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Van Burren County, Ark., student claims bowl win: Colson Tester, a junior at the University of Arkansas and a native of Clinton, Ark., claimed first place in the Academic Quiz Bowl Competition at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting held in Mobile, Ala. Tester competed against 122 students from universities across the nation and was formally recognized at the awards banquet.

Carroll County, Ark., woman appointed to committee: Alechia Meador has been appointed to the Farm Bureau’s State Women’s Committee. Meador, who raises cattle and chickens with her husband on 430 acres, currently serves on the Carroll County Farm Bureau Women’s Committee.

Hipp receives President’s Lifetime Achievement Award: Janie Simms Hipp, director of the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative in the University of Arkansas School of Law recently received the President’s Volunteer Service Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award, from the Corporation for National and Community Service, recognized her lifelong dedication to serving the Chickasaw Nation and advancing the nutritional and educational needs of indigenous people across the continent The Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honor conferred by the corporation and is reserved for individuals who contribute more than 4,000 hours of service in their lifetime.

Former Oklahoma man honored by Hereford Association: Jeremy Reno of Orovada, NV, was selected as the 2017 Hereford Herdsman of the Year at the 2017 National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 14. Selected by his peers – Hereford herdsmen and breeders – Reno, originally from Jay, Okla., was honored prior to the selection of the grand champion horned and polled Hereford females. He serves as herdsman for Brumley Farms in Orovada, NV. He is responsible for caring for the show cattle, traveling to all national shows and checking cows and calves in the pastures each day.

Newton County, Ark., producers to head committee: Dustin and Kayla Cowell of Deer, Ark., have been appointed by Arkansas Farm Bureau President Randy Veach to serve on the organization’s State Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee.

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Recently, one particular video caught Jerry Crownover is my attention: “Girl trains cow to ride a farmer and former like a horse.” I, and several hundred thousand professor of Agriculture others, had to watch it.

Education at Missouri Sure enough, there before my very eyes, was a State University. He is a teenage girl in New Zealand who was riding what native of Baxter County, appeared to be a Brown Swiss dairy cow, through Arkansas, and an the fields as if it were a horse. Not only was she author and professional riding it, but she had trained it to jump over obspeaker. To contact Jerry, stacles as she maneuvered the cow through her go to ozarksfn.com and paces with nothing more than a couple of reins click on ‘Contact Us.’ attached to a regular cow halter. I was impressed and had to know more, so I found an accompanying written story about the young lady and her cow.

Evidently, the girl had grown up on a dairy farm and had always wanted a horse to ride, but her father was adamant that a horse had no place on their farm. The loving father was sympathetic, but firm, in explaining that a horse was expensive to purchase, would eat a lot of the feed needed by the cows and would, most likely, aggravate the animals that were the sole source of their livelihood.

That reasoning and wording seemed all too familiar to what my Dad had told me many years ago.

Like most teenagers, the young lady was so headstrong in her desire to ride, a few days later she hopped up on one of the replacement heifers they were raising and, to her surprise, the heifer had no objections. The cow now allows the girl to ride her anytime she wishes, with only a makeshift bridle and no saddle.

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realize we are a good month away from the official change of seasons. This spring-like February has been amazing! Our family has been busy sorting things this month.

It started with sorting calves. We sorted Jody Harris is a freelance heifers and steers, and opted to send the steers communications specialist, to the sale barn. My husband also included one gardener, ranch wife and of our red heifers for the sale. When I asked him mother of four. She and why, he said she didn’t go with his black Angus her family raise Angus beef herd. If that’s not discrimination, folks, I don’t cattle and other critters on know what is. I thought she was pretty but she their northwest Arkansas was sorted into the “sell herd” anyway. ranch. She is a graduate I’ve sorted through seeds and tools in the greenof Missouri State University. house and shed in preparation for garden plantTo contact Jody, go to ozarksfn.com and click on ing. I found most of the good spades and hand ‘Contact Us.’ rakes buried in the dirt pile where our boys do their “work.” No matter how severe the punishments I threaten, our kids still latch on to the good tools like thieves in the night. When I ask who drug them out, the gang goes silent. No amount of interrogation can break the wall. I’m thinking of getting some security cameras to see who really leads this mischievous gang…just kidding.

Of course, with the approach of warmer weather we discovered our four children have all gone through growth spurts. We know this due to a scientific system our family has for measuring growth progress. It’s an attic door hidden from the public eye. A few times a year, we have each child stand against it and mark their height and date of progression with a Sharpie. They giggle when they look at the old “entries.” In eleven years of child-rearing we’ve seen extraordinary progress among four tiny people.

With growth spurts, comes clothes closet sorting. In our house, this is more closely known as the passing of the hand-me-downs. Jeans, boots, shorts, shirts, jackets and hats. You name it, if it’s not stained, torn or holey, we pass it along to the next in line. We are blessed to have cousins and neighbors who share things along the way.

Nobody goes around in high water jeans and nobody goes naked.

Finally, we’ve been sorting out junk and cleaning up the shop. By “we,” I mean Nathan (my husband) and one of his friends. I really cannot even go out to the shop most days. When I do, I try not break into a cold sweat from the sight of chaos among his tools and equipment. A few times a year it’s reorganized and all is right in the world. I bark about how it could always look like this if tools and equipment were put back where they belong after a project is finished. My words go unheard and the accumulation starts its ugly cycle over again.

Our next sorting project involves the spring cleansing of the farm truck and the family suburban. A small family of squirrels could live for at least a year on the crumbs hidden beneath the crevices in both vehicles. Wish us well, we haven’t even started yet.

Sorting stuff helps busy families like ours prepare for the busy spring and summer season up ahead. Growing up, we lived by the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, “A place for everything, everything in its place.” It’s evolved into put it away, throw it away or give it away in our household. Spring cleaning does a body and soul good neighbor. Happy Spring!

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o you know Bo? I’m sure many of you are thinking, “Bo who?”

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, everyone knew Bo – Bo Jackson Julie Turner-Crawford that is. Jackson is one of only a few is a native of Dallas athletes to be named an all-star in two major County, Mo., where she sports, and the only one to do so in the National grew up on her family’s Football League and in Major League Baseball. farm. She is a graduate An athletic shoe company focused a whole camof Missouri State paign around Jackson, capitalizing on the multiUniversity. To contact sport athlete’s fame with the phrase, “Bo knows.”

Julie, call 1-866-532-1960 What many people might not know about Bo or by email at editor@ is that the Heisman Trophy winner is a former ozarksfn.com. member of the McAdory, Ala., FFA Chapter.

Jackson is among other former FFA members who have excelled in their professional careers.

“FFA was one of the most enjoyable things I had going through school,” Herbert Perry, a former professional baseball player, has said. “I played sports, but I always looked forward to having the forestry contests, land judging and livestock judging. I was on all those teams, plus all the other stuff – parliamentary procedure and public speaking.”

Green Bay Packer’s wide receiver Jordy Nelson grew up on a Kansas dairy farm and was a member of the Riley County FFA Chapter.

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can honestly say the long days prepared me for training camp,” he has said.

Athletes are not the only ones who have donned the Blue and Gold.

Former U.S. President and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter; Garfield comic strip creator Jim Davis; singers Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins and Don Henley; former Kansas governor Sam Brownback; Walmart Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs and former counselor to President George W. Bush Don Bartlett; former president of Kroger Manufacturing William T. Boehm; Miss Oklahoma 2004 Elizabeth Kinney; and National Geographic Editor-in-Chief Chris Johns were also members. That’s a pretty impressive list.

For many former members, the impact the organization has carried has been much more than learning to judge a dairy cow or understanding Robert’s Rules of Order; FFA was their lifeline.

“There are two things that make goose bumps go up and down my back: one is Old Glory flying over the nation’s capitol when I walk by it at night, and the other is when I see FFA members in their blue jackets. I get an emotional feeling because FFA lifted me out of the depths of poverty and personal problems to the halls of Congress,” Wes Watkins, former U.S. congressman from Oklahoma and former president of the Oklahoma FFA Association, has said.

FFA Chapters around the country have just wrapped up National FFA Week festivities. I don’t recall doing too many things, if any, for FFA Week while I was in high school, but chapters today embrace the opportunity to have a little fun, present agriculture information, do a community service project and/or show their appreciation to chapter supporters.

I’m proud FFA was an organization I had the privilege to be a part of. Like Watkins, I get a few goose bumps when I see a river of blue and gold jackets.

I don’t know if Bo Jackson credits any of his success to the time he spent in FFA, but there are countless other folks around the world who are quick to point out that the time they spent in the youth organization made them who they are today.

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Over the years (the cow is now about 5 years old) the girl and the cow have created a bond that has surprised everyone. Together, they jump logs, streams, and any other barriers that would commonly be found in an Olympic equestrian event.

After watching the video a few times, I was so impressed with the skill exhibited by the duo that I called for my wife to come into the room to view the cow-

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horse (or is it horsecow?). After viewing the clip, in amazement, she said, “Wow, she has this cow so well trained, it makes you wonder what she could have accomplished with a horse.”

While that wasn’t my first thought, it’s obvious to anyone that watches the video that the girl is talented and skilled in working with animals; I just wonder what we’d be watching if her father had been a hog farmer.

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By Larry Burchfield

Despite the loss of family, Janis Carlton continues with her farming operation in Boone, County, Ark. It is not a stretch to say Janis Carlton has been in agriculture all her life.

She started milking cows on her grandfather’s farm in Boone County, Ark., when she was 5 years old. She is still going 62 years later on the farm that adjoins the farm her grandfather’s homesteaded just outside of Bellefonte, Ark. Janis and her husband, Arland, started with a small herd of cattle on 45 acres they purchased in 1968. That modest beginning has grown to a current day operation of 474 total acres and a herd of 100 mixed breed cattle and 20 Boer goats.

Much like the two generations before her, the Carlton Farm was a family farm, with Janis, Arland and their son William, who ran his own operation nearby.

The Carltons were always active in the farm community. In 1987, William was the state FFA Runner-Up for Yorkshire hogs.

That love of showing livestock carried over into William’s adult life as he began his own Boer goat and Quarter horse farm.

However, life has taken a sharp, 180 degree turn in the last two years for Janis. In November 2015, William passed away. Arland passed away just a year later, leaving Janis to farm with some nieces, nephews and a brother-in-law, when their schedules allow.

“It has been a tough couple of years for sure,” Janis reflected. “I’ve really had to adjust how I operate the farm.”

Through heartache, drought, and down markets, Janis keeps tending to business and managing her farm with no signs of Photos by Larry Burchfield

Despite the deaths of her husband and son, Janis Carlton continues the family cattle and Boer goat operation. Her grandfather homesteaded in Boone County, Ark., in 1878.

The two busiest times of the year are feed- letting up. ing in the winter and cutting hay in the Janis no doubt feels a summer. Both are labor intensive, but cut- connection to the land ting hay puts the most pressure on Janis. she farms and the ani“The time factor is critical in hay. You mals she raises. only have a small window to She proudly get it cut and baled,” Janis shows visiHarrison, Ark. explained. “Arland did the tors the land baling and I did the raking. her grandfaSo now, I’m going to have to ther homesteaded just step in and run the baler. I across the ravine to the north can do it, but it’s just not one of her house. She talks about her of my strong points.” life on the farm with pride.

She wouldn’t have any other life but the one she has. Life has been tough the last few years for Janis with her family losses. She and Arland also lost a daughter, Zanetta, some years ago.

However, when visiting with Janis, one gets the sense of the pioneer spirit no doubt instilled by her grandfather when he homesteaded in Boone County, Ark., in 1878.

That pioneer spirit and perseverance was recognized last year when Carlton Farms was recognized as a Century Farm by the Arkansas Agriculture Department.

“Farming is all I’ve ever known,” Janis said, “History runs deep on this farm, I don’t have any plans to stop anytime soon. I’ll carry the torch as long as I can.”

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Dwight and Sandy Bartholomew come from a long line of Arkansas farmers Dwight and Sandy Bartholomew have a cow/calf operation in addition to a cattle order buying business, with Sandy doing the bookkeeping. When Dwight considers his operation, he deeply believes that the choices people make are found within their heritage.

Both his father’s side of the family and his mother’s were among the founding families in Washington County, Ark.,

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Dwight Bartholomew is the sixth generation of his family to live in Washington County, Ark. He and wife Sandy have three herds of cattle, including commercial black cattle, black baldies and Red Angus.

though none of the original land from the Washington County were going to be moved to Oklahoma and were waiting early 1800s is still in his hands.

Loyd Hawley is a local professional ge- to take their land.

The Bartholomew side of the family came nealogist whose passion originated while from Ireland in 1700 and settled raising a dairy herd and keepin Pennsylvania. Dwight’s ing track of their genetics. great-great grandfather, WilHe is steeped in the early his- Prairie Grove, Ark. liam Scott, served in the Civil tory with Dwight being one War and received 160 acres of many clients and provided in Strickler, Ark., through the the following information.

Homestead Act, which was intendDwight is the 11th generaed to encourage Western migration. tion of his family to live in

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meet your neighbors These early settlers ran subsistence style and another is black baldies. He keeps farms with chickens, a dairy cow, one or them separated in different pastures. Last two head of beef cattle because there was year, he bought heifers to breed and sell. no place to sell calves in the undeveloped He retained some which are now beginland and as many as 10 pigs. The beef ning to have calves. The herd is bred by cattle probably started out as Longhorns three registered black Angus bulls. crossed with Herefords and dairy cows, Dwight selects bulls, cows and heifwhich gave birth to commercial herds ers according to EPDs looking for birth and hybrid vigor. weights, milkability and weaning weights.

What all of this means in terms of peo- He prefers early spring calves because the ple’s decision-making, is that people like mommas are getting good grass and will Dwight come from a long line of farmers therefore produce more and better qualwho responded to changing conditions. ity milk. In addition, milk production Dwight’s grandfather, William Bill Bar- will stay up for the next calf. tholomew, continued the tradition of beDwight prefers large pastures to rotaing the Strickler Postmaster and ran the tional grazing and controls grass height Strickler store, which served as a trading by varying the amount of 16 percent center. During the late 1920s, his grand- commodity mix grain he gives his anifather had a truck mals. The purpose is route and sold items to keep the pasture vitraded at the store. able while not allowing

The most In 1936, he began as fescue to grow too high co-owner of the Wash- important and become an issue. ington County sale The pastures are 80 thing I learned barn which Dwight’s percent fescue and 20 father, Argil, continued. about the cattle percent Bermuda, with “The most important some volunteer clothing I learned about business from my ver that Dwight prothe cattle business from father was the tects by careful spraymy father was the value ing using the boom of the animal and their value of the sprayer mostly when genetics,” Dwight said. animal and the ragweed gets thick “For example, I might enough. He spot sprays have a good Hereford their genetics. and has the worst probcalf that would thrive – Dwight Bartholomew lems with thistles and better further west in honey locust. The pasorder to avoid summer tures are fertilized with pinkeye problems and toxic fescue pas- both commercial fertilizer and chicken littures here. Relocating that calf makes sense ter as indicated by soil testing every three while keeping another whose genetics in- or four years. dicate better growth and health here also Bred heifers are grained with 5 to 6 makes sense. Different animals have differ- pounds per head per day with most of ent values to different people.” them weighing 1,100 to 1,200 pounds, Like his dad, Dwight and his brother were while cows receive 3 pounds per day. The in the sale barn business for years and also bulls receive 6 pounds per day in addition did order buying for people both in and out to pasturing to maintain their health. of the area. Eventually, Dwight left the sale Dwight pays someone to bale his hay barn business and recently has others fill or- and additionally purchases mixed grass ders for him. With that shift the order buy- hay both locally and out of state. ing business decreased to only 25 percent of “Hay markets fluctuate and paying his cattle operation, while the 75 percent attention to the markets in different majority is a cow/calf operation. places makes sense,” Dwight’s said. “In “I find the cow/calf business is easier all aspects of my operation I go where for me to manage,” Dwight said. the opportunity seems best and my heriDwight has three herds in the area. One tage provided me with the knowledge I has black cows, another is Red Angus, needed to prosper.”

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Korean War veteran Paul D. Cook was a missile technician on the Batship. He said the sub “captures the time of the great wars.”

Brenda Anderson is the coordinator for the Muskogee War Memorial Park.

Dream the Impossible Dream

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Museum, park honors veterans from the Civil War to modern day A war museum is located on appropriately named Batfish Road in Muskogee, Okla., since the museum’s most prized artifact is a World War II submarine named Batfish.

The submarine was equally well named because a batfish is a stingray looking fish that silently waits for its prey with quick and devastating results. The Batfish sank three subs in 76 hours, a record that may never be broken. Today, its home is the Muskogee War Memorial Park.

The Batfish had a diverse and distinguished career. During World War II, she completed seven war patrols, including her record patrol, then became a training vessel, was recommissioned for the Korean War, and finally assigned as a naval

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reserve training vessel in New Orleans before her name was struck from the Naval Vessel Registry in 1969 after 26 years of service. Now she sits in the heartland of the country as a symbol of the U.S. military, the brotherhood of submariners, and the value of passion and persistence.

Military experience creates bonds, but the bond among submariners is especially powerful, long-lasting and passionate.

When the United States government was seeking to dispose of the World War II vessels, Oklahoma submarine veterans, who were already impressed by the USS Drum Museum in Mobile, Ala., wanted a submarine for Oklahoma and were ready to put everything they had to that cause.

After an involved sequence of events, they finally had the Batfish, but no-

where to put her. Finally, in one of those somebody knows somebody sequence of events, she was given a home in the small town of Muskogee, Okla., on 8 acres of cropland near the Arkansas River. The Batfish is a massive 2.5 million tons and getting her to her new home was a complicated process and a story all by itself, including lowering the Arkansas River level at Little Rock 1 to 3 inches. Paul D. Cook was a Chief Petty Officer and a missile technician during the Korean War. Crewmembers had extensive redundancy training and Paul proudly wears the dolphin patch for being trained in all of the ship’s positions.

While looking at his old submarine, the 80-year-old veteran said, “It’s all about time. I am a member of the Bar-

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fish Base of Subvets, and the Batfish captures the time of the great wars. We were called the silent service and rightly so.”

The purpose of the Muskogee War Memorial Park is twofold. The first is to honor the service of all veterans from the Civil War to modern day conflicts like Operation Iraqi Freedom, while the second is to highlight Oklahoma’s participation and war experiences throughout United States history. Artifacts and displays span those years with some such as the Batfish and the mast of the USS Oklahoma sunk in Pearl Harbor on permanent display while others are rotated.

Executive director Brent Trout, the first non-veteran given the position, has a favorite artifact. It is a helmet from World War II worn by Sgt. Benedict.

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The helmet has a large bullet hole and most assume he died. The truth is he was knocked unconscious with very little injury and woke alone in the middle of the night. The American troops were forced to retreat, and both the Americans and Germans thought he was dead. Ironically, Sgt. Benedict received a Purple Heart, not for the helmet incident but for blowing off his finger when cleaning a gun.

While World War II was not Brent’s historical focus, his training in historical research and museum management allow him to adapt to any topic. Brent said, “One of the challenges for museums is to entice people to come back which means constructing activities and events that are relevant and fun for visitors. Success is not always defined by numbers but by the quality of the experience.”

One highlight of the Batfish tour is a newly installed interactive display that allows visitors to hear and feel what it sounded like when the ship was engaged in an attack. In addition, the museum holds several annual events such as Batfish Living History Day held once in February and once in August and the May Tolling of the Boats Ceremony honoring all of the subs lost in World War II. Other programs such as the touring Vietnam Wall for those who cannot make it to Washington D.C. occur periodically while others are planned and held in a more impromptu fashion. An ongoing and highly popular program is an overnight stay on the sub for $25 with access to portions not available to the general public.

Museum Coordinator Brenda Anderson said, “The best part is really the stories that go along with the tours such as the one about the sub bell being taken as a good luck piece in the late 60s and then returned many years later during a reunion.”

Muskogee War Memorial Park is open from March 15 through Oct. 15 Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

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Ken and Alice Insco used their dairy heifers to develop the base for their commercial beef herd Ken and Alice Insco of Fairmont community outside of Siloam Springs, Ark., met at an FFA conference in Russelville.

Today, the couple has three children and four grandchildren, and raises commercial cattle on 240 acres.

Commercial cattle came later in life as the dairy industry in Arkansas declined, and the Inscos were ready for something less time intensive since they worked the dairy by themselves.

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Ken Insco’s commercial cattle high school, Ken worked for Kraft and herd began after decades in then the forestry department driving a the dairy business. fire plow for 18 years while Alice stayed home with their son Kently, and daughters Kim and Keneta, and milked. At that time, they also raised a substan- said. “Dairy was good to me, but one tial garden, a few chickens and pigs. In thing I learned was pulling calves from the large Holstein cow was not 1989, they moved to their something I wanted to do for new home in Fairmont, the rest of my life.”

Ark., while still maintain- Fairmont, Ark. Proving his point, Ken exing the dairy and beginning a plained he didn’t have to pull beef commercial herd. a single calf last year.

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between breeding seasons to prepare them for the next one.

Ken hays 150 acres of his pasture. The land contains white clover, fescue and Orchard grass. Liquid hen litter is applied annually with regular chicken litter used in areas near the road. Ken begins his weed control by spot spraying in the early spring and then broadcast spraying a bit later. His most troublesome weeds are thistle, butter cups and pig weed.

The farm’s water supply comes from two ponds and two wells; the original well at 190 feet and one Ken had drilled at 534 feet. Ken used government programs to build his ponds and sow grass, though he hasn’t used a program in quite a while.

When asked about the drought, he explained the only upside was it provided easy cleaning of the ponds and that he was amazed by the amount that had to be removed.

“I wish I had running water like a spring or creek running through my land,” Ken said.

Ken’s other love is tractors. While he doesn’t restore them, he keeps them in good running condition. He has 10 or 11 tractors from 1965 on, but his favorite is a1981 Duesh German tractor.

“When all is said and done, I think the best idea for someone starting out is don’t start out big but with what you can afford and then grow. It worked well for us,” Ken said.

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About six years ago, Ken bought a few Charolais at a good price, but found their size too large and milk production lacked for his taste.

The Insco herd now has 90 mommas and two bulls, a Balancer and a blaze-faced SemiAngus. He changes bulls every four years or so to keep the bloodlines separate.

Ken prefers to do everything as naturally as possible.

“I still have a rotary phone because I haven’t figured out all those buttons yet,” Ken said.

What this means in terms of the cattle herd is that all cows are bred by natural cover in two seasons with the spring crop being the larger to take best advantage of spring grasses.

“If the calf has something to eat besides milk, it really takes off and grows,” Ken said.

Calves are sold at weaning at 6 months old in Decatur or Siloam Springs, Ark. Separating the calves in the mommas is another thing Ken and Alice do together. They turn the pairs into a field near a lot and separate them as they enter the narrowed entrance with the cows going to another field with water and the calves into a pen. Then they call a trucker to haul the calves for sale.

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Silvester remembers a great adventure per where they learned that 150 acres of climbing a big tree hanging over their Silvester’s great-great grandfather James’ pigpen while brother Casey remembers original homestead was coming up for auchelping his Granny milk cows when he tion. It was good land, but overgrown and was 5 or 6. Brenda, Silvester’s wife, re- in need of repair so Silvester set a maximum price in his mind. He got members being 2 and wearthe land, but not until it had ing a pink dress as she sat on Forum, Ark. reached that exact price. Their a fence watching pigs, just as chicken farm soon sold, and the Debbie, Casey’s wife, rememcouple lived in fifth wheel while bers being a child wearing a building a new house. white lacy dress while walkSilvester and Brenda believed ing down the road with one the best way for them to make hand holding a bucket of feed

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money was to switch to a registered Angus herd.

Meanwhile, Silvester campaigned for his brother to join him in the operation because he needed help and wanted them to be together again.

A move to Forum, Ark., meant Casey and Debbie would be closer to family.

Then an adjoining 150 acres came up for sale, and Casey and Debbie joined Silvester and Brenda. Land was cleared and the soil was tested, fertilized and sprayed. They installed an improved watering system, and the four of them put in fence.

In 2009, the White operation was named the Madison County Conservationists of the Year for its cross fencing and alternative water sources. A recent conservation improvement has been gathering manure from a winter feeding area and letting it sit for a year before spreading it on a limestone littered hillside where grass is now growing.

Some of White practices include using AI by the Big Branch in Fort Smith, Ark., though Silvester’s son Chris is now taking AI classes. The Whites AI once and keep the herd sires with the cows for three cycles. They also run DNA testing for docility, longevity and maternal traits as well as to determine which heifers meet their criteria as future ranch mamas. Additionally the Whites keep heifers from proven mamas. Other practices include vaccinating, worming twice a year and using a pour on during winter to eliminate mites. They administer Multimin which is an injectable vitamin when calves are born, when they are weaned, and to prepare cows and bulls for breeding. In addition they preg check and fence line wean.

“Most of the cows we have raised ourselves since our original cows are aging and being replaced,” Brenda said.

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“When you are in the cow business, you are in the grass business and making mountainous terrain good for cattle takes a lot of work.”

– Casey White “When you are in the cow business, you are in the grass business and making mountainous terrain good for cattle takes a lot of work,” Casey said.

Transitioning from commercial cattle to registered cattle was not easy. The four family members read journals, took classes and hunted for information and ideas.

“The biggest challenge was in the paperwork and accompanying registered stock processes,” Silvester said.

S & B Angus Ranch consists of 300 acres, plus an additional 60 acres of leased land. The herd consists of 100 mamas and four herd sires. The couples meet early every morning and drink coffee while planning the task list for the day and discussing what they have read.

It’s rather like King Arthur’s round table only farm style.

“Casey and I don’t mind the ‘honey do’ list on the farm, but don’t care much for any around the house,” Silvester said with a laugh.

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she doesn’t breed back, and the brothers readily admit that their wives are better about culling. Cows are culled if they have two small calves consecutively, are not good mommas or develop feet issues.

Culled bull calves are sent to market.

The entire herd is mostly grassed fed though young bulls receive supplementary feed for 45 days when weaned and the rest of the herd only when weather makes that advisable or an individual animal needs a boost.

“We work with commercial cattle farmers and want our bulls already accustomed to grass and having the ability to maintain themselves under pressure,” Silvester said.

Marketing is by private treaty and sold through Craigslist, word-of-mouth and return customers.

Casey will soon be retiring and one of the future plans for the ranch is to have two breeding seasons, as well as perhaps expanding herd size.

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Town Life: “When I graduated from college, I worked outside of the area for a few years but returned to where I was born and raised. I have worked for First Security Bank in Clarksville, Ark., for 10 years and am the vice president of lending. My job is to handle both commercial and consumer loans. In addition, until this year, I also taught finance and banking at the Arkansas Tech University Ozark campus. My wife Amy is a high school English teacher in Ozark where she has worked for 13 years teaching 10th and 11th grade English. I also stay pretty involved in community organizations.”

Country Life: “My grandparents frequently talked about farming in their younger days, and I always knew that was how I wanted to live too. My children are the eighth generation in Johnson County, Ark., on my mother’s side, and Amy and I wanted to raise them out in the country, the way we felt was best. We live on 24 acres in the nearby Hunt community where we built a house six years ago. Prior to that, we leased out the land. As soon as we moved out here, I planted a garden and fruit trees. We plant something a little different every year. Once I threw leftover pumpkin seeds in the flower bed, and the kids ended up with blue ribbon pumpkins at the fair. As far as livestock, horses came first, which my father-in-law, Johnny Williams, and I purchased together. Then I decided it was time to learn chickens and built a coop where I had a perfectly good fig tree. We have Rhode Island Reds and sometimes sell the eggs. Our most recent addition is three goats, which I purchased last spring to be my brush hogs and which I rotate once a week using cattle panels in the wooded areas. The goats are half Nigerian Dwarf and half Boer. It’s fun to clean up and improve our place, and the animals are a big part of that. The next step is for our girls to start showing the animals.”

Future: “I’ve got lots of ideas about where to go from here. Some of these include raising feeder calves and selling them before winter or expanding either the chickens or the goats and perhaps adding sheep.”

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(Week of 2/19/17 to 2/25/17) Arkansas Cattle Auction

70.00-87.50 †

Ash Flat Livestock Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction Cleburne County Livestock County Line Sale - Ratcliff Decatur Livestock Auction

74.00-97.50 † 80.00-95.00* 71.00-78.00 † 77.50-92.50 † Not Reported* None Reported*

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

70.00-95.50 † 77.50-92.50 † 60.00-93.50 † 71.00-106.00 † 70.00-88.00* 63.00-90.50 †

Not Reported*

Welch Stockyards

30

50

70

90

slaughter

110

130

cows

(Week of 2/19/17 to 2/25/17) 38.00-62.00 †

Arkansas Cattle Auction

40.00-66.50 † 35.00-72.50 † 47.00-70.00* 43.00-65.00 † 40.00-67.50 † Not Reported*

Ash Flat Livestock Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction Cleburne County Livestock County Line Sale - Ratcliff Decatur Livestock Auction

None Reported* 51.00-68.00 †

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

48.00-65.00 † 59.00-70.00 † 41.00-76.50 † 40.00-68.00* 40.00-75.00 † 53.00-74.00 †

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

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

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

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

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

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

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

20

54.50-67.00 † 42.00-84.50 † Not Reported* 41.00-75.00 † Not Reported*

40

60

80

Ark. Cattle Auction, LLC - Searcy 2/21/17

Ash Flat Livestock

705

100

Cattlemen’s Livestock*

2/24/17

Benton Co. - Siloam Springs 2/23/17

603

1,869

2-12 Higher

St-5 Higher

167.50-200.00 148.00-180.00 143.00-154.00 133.00-144.00 129.00-133.00 ----135.00-153.00 125.00-146.00 120.00-127.00 ----138.00-185.00 129.00-145.00 122.00-135.00 118.00-124.00 115.00

goats

stocker & feeder

120

127 5(3257(' 121( 5(3257('

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sheep &

dairy cattle

79.00-97.00 † 68.50-83.50 † 70.50-110.00 † Not Reported* 61.00-98.00 †

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

cattle

4000: Slaughter Lambs shorn and wooled 140-185 lbs 127.14-163.26 (wtd avg 140.48).

Slaughter Ewes: San Angelo: Good 2-3 (fleshy) 76.0088.00; Utility and Good 1-3 (medium flesh) 90.00-98.00; Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle 2/26/17 National Sheep Summary 2/24/17 Utility 1-2 (thin) 74.00-88.00; Cull and Utility 1-2 (very 5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Compared to last week slaughter lambs were steady. thin) 62.00-67.00; Cull 1 (extremely thin) 38.00-56.00.

Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Slaughter ewes were steady to 10.00 lower. Feeder Pennsylvania: Good 2-3 (fleshy) no report.

Steers: 120.00-125.00; wtd. avg. price 124.33. lambs were not well tested. At San Angelo, TX 4476 Ft. Collins: Good 3-5 (very fleshy) 87.50-92.50; Good Heifers: 120.00-125.50; wtd. avg. price 124.18. head sold. No sales in Equity Electronic Auction. In 2-3 (fleshy) 70.00-81.00; Utility 1-2 (thin) no test; Cull 1 Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice direct trading slaughter ewes and feeder lambs were not (extremely thin) no test.

Steers: 194.00-197.00; wtd. avg. price 195.85. tested. 4,000 head of negotiated sales of slaughter lambs Billings, MT: Good 3-4 (very fleshy) no test; Good 2-3 Heifers: 192.00-197.00; wtd. avg. price 195.96. were steady to 1.00 lower. 8,600 head of formula sales (fleshy) no test; Utility 1-2 (thin) no test; Cull and Utility had no trend due to confidentiality. 4,440 lamb carcasses 1-2 (very thin) no test; Cull 1 no test. sold with 45 lbs down 10.14 higher; 45-65 lbs no trend So Dakota: Good 3-4 (very fleshy) 73.00-81.00; Good 2-3 due to confidentiality; 65-85 lbs 6.14-7.00 lower and 85 (fleshy) 74.00-82.00; Utility 1-2 (thin) 73.00-83.00; Cull 1 57.00-61.00.

Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards 2/9/17 lbs up no trend due to confidentiality. All sheep sold per hundred weight (CWT) unless otherwise specified.

Missouri: Utility and Good 1-3 95.00-118.00.

Receipts: 234 Virginia: Good 2-4 95.00-125.00.

At this month’s special dairy sale at the Producers Auc- Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 90-160 lbs: tion Yard, demand was good on a light supply. The supply San Angelo: shorn and wooled 110-180 lbs 120.00-137.00, Kalona: Good 2-3 95.00-130.00; Utility and Good 1-3 few 144.00-146.00.

80.00-90.00; Utility 1-2 72.50-95.00. consisted of 12 percent Springer Heifers, 6 percent Bred VA: wooled 110-130 lbs 130.00-165.00.

Feeder Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2: Heifers, 28 percent Open Heifers, 3 percent Fresh and PA: shorn and wooled 110-130 lbs no report.

San Angelo: 90-95 lbs 172.00.no test.

Milking Cows, 2 percent Bred Cows and 22 percent baby Ft.Collins, CO: wooled 135-165 lbs 130.00-160.00.

Virginia: no test. calves. The balance was made up of weigh cows and beef 150 animals. All quotes are on a per head basis for Holsteins South Dakota: shorn and wooled 97 lbs 139.00; 110-150 Ft. Collins: no test. lbs 140.00-144.00.

Billings: no test. unless noted otherwise.

Billings, MT: no test.

Kalona: no test.

Springer Heifers Bred Seven to Nine Months: Supreme Kalona, IA: wooled 125-160 lbs 149.00-155.00; 170-180 So Dakota: no test.

1350.00-1475.00, Jerseys 1260.00-1350.00, Approved lbs 135.00-140.00.

Missouri: 30-45 lbs 240.00-245.00.

1050.00-1300.00, Crossbreds 985.00-1085.00, Individual Missouri: no test.

Replacement Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2: Jersey 900.00, Medium 900.00-1000.00.

Equity Elec: no sales.

San Angelo: hair ewe lambs 45-55 lbs 252.00-260.00 cwt, Heifers Bred Four to Six Months: Approved Individual Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 1: 80-85 lbs 234.00-242.00 cwt; baby tooth hair ewes 80-110 1185.00, Medium 775.00-900.00, Individual Crossbred San Angelo: 40-60 lbs 240.00-262.00; 60-70 lbs 230.00lbs 150.00-154.00 cwt; mixed age hair ewes 90-140 lbs 700.00.

100.00-120.00 cwt.

Heifers Bred One to Three Month: Approved Crossbreds 248.00, few 253.00; 70-80 lbs 220.00-238.00; 80-90 lbs 202.00-226.00, few 234.00; 90-110 lbs 184.00-216.00, few Ft. Collins: no test.

875.00-920.00, Individual Jersey 875.00, Medium Pair 222.00.

Billings: no test.

Crossbreds 775.00.

Pennsylvania: no report.

So Dakota: bred ewes 185.00-220.00 per head.

Open heifers: Approved Pkg 11 hd 280 lbs 490.00, 312Kalona, IA: 40-50 lbs 277.50-282.50; 50-60 lbs 260.00Kalona, IA: ewes and lambs 80.00-105.00 per head.

380 lbs 500.00-680.00, 500-570 lbs 660.00-690.00, 712-770 270.00; 60-70 lbs 237.50-275.00; 70-80 lbs 227.50-252.50; Missouri: mixed age 60-120 lbs 112.50-120.00 cwt; ewes lbs 725.00-800.00, Medium Individual 395 lbs 435.00, 87 lbs 222.50. with lambs 145.00-235.00 per family.

408-455 lbs 500.00-520.00, Pair Jerseys 635 lbs 610.00, Ft. Collins: 73 lbs 230.00; 80 lbs 200.00; 110-115 lbs Virginia: no test.

Individual Crossbred 735 lbs 675.00.

195.00-200.00.

National Weekly Lamb Carcass Choice and Prime 1-4: Fresh Heifers and Cows: Approved Individual 1450.00, Missouri: 45-70 lbs 265.00-287.50; 95-105 lbs 155.00Weight Head Wt Avg 45 lbs down 117 504.47, 45-55 lbs Medium 900.00-1100.00, Individual Crossbred 1025.00.

180.00.

Price not reported due to confidentiality, 55-65 lbs Price Bred and Springer Cows: Approved Individual 1175.00, Virginia: no test. not reported due to confidentiality, 65-75 lbs 1258 277.89, Medium Individual 700.00.

75-85 lbs 1036 267.55, 85 lbs up 1443 261.08, Sheep and Baby Calves: Holstein Heifers Individual 150.00, Holstein South Dakota: 88 lbs 187.50.

Billings, MT: no test. lamb slaughter under federal inspection for the week to Bulls Large 140.00-180.00, Small 105.00-125.00, Jersey Direct Trading: (lambs fob with 3-4 percent shrink or date totaled 37,000 compared with 37,000 last week and Heifers Individual 135.00, Jersey Bulls 55.00-115.00, equivalent) 39,000 last year.

Crossbred Heifers Individual 180.00, Crossbred Bulls 95.00-175.00, Beef Cross Heifers 160.00-210.00, Beef Cross Bulls 160.00-210.00.

beef

65.00-89.00 †

2/22/17

Cleburne Co. - Heber Springs 2/20/17

County Line Sale Ratcliff 2/22/17

984

287

142

St-15 Higher

St-7 Higher

2-6 Higher

Uneven

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177.00-202.00 161.00-188.00 143.00-168.00 127.00-150.00 125.00-132.00

155.00-180.00 148.00-168.00 135.00-151.00 125.00-147.00 118.00-130.00

157.00-183.00 150.00-169.00 144.00-155.00 ---------

160.00-180.00 152.00-165.00 145.00-149.00 133.00-145.00 -----

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169.00-196.00 149.00-183.00 130.00-166.00 125.00-147.00 112.00-126.00

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147.00-160.00 134.00-154.00 124.00-140.00 105.00-125.00 -----

----147.50-156.00 135.00-144.00 ----114.00-115.00

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150.00-178.00 135.00-157.00 124.00-145.00 120.00-130.00 110.00-117.00

130.00-175.00 130.00-148.00 120.00-136.75 115.00-128.00 110.00-126.50

139.00-157.00 130.00-149.00 119.00-138.00 115.00-118.00 -----

143.00 132.50-145.00 124.00-142.50 120.00-125.00 119.00

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Joplin Regional Stockyards 2/20/17

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623

685

769

6,906

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Uneven

1-14 Higher

Steady

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161.00-170.00 161.00-164.00 145.00-164.00 ---------

176.00-198.00 154.00-179.00 142.00-163.00 132.00-140.00 ------

170.00-183.00 155.00-174.00 143.00-154.00 132.00-143.50 123.00-130.00

166.00-184.00 160.00-170.00 140.00-144.00 ---------

170.00-190.00 162.00-184.00 140.00-171.00 127.00-152.00 121.00-138.25

145 140 125 122 120

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169.00-194.00 150.00-172.00 128.00-155.00 125.00-131.00 120.00-121.00

152.00-161.00 145.00-159.00 134.00-154.00 139.00-144.00 117.00-121.00

162.50-175.00 130.00-160.00 129.00-150.00 118.00-136.00 109.00-117.00

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139.00-152.50 135.50-139.00 120.00-135.50 ---------

143.00-166.00 134.00-149.00 119.00-140.00 112.00-125.00 108.00-113.00

134.00-156.00 120.00-148.00 120.00-130.00 115.00-125.00 118.00-121.50

143.00-159.00 135.00-230.00 115.00-136.00 119.00-126.00 -----

150.00-153.00 139.00-152.00 128.00-144.00 116.00-131.00 118.00-126.00

127 5(3257('

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136.81

141.20

121.39

146.46

126.87 118.94

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143.23 149.54

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Ouachita Livestock Ola, Ark. 2/24/17

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388

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325

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6.00-184.00 0.00-170.00 0.00-144.00 ---------

170.00-190.00 162.00-184.00 140.00-171.00 127.00-152.00 121.00-138.25

145.00-200.00 140.00-183.00 125.00-162.00 122.00-148.00 120.00-132.00

168.00-190.00 151.00-172.00 136.00-156.00 125.00-138.50 126.00-130.00

185.00 167.00-187.00 152.00-172.00 136.00-153.00 126.50-142.00

165.00-174.00 148.00-170.00 130.00-154.00 120.00-138.00 121.00-124.00

167.00-201.00 154.00-169.00 141.00-155.50 130.00-144.00 122.00-134.00

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146.00-160.00 143.00-161.00 134.00-148.00 122.00-129.00 -----

3.00-159.00 5.00-230.00 5.00-136.00 9.00-126.00 -----

150.00-153.00 139.00-152.00 128.00-144.00 116.00-131.00 118.00-126.00

140.00-165.00 133.00-152.00 118.00-135.00 109.00-124.00 -----

146.00-182.00 134.00-151.50 123.50-133.50 115.00-125.50 110.00-116.00

163.00-155.00 141.00-163.00 133.00-147.50 123.00-135.00 118.00-125.00

131.00-159.00 128.00-148.00 110.00-137.00 119.00 116.00

145.00-155.00 134.00-146.00 126.00-136.00 120.00-128.00 119.50-124.00

1500

* 134.44

149.76

800.00-1750.00 †

125.90

142.15 *

1100.00-1300.00 † Not Reported †

OKC West - El Reno, Okla.

2/22/17

MARCH 6, 2017

120.09

142.29

900.00-1600.00 †

Welch Stockyards

0

119.00 118.53

139.76

1225.00 †

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

usta

144.85

2500

None Reported *

Farmers Livestock - Springdale Fort Smith Stockyards I-40 Livestock - Ozark Joplin Regional

Aug

134.39

127.44 117.58

148.32

Not Reported*

Decatur Livestock Auction Farmer’s & Ranchers

138.57 134.99

Week of 2/5/17

Soft Wheat

121.28 116.29

127.20

137.89

Week of 2/5/17

Week Ended 2/28/17

Soybeans

131.81 119.21

Week of 1/29/17

1085.00-1400.00 † Not Reported *

None Reported † Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy Ash Flat Livestock 850.00-1400.00 † Benton County Sale Barn 900.00-1675.00 † Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction 800.00-1100.00 * Cleburne County Livestock Auction - Heber Springs None Reported † County Line Sale - Ratcliff None Reported †

avg. grain prices

*

Week of 1/29/17

450.00-1525.00 † Not Reported *

cow/calf

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

140.12 140.85

675.00-1600.00 †

Jan. 17 Feb. 17

heifers 550-600 LBS.

154.03

650.00-975.00 †

1500

Oct. 16 Nov. 16 Dec. 16

*

800.00-1525.00 † 8 825.00-1475.00 † 600.00-1650.00 † 600.00-1200.00 * 850.00-1300.00 †

1000

July 16 Aug. 16 Sept. 16

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

Not Reported* None Reported *

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

500

Apr. 16 May 16 June 16

steers 550-600 LBS.

650.00-1175.00 † 58.00-111.00 † Prices reported per cwt

N. Ark. Livestock Green Forest 2/22/17

769

$80

(Week of 2/19/17 to 2/25/17)

ices

I-40 estock Ozark 2/23/17

600.00-1050.00 † 550.00-1310.00 † 700.00-1200.00 *

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2000

2500

Stilwell Livestock Auction* -----

Tulsa Livestock Auction 2/20/17

Welch Stockyards*

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2,366

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171.00-181.00 161.00-178.00 144.00-168.00 120.00-138.50 100.00-116.50

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152.00-162.00 140.00-157.00 124.00-142.00 109.00-122.50 110.00-120.00

125.98 136.84 150.13 138.05

* 148.81

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132.11 * 117.19 121.67 127.05

142.06

124.64

138.05

121.85 164.81

126.64

149.98

128.22

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139.67

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b Carcass Choice and Prime 1-4: 45 lbs down 117 504.47, 45-55 lbs to confidentiality, 55-65 lbs Price fidentiality, 65-75 lbs 1258 277.89, 85 lbs up 1443 261.08, Sheep and deral inspection for the week to mpared with 37,000 last week and

2/24/17

Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.5175 and 40# blocks at $1.5750. The weekly average for barrels is $1.5569 (-.0871) and blocks, $1.5431 (-.0554).

Fluid Milk: Milk yields are steady to higher in most regions this week. Although some parts of Idaho are still facing challenges brought by flooding, Milk volumes are slowly increasing in the state. California milk output is flat because of recent strong showery weather. There are also delays in milk deliveries and a decrease in farm milk components. Bottling demands are down in the East, but steady in the Midwest and some areas of the West.

Class I sales are lower in the Southeast, but fluctuate in the Midwest due to schools having spring break around the corner. Spot loads of milk are plentiful within the Midwest and surrounding states. Cream supplies are readily available in all parts of the United States. Some market actors sold class II cream at higher multiples in the East.

In the Midwest, some of the flat market cream that was destined for butter churns changed hands. Cream multiples 0 range .90 to 1.20 in the East, 1.04 to 1.20 in the Midwest, and .98-1.20 in the West.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM, $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT F.O.B. producing plants: Upper Midwest - $2.2266-2.5692.

$120

810.00-1260.00 †

Arkansas Cattle Auction

Week of 2/12/17

185.00-220.00 per head. ambs 80.00-105.00 per head.

0-120 lbs 112.50-120.00 cwt; ewes 00 per family.

National Dairy Market at a Glance

$160

Prices Prices reported per cwtper cwt reported

138.67

155.29

127.27

146.04

125.36

141.10 * Week of 2/19/17

0.00-245.00. edium and Large 1-2: ambs 45-55 lbs 252.00-260.00 cwt, 0 cwt; baby tooth hair ewes 80-110 mixed age hair ewes 90-140 lbs

dairy sales

cows

(Week of 2/19/17 to 2/25/17)

550-600 lb. steers

$200

127 5(3257('

Good 1-3 95.00-118.00.

00-125.00.

0-130.00; Utility and Good 1-3 2 72.50-95.00. m and Large 1-2: 172.00.no test.

replacement

127 5(3257('

s shorn and wooled 140-185 lbs g 140.48).

Angelo: Good 2-3 (fleshy) 76.00d 1-3 (medium flesh) 90.00-98.00; -88.00; Cull and Utility 1-2 (very 1 (extremely thin) 38.00-56.00.

3 (fleshy) no report. very fleshy) 87.50-92.50; Good 0; Utility 1-2 (thin) no test; Cull 1 t.

4 (very fleshy) no test; Good 2-3 1-2 (thin) no test; Cull and Utility Cull 1 no test. very fleshy) 73.00-81.00; Good 2-3 tility 1-2 (thin) 73.00-83.00; Cull

12 Month Avg. -

$240

Week of 2/19/17

es reports

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

151.57 135.65 144.00 145.00

127.88

165.07

126.43

147.13

128.11 200

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

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143.45

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126.38

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75

126.30

75

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

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Jeff Sugg says his Polled Hereford operation focuses on calving ease and weaning weights Jeff Sugg of Huntsville, Ark., was only 17 years old in 1984 when he got a loan for 40 acres and 20 commercial cows to use as a starter herd. To help his son, Jeff’s father Leon let him use the family’s bulls.

Today, Jeff and his wife Missy own just less than a 1,000 acres and lease another 1,000 from Jeff’s mother Donna. The land is half pasture and half timber and supports 270 momma cows, 100 of which are registered Polled Herefords, in addition to supporting four Tyson broiler houses with target weight of 7.3 pounds per chicken.

The chicken houses were added 20 years ago when the Suggs began their family: sons Adam and Luke and daughter Emily.

Adding the chicken houses allowed Missy to stay home rather than work away from the farm, and for the couple to diversify and even out income distribution.

One of Jeff’s earliest farm memories is going to the sale barn with his dad when he was 5 and bidding on calves every time his dad nudged him.

“I learned right away that if Dad didn’t nudge me I kept my hand down,” Jeff re- are supported by 15 herd sires used for both called. “I learned responsibility at a young natural breeding and cleanup because 100 age because I fed and raised 10 bottle head per year are bred by AI with a concepcalves. Responsibility is probably the tion rate of 64 percent. most important value my dad taught me.”

“Most of the mommas we AI are regisSon Adam and his wife Sierra, and daugh- tered, though a few really good commerter Emily and her husband Adam Richter cial cows are bred by AI as well,” Jeff said. all live nearby. Son Luke is a senior in high “I used to do it myself until I had a chainschool and a significant help in maintain- saw accident. I was cutting cedars out of ing the busy ranch. the fence row when the saw kicked back “I learned the same sense damaging my hand. We choose of responsibility and hard AI sires using EPDs, focusing work from my dad as he did Huntsville, Ark. on calving ease and low birth from his,” Luke said. weight, combined with good The Sugg herd consists of weaning weight.” both the registered Hereford Jeff matches sires according to cows and 170 commercial, the female and what she needs to mostly black baldie cows. These produce the best possible calf.

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Jeff and Missy Sugg, along with their son Luke, own both registered and commercial Polled Hereford, as well as chicken houses.

“We target calf weights at 60 to 75 pounds for first time heifers and 70 to 85 pounds for mommas. If a bull calf is over 90 pounds, we sell him commercially as a steer because we don’t want our customers to have issues with calves being too big,” Jeff said.

Calves are weaned at 8 months.

The Suggs sell registered Hereford bulls by private treaty, with most being sold to repeat customers. The Suggs do some advertising for breeding stock but advertise mostly by word-of-mouth and high exposure through showing at the county, state and national levels.

The Suggs background 200 head a year and sell steers at 800 pounds. Most of the heifers they sell are sold as bred MARCH 6, 2017

meet your neighbors heifers, though the Suggs retain about 50 percent of their heifers based on phenotype and the quality of their mothers.

Cows are culled when they have eye or feet issues, when their calves are not large enough, or usually if they skip a year. Disposition is another critical factor.

All animals are grass and hay fed with free choice minerals and salt. Calves receive a 14 percent commodity mix, which trains them to follow a honking truck. Both young bulls and herd sires also receive the commodity mix, but only enough for growth because the Suggs want the bulls to be lean and productive.

The Suggs reserve 150 acres for hay, which typically produces the 800 to 900 large bales they need. That land is then no-till planted with rye or wheat. They fertilize in the spring, typically with their own chicken litter, and spray for weeds only as needed.

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Grazing on the Sugg Hereford Ranch is not rotational because of the amount of land they have available. Movement is determined by group size and the specific terrain.

“Our biggest challenge is major market swings which is always an issue in all of agriculture,” Jeff said.

Missy laughed, “Jeff’s the brains and I just do what he says… around the ranch anyway.”

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The Right Cattle for the Galloways

By Terry Ropp

Bill Galloway prefers his Belted Galloway cattle for their foraging instincts, calving ease

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One day Bill and Judy Galloway, who live in Russellville, Ark., but own a farm in nearby Pottsville, were driving while on a skiing vacation in Colorado. Bill saw a bumper sticker promoting Belted Galloway cattle, a heritage breed better known on the East Coast.

At the time Bill was struggling with Simmentals, which he found to be too large for easy calving, horned and sometimes temperamental. Further, this particular herd tended to produce twins, which are not always productive.

Belted Galloways are originally from the western part of Scotland and Bill Galloway says size isn’t everything when it often called “sheeted” comes to cattle. Galloway has a small herd of since the white middle Belted Galloway cattle in Pope County, Ark. looks as if someone had draped a sheet over them.

They are short and stocky 1600s, someone introduced Belted Dutch, with a size frame score of 4 or 5. a dairy breed, perhaps with the intention to “I’m bucking the trend because I don’t improve milk production in the Galloways. select by EPDs for production and wean- Belting was genetically dominant, which ing weights because the EPD cattle tend accounts for the breed’s current appearance. to be, skewed towards larger animals,” Bill Bill’s black-and-white cattle have a red said. “I want to maintain the natural breed tinge to their undercoat while other beltsize and characteristics because they retain ed Galloway’s are red and white. Belted their foraging instincts and because of their Galloways are polled, have large bulbous ability to tolerate weather extremes as well eyes and a moderate ear length. In addias birthing ease.” tion, they have a “wool” layer To prove his point, Bill next to their skin that grows added that he has very rarely a heavy winter coat and also pulled a calf since switching promotes a leaner breed of Pottsville, Ark. to Belted Galloways. cattle. The breed has a high The breed was originally solid palatability rating, partially due being red, black, cream, white to natural foraging combined with or dun. Then in the 1500s or the lower fat levels.

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meet your neighbors “My cattle receive no grain and my beef is good for people,” Bill said.

He further maintains that the best tasting beef needs to be hung for at least 18 days to obtain optimum tenderness, a highly desirable quality often overlooked when turnaround time is an issue.

According to Bill, the first Belted Galloway was imported by P.T. Barnum for his circus. Breeding herds began in the 1960s with the main herd in Maine as is the Belted Galloway Society that Bill belongs to.

Because cattle from England cannot be imported into the United States due to disease issues, bloodlines are brought over and incorporated through embryo transplant.

Bill recently retired and spends two to three hours on a typical day with his herd, although full work days are not all that uncommon and dependent upon what is happening.

“Working with my herd keeps me active and moving, obviously a good thing,” he said.

Bill is always trying to improve his farm and has made use of a government drought control program through Natural Resource Conservation Service, which included installing waterers and fencing off two ponds that are part of the watershed as well as fencing his paddocks.

For the last three, years Bill has tailored his fertilization program to specifically match soil testing.

The soil needed nitrogen with varying amounts of potash and other components. He sprays every spring and more often as needed.

“Lately I’ve needed more weed control than usual,” Bill said.

The pastures are mostly Bermuda with some Little Bluestem and Purple Top (natural sorghum). He occasionally seeds clover and rye and produces his own hay but pays someone else to bale it.

Bill maintains 20 mommas and one bull and currently runs 40 animals on his 62-acre farm.

“I retain heifers as needed. This breed is slow to mature, and I’ve had heifers I thought were runts but turned out to be good mommas and produced great calves, even when they were small,” Bill said.

Bill switches out bulls every three years to maintain genetic diversity and this year will trade his registered bull with another of equally good bloodlines beMARCH 6, 2017

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In addition to the usual health protocols, Bill also supports his herd with protein supplemented mineral in sorghum tubs, alfalfa pellets and shredded beets with a bit of sorghum.

“The cattle may not like the beets as well as sweet feed, but it meets their needs and helps maintain lower body fat rates,” Bill said.

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The Evolution of Peebles Farms

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Shawn Peebles processed his first crop of sweet potatoes through his new organic plant in 2016.

By Larry Burchfield

After years of row crops, Shawn Peebles opted for organic vegetable production When it comes to farming in contract with food companies, Shawn’s White County, Ark., most folks operation is highly labor intensive. Famdon’t think of sweet potatoes and ily members and approximately 25 farm pumpkins. But, just south of Griffith- laborers provide the labor.

“We chop every acre we have,” Shawn ville, on the White/Prairie county line, third generation farmer Shawn Peebles has said. “Since we are totally organic, there are transformed soybean and rice acreage into no chemicals of any kind. We have tractors with GPS auto-steer for cultivating, but a productive organic vegetable operation.

After years of row crop farming, Shawn again, it’s just cultivating. We will cultivate reached a point where it was time to con- seven to eight times per crop year, which sider getting out of farming, or drastically amounts to about 13,000 acres. That’s a lot change his operation. As part of a long of cultivating and chopping, it gets expenstanding family farm, he certainly didn’t sive, but it has to be done.”

Shawn contracts with two major food want to get out. So, he sold his row crop equipment and decided to pursue other companies to grow the vegetables. The companies guarantee a certain amount per farming opportunities.

After a lot of research and following up acre, and provide the seed and/or plants with contacts in the vegetable business, and the harvesting equipment. Shawn’s organic vegetable farming opportunities basic responsibility as the contract grower began to open up. What started as a small is to oversee the crops from planting to operation on the family’s land in Augusta, harvest, insure crop fertility and mainArk., Peebles Farms Organic has grown to tain the farm operation’s compliance with the USDA’s total organic cera 1,770-acre organic vegetatification. Maintaining that ble operation in three councertification dictates a very ties, Woodruff, White and labor intensive farm operation.

Prairie. The vegetable crops However, given the shift in coninclude pumpkins, sweet po- Griffithville, Ark. sumer demand to organic farming, tatoes, green beans and peas. the food companies are willing to Being a totally organic farm, pay for organic products. as required for his producer’s

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“I have never had a drift problem from aerial or ground applications,” Shawn said.

“Part of the organic certification process is that we have to notify neighbors within a 30-mile radius of each farm we are here.

Plus, today’s ag pilots are so aware of drift they try to avoid it at all cost. In fact, we use aerial application at times, but it is all organic fertilizers and things like that.”

The demand for sweet potatoes has grown tremendously in the last few years, thanks to national health experts promoting its healthy benefit and its versatility. According to the USDA, sweet potato consumption has double in the last 15 years.

In 2015, the farmers produced more sweet potatoes than any time since World War II, and the organic sweet potato market is expected to expand 4 percent annually into 2020. In 2000, Americans consumed about 4 pounds of sweet potatoes each year. In 2015, that figure had almost double to 7.5 pounds per person.

The expansion into sweet potatoes on the White/Prairie county line has necessitated Peebles Farms to have a large processing

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plant facility in the area. Shawn decided on a vacant warehouse located in eastern Augusta. “It would have been nice from a logistics standpoint to have located the plant closer to the sweet potato farm,” said Peebles. “But it didn’t work out. With the large storage area, we decided on this building.”

The 70,000 square foot city-owned building had been vacant for almost 18 years and required extensive roof repairs and other structural modifications. The major advantage of the building is the capacity to store the approximately 5 million pounds of sweet potatoes that are harvested of Peebles Farms Organics each year. Arkansas’ climate is conducive to storing sweet potatoes for extended periods of time which is timely for the holidays. The potatoes can even be stored until the following spring for Easter. The 2016 fall harvest saw the first sweet potatoes processed through the Peebles’ Organic plant. With a peak season workforce of 40, and the prospect for future expansion, the location of Peebles Organics to the Augusta plant was a win-win situation for Peebles and the local economy.

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Ag Law he U.S. Tax Court is a critically important institution. It is the most common forum in which taxpayers litigate federal tax disputes. The court frequently decides IRS assertions that the taxpayer understated the correct tax liability, resulting in a tax “deficiency.”

Many commentators argue that Tax Court judgJohn Alan Cohan is a es are biased in favor of the IRS. lawyer who has served One judge, L. Paige Marvel, has been harsh the farming, ranching with respect to the horse industry. In a recent and horse industries since case, Marvel came down hard on a taxpayer’s ef1981. To contact John Alan forts to run his horse racing venture profitably.

Cohan, go to ozarksfn.com The taxpayer, Jerald Carmody, has owned race horsand click on ‘Contact Us.’ es for more than 20 years, mainly as co-owner with others, and worked full-time as a sales representative.

He owned lower priced horses, which were actively raced in Washington state. Professional trainers were employed. He spent time every day on his horse racing activity, researched horses that would be in competition, and searched for other horses to purchase.

He purchased and improved a 5-acre property with a 4,000 square-foot barn, horse stalls, a 5,000-square-foot arena, indoor horse shelters and nine pastures. He personally cleaned stalls and pastures.

Some of the horses won several races, and one was the all-time race winner at Emerald Downs with 21 wins. Carmody was named Owner of the Year at Emerald Downs. The races entered ranged in purses from $8,000 to $50,000.

During a 10-year period, the taxpayer’s losses were from $16,064 to $81,345, with no profit years. But there was income in each year, ranging from $17,917 to $128,068.

When horses were retired from racing, they were sold or given away. Of 36 horses sold, there was a net gain on only eight of those sales.

Carmody had a horse racing bank account, but paid expenses out of his personal account, as well as the racing account and he kept a folder for each horse with various receipts and documents.

Marvel said Carmody did not use his records to reduce losses or to achieve profitability. The court noted that Carmody had no written business plan, no budgets and no economic forecasts. The court also faulted Carmody for commingling his finances.

The court noted that Carmody realized no profits in a 20-year period and that “he contends he suffered losses because he reinvested his gross receipts back into the horse racing activity and that he used his gross receipts to improve his barns, arena, and other horse racing activity property. Petitioner’s contentions are woefully insufficient to justify or even explain an unbroken string of over 20 years of substantial losses.”

The court concluded that the petitioner did not engage in his horse racing activity with the predominant, primary or principal objective of making a profit.

The only silver lining in this case is that the judge rejected the IRS’ accuracy-related penalties because the taxpayer had reasonably relied on his accountant’s advice in taking the deductions.

One of the important lessons in this case is that taxpayers need to somehow review records so as to reduce expenses or enhance the possibility of generating income. It is important to keep track of expenses on a per-animal basis. And it is important to prepare financial statements, profit and loss projections, budgets, break-even analyses, or marketing surveys, as the IRS considers these to be significant financial tools to aid in evaluating the overall performance of an operation.

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iminishing returns in cattle production may have some hobby and small operation farmers rethinking their efforts in 2017. But just as in Wade Robson is a comany business, what may seem like a mercial and agricultural disaster on one side of the business usually marks lender for Arvest Bank in an opportunity on another side.

Branson, Mo. Profarmer.com correspondent Dan Vaught wrote in May 2016 that the USDA is pessimistic about the cattle price outlook for 2017, which is anticipated to come in a range of $118 to $128, down from the 2016 range of $124 to $129. Vaught said that the USDA expects some stabilization during 2017 despite active herd and production increases.

Greg Henderson, writing for Agweb.com at the end of November 2016, reported that the outlook for cattle market is grim, but there are opportunities for better profits.

Expansion of cattle herds in 2015 and 2016, spurred by average profits of about $518 per cow in 2014, is pushing down prices. November prices showed losses of $116 per head of cattle, Henderson wrote.

He also cited the president of Sterling Marketing Inc. in Vale, Ore., who predicted that average cow profits of $433 in 2015 will decline by 65 percent to $154. He also predicted that Oklahoma City yearling feeder profits will reach $118 per hundredweight (cwt) and calves $136 cwt in the third quarter of 2017.

So, where are the opportunities? Oklahoma State University Extension Economist Darrell Peel told Henderson that backgrounding, or holding back, calves to heavier weights than they are typically purchased for winter grazing may have some benefit for stocker operations. Retaining ownership within the feeder cattle market, along with lower cattle costs and lower feed costs, could bring some profits in finishing programs, as well.

Key to knowing if you can hold on to those calves is knowing the costs of forage, if produced, and costs of gain on dry lot or grass. That means knowing if the marginal cost of an added pound does not exceed the marginal revenue from that additional pound.

It comes down to knowing your unit cost of production, according to Aaron Berger of the University of Nebraska Extension office. Berger has said that unit cost of production is a value based on a relationship in production between costs and units of product made or produced.

The first step in knowing what it costs to produce a calf is to keep accurate and thorough production and financial records. By taking into account the product produced and the input costs, a manager can calculate the unit cost of production by dividing costs by units produced.

Knowing the unit cost of production will help producers understand how the purchase of a piece of equipment or expansion of a field will influence the overall profit from each calf.

Knowing how to project unit cost of production can help them confidently make decisions that improve profitability and meet their financial goals.

Another key piece of information is working with your financial advisor to make sure you are effectively managing those costs you can control. Your advisor can help you map out where you are and where you want to go with your hobby or small farming operation.

You don’t have to make all the decisions alone; your advisor is available to help provide information, create tax strategies or find the best way to pay for what you need to keep everything operating.

Riding the hills and valleys of agriculture markets can sometimes be a stressful life. Talk to your advisor to find out if they can help lessen those extremes and your stress.

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Tips to help select the right herd sire for your cattle operation Come breeding season, producers are out to find the proper bull to meet their needs – calving size, weight gain, price, etc.

There are many options to consider when selecting a sire, whether you plan to utilize natural cover, or artificially inseminate. Whichever method you intend to implement, doing your research and planning in advance will make your next breeding season a seamless experience.

“Sire selection can be as simple or as complicated as you like,” said Eldon Cole, Livestock Specialist for MU Extension. “I tell folks that the more objective data you have on your cow herd, the easier it is to find a bull that can help make herd improvement.”

Recording data for your herd is becoming more and more important in today’s market for producer accountability and farm profitability, and will transfer over to aiding your choice of sire. Producers can utilize record keeping software like Excel or Cattlemax to enter and save data for future breeding seasons.

“Objective data is something measurable like birth, weaning and yearling weights, actual carcass data and perhaps a rising concern for some is cow temperament or docility,” said Cole.

Some of the primary data producers should be tracking is: inventory, animal ID, market weights, pasture usage, sire information and revenue.

“Unfortunately, many herds do not have the objective facts needed on their cow herd,” Cole said. “I suggest you go back a few generations and see what the last several bulls you’ve bought have as strengths and weaknesses. If you’ve kept track of the registration numbers you can pull up their expected progeny differences (EPD). If you save heifer replacements, you can see what those bulls have brought genetically to your females.”

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“I make sure the breeding females are in good condition with a good food supply and Multimin 30 days before breeding.”

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He also noted that “reproductive traits are generally lowly heritable, so bull selection would be a slow way to make improvement.”

However, with advanced planning and forethought, you can utilize sire selection to take your herd in any direction you wish. “Consider the longer-term direction you wish to move your cow herd to. Perhaps you have plans to change your marketing program. That needs to be considered with the bull you select,” advised Cole.

Price is yet another point to be considered when selecting your bull. While you don’t want to go way out of your budget, you also don’t want to spend too much time shopping the ‘bargain section’ if you have lofty performance goals for your herd.

“Decide on a price range you want to stay within. There are lots of average cattle produced and if you’re going to be better than average you must buy bulls that have above average EPDs for your cow herd,” said Cole. Since AI has become such a popular breeding method, producers have access to just about any reproductive traits they want.

“We now have the opportunity to breed to really good animals, there is no excuse for subpar breeding,” said Dr. Clint Rusk, the department head of animal science at Oklahoma State University.

“Finally, get serious about the appearance of the bull and the owner’s personality,” advised Eldon. “I like to start evaluating the bull from the ground up. In other words, look closely at hooves, legs and his mobility. He needs to have a certain amount of eye appeal as you’ll have to look at him on a regular basis. But make sure he’s good on paper for your herd before ever making a bid.”

To sum it all up, keep good records to refer to, keep your long-term herd goals in mind, set a budget and pick a bull that looks good to you. Your herd and your farm profitability are sure to benefit!

“I want to make sure the cows are in good shape and have breedable flesh score.”

“We check for overall health and pregnancy so no female is already pregnant when AI is used on her. We also use cobalt blue mineral block.”

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Size of herd, cost are just two of the things breeders should consider Estrous synchronization (ES) aids the breeding process in two key ways.

“ES reduces and sometimes eliminates the labor of detecting estrus and allows the producer to schedule breeding,” Carroll County, Ark., University of Arkansas Extension Agent Olivia Curry said.

If the majority of a herd can be induced to exhibit estrus at about the same time, the producer can arrange for a few days of intensive insemination, Curry said.

Although the total amount of labor involved with insemination may not be reduced, it is condensed into a briefer time.

Benton County, Ark., U of A Extension Agent Johnny Gunsaulis said his opinion is that estrous synchronization is by far the best way for most beef producers to implement an AI program.

ES used with AI have huge benefits on time requirements.

“To me, it’s just worth the time savings to do the timed AI,” Gunsaulis said. “(ES) can help create a more uniform calf crop, enabling more cows to be Artificially Inseminated to a genetically superior bull and reduce the length of the breeding season.”

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There is only a 50 to 60 percent change of the cow of heifer to be bred, but the benefit is that they’re all bred at the same time.

The other argument is that there is a higher percent bred watching heats and individual AI. Over a three-week period, even if they caught 80 percent of their cattle in heat, that is a high percentage.

Then if the AI technician is 75 percent successful on settling one time breeds, it can be considered a successful breeding cycle.

That means that 80 percent of them identified in heat X 75 percent success rate = 60 percent of those animals bred over a period of 21 days (at best, probably more like 50 percent).

So, basically producers trade the extra expense of the timed AI protocol for a savings in labor over a three-week period. .

ES and AI come with a cost like most management practices do.

AI might be economically beneficial to one producer and not to another.

“If you have a large herd it may be cheaper for the producer to just maintain a bull especially if you aren’t targeting niche markets that require superior genetics,” Curry said.

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“If increasing warm season grasses and forages is the goal, reseeding should take place in late spring. Soil testing is a very important first step in the process,” she said. “If you soil test through your local county extension office, you should indicate your management practices – such as application of lime, approximate acreage, previous and current crops, etc. – on the soil box. This will allow the lab to make informed recommendations.”

Knowing the pH and soil fertility can help develop a plan for fertilizing and/ or reseeding. If soil pH or nutrient status is low then these need to be corrected.”

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“Weed control should also be on producers’ minds when turning cattle out into spring pastures,” Curry said.

Curry said there are several common weeds growing throughout winter like buttercup, vetch, henbit, chickweed and Carolina geranium.

“These weeds can be treated December through the beginning of March. This practice is really effective in Bermuda hay fields producing relatively weed free first cutting,” Curry said.

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“Fescue, ryegrass, orchard grass,” Gunsaulis added. “Oats could be seeded later in the month.”

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Tips for eliminating and treating the parasite Lice in beef cattle is worse during the winter and spring months.

According to the University of Missouri Extension, there are two types lice found on cattle in Ozarks: chewing lice and sucking lice Chewing lice feed off the exterior of the livestock, such as hair, skin and scabs.

This type of lice also weakens the animal’s immune system and disturb typical feeding habits per MU Extension.

Sucking lice pierce the livestock’s skin and draw blood.

Loss of blood due to sucking lice can stunt growth and reduce weight gain according to MU Extension.

Lice are more prone during winter and spring months, but some animals can carry the invasion year-round.

According to MU Extension, “carrier” livestock should be planned to be sold to improve the livelihood of the herd.

However, just because cattle are scratching or rubbing against solid objects during the winter and early spring doesn’t mean they are lice-infested, MU Extension warns.

Watch and examine the animals closely, and make an educated decision before proceeding with treatment.

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Gunsaulis said there are many measures that can control lice.

“Lice can be controlled now with the permethrin pour on products or those products used in back rubs,” Gunsaulis said.

When treating with sprays, they need to be reapplied every couple of weeks to provide the best control.

“Consult your veterinarian before treating with Warbex or other products that will also kill grubs.” Gunsaulis said.

“These can cause unwanted side effects if the cattle have been infected with grubs.”

Carroll County, Ark., U of A Extension Agent Olivia Curry said an effective form of lice control during winter months is dust bags.

“A producer can put these bags on gates, doorways, and so on. When deciding where to place the dust bag, locate an area of high foot traffic,” Curry said.

The University of Arkansas’ publication MP 144 references dust bag control options. Contact your local county extension agent to receive an updated copy.

Lice control can be worked into a part of a producer’s regular livestock health routine.

Some of the more popular de-wormers are also effective on lice.

Producers may want to simply delay treatment until they are ready to use these products Gunsaulis said.

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Availability of grass and condition of heifers at breeding time makes the season appealing The choice of breeding season is an important one.

Each farm operates differently, so each breeding season will be different. Many farmers and ranchers will opt for a spring breeding season. There are many benefits to breeding cattle in the spring – read on to see if spring is the season for your herd.

“Spring breeding usually starts in early April,” explained Eldon Cole, livestock specialist with University of MissouriExtension. One of the benefits of breeding your cows in the spring is that the pasture growth will provide excellent nutrition for your females at a time when good groceries are crucial.

“April and May breeding should see pasture in a very nutritious stage of growth,” noted Cole.

Be prepared to possibly supplement your cows with grain or another food source, depending on the quality of your fields. A forage test with the help of your local Extension center can help you determine exactly what extras your herd may or may not need.

Another plus to breeding your cows in the spring is cooler temperatures.

“The temperature should be relatively low thus avoiding heat stress, often brought on later in the year by fescue toxicity,” said Cole.

Lack of heat stress can lead to fewer open cows and cows who hold their condition better during pregnancy.

When you breed in the spring, your calves will be hitting the ground in Jan-

uary and February. There are both pros and cons to this.

“The down side is cold and snowy calving may lead to more death loss, frozen ears, tails and even hooves,” said Cole.

“The good side is the cows will hit good pasture when the calf is big enough to benefit from the extra milk. The calves will be ready to wean and perhaps market ahead of big runs in the fall.”

While it might make for a little extra preparation, Cole told Ozarks Farm and Neighbor. “I feel the pluses of a better conception/pregnancy rate outweigh the cold concerns. You do need to be prepared for cold weather if you calve in January and early February.”

To prepare your heifers and cows for spring breeding, Carol Sanders, with the University of Arkansas Extension, has said heifers should be in good condition before breeding. If they are too thin, especially after a hard winter, they are less likely to reach puberty or become pregnant. Separate heifers from mature cows. Heifers cannot compete with mature cows at the feed bunk or for the better quality forage in the pasture. She also noted to vaccinate heifers for IBR-BVD-P13, PRSV, vibriosis, leptospirosis and blackleg 7-way 30 to 60 days before breeding.

Be sure to keep good records throughout your spring breeding season so you can continue to improve your breeding program year after year.

Spring breeding pros: • Weather favorable for calving • Cows usually dry during summer forage slump • Cows calve in excellent body condition • Cows cycle back quickly after calving • Avoid breeding during hottest part of the year • Calves marketed during year’s highest prices

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ozarks’ farm March 2017 7 Bee Presentation – Delaware County Fairgrounds, Jay, Okla. – 918-253-4332 7 Feral Hog Control and Black Vulture Workshop – 6:30 p.m. – Petit Jean

Electric Building, Clinton, Ark. – 501-745-7117 9 Pesticide Applicator Training – ASU Farm, BeeBee, Ark. – 501-268-5394 11 Master Gardener Developing An Ozark Green Thumb Seminar – 8:30 a.m.

3 p.m. – Cost: $25 – Mountain Home, Ark. – pre-register at 870-425-2335 14 Pesticide Applicator Training – 6 p.m. – UACCM Auditorium, Morrilton,

Ark. – 501-354-9618 14 Tri-County Beef Meeting – Sebastian County – 479-484-7737 or 479-996-4131 14 Pesticide Applicator Training – 6:30 p.m. – Leslie Intermediate School,

Leslie, Ark. – 870-448-3981 15 Pesticide Applicator Training – 6 p.m. – Cornerstone Bank, Berryville, Ark.

– 870-423-2958 16 Nutrient Applicator Certification Training – 6 pm. – Marion County

Extension Office, Yellville, Ark. – 870-449-6349 March 2017 7 Jindra Angus Annual Production Sale – Clarkson, Neb. – 402-920-3171 11 Jac’s Ranch Spring Bull & Female Sale – at the Ranch, Bentonville, Ark.

– 479-366-1759 11 Redstock Joint Production Sale – Litton Ag Center, Chillicothe, Mo. – 660-247-1112 11 Heart of Ozarks Angus Association 106th Annual Sale – West Plains, Mo. – 816-244-4462 11 Midwest Beef Alliance Bull Sale – Mid-Missouri Livestock Center,

Marshall Junction, Mo. – 660-895-5008 11 2017 Genetic Power Bull Sale – Springfield Livestock Marketing Center,

Springfield, Mo. – 334-695-1371 11 Hall – Coyote Hills Annual Bull Sale – at the Ranch, Chattanooga, Okla.

– 580-597-3006 11 Wright Charolais 10th Annual Bull Sale – at the Ranch, Kearney, Mo. – 785-672-7449 11 Red Alliance Bull Sale – Shawnee, Okla. – 641-919-1077 11 Express Ranches Honor Roll Sale – Yukon, Okla. – 800-664-3977 11 Central Missouri Polled Hereford Assn. Bull & Female Sale – South

Regional Stockyards, Vienna, Mo. – 660-537-4809 11 Salyers & Sons Salers “Cattlemen’s Kind Production Sale”– at the farm,

Billing, Mo. – 417-744-2025 11 Superior Beef Genetics Open House Bull Sale – at the farm, Lamar, Mo. – 417-214-0290 14 Dismukes Ranch Angus & Charolais Bull Sale – Checotah, Okla. – 916-995-3549 14 Bar Arrow Cattle Company Production Sale – Phillipsburg, Kan. – 785-543-8120 17-18 Missouri Bison Association Show & Sale – Mo-Kan Livestock, Passaic, Mo. – 417-818-2063 17 THM Land & Cattle Angus Bull Sale – Vienna, Mo. – 816-244-4462 17 Belle Point Ranch Angus Offering – Lavaca, Ark. – 479-782-5579 17 Wann Angus Ranch Production Sale – Poteau, Okla. – 918-658-8471 18 Circle A Angus Spring Sale – at the Ranch, Iberia, Mo. – 573-443-0006 18 Aschermann Charolais 24th Annual Spring Bull Sale – at the Ranch,

Carthage, Mo. – 417-358-7879 18 Flying H Genetics Spring Bull Sale – at the Farm, Butler, Mo. – 308-962-6500 18 Cattlemen’s Choice Black, Red Simmental and SimAngus Bull & Female

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Ranch, Claflin Kan.– 620-587-3709 21 KW Cattle Company Angus Bull Sale – Fort Scott, Kan. – 620-224-7305 24 Three Forks Ranch Bull & Female Sale – Fort Gibson, Okla. – 918-541-0418 25 Worthington Angus Production Sale – at the Farm, Dadeville, Mo. – 417-844-2601 25 Magness Land & Cattle Annual Bull Sale – at the Ranch, Miami, Okla. – 402-350-3447 25 Seedstock Plus South Missouri Bull Sale – Joplin Regional Stock Yards,

Carthage, Mo. – 877486-1160 25 Arkansas Bull Sale, Multi Breed Bull & Replacement Heifer Sale – Herber

Springs, Ark. – 205-270-0999 25 Maplewood Acres Joint Production Sale – at the Farm, Sedalia, Mo. – 660-826-1880 25 Rogers Cattle Company Red Angus Bull & Female Sale – at the Farm,

Strafford, Mo. – 417-241-1302 25 Professional Beef Genetics “Top of the Breed” Bull Sale – Windsor Livestock

Auction, Windsor, Mo. – 660-492-2504 26 C/S Cattle Company Angus Production Sale – at the Farm, Pomona, Mo.

– 417-257-7926 27 SW Missouri PT Bull Sale – Springfield Livestock Center, Springfield, Mo.

– 417-345-8330 27 Green Springs Tested Bull Sale – Nevada, Mo. – 417-448-7416 28 GENETRUST at Suhn Cattle Company – Eureka, Kan. – 620-583-3706

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