all levels of the educational system and decreasing demand for individual serving size milk portions. Cream supplies are seasonally increasing alongside overall rising farm milk production. SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM, $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT F.O.B. producing plants: Upper Midwest - $2.3738-2.5246.
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dairy sales
National Dairy Market at a Glance
cows
Week of 3/2/14
3/20/14
3/6/14
Receipts: 876 Supply was moderate, demand good. The supply included 28 percent slaughter and feeder lambs; 5 percent slaughter ewes and bucks; 12 percent replacement ewes; 29 percent kid goats; 23 percent slaughter nannies and billies; 3 percent replacement nannies and pairs. All prices per hundred weight unless noted otherwise. Sheep Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 wooled few non-traditional 50-70 lbs 170.00-22.00; 80-90 lbs 90100 lbs 140.00-150.00; traditional 110-210 lbs 110.00145.00. Hair: 60-70 lbs 205.00-235.00; 70-80 lbs 175.00-235.00; 70-80 lbs 150.00-190.00; 80-90 lbs 150.00-180.00; 90-100 lbs 150.00-180.00. Feeder/Stocker Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 30-50 lbs 200.00-237.50; 50-60 lbs 195.00-235.00. Ewes: Utility and Good 1-3 wooled: 115-200 lbs 58.00-110.00. Hair: 90-145 lbs 50.00-85.00. Bucks: hair 145-185 lbs 52.50-72.50. Replacement Sheep: Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2 wooled ewe lambs few 120-170 lbs 150.00-175.00. Hair: 108-170 lbs 60.00-85.00 cwt. Pairs: Medium and Large 1-2 Hair 65.00-80.00 per head. Bucks: wooled 180-210 lbs 53.00-72.50 cwt. Goats Slaughter Classes: Kids Selection: 1 40-50 lbs 270.00-302.00; 50-60 lbs 285.00-302.50; 70-80 lbs 225.00-272.50; 100-110 lbs 140.00-180.00; Selection 1-2 60-70 lbs 290.00-295.00; 80-90 lbs 197.50-220.00. Selection 2 50-60 lbs 265.00-285.00; 70-80 lbs 235.00-257.50. Selection 3 60-70 lbs 200.00-252.50; 70-80 lbs 170.00-210.00; 80-100 lbs 155.00-180.00. Does/Nannies: Selection 1 100-200 lbs 75.00-137.50. Selection 2 75-130 lbs 100.00-145.00. Selection 3
Ash Flat El Reno Ft. Smith Green Forest Heber Springs Joplin Ouachita Ozark Ratcliff Searcy Siloam Springs Springdale Tulsa West Plains
Week of 3/9/14
goats
Diamond, Mo. • CRS Sale’s Co.
replacement
80-125 lbs 87.50-120.00. Billies: Selection 1-2 120-260 lbs 115.00-130.00. Selection 3 90-145 lbs 105.00-140.00. Replacement Nannies: Selection 1 90-205 lbs 115.00-140.00 cwt. Selection 3 Dairy 150.00-300.00 per head. Pairs: Selection 1-3 50.00-85.00 per head. Stocker/Feeder Kids: Selection 2 20-30 lbs 205.00245.00; 30-40 lbs 205.00-255.00; 40-50 lbs 220.00265.00. Selection 3 30-50 lbs 240.00-252.50; 50-60 lbs 250.00-252.50; 60-70 lbs 130.00-162.50.
heifers 550-600 LBS.
OKC West - El Reno, Okla. 3/19/14
Ouachita Livestock Ola, Ark. 3/21/14
Ozarks Regional West Plains 3/18/14
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262.00-263.00 226.00-258.00 193.50-224.00 177.50-197.00 167.75-185.50
220.00-259.00 212.00-242.00 198.00-216.00 176.00-197.00 158.00-169.00
235.00-260.00 225.00-250.00 205.00-225.00 185.00-215.00 168.00-186.00
235.00-270.00 210.00-243.00 200.00-220.00 180.00-206.75 165.00-187.00
229.00-239.00 221.00-238.00 213.00-224.00 199.00-208.00 155.00-171.00
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238.00-240.00 203.00-237.00 189.00-209.00 169.00-196.00 155.00-160.00
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----200.00-211.00 193.00-203.00 164.50-168.00 152.00-159.00
230.00 207.50-230.00 197.50-213.00 ---------
210.00-260.00 190.00-235.00 185.00-210.00 165.00-190.00 140.00-165.00
----213.00-224.50 203.00-210.00 164.00-175.00 159.50-163.00
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212.00-226.00 186.00-216.00 171.00-204.00 162.00-179.00 157.00
223.00-224.00 190.00-220.00 183.00-205.50 167.00-183.50 153.50-169.50
200.00-226.00 195.00-210.00 172.00-193.50 159.00-172.00 -----
212.50-237.50 190.00-227.50 181.00-203.00 174.00-185.00 150.00-164.00
200.00-240.00 180.00-215.00 190.00-203.75 160.00-180.00 150.00-175.00
214.00-228.00 209.00-216.50 190.00-200.00 170.50-178.00 160.00-168.00
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190.50 188.22
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Week of 3/16/14
ed Pair 1475.00; Medium Indiv . 200.00-270.00, n bulls 200.00heifers Indiv , small 60.0090.00, small 0.00-260.00, small Pair 310.00, Beef
Doe/Nannies: Selection 1-2 66-130 lbs 80.00-120.00. Billies: Selection 2 few 75-185 lbs 110.00-140.00. Selection 2-3 Aged Wethers 50-165 lbs 124.00-150.00. Replacement Nannies: Selection 1-2 few 73-100 lbs 95.00-115.00. Selection 3 85-125 lbs 90.00-130.00 cwt. Pairs: Selection 1-2 160.00-300.00. Selection 3 110.00-165.00 per pair. Feeder/stocker kids: Selection 2 20-30 lbs 230.00270.00; 30-40 lbs 240.00-245.00. Selection 3 30-40 lbs 145.00-150.00.
Not Reported
1325.00; Medium 0-950.00, Few
USDA Reported * Independently Reported
182.12 178.33 189.99 186.26 184.76 181.12 187.02 * 189.45
140
153 166 179 192 205 * No price reported in weight break **USDA Failed To Report *** No Sale - Weather
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Cashing in on Crops and Cattle By Terry Ropp
IT’S EARLy SPRINg.
Taking one step at a time, Cody Hays has built up his farm to include cattle, crops and agritourism
Your plans to maximize hay production this summer are made.
This is the story of a young couple deciding to build a farm from scratch, something unusual in this day and age. Cody Hays, now of Gentry, Ark., met his future wife Carrie when he was a junior in college at the University of Arkansas. Cody said, “Land prices are too high to make a purchase viable for expansion and leased land is competitive.” Cody and Carrie, however, were undeterred. They began farming by purchasing 50 acres and cows through a bank, then leasing a farm and increasing the herd size with Cody being a part-time farmer for the first two years. After adding more lease land, they decided to add crop farming and became full time farmers. They now own and rent 655 acres with 415 acres in crops and 150 acres in pasture. Cody said, “You have to have a Back Row L to R: Ty and good banker who will stand behind you Emily Hays when you lose money because she beFront Row L to R: Garrett, lieves in you and your operation.” Then Carrie and Cody Hays Cody added, “A cow/calf operation may not always make a lot of money, but they Photo By Terry Ropp seldom lose any. Although crops are weather dependent and a different story, March growers had not yet met with the I love crop farming which now supplies new owners for direction. For the last three years Cody was also part of a gov80 percent of our income.” Cody came from a family of cattle ernment crop rotation program but deranchers and started his Gentry opera- cided not to renew because the program tion with Angus/Simmental cattle. He allowed no flexibility in the planting had of a herd of 125 mommas but down- schedule. Cody said, “To be successful, sized his herd to 50 momma cows when you need to customize your rotation ache decided to add crop farming which cording to commodity prices and average yields.” later decreased to 25. Cody particularly likes raisThis year Cody has not ing wheat because his averbeen able to make crop de- Gentry, Ark. age yield is 70 bushels per cisions for 100 acres because acre while the county and the company he sells crops national averages are only 44. too, Allen’s Canning, sold out to Sager Creek Acquisition. As of the first part of — Continued on Page 20
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A Genetically Mapped Herd By Diana Dickinson
Three Forks Ranch goes to great lengths to ensure they sell topquality seedstock “Quality” is a very ambiguous word when it comes to farming. To farmers it could mean the quality of the herd, hay and eating desirability, whereas to consumers it could mean the flavor and tenderness of the meat. Three Forks Ranch near Ft. Gibson, Okla.,
is the ranch’s manager and oversees the operation as well as lives onsite. The herd health of the bulls are qualified under the Boehringer Ingelheim Range Ready Program, a certified preconditioning program. A healthy nutritional program ideally means a healthy
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herd. Their nutritionist, Brian Fieser, knows the science and business of nutri- PhD, regularly obtains samples of the tious forage and silage by testing it and high moisture baleage and adjusts raharvesting their own. The ranch raises tions to accommodate. “He is very meregistered Angus beef cattle because the ticulous. We go for quality of the hay breed has fit their environment the best. and not the quantity we give to the Paul Moore and his wife, Paula, have cattle,” insisted Mark. Forage testing compiles a nutrient been owners of the ranch for 19 years composition of forage conbeginning in tent to develop feeding April. Paul programs. This allows bought the the farmer to adjust the 2,240 acres Ft. Gibson, Okla. amount of protein and without cattle and energy supplements bought commercial cattle needed to meet the herd’s to get started and 12 years ago got into the registered – Continued on Page 20 Angus business. Mark Sexton MARCH 31, 2014
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Cody raises four crops: corn, soybeans, wheat and green beans. Cody prefers to use chicken litter as fertilizer because it is carbon-based and does best rounding out nutrition. Part of the process is complying with State regulations, which includes presenting samples of both the soil and litter batch for testing to ensure good soil management practices and nutritional balance. Chemically treating for weeds is another important part of the crop operation. Cody said, “One nice thing in this area is that we are not seeing Roundupresistant weeds yet perhaps because most of the land is used for cattle. Farmers in other parts of the state are not as fortunate.” Cody, therefore, uses standard chemicals with corn, wheat and soybeans, but the green beans are a more complicated issue because they are used for human consumption. The approved chemicals are not as effective but they
are safe, which means treating for weeds is not as cost-efficient for green beans as it is for the other commodities. The Hays farm has two additional money making components. The first is Ozark Corn Maze with 4 acres of pumpkins, a petting zoo and a corn cannon. The second is a custom spraying business featuring a self-propelled 80-foot wide sprayer used mainly for wheat and for the application of late fungicides and liquid nitrogen. The Hays’ have three children: Garrett, 13; Emily, 11; and Ty, 9. All of the children are in 4-H and show pigs of various breeds as well as participating in the Oak Grove Riding Club which includes Western pleasure, barrels, poles and speed. In addition, the boys are beginning to learn to rope. Emily won the Arkansas State Fair Reserve Champion Gilt last year.
A Genetically Mapped Herd Continued from Page 19 feeding requirements. Spring is the time to begin testing which will give ample time to design an adequate feeding program to optimize hay consumption and herd’s performance. It also increases the net profit by being able to adjust various levels of feed and supplemental intake. “We grow 60 acres of silage, which is corn and give the cattle a commodity that is dry-distilled blended feed as well as what they get from grazing,” said Mark. “The cattle can graze until September and then we will overseed with rye.” Three Forks Ranch does year-long rotational grazing to get the best stage of the growing phase. They supplement during the winter. They harvest all of their hay and have a very low ratio of weeds. Cimarron MAX Herbicide is used which prevents post-emergence of broadleaf weeds by suppressing them from growing and provides season-long control without harming the forage. The sale bulls are Genomically-Enhanced Expected Progeny Differences
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(GE-EPD) measured. Three Forks Ranch uses the Zoetis 50k since the markers are more accurate to determine the genetic traits and Residual Average Daily Gains (RADG). All DNA samples go to an Angus database where traits are measured ranking the breed within the breed on that specific trait. EPD increases the accuracy. Everything is AI’d at least once or ET, then they turn out clean-up bulls thereafter. They prefer fall calving because of their fall breeding nutritional plan. “We sell in age groups of the fall calving cows. The 18-20 month old bulls are more attractive than yearlings and do well. We do not sell to the meat market; we sell mainly as a seedstock operation,” said Mark. Their 7th Annual Angus Bull and Female Commercial sale is the last weekend in March. Paul said, “I chose to do this because I grew up on a farm. I do not remember all of the reasons why but I like coming here. I live in Tulsa, Okla., but this is where my wife and I spend most of our time.” MARCH 31, 2014
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Ropes, Roping Stock and Chicks Continued from Page 21 heifers for replacement roping stock and bought two Longhorn bulls and Longhorn influenced mommas. The herd now consists of 40 mommas which run on 150 acres of pasture. According to Don, the bull calves are not castrated until they are weaned because the horns grow better. The roping stock are kept until they are “used up,” meaning they become too big for the chutes, run in predictable patterns, or refuse to run when roped and have to be dragged. At that time, the heifers become part of the breeding stock and the steers are marketed. The chicken farm consists of four houses on 30 acres. The first chicks arrived on Thanksgiving Day in 1989. In preparation, local Mennonites built the four houses so strongly that the houses are in better shape than many half their age. Don said, “The houses are extremely solid with probably only four knots in the wood in an entire house.” That sturdiness, however, makes constant retrofitting the biggest challenge for the chicken farm. Nonetheless, the houses are completely up-to-date including computer systems and cold cell cooling supported by 48 inch fans. Don said, “The chickens have been a perfect job for me because I like being my own boss and hate punching a clock on somebody else’s time.” One of the reasons Don’s time demand is so heavy is that he cleans out his own houses and then sprays and readies them for the next batch of chicks, which will become 46-day-old, 6-pound, antibiotic-free
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chickens for OK Foods. The 14 day rest period between flocks is a very busy time for Don because each task is time-consuming. Clean out for each house takes about a day and all of the feed and water lines have to be lowered to accommodate the new chicks only to be raised again every two or three days after the chicks arrive to keep up with their rapid growth. One advantage of doing his own cleanout is that Don always has chicken litter for his 50-acre Bermuda hay field, which he fertilizes once a year in order to maintain a 15 percent protein level. He also sprays for weeds twice a year. The system is efficient because he neither buys nor sells hay or chicken litter. Spraying for black beetles and fire ants in the chicken houses is effective in preventing the beetles from getting into the insulation and the fire ants from hurting the chickens. However, Don believes that fire ants are serious issue in Oklahoma with hills not only making his pastures look like a bumpy road but also invading cities, like Oklahoma City, where big mounds litter the curbs. While spraying works for chicken houses and the surrounding area, it is completely cost prohibitive for pastures. Don said, “I am looking forward to productive research to help ranchers and farmers find a way to control fire ants because they are a serious problem for my horses as well as my cattle and their calves. Sometimes the animals, especially calves, don’t avoid fire ant mounds which is very stressful for them.” MARCH 31, 2014
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keeping accurate and in the year. These businesslike records. forms are required to The 1099 forms pertain be sent to each payee only to payments made by January 31 for the for business or trade purprevious calendar poses. So, for example, year. The forms are payments for veterinary designed to help the services for horses used IRS keep track of inin the activity are subcome paid to self-emject to reporting on the ployed workers and John Alan Cohan is a form, but veterinary sercontractors. You must lawyer who has served vices to pet dogs or cats also send the forms to the farming, ranching are not. A 1099 form is the IRS by February and horse industries since required for payments to 28 of each year. 1981. To contact John Alan land owners for rent and/ According to Terry Cohan, go to ozarksfn.com or services. Payments to Miller, CPA with and click on ‘Contact Us.’ attorneys, accountants, Miller & Miller Asmechanics and laborers sociates of Fresno, also require issuance of the 1099 form if Calif., IRS auditors will invariably fault taxpayers who fail to file 1099 forms. the services pertain to the farming, ranchFailure to prepare and file these forms, ing or horse activity in question. The recent IRS memo referred to he says, could work against you in an above indicates that 1099 forms are reaudit because it may suggest you are not
quired whether the veterinary service is rendered by a sole proprietor or an incorporated entity that provides veterinary services. Some nonemployee income payments do not require issuance of the 1099 form. Generally, payments to corporations – except for veterinary or legal services – do not require a 1099. Payments for hauling livestock or grain do not require issuance of a 1099. Other farm or ranch-related costs, such as for feed, fertilizer, chemicals, fuel or other non-service items, do not require a 1099 form. It is more important than ever to keep appropriate records to monitor the progress of your business, to show whether it is improving, which items are selling, or what changes you need to make. Good records can help you make better decisions as well as help support your position in the event of an IRS examination.
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Tammy Alger’s aspiration to raise naturally fed livestock came from a desire to feed their large family healthy food. Alger Family Farm has now grown into a sought after direct marketing meat business in the Miller, Mo., area. “When we started eating organic the options were slim and far between,” Alger said. “We started 20 years ago before mainstream supermarkets had organics.” On the 55-acre farm they have cattle, sheep and poultry. Alger raises Katahdin and Dorper cross sheep because they exhibit more natural parasite resistance. Alger gauges a sheep’s parasite load by evaluating the redness around their eyes. A bright red eyelid and areas around the eye suggests the animal has minimal parasite problems. As the eyelids become paler in color the more of a parasite load the animal is carrying. To control the parasites in her livestock Alger uses intensive grazing as her most important tool. By frequently moving livestock from one paddock to another and not revisiting the paddock for an extended period of time she can break the parasitic lifecycle. Alger also uses a mix of black walnut tea made from black walnut hulls and garlic barrier, a concentrated garlic extract. Both are known for their natural parasite control properties. She administers the tea with a syringe daily until parasites are under control. Twice a year Alger will dump whole black walnuts into the cattle’s water as a natural dewormer. Alger uses strict culling practices to minimize the chance for health problems. She culls animals that require more inputs as compared to the rest of the herd. “The ultimate goal is to have stock maintain their body condition on pastures and not be prone to parasite issues,” Alger said.
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Rick and Joyce Koehn from Adair, Okla., started 5 years ago with a diversified grass-fed operation. The family is in the business of meat and eggs providing grassfed beef and lamb, pastured broilers and laying hens. Rick Koehn credits healthy soil as the key for keeping their animals healthy. He said that if you supply nutrients to the soil that keeps the plants healthy it in turn provides the right nutrition for their livestock.
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Providing parasite protection is one area where producers can take advantage of natural remedies. “We are playing around with apple cider vinegar as a dewormer and rumen health tonic,” Koehn said. Koehn said that it can increase the gain on their cattle and aid in feed efficiency. He buys it in bulk and pours it in a trough and mixes with water fed at the rate of 3 oz./head/day. “It takes them a few days to get used to it but will come running once they’ve acquired a taste,” Koehn said. Koehn also recommended producers who are interested in starting a grass-fed herd to select the right genetics that will perform well on grass only. “Cattle that are geared to be fed in a feedlot on grains take a lot longer to mature and finish in a grass-based system,” said Koehn. “They aren’t able to utilize grass to the fullest extent.”
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Ken Prier owns Prier Farms Grassfed Beef, a certified USDA 100 percent grass-fed operation near Eagle Rock, Mo. Prier said that starting with healthy cattle is critical. He chooses to have a closed herd, with the exception of bringing in young virgin bulls for breeding. “The only thing we bring in is young bulls,” Prier said. “They’ve never been serviced anywhere else and we don’t have to worry about them transmitting diseases.” Though he limits the use of unnecessary vaccinations and other chemicals entering his herd he believes in the importance of vaccinating his cattle for blackleg and Brucellosis. He remembers hearing stories from the ‘40s and ‘50s when those diseases would wipe out the whole herd. “The last thing in the world you would want is your place quarantined,” Prier said. Prier credits clean water and his rigorous rotational grazing practice as main factors related to herd health. “Pasture hay and good quality forage is extremely important to keeping cattle healthy and with vigor,” Prier said.
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There are a number of tools available to crop producers who want to hedge the value of their production – and dramatic changes are coming in one of them. Most row crop producers participate in the federal farm program, but the Agricultural Act of 2014 reworks many of them. The direct payments are gone that many producers have come to rely on since 1996 in one form or another for income support. They’ve been replaced by the Price Loss Contract (PLC), which is similar to the long-standing countercyclical program and compensates farmers for lower prices, and Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC), which is designed to make up the gap between revenue-based crop insurance protection and a producer’s actual losses. According to Dr. Pat Westhoff, director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri, “Producers are going to face a very important and very difficult challenge this year, trying to decide which of the new programs to participate in,” Westhoff told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. Many producers take other steps to supplement the protection in the farm programs. The revenue-based crop insurance policies help them deal with both price and yield risk, and some producers forward contract with grain elevators to lock in a price for their next crop. That indirectly brings the farmer into contact with futures and options, since the warehouse will probably guarantee its own returns by selling a Chicago contract against the anticipated farmer delivery; Westhoff said there is probably a minority of farmers who hedge directly via futures or options; he said, “I think the fact that a lot of farmers over the years have relied on forward contracting with their local elevator is a sign that it is seen as
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a relatively safe way for producers who are trying to manage their risk; however, other producers feel comfortable using a little more complicated strategies.” Some of those farmers “reward the market,” selling a contract when an attractive price is reached to cover a portion of their anticipated production. Westhoff said, “If nothing else, just spreading out sales over the course of the year is a way of trying to make sure you hit either the highest of the highs or the lowest of the lows, so you’re not going to have an experience that’s grossly different than what the average is going to be over the course of the year.” Mid-South farmers, though, may use different risk management tools than their Midwestern neighbors. Asked what his own clients use, Brinkley, Ark.-based broker and advisor Neauman Coleman told OFN, “I would like that it would be the futures and options market, but I would have to say that given the price volatility that we’ve seen in the futures market since 2008, if anything it has been a cash market transaction, where the farmers do not want to have exposure to the vagaries of the futures market and that proverbial margin call.” Coleman said while more cotton farmers have been turning to the options market on the Intercontinental Exchange, it’s a challenge for rice farmers on the CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade). He said, “The options market for rice, for farmers here in Arkansas, is so thin and illiquid that it often difficult to even get a trade executed.” Forward contracting has also become less attractive. In the past, Coleman said, elevator operators would charge the farmer a fee to use their storage plus a negotiated price; these days, the farmers don’t want to absorb the extra cost.
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The Rise of Precision Technology By Gary Digiuseppe
Technology helps farmers use crop inputs more precisely for maximum returns Automatic section controls (ASC) are the latest of a suite of technological devices that can help farmers use crop inputs more precisely for the maximum return. Although the devices can be expensive, farmers say rising production costs are making the equipment increasingly attractive. The last time he bought a planter, Atkins, Ark., farmer Robert Stobaugh decided against the $13,000 cost of the ASC option. Now, Stobaugh told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor, it’s getting to the point where he can justify the expenditure. Stobaugh, who grows soybeans, corn, rice and wheat on 6,000 acres in Pope and Conway Counties in the Arkansas River Valley, said precision planting enables him to produce a more homogenous crop across a field and to get the most out of his seed. “If you have the overlaying maps that we can now generate at harvest time to see where your highly productive soils are in a given field, you can actually adjust that planter to plant seeds according to your prescription into those highly productive areas, and then cut the seed rate back on the areas that might not be quite so productive,” he said. Without ASC, Stobaugh can still lay down seed more efficiently, but he has to do it manually. He generates the production maps at harvest using his GPS system, and uses the computer on the planter to generate an accurate seed population. Then, he varies seeding rates simply by speeding up and slowing down the planter. The ASC knows where the planter has laid down seed; it fills in skips, avoids double seeding, and shuts off the section when done. Jim Arnaud uses it to plant the corn he feeds the 100 dairy cows and 250 beef cows on his Monett, Mo., opMARCH 31, 2014
eration. “We have individual shutoffs on every row,” Arnaud told OFN. “We have a precision instrument called a 20/20, and it monitors our complete corn planter function. If you have a chain that’s a little bit dry and tries to hop, it will tell you if you have a problem. If you’re having a skip in one box, it will tell you, and if you’re dropping doubles. So it does control the section control on the planter and as you get to the end of a field, it will start shutting your boxes off one at a time.” It’s just one of several precision instruments Arnaud uses; he also applies pesticides and fertilizer using automatic controls. But those inputs can be applied with less precision; for seed, Arnaud has his ASC linked to a subscription satellite service. For an annual price of $800, he said he gets repeatable accuracy of about 2 to 3 inches; by comparison, he said without the subscription, “If you leave the field and come back two hours later, the signal you’re receiving that’s telling you where to drive could be off 2 to 3 feet very easily, and that only increases with time.” And he has other precision instruments on the planter; one called “Down Force” monitors the ground compact of the row units. Arnaud said, “If you don’t have enough ground contact because you’re maybe in a rocky area, we have airbags on our planter just like the big trucks have airbags for their suspension, and there’s a big pump that will automatically add more air to those bags, and put more pressure down.” All of the farm’s tractors employ a precision GPS, and some of them have autosteer. Arnaud’s sprayer uses both technologies. “When you get to the end of your field, it automatically shuts your sections off with the whole boom if you’re hitting
a square corner,” he said. “If you’re not, and finishing off a lot of irregular fields like we’re prone to have, it’ll start shutting the sections off one at a time as you come across an area that’s sprayed. That is a huge, huge payback there with the price of chemicals.” And he’s been using GPS on his fertilizer spreader for many years. “You can pick up some of this GPS technology that’s not autosteer for $2,500 brand new. If you’re spreading much fertilizer, that’s about a one-year payback on the price of fertilizer from either skipping or overspreading.” The cost of inputs is a big reason Stobaugh sees the use of precision technology growing in Arkansas. “When you’re talking about the amount of money that we spend on seed these days, it’s going to become more and more important to put it exactly where it needs to be, and exactly the rate it needs to be. But until we have top to bottom precision applicators, whether it be in fertilizer, seed or anything else, it’s a little bit hard to justify.”
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fluctuations in the market and factors such as severe weather. Bruce Townley, an insurance broker in Lockwood, Mo., said most farmers he has talked to, are glad to see the direct payments go away. Townley, said in general, people “are taking a serious look at crop insurance, there is more interest,” but so far this season he has not seen an uptick in actual new policies written. (Note: the deadline for making changes or adding new coverage was March 17 for this season.)
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the born, raised and harvested label.” Producers will hopefully find it easier to get relief when disaster strikes. Again from Arkansas Farm Bureau’s Bishop: “The USDA can now access funding directly rather than waiting on a disaster bill which could take weeks or more to pass.” So producers should at least get their money sooner.
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