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Long Lane man wins state title: The Missouri Livestock Marketing Association crowned Leon Caselman, 35, the best auctioneer in the state of Missouri after Caselman beat out six other competitors at the Missouri Livestock Marketing Association’s Auctioneer Championship. The competition was held at the Missouri Valley Commission Company in Boonville, Mo in April. Three judges scored the participants on a 20-point scale, with 20 being the highest score. Contestants had to sell 10 drafts of cattle, and judges scored them on many qualities, including clarity of the chant, bid-catching ability and execution of the sale.

Team from Greene County win Horse Bowl: Greene County’s senior 4-H horse judging team earned first place at the annual State 4-H Horse Bowl and Hippology Contest at the University of Missouri Animal Science Center in Columbia. The event was held April 24-25. Team members Megan Andersen (high individual in this division), Jessica Stacy, Jacob Irmen, Micah O’Malley and Micah Burdick, will represent Missouri at the 4-H National Horse Bowl Contest this fall. Greene County 4-H members also placed well in the Hippology competition. Rory O’Conner of Greene County was the top individual in the 8 to 10 year old category and Mikayla Peterson of Greene County was the high individual in the juniors division.

Polk County cattleman announces bid for governor: Missouri Sen. Mike Parson, R-Bolivar, has announced his plans to seek the Republican nomination for the governor of Missouri. Parson, a former sheriff of Polk County, Mo., has been in the Missouri Senate since 2010 and was elected to the Missouri House in 2004. Parson owns and operates a cow-calf operation near his home in Bolivar, Mo. In a speech to supports at the campaign launch rally late last month in Bolivar, Parson said he wants to see more funding to advertise Missouri agriculture.

Lightning kills cattle: A lighting strike on the afternoon of May 10 in Billings, Mo., in Christian County killed 11 head of cattle. The owner of the cattle, James Harter, estimated that he lost about $35,000 to $40,000. The cattle were all huddled around a tree during a storm. Nine of the cattle were registered Simmentals, including several breed heifers, a herd bull, and his granddaughter’s show heifer.

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My calving season is almost finished, Jerry Crownover farms but I’ve got a few stragglers that I have to check in Lawrence County. He each morning before I begin my day’s regular is a former professor of activities. So, as I pulled into the creek place, Agriculture Education at I wasn’t surprised to see a newborn calf lying Missouri State University, on the bank of the stream. As I approached the and is an author and calf in my truck, a red cow strolled over to it. professional speaker.

The vast majority of my cows are identified by To contact Jerry, go to a four-digit number on their ear tag and that’s ozarksfn.com and click the number I use to keep my records, but this on ‘Contact Us.’ cow had lost that tag and I identified her by the tag remaining in her other ear, most likely from the farm where she originated. It read No. 41. I could have sworn that No. 41 had already calved, so I retrieved the records from my smartphone and, sure enough, No. 41, a red cow, had delivered a live, healthy, red heifer...six weeks ago. Was I losing my mind? I’ve seen twins born a day apart, but six weeks apart? I watched the newborn follow the No. 41 cow into the woods while I scratched my head in amazement and began driving through the rest of the herd to see if I could possibly figure out what was going on. After fifteen minutes of driving from cow to cow, I found another red cow, which had lost her four-digit tag as well, and lo and behold, her farm tag also read No. 41. Looking at her udder, I concluded that she was suckling a calf and that was the one I had entered in my electronic records. What are the odds that two red cows (the majority of my herd is black) would have both lost their original tags and the back-up tag on each would be No. 41.

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y family gathered recently to celebrate the birthdays of my niece and nephew – the Wee Turners as I like to call them. As we apJulie Turner-Crawford proached their house, I saw a is a native of Dallas wonderful sight – about a dozen kids jumping County, Mo., where she from big round bale to big round bale. My husgrew up on her family’s band said those bales were better than any tramfarm. She is a graduate poline or toy on the market. He’s right. of Missouri State The kids weren’t asking to go into house to play University. To contact video games or complaining that they were bored beJulie, call 1-866-532-1960 cause there was nothing to do, they made their own or by email at editor@ fun on those big round bales. They were all farm kids, ozarksfn.com. even if it was just for the day for some of them.

They played in the pastures, played with the kittens in the barn, got dirty and they loved every minute of it.

There are some advantages to being a farm kid that our in-town counterparts might not of had. I remember some of my friends saying I was “lucky” that I lived on a farm.

I didn’t see it at the time, but they were right – I was a pretty lucky kid.

I was lucky to have acres to run and play on, not just a city block. I was lucky to have parents who taught my brothers and I the value of hard work.

I was lucky to learn about the circle of life at a young age and how to work with animals.

I was lucky to have a pony named Tootsie, even though she did bite me, and a dog named Yeller that was my best friend when I was about 6 years old until I was in my early teens.

I was lucky to grow up in a time when it was OK to go play in the woods without an adult. I was lucky to have a mom who didn’t complain about us coming home with dirty clothes and faces, and who didn’t complain too much when we washed heifers from time to time in the back yard.

I was really lucky in the show ring one summer and won a couple of championship plaques with a heifer. Luckily, I was the only one at those shows with a Jersey heifer that year.

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page When I was in my teens, we raised several bottle calves. I think we raised 20 or so at a time and I remember hauling bottles and 5-gallon buckets filled with milk replacer in my wheelbarrow back and forth across the road. Dad brought me home a brand new wheelbarrow once and I felt pretty lucky to have something that had higher sides and room for more bottles.

Dad always said we were pretty lucky in that we didn’t lose but a couple out of all the calves we raised.

Studies show that farm kids are actually healthier than non-farm kids because of being exposed to different environmental elements that help to boost the immune system. Lucky for me, that held pretty true because I was pretty healthy as a kid. I can’t even remember having anything like strep throat until I was in my 20s. I was even “lucky” enough to get the “ultimate nerd award” my senior year

Life Is Simple Continued from Page 3 the new calf,” she instructed, “You know, you have been known to get confused from time to time.” Now, I was beginning to figure out who they, actually is.

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Thanks to a donated heifer 10 years ago, Shelby Skinner developed a passion for cattle Sometimes, in order for someone to succeed in life, all they need is a chance.

Thanks to the generosity of some Missouri Limousin cattle breeders, Shelby Skinner landed her chance when she was a freshman in high school.

“No one in my family ever had show cattle or registered cattle. I came home and told my parents one day that I was going to show and they looked at me like I was crazy,” recalled Shelby.

Starting from that moment, Shelby pursued her dream of showing cattle. She received a show heifer through a program offered at the time by the Heartland Limousin Association. After one show season, Shelby was hooked and well on her way to fulfilling her dream of raising cattle.

In the years to come, Shelby would start building her own registered herd on her family farm in Bolivar, Mo. “I would learn by working for, and listening to, experts in the cattle industry,” said Shelby.

It’s been 10 years since Shelby first started showing Limousin cattle and her passion for the cattle business is at an all-time high. She has won many shows, including division, reserve and champion heifer at the national level. Last spring,

Shelby graduated from Oklahoma State University with a double major in animal science and agriculture communications.

While studying at OSU, she worked at the OSU Purebred Beef Center.

“I learned a lot there in terms of management, breeding cattle and knowing what type of cattle works in different environments,” explained Shelby.

Currently, the 24-year-old works tirelessly to build her own herd of registered LimouShelby will go to great lengths to find sin, registered Angus and LimFlex cattle. out about a bull before deciding whether She operates her herd under the name to use him in her program.

Shelby Skinner Cattle. Shelby keeps her “I study a lot of pedigrees. I do a lot of herd small in order to focus on putting to- research as far as breeding decisions and I gether “cow families” that suit her criteria. ask a lot of people for advice,” said Shelby.

“Right now I am building a cowherd based “As far as breeding, it depends on the on striving to make great females, because I cow. When you look at a herd bull, you am a small operation I can do that,” Shelby have to look at the cow’s EPDs, breeding explained. She uses embryo transplant to and phenotype. I have never bred to a acquire the genetics she desires. bull that I have not seen in person.”

One of Shelby’s national champion heifShelby’s future plan is to build her herd ers serves as a donor cow for to 150 to 200 cows and to have 50 her herd. She also purchases bulls a year to sell. Presently, she’s embryos to get the genetics hired by the country’s top cattle she wants for her operation. companies to work in their “Embryo transplant is major show barns. here, most of our cows are recips.

Shelby says she is fortuBolivar, Mo. We have found certain cattle nate to be able to soak up that we like and we want more knowledge from experts in of them,” Shelby explained. the cattle industry.

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“If you’re starting out in agriculture and no one else in your family knows anything about agriculture, you need to find people who know what they are doing and pick their brains,” Shelby recommended.

She added that she never ceases asking questions and learning from others. She also credits her successes to her parents.

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They care for my cattle. They do a lot of the work,” said Shelby.

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fication tool for producers to certify that animals meet the requirements of the “We failed retirement,” Virgil Hare AMS Grass (Forage) Fed Marketing Claim Standard. said of himself and wife Gloria.

“We bought this place, put in the pas“It was driving us crazy,” she added.

“You can only travel around the country tures and put in the watering system before we got any of the cows,” Virgil said. so much.”

Son Brad said taking about a year to In 2013, the Hares, along with their son Brad, traded in their former lives in actually buy cattle raised a few questions.

“I’d be buying supplies and people Arizona and moved to Dalwould say, ‘Get any cows yet?’” he las County to become cattle recalled. “I’d just say, ‘Nope.’” producers, something none The family’s herd consists of of them had any experience Amerifax crosses and Anguswith, but they appear to be Buffalo, Mo. Balancer crosses. They have catching on quickly. artificially inseminated their The family had plans of startcows and heifers to this ing a typical cow-calf operapoint, but a new South Poll tion, but Virgil said they opted

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“We want to make this farm as natural and sustainable as possible and this is one of the decisions we made,” Brad explained.

The family has about 26 cow-calf pairs and utilizes 60 to 65 acres of pasture that has been incorporated into an intensive grazing system.

“We did our research and came up with that this was the way to go,” Brad said. “You take advantage of the grass and forages you have a lot better. Last year, we only had an inch more rain than we had in the drought the year before on this farm and we grazed 365 days.

We never ran out of grass, we never had to pull them off to feed hay.”

Brad added that they feel their pastures can actually accommodate more cattle.

“Based on what we saw last year with not-so-great water, we were not at our maximum carrying capacity,” Brad said.

The grazing system continues to evolve at High Springs Farm. By end of 2015, the Hares plan to have between 33 and 36 paddocks ready for use. At this time they are utilizing 29 paddocks.

“You just need to go slow because you find out how your field works,” Brad said.

“The polywire makes it so easy to experiment and you really only want to put in fence posts once. We are grass farmers first and we chose cows to monetize that grass. You still, no matter what you do, you have to produce the grass.”

In March, the Hares were recognized by the Dallas County Soil and Water Conservation as the Cooperator of the

Year. Tony Rosen, SWCD technician, noted that the Hares had created “one of the finest grazing systems Dallas County has seen.”

“We got out here and this place had perimeter fencing and one cross fence – that was it. When you get out there and just pick people’s brains,” Brad said. “Everyone has just been incredibly helpful; we just followed their lead.”

The Hares have incorporated fescue, Orchardgrass, little Blue Stem, Timothy, native Brome and some naturalized Kentucky Bluegrass in their pastures, as well as three varieties of clover and ryegrass. They plan to incorporate winter rye on about 20 acres of their farm in an effort to give their cattle more protein and energy in the winter months.

Gloria and Virgil said coming to Missouri was like “coming home” for them because they, and their children, were born in Kansas and Missouri, but not on farms.

“My dad came from a farm family, but he worked on the rail road,” Virgil explained. “My mother came from a farm family. That’s the way people were raised years ago.”

Gloria said she was always a city girl.

“I think they were worried about me at first. His folks used to call me a city slicker,” she said of her in-laws. “As far as getting an egg out from under a chicken, no way; it can stay there, but I just love it here. It’s been a wonderful change.”

In the future, the Hares hope to continue to grow their herd and grazing land in an effort to find the “perfect balance.”

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Silhouettes and Wrought Iron

By Laura L. Valenti

Richard Kerb and the Den of Metal Arts have been shaping landscapes, homes for more than 40 years

It began more than 40 years ago with metal sculptures in a little shop in downtown Conway, Mo. Today, Richard Kerb works out of a building on Interstate 44, just outside of Conway in Laclede County, Mo., that houses more than 650 different silhouette designs in addition to porch railings, handrails, cemetery signs, fencing, gates and spiral staircases, all in wrought iron.

“The wrought iron took over and I haven’t done metal sculpture since 1975,” Richard shared recently in his office inside his workshop-showroom. “But I think some of my creativity still comes out in the wrought iron.”

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Richard and Judy Kerb’s creativity can clearly be seen in their many silhouettes, which range in size, small enough to carry out of the shop in one hand, to yard-sized designs that soar overhead or stretch across the nearby landscape. From nativity scenes to signs wishing Happy Holidays or Season’s Greetings to large cranes, bicycles, animals, figures, symbols and vehicles of all sizes and descriptions, the Kerbs’ creativity is limited only by theirs and their customers’ own imaginations.

“When we started here and built this building, it was only 60 by 80. Today, it is 34,400 square feet, 360 by a little under 100 feet. The silhouettes began with a witch

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ozarks roots and a pumpkin, made for Halloween, which I put on the roof of this building,” Richard explained with a grin. “The next thing I knew, Lake of the Ozarks was calling and after that, Branson.” He enjoyed the artistic market as well as the building boom over the years, in both locations.

He has designed and made custom porch railings, handrails and spiral staircases over the years and that has also involved meeting the building codes in various locations.

“At one point in Branson, part of the city was under a new building code and part was still operating under the old code so that was a challenge. Now, of course, many building codes have also changed over the past many years.

“The majority of our customers have come to us by simply seeing us on the highway,” he continued. “I’d say 80 percent of our sales have been as a result of being seen on the highway and most of our sales now, are from out-of-state.

That and of course, repeat customers.

We get calls from someone who will say, ‘Well, you made a handrail for my folks 20 years ago.’

“Many people will send us a line drawing of what they want and of course, we can’t put in as much of the detail as they include sometimes. Other folks will come in saying, ‘We don’t know exactly what we want but when we see it, we’ll know.’ And they can usually find something to take with them before they go,” he laughed.

Richard estimates his business has been split 50-50 over the years, between the silhouettes and the wrought iron railings.

“Handicapped railings take priority, of course,” he continued. “We’ll get a call from someone or their family, who has fallen, for instance and is in the hospital and they and their insurance company want a handrail in before they get home.”

Richard makes the silhouettes, but he and Judy have both designed different ones over the years. Judy, who also runs the Conway Thrift Shop, decorates most of them and his prices on many of the silhouettes reflect a decorated and an undecorated price.

He admits that they have seen different trends, such as color schemes that include pink and purple versus red, MAY 18, 2015

white and blue come and go over the years. He also said that wrought iron used to be much more popular as people moved more often. In doing so, they often moved to a new location and then called Richard to add railings at their new location.

In addition to their businesses, Richard and Judy Kerb also own a total of 75 acres

in a couple different locations within the Conway city limits, including property adjacent to the Den of Metal Arts.

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“We’ve seen a lot of businesses up and down the highway close over the recent years as the economy has changed,”

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Products and Services: “We offer farm meat butchering which means beef, hogs, sheep, goats and buffalo, but no poultry. We offer a pickup service or the customer can deliver the animal to us. Unless customers request a different hanging time, beef usually hang for 14 days with hogs, sheep, and goats hanging for four to five days. We cut the meat on the last day of hanging and freeze it so it is available for customer pickup the following day. We cut all meat according to customer preference, which may include choosing the amount of ground meat, pork cutlets instead of ham or any of our own special sausage blends including breakfast, summer and Italian sausage, as well as brats. We also have a separate room for smoking and curing meats which naturally require longer processing times. An additional service is custom smoking hams and turkeys for special occasions such as holidays though the customer must bring us the meat because we sell processing services not retail meat. Finally, all of our products are vacuum sealed.”

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The Walraths focus operations at their Wild Bunch Farm on marketing high-quality pork Photo by Vince Crunk The first thing you notice is the smell when you near the Walrath farm. There isn’t one.

Ray and Chelle (pron. like Shelley) Walrath and their family raise their cleansmelling Berkshire hogs on 15 acres, called the Wild Bunch Farm (named after their four kids), in Lawrence County, Mo. They’ve only been in the pig business for four years, but have come a long way.

“We wanted to figure out what would work on 15 acres that had been stripped of its topsoil,” Chelle explained when asked why they selected hogs for their operation. “We came up with hogs. Neither of us had a hog background.”

They keep between 35 to 50 at a time but with breedRay and Chelle Walrath raise Berkshire ing, processing and the like, pigs at the family’s Wild Bunch Farm in that number fluctuates. In a Mt. Vernon, Mo. given year they may raise 100 “youngsters,” as Chelle calls “It improves the muscle quality. We them, and have 25 piglets growing out at a time. All this from nine have nice trim bellies,” Sage said.

Berkshires are noted for intramuscular sows and a couple of boars.

The 3-3-3 formula is important for rais- fat, similar to marbling in beef.

“They are not soft, fat pigs, but very ing swine; gestation takes three months, three weeks and three days. Another im- firm, fat pigs,” Chelle said.

Pigs are harvested at about 275 pounds. portant number, eight months. That’s the According to Sage, this nets between 180 typical age before harvest or processing. to 210 pounds of marketable pork.

“Ours are a little slower Their meat is frozen and later sold finishing since they are acyear-round at a farmers market. tive and out moving,” Sage, They started selling off the farm Chelle’s 19-year-old son, noted. but about two years ago began Movement sets the Wild selling at the Farmers Market Bunch Farm apart from bigMt. Vernon, Mo. of the Ozarks in Springfield, ger operations. No farrowing crates. Pigs are allowed room to — Continued on Next Page roam on a small pasture.

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She also looks for maternal instincts.

“We love for our moms to be able to raise their babies and not have structures. To lay down and have their babies.

“I also want them to be easy to handle since I’m often here by myself with my husband working off the farm,” Chelle said. Ray is an electrician working in Springfield.

Small producers have to find a niche and then have a plan to fill it. Chelle noted, “We never raise a hog without an end retail customer in mind. Our hogs are a niche product for a specific audience, not a commodity, so they are raised and priced accordingly. People are aware of how large outfits produce. We offer them another option.”

Any advise for any would-be hog farmers?

“For less than $5,000, you can purchase a few weaned pigs or sows and a boar, bulk feed and supplies. Maybe even a trailer if you shop used.”

Chelle said. “With a plan and some marketing, you can have positive cash flow within a year. We enjoy talking pigs with folks who have more experience and are willing to share it.

“Once we decided on pigs, we researched breeds that could best meet our goals: to provide the customer with a wholesome flavorful product, and do it with the resources we had. Good husbandry practices are the foundation to everything else. We are always looking for ways to do it better. We feel there is still a lot to learn four years in.”

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where Chelle is now the vice president of the board.

A typical market day could go like this: Leave their Mt. Vernon farm about 6 a.m., arrive at the market by 7 a.m., full freezer in tow.

“We might grill and sample,” Chelle said as she described some onsite marketing, adding that Ray also makes and sells some spice rubs. “We are known for our pork chops.

We cut them thick and charge a pretty good chunk. Farmers Market is probably 75 to 80 percent of our business. Last year we got ourselves in trouble; we had so many off-farm sales that we ended up short in July and had to take three weeks off. That was bad planning.”

Chelle explained that their hogs are raised humanely and naturally.

“We don’t feed them an artificial diet,” she said. “They are raised outside. We give them enough space to move freely. We don’t ring them to prevent rooting. They always have nose-to-nose contact with another hog.”

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meet your neighbors

Making the Law Livestock-Friendly

By Megan Richner

Cattleman’s brush with a neighbor prompted him to advocate for change to Cedar County’s fencing law

Photo by Megan Richner

“It all started when a tree fell on a fence row on my Dad’s farm where my heifers were pastured,” said Clay Doeden, a Cedar County, Mo. native who runs 130 head of beef cattle around Bear Creek, near Stockton.

“I did what any responsible producer would do – I removed the tree and repaired the damaged fence. I did not realize there was a problem until I returned to check my heifers and found my angry neighbor and the deputy sheriff at the scene of the repaired fence.” Clay’s neighbor was a former resident from California did not understand the laws, or a livestock owner, and was upset because Clay trespassed on his property. He was adamant about Clay, Kristen and Jarrett Doeden pressing charges and suing Clay. at their farm in Cedar County, Mo. At that time Cedar County, Clay Doeden was an advocate which is predominately cattle for the new fencing law in Cedar country, was operating under County that was approved by voters in April.

Missouri’s General Fence Law. “I explained to my neighbor and the deputy that under the tions for Missouri. “In Cedar County, we current fencing laws I did nothing wrong,” Clay recalled. “The deputy was are seeing a lot of turnover in property not sure about the details of the fence law ownership; primarily because people pass but promised to get back with both of us to away and their heirs sell the land in smaller tracts,” explained Clay. “This has happened resolve the issue.”

In the end Clay was within his legal all around my family farm. My neighbors have relocated from Texas, Arizona rights, the state nuisance and California and their laws and laws protected him from traditions are different from ours.” any legal action his neighClay appreciates the diversity his bor tried to push because the neighbors bring to the county, trees fell from the neighbor’s but he also wants to protect the property and the neighbor was Stockton, Mo. ideals and traditions the locals liable for the repairs.

After this incident Clay began — Continued on Page 20 researching both fence law op-

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country

in the field and in the office

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John went on to become a police officer for several years and worked in other fields as well, but returned full-time to Century 21 Maddux Realty after the death of his brother, Ed, in 2006. He is now the owner/broker of the business.

The business has continued to be a family endeavor with mom Wanda still a fixture at the office. John’s wife Brigitte and his son Nathan also have their real estate license.

In the Country: John and Bridgett, along with daughters Elly, Molly, Allie and twins Anthea and Ava, live on a Dallas County farm that has been part of John’s family for nearly a century.

John runs a cow-calf operation with 55 full-blooded Angus pairs on 350 acres. He typically keeps about eight to 10 replacement heifers each year and has one to two Angus bulls.

“I have raised cattle forever,” he said. “I just enjoy it. Once it’s in your blood, it’s just always there. It’s just really relaxing. With some people, they go home and watch TV, but I go home and watch cows. I just really enjoy them.”

The Maddux girls help out on the farm, and older brother Nathan is very active in the operation.

John admits that Brigitte got a “crash course” in farming.

“When we first got married, we had some goats and it was a really, really cold winter and I think we raised eight babies in the basement of our house,” John recalled. “She was out helping the mommas have babies and pulling kids and everything. She went from a city girl to a country girl instantly.” John added that he likes to keep goats on his farm from time to time to help with brush control.

Having experience on the farm has helped him steer many first-time farmers in the right direction when it comes to purchasing property.

“It really ties in,” he said. “I talked to a man who wanted to run 40 cows and we talked about the quality of the soil and how many acres he wanted to have. It really ties in when helping people find the right ground. In Dallas County, you can have 100 acres that will run 20 cow, or you can have 100 that will run five.”

After wearing several “hats” in his life, John said the one with the feed store logo on it is one of his favorites.

“It’s just so relaxing to be out on the farm,” he said.

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slaughter

market sales reports

bulls

beef

(Week of 5/3/15 to 5/9/15)

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

126.50-145.00 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

122.00-155.00 † 126.00-152.50

Kingsville Livestock Auction

†

135.00-156.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction Mo-Ark - Exeter

None Reported* 115.00-154.00*

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

112.50-148.50

South Central Regional

110

130

slaughter

150

170

190

cows

(Week of 5/3/15 to 5/9/15)

93.00-121.00*

Buffalo Livestock Market Douglas County Livestock

85.00-133.00 † 80.00-125.00 †

Interstate Regional Stockyardss Joplin Regional Stockyards

90.00-133.00 † 94.00-131.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

110.00-127.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction Mo-Ark - Exeter

97.00-134.00* 93.00-125.00 †

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

90.00-126.00 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

80.00-116.00 †

South Central Regional

84.00-131.00 †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

40

60

80

100

cow/calf

120

140

160

pairs

(Week of 5/3/15 to 5/9/15) Buffalo Livestock Market

None Reported* 2700.00 †

Douglas County Livestock Auction - Ava

None Reported †

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

1750.00-3000.00 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

None Reported

Kingsville Livestock Auction

†

Mo-Ark - Exeter

1800.00-2700.00*

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

None Reported

2475.00-3175.00

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna Springfield Livestock Marketing

1875.00-2510.00

2000

3000

replacement

4000

5000

cows

Steers, Med. & Lg. 1

1125.00-2075.00* 1400.00-2575.00 †

Douglas County Livestock

1510.00-2175.00 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards

1165.00-2450.00 †

Joplin Regional

1300.00-2150.00*

Mo-Ark - Exeter MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

None Reported †

Ozarks Reg

1000.00-2400.00 †

South Central Regional Stockyards

1585.00-2100.00

1100

Heifers, Med. & Lg. 1

†

1125.00-2500.00 †

Springfield Live

18 18

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

2000.00-2250.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction

1600

2100

2600

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Holsteins, Lg. 3

None Reported †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

600

Ava Douglas County† 5/7/15

†

†

(Week of 5/3/15 to 5/9/15) Buffalo Live

goats 5/7/15

Receipts: 1463 SHEEP: Slaughter Lambs: Wooled Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 40-60 lbs 210.00-220.00, 60-80 lbs 105.00-215.00, 80-90 lbs 182.50-185.00, 100-125 lbs 145.00-160.00.

Hair Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 40-60 lbs 205.00220.00; 60-80 lbs 195.00-210.00. Mixed Good and Choice 2-3 20-35 lbs 155.00-175.00; 20-40 lbs 200.00-215.00; 45-60 lbs 175.00-195.00; 60-72 lbs 135.00-155.00; 80-95 lbs 175.00-190.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Wooled: Good 1-2 125-240 lbs 70.00-95.00. Hair: Good 3-4 55-120 lbs 100.00110.00. Utility 1-2 115-165 lbs 82.50-95.00; 75-110 lbs 75.00-80.00.

Slaughter Rams: Wooled 110-235 lbs 65.00-85.00.

Families: Ewes with single or twin lambs at side 55.0065.00 and 75.00-90.00 per head.

GOATS: Slaughter Classes: Kids Selection 1: 25-35 lbs 290.00310.00; 40-70 lbs 295.00-305.00; 80-90 lbs 245.00265.00. Selection 2 25-38 lbs 270.00-287.50; 40-75 lbs 270.00-290.00; 80-90 lbs 215.00-235.00. Selection 2-3 25-40 lbs 205.00-225.00; 25-40 lbs 145.00-175.00; 40-65 lbs 225.00-265.00; 50-80 lbs 165.00-205.00.

Few light weights per head 25.00-45.00.

Does: Selection 2-3 50-110 lbs 165.00-185.00; 60-150 lbs 190.00-220.00; 68-110 lbs 100.00-120.00; 90-125 lbs 115.00-135.00; 70-135 lbs 140.00-160.00.

Bucks: Several replacements 65-240 lbs 225.00295.00 per head Selection 2-3 85-200 lbs 140.00160.00; 85-162 lbs 120.00-135.00; 65-135 lbs 100.00-115.00.

Replacement Does: Several Families with single and twin kids at side 55.00-110.00 per head.

Buffalo, Mo. • Buffalo Livestock Market

Koshkonong, Mo. • Oregon Cty Goat & Sheep Market

3100

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Butler Mo-Kan Livestock† 5/7/15

Cuba Interstate Regional† 5/5/15

4/25/15

Receipts: 125 GOATS: Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 45-60 lbs 280.00; 61-80 lbs 250.00. Selection 2 45-60 lbs 265.00; 61-80 lbs 230.00. Selection 2-3 45-60 lbs dairy influence 190.00. Selection 3 61-80 lbs 135.00.

Slaughter Does/Nannies: Selection 1-2 115.00.

Selection 3 85.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1-2 115.00. yearling bucks any grade 135.00.

stocker & feeder

Buffalo Livestock Auction* 5/9/15

4/28/15

Receipts: 598 SHEEP: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 wooled few 50-85 lbs 215.00-225.00; hair 50-60 lbs 217.00227.50, couple pkgs fancy 50-60 lbs 265.00; 60-65 lbs 237.50-245.00; 65-70 lbs 200.00-210.00; 70-80 lbs 212.15—222.50; 105-115 lbs 145.00-150.00.

Feeder/Stocker Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 20-45 lbs 230.00-250.00; 30-50 lbs 222.00-226.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Cull and Utility 1-2 few wooled 80-223 lbs 70.00-85.00. Utility and Good 2-3 hair 80-116 lbs 102.50-105.00; 65-145 lbs 110.00-125.00; 80-100 lbs 130.00-150.00. Cull and Utility 1-2 hair 115-155 lbs 70.00-98.00; 70-150 lbs 80.00-100.00.

Slaughter Rams: few 155-320 lbs 70.00-92.50.

Replacement Sheep: Medium and Large 1-2 couple families 70-125 lbs hair ewes with single babies 150.00-235.00 per family.

Replacement Rams: Medium and Large 1-2 few 90150 lbs hair rams 130.00-145.00.

GOATS: Feeder Kids: Selection 1 20-40 lbs 300.00-325.00.

Selection 2 20-30 lbs 280.00-290.00; 30-40 lbs 250.00-275.00. Selection 3 25-35 lbs 155.00-180.00; 30-40 lbs 230.00-240.00.

Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 40-60 lbs 315.00327.50. Selection 1-2 40-50 lbs 265.00-290.00; 60-80 lbs 260.00-275.00. Selection 2-3 40-45 lbs 180.00220.00; 45-55 lbs 150.00-176.00.

Does/Nannies: Selection 2 50-130 lbs 140.00165.00; 70-80 lbs 175.00-180.00. Selection 3 90-140 lbs 122.50-135.00.

Bucks: Selection 1-2 85-190 lbs 125.00-205.00.

†

1700.00-3000.00 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

1000

Receipts: 603 Springer Heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme 1725.00-2150.00, few Jerseys 1625.001650.00, crossbreds 1700.00-1800.00, Approved 1500.00-1700.00, Medium 1120.00-1450.00, few crossbreds 1400.00, Common 1010.00-1100.00.

Heifers bred three to six months: Supreme 1800.00-2025.00, crossbreds 1700.00-1800.00, Approved 1550.00-1775.00, crossbreds 1400.001575.00, Medium 1100.00-1500.00, Common few 825.00-850.00, crossbreds 875.00-1175.00.

Heifers bred one to three months: Supreme few 1675.00-1710.00, Approved 1425.00-1535.00, Medium 1000.00-1375.00, Common crossbreds 700.00- 975.00.

Open Heifers: Approved 240-272 lbs 620.00770.00, 363-400 lbs 810.00-820.00, ind Jersey 790.00, crossbreds 730.00-780.00, 405-500 lbs 680.00- 930.00, few Jerseys 900.00-960.00, crossbreds 710.00-890.00, 510-595 lbs 840.00-1190.00, crossbreds 870.00-980.00, 605-700 lbs 925.001230.00, lot of 6 Jerseys 685 lbs 1210.00, crossbreds 1010.00-1090.00, 758-795 lbs 1000.00-1290.00,ind Jersey 1050.00, crossbreds 1050.00-1200.00.

Medium: 430-485 lbs ind 740.00, ind Jersey 860.00, few crossbreds 830.00-840.00, 700-775 lbs ind 875.00,ind Jersey 975.00, ind crossbred 920.00.

Replacement Cows: Fresh and Milking Cows: Supreme 1925.00-2200.00, Jerseys 1725.00-1900.00, crossbreds 1775.00-2025.00, Approved 1425.001875.00, Jerseys 1500.00-1675.00, crossbreds 1525.00-1725.00, Medium 1050.00-1130.00, few Jerseys 1025.00-1150.00, Crossbreds 1225.001500.00, Common ind 800.00, few Jerseys 775.00950.00, few crossbreds 875.00-925.00.

sheep &

Diamond, Mo. • TS Whites Sheep and Goat Sale

2250.00-2400.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction

0

cattle

Springfield, Mo. • Springfield Livestock Marketing Center 4/28/15

†

120.00-157.50 †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

90

dairy

136.00-154.50 †

MO-KAN Livestock Market

5/10/15

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 159.00-164.00; wtd. avg. price 162.37.

Heifers: 159.00-164.00; wtd. avg. price 162.28.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 255.00-257.00; wtd. avg. price 256.15.

Heifers: 248.00-257.00; wtd. avg. price 255.33.

123.00-158.00 †

Douglas County Livestock Auction

70

Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

114.00-145.00*

Buffalo Livestock Market

cattle

Springer Cows: Approved ind 1550.00, few Jerseys 1450.00-1510.00, Ind crossbred 1700.00, Medium few 1300.00-1350.00, few Jerseys 1125.00-1225.00.

Bred Cows: Approved ind 1550.00, few Jerseys 1320.00-1350.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein heifers 310.00-460.00, Holstein bulls 350.00-470.00, Jersey bulls 210.00290.00, crossbred heifers few 200.00-400.00, crossbred bulls 390.00-470.00, beef cross heifers 390.00-620.00, beef cross bulls 400.00-620.00.

Exeter Mo-Ark Livestock* 5/9/15

SHEE Slaug 175.0 Slaug

Nation

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prices Joplin Regional Stockyards† 5/4/15

Kingsville Livestock Auction† 5/5/15

Lebanon Livestock Auction* 5/7/15

1429

1177

766

1575

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4343

2607

823

St-5 Higher

Uneven

St-5 Higher

Uneven

Uneven

St-8 Higher

Uneven

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329.00-340.00 285.00-325.00 260.00-284.00 227.50-247.00 -----

285.00-340.00 270.00-307.00 258.00-278.00 237.00-250.00 213.00-229.00

313.00-330.50 283.00-318.00 260.00-288.00 225.00-244.00 218.00-229.00

306.00-342.00 286.00-316.00 250.00-301.00 231.50-266.00 211.00

302.00-357.50 297.00-312.00 257.00-283.00 234.00-251.00 -----

320.00-350.00 280.00-315.00 241.00-285.00 216.00-261.00 217.00

325.00 289.00-319.00 264.00-295.00 230.00-266.00 214.50-230.25

290.00-360.00 270.00-330.00 240.00-294.00 220.00-252.00 210.00-228.00

----234.00 192.50 ----169.00

----206.00 190.00-200.00 158.00-174.00 158.00-159.50

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260.00 265.00 -------------

240.00-253.00 220.00-233.00 212.00 ----166.00

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225.00-250.00 212.00-230.00 195.00-215.00 175.00-203.00 -----

268.00-300.00 250.00-270.00 225.00-255.00 212.50-218.00 -----

240.00-299.00 250.00-273.00 226.00-240.00 205.00-235.00 195.00-212.00

273.00-292.50 253.00-290.00 224.50-251.00 209.00-222.50 209.50-212.50

270.00-302.50 244.50-285.00 208.00-251.50 207.00-223.50 190.50

280.00-315.00 251.00-275.00 235.00-258.00 208.00-230.00 -----

270.00-317.50 244.00-270.00 217.50-260.00 210.00-233.00 191.00-215.00

265.00 255.00-277.50 227.50-255.50 204.00-236.00 203.25-220.10

260.00-300.00 240.00-268.00 220.00-256.00 200.00-230.00 190.00-210.00

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

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reports

hog markets

on 1 45-60 lbs 280.00; 61-80 45-60 lbs 265.00; 61-80 3 45-60 lbs dairy influence 80 lbs 135.00. es: Selection 1-2 115.00.

5/8/15

Receipts: 5896 Weaner pigs near steady. Feeder pigs no sales reported.

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

Early weaned pigs 10 lb. base weights, FOB the farm 0% negotiated, 3950 head, 10 lbs, 36.00-40.54, weighted average 38.89.

Early weaned pigs 10 lb base weights, Delivered 0% negotiated, 1946 head, 10 lbs, 36.53-46.00, weighted average 41.88.

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

Feeder pigs in all lot sizes, Delivered 100% negotiated No Sales Reported.

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325.00 289.00-319.00 264.00-295.00 230.00-266.00 214.50-230.25

290.00-360.00 270.00-330.00 240.00-294.00 220.00-252.00 210.00-228.00

325.00-335.00 283.00-323.00 243.50-297.50 224.00-260.00 210.00-230.50

315.00 307.50-311.00 263.00-285.00 230.00-241.00 -----

327.50-352.50 290.00-337.50 245.00-297.50 231.00-260.00 213.00-235.00

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265.00 255.00-277.50 227.50-255.50 204.00-236.00 203.25-220.10

260.00-300.00 240.00-268.00 220.00-256.00 200.00-230.00 190.00-210.00

270.00-307.50 245.00-269.00 215.00-251.00 208.00-226.00 193.00

----242.50-277.50 221.00-250.50 214.50 193.50-205.00

280.00-305.00 250.00-285.00 238.00-255.00 207.00-230.00 190.00-206.00

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237.50

276.98 271.44 258.84 264.51 264.11

236.54 230.00 237.49 239.12 236.21

260.95

231.93

262.50 264.48

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256.74 254.26 261.74 253.42 255.89

238.00 225.43 232.45 219.61 235.24 *

252.67

230.56

260.28

233.59

261.03

233.00

270.42 254.27 255.58 266.90 263.82

242.87 233.94 234.55 240.08

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272.40 255.90 270.70 259.19

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267.36

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236.00

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Weather has been very favorable for spring planting and the state is now actually ahead of average planting progress. This has come at a cost however, lack of any wide spread rain added to the last week and a half of above average temperatures and winds have really taken a toll on grass growth. Many producers are saying hay fields look short, stunted and already trying to make seed heads. Frist cutting of alfalfa and wheat hay are gearing up. Although May is also the best month to harvest grass hay to get the highest quality many producers historically still choose to delay cutting to achieve more quaintly. This choice however, could be a sharp double edged sword this year and result in neither if rains do not fall soon. The supply of hay is moderate and demand is light. Prices are steady. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has a hay directory available for both buyers and sellers. To be listed, or for a directory visit http://mda.mo.gov/abd/haydirectory/ or for current listings of hay http://agebb.missouri.edu/haylst/ (All prices f.o.b. and per ton unless specified and on most recent reported sales price listed as round bales based generally on 5x6 bales with weights of approximately 1200-1500 lbs).

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

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

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

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

Good quality Mixed Grass hay: 75.00-95.00.

Fair to Good quality Mixed Grass hay: 40.00-65.00.

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

Fair to Good quality Bromegrass: 50.00-70.00.

Wheat straw: 3.00-6.00 per small square bale.

steers 550-600 LBS.

Week of 4/12/15

hay & grain markets

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Estimated Receipts: 525 Supply and demand are light to moderate.

Compared to Monday’s close: barrows and gilts are steady to 2.00 higher.

Base carcass meat price: 70.00-72.00.

Sows (cash prices): steady, 300-500 lbs. 15.00-20.00, over 500 lbs. 20.00-23.00.

$120

Week of 4/19/15

Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.6200 and 40# blocks at $1.6125.

The weekly average for barrels is $1.6280 (+.0100) and blocks, $1.6105 (+.0005).

Fluid Milk: Milk production is up in the East and the Midwest as large portions of both regions are nearing spring flush.

Florida however has been steady with small declines in some areas. Milk production is mixed in the West. Production is up in New Mexico and many industry contacts in the Pacific Northwest are reporting at or near flush production. Milk intakes are reported lower in California. Bottling demand is flat in the East, and beginning to fall in the Midwest. In the West, sales into bottling were steady, but strengthened regionally with some consumer outlets featuring milk in various package sizes. Eastern cream is readily available. Cream supplies are mixed in the Midwest and West. Some manufacturers are reporting stocks are tighter than expected, while others are reporting their cream utilization is at capacity within their facilities and have begun selling excess cream.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM: $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT, F.O.B., producing plants, Upper Midwest $2.1854-2.2965.

Mo. Weekly Weaner & Feeder Pig

4/25/15

ction 1-2 115.00. yearling .

5/8/15

5/12/15

$160

Week of 4/26/15

Cty Goat & Sheep Market

National Dairy Market

Interior Missouri Direct Hogs

$200

Week of 5/3/15

5-190 lbs 125.00-205.00.

dairy & fed cattle

*Early weaned pigs are under 19 days old. **Most lots of feeder pigs have a sliding value from the negotiated weight basis which is calculated on the actual average weight of the load plus or minus .25-.40 per pound. Some early weaned lots have a slide of .50-1.00 per pound.

Week of 4/12/15

1 20-40 lbs 300.00-325.00.

80.00-290.00; 30-40 lbs on 3 25-35 lbs 155.00-180.00; 0. on 1 40-60 lbs 315.000-50 lbs 265.00-290.00; 60-80 ction 2-3 40-45 lbs 180.000-176.00. on 2 50-130 lbs 140.000-180.00. Selection 3 90-140

SHEEP: Slaughter Lambs: Good and Choice 2-3 80 lbs and under hair 175.00-205.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-2 60.00.

Week of 4/19/15

ice and Prime 2-3 wooled few 0; hair 50-60 lbs 217.00cy 50-60 lbs 265.00; 60-65 lbs bs 200.00-210.00; 70-80 lbs -115 lbs 145.00-150.00. : Medium and Large 1-2 hair 0; 30-50 lbs 222.00-226.00. nd Utility 1-2 few wooled Utility and Good 2-3 hair 00; 65-145 lbs 110.00-125.00; 00. Cull and Utility 1-2 hair 0; 70-150 lbs 80.00-100.00.

55-320 lbs 70.00-92.50.

Medium and Large 1-2 couple ewes with single babies ly. edium and Large 1-2 few 900-145.00.

550-600 lb. steers

$240

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4/28/15

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$280

Week of 5/3/15

ock Market

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

266.51

239.88

3.41 210

232 254 276 298 320 * No price reported in weight break **USDA Failed To Report *** No Sale - Weather

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meet your neighbors Making the Law Livestock-Friendly Continued from Page 16 have established throughout the generations of agriculturalists.

As a beef producer living in a county that attracts a variety of residents, he wanted to research both fence law options and know his rights to prevent any further misunderstandings or unfriendly confrontations.

There are two fence law options for Missouri. The general fence law and the local option fence law. Unless a county adopts the local option fence law through a ballot initiative, the county operates under the general fence law.

According to Chapter 272 of the Missouri Revised Statutes, the general fence law states that if a person owns livestock they are responsible for building and maintaining the fence. If two landowners

to Chapter 272 of the Missouri Revised Statutes, the local option fence law states that when one landowner requires a boundary fence, both landowners are responsible for their portion, whether or not they have livestock. According to the Extension, there is no right-hand rule for establishing repair and maintenance responsibility between landowners. The landowner wants to keep the livestock off their property as much as the producer wants to keep the livestock contained. Legally, the fence must be a four-strand barbed wire fence with the posts set 12 feet apart or 15 feet apart with one stay. If a livestock owner wants something more than this, the livestock owner must pay the additional costs.

“Legislators passed the local option fence law to give counties the option to place the law on the ballot; no signatures were required. Fence laws come up often in court; there are always issues on fencing, easements and boundaries.”

– Peggy Kenney, Cedar County Clerk

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both own livestock or if they lease their land to livestock owners, they are responsible for half of the boundary fence. A question landowners always have is “what portion of the fence am I legally required to maintain?” According to the University of Missouri-Extension, under the general law if both landowners have livestock, the neighbors will face each other at the middle of their fence. Each neighbor will be responsible to the fence to his right. If the neighbors decide on another option they must record their decision and have it in writing in each county the land is in. Landowners under the general fence law can build a fence consisting of posts or boards at least four feet high with posts set 12 feet apart. Anything other than this type of fence must be mutually agreed on by each landowner or decided by the associate circuit court in the county.

The local fence law is considered to be more livestock-friendly. According Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com

Peggy Kenney, Cedar County Clerk explained, “Legislators passed the local option fence law to give counties the option to place the law on the ballot; no signatures were required. Fence laws come up often in court; there are always issues on fencing, easements and boundaries.” she explained. “I would like to see Cedar County be considered an ‘agriculture- friendly county’ since agriculture is our largest industry.”

Clay, a supporter of the local option, spoke with the county commissioners regarding the law. The commissioners researched both laws and decided the people should have a voice. The local option was placed on the April 2015 ballot, where it was adopted. “I felt this was something that would keep Cedar County rooted in the agricultural values, beliefs and the heritage it was built upon. “said Clay. “I would like to see agricultural counties stay agricultural counties.

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“We did as much local purchasing as we could so the money went back into our county. The whole community ben-

Photo courtesy of Jenean Ehlers

efited from it,” said Jenean. The first year the market had more than 2,000 visitors, tive to apply for the USDA’S Farmers the second year it had more than 4,000.

The Cedar County Farmers Market reMarket Promotion Program.

“When we wrote the grant I had this good quires vendors to attend a food safety course.

“No one comes into our market unless feeling in my heart, I said ‘we are going to they have attended a course,” said Jenget it’ and there were only ean. Due to the available grant fundthree in the state of Missouri ing, Cedar County Farmers Market that were granted across the was able to offer the class free of whole United States,” Jenean El Dorado charge until December 2014. said with a smile.

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meet your neighbors A Nurse’s Mission for Local Food Continued from Previous Page early March before the planting season begins. After the grower has attended the class, they receive a badge of certification that will allow them to sell at the market.

“The Food Safety Course is a Farm to Market Course, it teaches you the safety issues about planting, preparing your soil, harvesting and bringing your produce to market,” Jenean explained. “The state has guidelines for farmers markets regarding what you can and cannot sell. One of the most important things is your produce should be left in the condition you pick them in; so do not cut anything in cubes and sell it because that is when you introduce bacteria. The longer it sits, the more dangerous it becomes.”

Another certification option for growers is GAP which stands for Good Agricultural Practices.

“A lot of restaurants and stores will not purchase from a local farmer unless they have the GAP Certification,” said Jenean. “You must have a plan written out on how you are going to grow every piece of produce. If you are growing tomatoes, you have to have a plan for tomatoes,” She explained. “Once you have GAP certification, it is a plan you have on paper, which include farm inspections. It covers topics such as good soil, planting practices and using good water.”

A unique aspect of the Cedar County Farmers Market is the farmers must grow what they sell. Farmers are allowed to sell jams and jellies long as the jars have proper labeling that explains what ingredients are in it and that it has not been inspected by the Missouri Department of Health. They may also sell honey but it must include a label stating that it is not for children under one year of age.

Fresh baked goods can be sold at the farmers market. Jenean explained that “If you want to sell in our farmers market you have to bake in a registered kitchen. According to the Cottage Law, you can bake anything in your own home, it does not have

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to be inspected, you can sell it from your home but you cannot take it out and sell it on the corner.”

Low-acid canned foods, such as vegetables, are not allowed at the farmers market due to safety concerns, unless venders have gone through the Better Food Processing Courses.

“Those courses are expensive. Once approved you have to keep track of lot numbers, batch numbers, and the acidity of every batch,” said Jenean. “People don’t understand,” she cautioned, “you can really get sick from food if it is not properly canned.”

Aside from selling produce, the market provides learning opportunities for the community. The University of MissouriExtension is getting involved in the Cedar County Farmers Market. “They came out last year and did cooking demonstrations and salad prep so people could taste the food,” said Jenean. These demonstrations, such as skewering vegetables, teach families how to prepare the food they purchase.

The Cedar County Farmers Market started a kids program called POPS (Promote Our Produce) with the help of a $1,000 donation from Cargill. “Every week kids could come out and get a $2 token and they could go around and buy $2 worth of vegetables,” explained Jenean. “They could buy vegetable plants, herbs, anything that was edible or would become edible,” she said. The program attracted 210 kids under the age of 12 from the community.

Jenean stresses that, “Do not think a farmers market is cheaper; it is better.

You can buy cheaper and get a lower quality of food or you can buy from a farmers market directly and get fresher, better, safer food all the way around. You are getting more produce for your money.” She added that “We accept EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) in which people can use those funds to buy edible produce, as well as seeds and plants to grow their own food in their garden.”

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Trey Yoakum Age: 17 Family: Parents, Stacy and Lisa Yoakum Hometown: Rolla, Mo. High School and FFA: Rolla High School and FFA FFA Advisor: Cord Jenkins

What is your involvement in agriculture?

“We have a mixed herd of several breeds, including Angus and British Whites. We do spring and fall calving, on about 130 to 150 cows. We also do rotational grazing on multiple paddocks. I move a lot of cows when I’m at home.”

“We also put up 1,500 to 2,500 round bales each year so that’s pretty much what I do all summer. I like showing the animals. I’ve shown Yorkshire pigs and for the last two years I’ve shown a market lamb. Before that I had a steer. I like the pigs but while a steer is harder work, it is more enjoyable in the end. It feels like you can bond more with a steer. Of course, the hard part is in the end when you have to sell it.”

Trey’s family has long been involved in agriculture as well as the business of heavy equipment operation.

“My dad also has Yoakum Trucking and Excavating. He owns and leases a total of 35 trucks. We dig basements, ponds, septic tanks and that kind of thing. We stay pretty busy and that’s good because,” he grinned, “it also keeps me busy and that keeps me out of trouble.”

Trey’s grandfather had 300 sows at one point, but he sold them several years ago. “I have two sisters who are both Mizzou graduates. Both are married and are working on getting their own farms. They both already own sheep and cows.

Future Plans: “I really like operating the heavy equipment and the mechanical work that goes with that. I’ve thought about going to technical school, but I’ve been told that a lot of what they teach is what I already know in terms of operating heavy equipment so I’m not sure what I’ll do. I can already run the heavy equipment for my dad’s business.

As far as my future, I think I would like to take over my dad’s business one day. I like agriculture, but I think my sisters are really into it more than I am. I think I’ll probably leave that part of it to them.”

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any types of squeeze chutes exist today, each with features that make cattle restraint easier.

There are just as many tub systems on the market too. Everyone spends a little extra time and attention when getting ready to purchase such equipment. Heads are scratched for days thinking about altering Dr. Jesse Blades the current facilities, or changing the catch pens graduated from University feeding the tub. However, there is seldom any of Missouri College of thought given to the alleyway section. As the age Veterinary Medicine old saying goes “your only as strong as the weakin 2010. He joined Ash est link,” you can only process cattle as efficiently Grove Veterinary Clinic in as your alleyway allows.

2014, practicing general There are really only three measurements to an medicine and surgery on alleyway: width, height and length. If your putboth companion animals ting calves and cows through it then the capabiland livestock. ity of adjusting the width would be great. This is rarely an option but there are a few systems available with this potential. If the goal is efficient-safe-low stress cattle handling then width is important. Many producers resort to running one calf at a time through the system in order to keep that calf from turning around. If this sounds familiar then you’re increasing the stress level of all the calves, possible injuries, and time.

Height is easy, just figure out how tall the sides have to be to keep your cows from climbing out. This can vary from 5 to 8 foot sides. Culling any “Houdini Cow” is usually the best long-term decision, before she teaches anyone else her tricks or provides you with heifer calves that act the same way. If tall sides don’t solve the problem of keeping cows in the alley, the options are creating solid sides or changing the bottom 3 foot to vertical pipe instead of horizontal. We must be careful with solid sided alleys as they reduce airflow significantly allowing cattle to overheat.

Now, that only leaves length to discuss. It is my opinion that the alleyway length should hold around 10 percent of the herd capacity at a time. There is no magic number but too many in a line might lead to boss cows trying to flip animals in front — Continued on Page 26

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n January, the United States Department of Agriculture released a report by the Economic Research Service entitled “Trends in U.S. Local and Regional Food Systems: A Report to Congress.”

Amber Mase is AsThis congressionally mandated report drew on sistant Vice President USDA surveys, censuses and statistical analyses and Agriculture and as well as the available academic literature to Commercial Lender for provide the latest information on the economArvest Bank in Springics of local and regional food systems to assess field, Mo. She can be the scope of trends in the system. contacted at 417-885One trend – a demand for locally grown foods 7367 or via email at by end-use consumers, grocery stores and resamase@arvest.com. taurants – has jumped to the forefront of the public awareness and has seen steady growth. In 2012, 163,675 farms were marketing locally produced foods directly to consumers or in intermediated sales for human consumption. The number of farms with direct-toconsumer sales increased by 17 percent and sales increased by 32 percent between 2002 and 2007. The number of farms with direct-to-consumer sales increased by 5.5 percent between 2007 and 2012. The estimate of total sales of local food was $6.1 billion in 2012, the report stated. It also stated that farms selling local food through direct-to-consumer channels were more likely to remain in business between 2007 and 2012 than farms not using direct-to-consumer sales.

So how is a farmer to take advantage of the trend towards locally raised foods?

Luckily, the 2014 Farm Bill added several new and reorganized programs to promote the production and marketing of locally and regionally grown foods.

Several grant and loan programs are included to help with financing of upgrades, expansions and other needs.

For example, there is the Value-Added Producer Grant program designed to help farmers develop farmer-based, value-added products such as cheese, jam, packaged meats and sausages. The program was reorganized to better serve small and midsized family farms, along with beginning, socially disadvantaged and veteran farmers. It was increased from $15 million to $65 million for 2014-2018 with $40 million authorized annually, the report stated, and it sets aside funds for local and regional food supply networks.

The Rural Business Opportunity Grant and the Rural Business Enterprise Grant programs are now consolidated under the Rural Business Development Grants program, with up to $65 million authorized for annual funding for 2014 -2018.

Although local food producers are not targeted, they have historically taken advantage of these programs.

The USDA has also expanded the Farm Storage Facility Loan program, which provide low-interest financing to food producers to buy storage and processing equipment. The program has added 23 new categories of equipment for fruit and vegetable producers to finance cold storage facilities, sorting bins, wash stations and other food safety-related equipment.

A 2008 Farm Bill program reauthorized by the 2014 Farm Bill is the Local and Regional Food Enterprise Loan account within the Business and Industry Guaranteed

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Farm Finance Continued from Previous Page Loan Program. It provides federal guarantees for commercial loans to rural businesses to support development of local food system infrastructure, or businesses that process, distribute, aggregate, store and market foods produced either instate or transported less than 400 miles from where it originates. It can also fund projects in urban areas if the projects support farm and ranch income and expand healthy food access in underserved communities.

Finally, the Food Safety Modernization ACT (FSMA), passed in 2011, calls for “sweeping changes to the U.S. food safety system,” the report stated.

The focus will move from responding to contamination outbreaks to preven-

tion of outbreaks. That means that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will have jurisdiction over on-farm activity and FSMA will set relatively uniform standards on suppliers of fresh produce.

The rulemaking stage for FSMA is still ongoing, but growers should be aware that new rules will affect them.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has stepped up efforts to support the new trend of eating locally produced foods.

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Continued from Page 24 of them, attempts to crawl out, or cattle just standing too long if problems arise up front.

The time it takes the last cow in an alley to exit the chute should be monitored and adjustments can be made as processing continues. I prefer the maximum time to be less than 15 minutes.

Short alleys have their own problems, most importantly is increasing stress. Every time a person goes back to the catch pen to bring one cow to the tub, each and every cow experiences a stress response. Think of the last cow(s) to make it to the chute. Remember they are herd animals and let them process themselves in small groups. Stop fighting with individual animals.

Short alleys also lead to FAST cattle.

Fast cattle are not to be confused with efficient processing. Again, having to move cows one at a time often creates this problem. Depending on what style the headgate is, the potential for shoulder and neck injuries can be high. Just like a

car wreck, it’s not the speed but the force of a sudden stop that causes the injury.

Finally, I have a selfish reason for advocating a lengthy alleyway. Veterinarians are typically in a hurry and usually behind before they start each day. It is quite nice for my next patient to be standing calmly right behind the chute waiting her turn.

Once that cow is adequately restrained it takes less than a minute to pregnancy check, vaccinate and de-worm her.

If tags need applied or age determined then add another minute as a buffer.

Processing might be even faster given certain circumstances and equipment, but my point is the consideration of time. If your veterinarian has to wait 10 minutes between cows, rethink your alleyway. With the ever-narrowing profit margins available with large animal products, vets have to adjust charges centering on time not just services performed. Simple math dictates the longer it takes, the more we have to charge you to stay in business.

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By Klaire Howertson

Tips on how you can be a beef advocate in your community Beef cattle are a common sight in the Ozarks. It’s nearly impossible to drive through any rural community without seeing at least a few stocky beef cows grazing alongside the road. Missouri ranks third in the nation for beef cattle production with 4.25 million head of cattle on 59,000 operations, according to the Missouri Department of Agriculture.

Only Texas and Oklahoma have a higher number of statewide cattle. With such impressive numbers on their side, it is no wonder that Missouri cattlemen and women take such pride in raising and advocating for beef animals – and you can too by just remembering BEEF.

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e active in organizations such as the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association.

The MCA has been proactive in advocating beef since 1911, and they have remained one of the best resources available for beef producers. In fact, their mission statement is that the organization is “Dedicated to advancing Missouri’s beef industry.” The MCA offers numerous workshops and presentations that allow beef producers to become more educated on the subject that is near and dear to their hearts. MCA also partners with the Beef Quality Assurance Program, another great beef advocate organization, to help improve cattle handling standards and encourage responsible management practices that benefit both the cattle and the consumer.

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ducate your consumers about your beef – especially if you direct market your product.

“It is important to promote our beef because of the health benefits of it, educating potential customers as to why we do what we do and how we do it,” said Kirk Welch, sales and marketing manager for Black Gate Farms, LLC in Vanzant, Mo., that s raises Red Devon cattle, a unique beef breed with a rich

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“I put in about a 10 (foot) by 10 (foot) greenhouse. That’s where I grow my plants and start my seeds for my own garden. I put in about 16 raised beds in our farm too. I sell the extra plants and the vegetables.”

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history. Welch said the history behind the Red Devon cattle makes a great lead in to encouraging folks to try their organic beef. “Being one of the first breeds brought over with the Pilgrims and the breed’s history with the Royal Family gives us a great opportunity to explain the wonderful health benefits.”

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ncourage young people to get involved with the beef industry.

The MCA supports growing the number of youth in the beef industry through their Junior Leadership Conference, where young people learn ways to promote the beef industry and agriculture both on and off the farm.

Encouraging your child to participate in their local 4-H or FFA chapter is an outstanding way to not only teach them to be an advocate of beef, but also gives them an opportunity to educate others. Local producers are doing their part as well to foster a love of beef within their communities.

“Promoting beef in a positive way keeps a high quality protein available to consumers, and stimulates interest in young producers to continue this industry,” said Tom Landers of Landers Lean Meats in Dadeville, Mo., which raises Red and Black Angus cattle.

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“Our main market strategy is to grill our products, mainly hamburger, to sample to the consumer,” Kirk Welch said. “We find sampling, along with cooking instructions, allows us to get products in the consumer’s mouths that is properly cooked and seasoned, and increases our sales dramatically.”

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Know what your buildings are worth, how much you can spend to replace them Most agricultural producers take out insurance on their farm buildings. The biggest challenges are figuring out what those buildings are worth – and how much you can afford to lose.

“One of the first conversations we would have with a producer we’re working on insurance with is, how much risk can the producer who self insures bear?” said Dan Childs, senior consultant and agricultural economist with the Samuel R. Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Okla. “For instance, if you have a structure worth $50,000, how much of that can you selfinsure if a portion, half or all of it, is blown away or destroyed in some form or fashion?

There’s kind of a perception among us as producers that, you know, my neighbor’s got insurance on his barn, and that’s something that we’re supposed to do. We forget to consider our financial condition, you might say, in coming up with an idea of how much we can self-insure.”

By self-insure, Childs means a deductible; the more of a deductible you’re willing to absorb, the lower the premium and the more cash you’ll have for the operation.

“If a producer thinks it would not jeopardize the operations of the business if I had an across-the-board $5,000 or $10,000 deductible on my structures, it’s going to reduce my insurance premiums each year by an equal relationship to how much I can self-insure, versus how much I want to pay someone else to take that risk instead of me,” Childs explained.

The producer also needs to come up with a value for each building. Usually, the condition of the building is assessed as “Excellent,” “Good,” “Fair” or “Poor.”

“Typically you take into consideration depreciation of the facility,” Childs said.

“You’re not going to get insurance to pay $50,000 for a $20,000 building when it’s gone. They’re replacing what you had, not what you want to have.”

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You can also insure machinery inside the buildings.

“Each (piece of machinery) would be itemized,” said Childs. “If you had a combine, grain auger and tractor, you would try to come up with a value for the particular condition that asset is in.”

Identification specific to the piece of equipment is helpful, such as a Vehicle Identification Number or serial number.

If cattle are insured they’ll also need individual identification, like a tag number, tattoo number or brand number.

A homeowner’s policy will cover liability up to a certain amount if an animal gets out and is hit by a car; you can also take out coverage on high value animals, like a bull or a show animal.

Michelle Schaffner, underwriting manager for Missouri Farm Bureau Insurance, said in addition to the values of the buildings, the agent will want to know its dimensions, uses and type of construction.

“And maybe how old the roofs are,” she told OFN. “It would be very helpful if they had some kind of idea of either the purchase price or, more specifically, what it would cost to replace that building if it were destroyed somehow. Some insurance companies will have tables and tools to help them determine that, and that’s why it would be good for them to know the square footage and the type of material in construction of the building, because that’s what those tools would ask for.”

The location of the building is factored into the insurance rating. Schaffner said what’s most important is how close the buildings are to the local fire station.

In addition to fire, the policy will cover such perils as windstorms, hail and lightning. Some insurance companies track weather patterns and historical storm activity, and consideration of previous storms and the paths of storms may be involved in the ratings.

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Research shows that less stress on cattle improves profitability Research proves it — placing less stress on cattle means money in your pocket.

Dr. Tom Troxel, assistant director of the animal science at the University of Arkansas, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor a number of studies show that handling cattle calmly and quietly is extremely important to subsequent animal performance.

That means “getting cattle used to a handling facility, doing some of the simple things so cattle move easily through a handling facility so you can work them properly and vaccinate them according to Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) guidelines,” he said. “Also, if you’re involved with an estrus synchronization AI program, research has shown that any kind of stress during the time of artificial insemination breeding can reduce conception rates.”

Troxel said there are three points of emphasis in a handling facility where stress can be avoided. The first is getting cattle gathered from a pasture to a smaller pen or crowding area. Cattle can balk and turn back at that point, and it’s important to condition them so they’ll move smoothly to the sorting area. Second is preparing to move them single file down a crowding alley and into the chute. He said, “A lot of times in modern facilities, they’ll put cattle into a tub and work into a circular motion, into a crowding alley going into a head gate.

One of the biggest mistakes that I’ll see people make is getting too many cattle in the tub. When that happens, the cattle cannot turn around; they get crowded and forced in there, so they cannot move freely and move properly through the tub.”

Finally, cattle will also sometimes balk as they circle towards the head gate.

Troxel cautioned against leaving items like coats hanging in that area to block the animals’ vision, or that can distract them with shadows or reflections. The alley should provide good footing so the cattle won’t slip and fall, and excess MAY 18, 2015

noise should be discouraged; Troxel said, “Banging, clanging, whooping, hollering, or dogs barking will cause cattle to stop and hesitate, looking to see what it is before they enter the chute or head gate.”

Bob Schultheis, natural resource engineering specialist with the University of Missouri Extension Center at Webster County, offered OFN a number of tips for constructing cattle handling facilities to reduce stress. Among the design features should be a 1 to 3 percent slope or grade to drain water away and prevent mud; durable, low maintenance fencing; a system that will funnel animals to a single file, closed-loop sorting, and allows for managing gate swing directions; and driveways designed to handle the largest trucks or trailers expected to be used. A safe and efficient access system should be installed for the veterinarian, which “makes them more willing to come back,” Schultheis said. “A good system won’t necessarily be a cheap system. Budget accordingly.”

Schultheis also suggests ranchers should learn how cattle think. “They have a tendency to circle, in order to see other herd members and to see what is behind them,” he said. “So use curves in the chute to keep them moving.”

Cattle remember painful experiences, so the A.I. and squeeze chute should not be the same. They also can’t judge distances well, so keep wire fences visible.

Schultheis said the working alley should be no more than 28 to 30 inches wide to prevent the cattle from turning, and the holding pen should allow for 20 square feet per head to hold all or part of the herd. The alleys leading to the sorting pens should be 10 to 12 feet wide, and the lead-up alley and working chute should have curved sidewalls a minimum of 5 feet high with sloping/adjustable sides to match animal size, a “2-4” opening at the bottom, and should be at least 20 feet long to hold three or four head. The posts should be anchored at least 36 to 42 inches deep in the ground.

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The Portable Corral Advantage

By Gary Digiuseppe

Demand continues to grow for corrals that can be easily moved R.L. Wilson got into the portable corral business in 1989, literally by accident.

“One of the local people here basically got squeezed between two panels,” Wilson, general manager of Burlington Welding in Cherokee, Okla, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “Some of the people came in and asked me about building a product, to come up with something better, and I sat down and designed the unit.”

The unit, known as the Wilson Wheeled Corral, was the beginning of Diamond W Corrals.

Wilson said he had been a custom harvester for 23 years, making the harvest rounds from Texas to Montana, and when I returned home that year they sold off the harvesting equipment and started work on the corrals. “I built the first 10 out of used pipe and sucker rod,” he said. “We made a deal with the county fair board – they needed money for the ribbons and the trophies for the county fair, and I needed a place to work. So we used the show ring at the county fairgrounds to do our work.”

In 1995, working with the city of Cherokee and with the help of a federal grant, they built and moved into a 40,000 square foot building.

In addition to the corrals, Wilson designed a portable sorting system for Burlington Welding, which is headed by his son Daniel.

“The sorting system is 48 feet long and 102 feet wide with transports,” R.L. explained. “If you set it down and start unfolding it as a gathering system, it will give you 1,850 square feet, and if you fold the panels back together to make two pens on each side of the alleyway in the center, it will be about 1,600 square feet.”

Bob Schultheis, natural resource engineering specialist for the University of Missouri Extension Center at Webster County, told OFN portable corrals have certain advantages; where cattle are scat-

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tered at multiple locations, they solve the need for permanent corrals. The system can typically be set up in a matter of 10 to 20 minutes. He recommended producers look for systems built with heavier-gauge and larger-diameter steel pipe or square tubing that will better resist the efforts of cattle to get out. Wheels with a big “footprint” will allow easier rolling and setup of panels on rough or uneven terrain. While winches and/or jacks can more easily lift heavy panels and reduce back injuries for the cattle handlers, Schultheis said the producer should make sure moving parts, pins, jacks, winches, leveling pads, etc., are kept to a minimum, but located in such a way they can serve multiple purposes.

On the negative side, he said, they present a greater security risk. “What works for the cattle producer can also work for cattle rustlers,” Schultheis said. “So plan to provide security measures at the cattle pastures to make it more difficult or timeconsuming for a rustler to move in and set up a portable corral system.”

Corrals built from pipe can throw lightand-shadow patterns that cause cattle to balk, and the animals can become distracted by people or animal movement outside of the system. Also, metal panels can make clanging noises that can cause more stress to the cattle, something that can be muted with rubber bumpers.

R.L. Wilson, though, said his units are reliable. “We’ve got units that have been out there since 1989 right now, that are still being used today. I’ve had units that have been involved in different types of wrecks, and they’ve brought them back in, and we’ve reconditioned them and put them back out.” He said he thought the high prices and short cattle supplies would make it tough for them, “but we’ve been really surprised. We have been building two units a day since October. We are just now getting some inventory built up ahead. In January, we were 40-some corrals behind.”

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Small to mid-sized tractors, livestock trailer sales grow as producers make upgrades Where there’s grass, cow/calf producers are making good money. Based on prices the week of April 25, Sterling Marketing in Vale, Ore., estimated the margin in 2015 at $541 per calf, and said it was $548 in 2014.

That’s translated to increased equipment purchases; the Association of Equipment Manufacturers says sales of small to midsize tractors under 100 horsepower last year were up 8 percent, with much of the increase credited to improved profitability in the dairy and livestock sectors.

“Anything to do with cattle equipment in the last six months has just been crazy,” said Bob Studebaker, owner of GoBob Pipe & Steel Sales in Mounds, Okla. Studebaker makes trailers, along with other products like hay feeders, bunk feeders and gates, and told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor he can’t keep up with demand for trailers. “Not really.

Right now, people have to wait anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks to get one.”

Studebaker said he believes producers are willing to wait for a quality product.

He got into the business after a stint with another company, where he discovered inexpensive trailers don’t last long. He consulted with several engineers and hit upon several techniques that he says help to defeat metal fatigue. He builds the entire trailer out of rectangular tubes, and transfers the twisting motion to a piece of pipe called a torsion tube.

On the back end of the trailer, to alleviate the longitudinal stress his trailers use “ground stabilizers,” blocks that drop down to the ground from the ramps when they’re put into the loading position. “That way, the ground absorbs the weight of what you’re loading, not the main beams on the trailer,” he said. They also spread the axles 9 inches wider than MAY 18, 2015

typical trailers, run the wide beam all the way to the hitch, and uses 19 pound, rather than 14 pound, 12 inch beams.

Studebaker said he has two three-man crews who build trailers “from the beginning until the stripes are put on; no one else touches it but those three guys.”

But he said they’re not alone in falling behind on orders.

“All of these guys I know from farm shows – they’re all just as busy as they can be,” Studebaker said. “The cattle people are making money, and they’re upgrading.” He also sells his own line of cattle handling equipment, and said as of the third week of April they were building equipment for orders taken in January. “I’ve had to farm out stuff; demand has been great,” he said Elaine Coose said her company, Coose Trailer Manufacturing, in Lockwood Mo, is also staying busy.

“We are about four months out right now on an order; at the end of 2014 we were six months out,” Coose told OFN. But she said that hasn’t been unusual over the last four years, since the company came out with a new design called the Ranch Hand.

She said, “We changed the style of our trailer; we use flaps on our sides, and offer it in a bar top and a metal top.”

The Ranch Hand also has two relatively new safety features. The Gate-in-Gate is a small gate inside the center gate that is operable from the outside of the trailer.

Coose said, “If you’re trying to load cattle, close the gate and decide, ‘I could have gotten another cow up front,’ you can open this from the outside and run one more in without opening up the big gate and getting inside the trailer, so it is a safety feature.”

The trailer also has a slam latch on its butterfly rear gates, so the operator doesn’t have to walk up to the back of the trailer and insert a pin.

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May 2015 19 Basic Sheep Production – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 20 Canola Field Day – 1-3 p.m. – Collins Farm, Intersection of County Roads

8800 and 8470, West Plains, Mo. – 417-256-2391 23 Master Gardeners of the Ozarks 2015 Home Garden Tour – 8 a.m.-4 p.m. –

registration fee: $25.00 – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 23 Fifth Annual Wagons for Warriors – Entertainment begins at 10 a.m.,

lunch begins at noon at the Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Center in Lebanon –

$10 per person, includes meal and drink. Children 5 and under are free.

Chuckwagons from Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Indiana. All

proceeds benefit the Fort Leonard Wood AUSA Wounded Warrior Fund.

– 417-588-3256 or wagonsforwarriors.com 23 Gala of the Royal Horses – 7:30 p.m. – Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Center,

Lebanon, Mo. – http://www.etix.com/ticket/p/8677268/gala-of-the-royal horses-lebanon-cowan-civic-center 23-29 Missouri 4-H Equine Tour – Open to youth ages 14-18 – 816-539-3765 26 Eating Wild Edibles – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 26 Estate Planning – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-239-1882 or 417-546-4431 27-29 4-H Dairy Cow Camp – Open to Missouri youth ages 8 to 18 interested in

the dairy industry – 417-466-3102 28 Credit: How to Get It and How to Fix It – 6-8 p.m. – Cost: $5 per person

– Healthy Nevada Innovation Center, 212 W. Walnut, Nevada, Mo. –

enrollment deadline is May 22 – 417-448-2560 29-30 Mangament Intensive Grazing School – Camdenton, Mo. – 573-346-5125 29-30 Lindsay Austin Smith Memorial Rodeo – 7 p.m. at the Fair Grove, Mo.

Saddle Club Arena. Auction at 5 p.m. on May 30. Proceeds to benefit the

LAS Community Crisis Fund – 417-988-0720 or 417-425-8052 June 2015 1, 8 Pasture Plant Identification Class – Hermitage, Mo. – 417-745-6767 2 Barton County Wheat Tour – 6:30 p.m. – David Sheat Farm, Directions:

Go east of Lamar, Mo. on 160 to A Hwy; north on A Hwy 1 ¼ miles; plots

are on the east side of the road – 417-682-3579 2 Brown Bag Lunch Garden Series Keyhole Garden – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 2 Annual Dallas County Beef Cow Camp 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. – Fairgrounds,

Buffalo, Mo. – Cost: $5 – Pre-registation needed by May 22. Complete

registration and livestock health forms required for participation. – 417-345-7551 4-6 Missouri Show Me Bison Conference – Downstream Casino Resort, Joplin, Mo.

– 417-226-4540 6 Relay for Life Trail Ride – Leadmine Conservation Area, Tunas, Mo. –

417-599-8217, 417-770-5317, 417-733-1625

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July 2015 6-11 Laclede County Fair – Lebanon, Mo. – 417-532-7126 7 Brown Bag Lunch Garden Series Drip Irrigation – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 7-8 Missouri Dairy Grazing Conference – Ramada Hotel & Oasis Convention

Center, Springfield, Mo – 417-741-6134, 417-847-3161, 573-882-0668 7-11 Bates County Fair – Butler, Mo. – 660-679-4167 8-11 Newton County Fair – Fairgrounds, Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 11 6th Annual Dade County Youth Fair – Greenfield, Mo. – 417-637-2112 12-14 Howell County Fair – Heart of the Ozarks Fairgrounds, West Plains, Mo. – 417-256-2391 August 2015 3-6 Cattlemen’s Bus Tour – going through Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi

– $335 per person (includes bus and hotel room) – 417-745-6767 4 Brown Bag Lunch Garden Series Harvest Time – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 22 Pollinators Class – 10 a.m. – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 September 2015 1 Brown Bag Lunch Garden Series Growing Micro Greens – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 10 Southwest Center Ag Education Day – Southwest Research Center, Mount

Vernon, Mo. – 417-466-3102 11 Southwest Center Field Day – Southwest Research Center, Mount Vernon, Mo.

– 417-466-3102 October 2015 3 Monarch Watch – 10 a.m. – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431

auction block

May 2015 30 5th Annual Select Opportunity Sale – Wethers and Bred Does offered –

Tin Can Hill Ranch, Damascus, Ark. – 501-428-7309 or 501-733-8834

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8-10 Grazing School – Squires, Mo. – 417-679-3525 9 Food Safety guidelines for the home – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 15, 22 Pasture Plant Identification Class – 6:30-9 p.m. – $15 a night or $20 for

both nights – University of Missouri Extension Office, Lebanon, Mo. – 417-532-7126 16 Berry Basics – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 18-20 Polk County Fair – Fairgrounds, Bolivar, Mo. – 417-326-4916 20 2nd Annual Pulaski County Extension Golf Tournament – Richland, Mo.

– 573-765-4825 or 660-365-0164 25 Master Gardeners Meeting – 1:30 p.m. – Hermitage, Mo. – 417-745-6767 25 An Evening in the Garden – 5-8 p.m. – Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 30 Native Plants – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500

June 2015 22-27 Midwest Stud Ram Sale – Missouri State Fairground in Sedalia, Mo. –

www.midwestsale.com or 218-770-2428

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MAY 18, 2015

Cattlemen’s Seedstock Directory

Angus 4R Farms - Republic, MO 417-869-1462 - 417-844-4929 - www.4rfarmslowlines.com Clearwater Farm - Springfield, MO 417-732-8552 - 417-732-2707 Le Jeune Farms - Halfway, MO 417-445-2214 - 417-777-0894 - lejeune@windstream.net Matthews Coach’s Corral - Fair Grove, MO - 417-838-4088 - www. matthewscoachscorral.com matthewscoachscorral@gmail.com Mead Farms - Barnett, MO 573-216-0210 - 573-280-6855 Balancers Bob Harriman Genetics Montrose, MO - 660-492-2504 Hilltop Farms - Asbury, MO 417-642-5871 - 417-529-0081 Beefmasters Jerry Glor Beefmasters Springfield, MO - 417-840-6471 Charolais Aschermann Charolais - Carthage, MO - 417-793-2855 - www. aschermanncharolais.com Beiswinger Charolais Ranch Halfway, MO - 417-253-4304 Mead Farms - Barnett, MO 573-216-0210 - 573-280-6855 S&J Charolais - LaRussell, MO 417-246-1116 Gelbvieh 4AR Simmental/Gelbvieh Conway, MO - 417-689-2164 Hilltop Farms - Asbury, MO 417-642-5871 - 417-529-0081 Herefords Jim D. Bellis - Aurora, MO 417-678-5467 - 417-466-8679 Journagan Ranch - Mtn. Grove, MO - 417-948-2669 Kaczmarek Herefords - Salem, MO - 573-729-5923 Mead Farms - Barnett, MO 573-216-0210 - 573-280-6855 R&L Polled Herefords -Halfway, MO 417-445-2461 - 417-777-0579 Lim-Flex Le Jeune Farms - Halfway, MO 417-445-2214 - 417-777-0894 - lejeune@windstream.net Limousin Le Jeune Farms - Halfway, MO 417-445-2214 - 417-777-0894 - lejeune@windstream.net Locust Grove Limousin - Miller, MO - 417-452-2227 Pinegar Limousin - Springfield, MO - 1-877-PINEGAR Red Angus Dunseth Farm - Halfway, MO 417-445-2256 Salers Dunseth Farm - Halfway, MO 417-445-2256 Sim/Angus Bob Harriman Genetics Montrose, MO - 660-492-2504 Matthews Coach’s Corral - Fair Grove, MO - 417-838-4088 - www. matthewscoachscorral.com matthewscoachscorral@gmail.com Simmental 4AR Simmental/Gelbvieh Conway, MO - 417-689-2164 Matthews Coach’s Corral - Fair Grove, MO - 417-838-4088 - www. matthewscoachscorral.com matthewscoachscorral@gmail.com

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Fencing

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5/18/15

Baler Belts for All Balers

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Estate Auction Monday • May 25 • 10 a.m. (Memorial Day) 505 State Hwy BB • Fair Play, Mo. Estate of Riley Casebolt - Linda Casebolt, Owner Real Estate & Estate Auction Friday • May 29 • 10 a.m. • 207 N. Russell • Bolivar, Mo. Estate of Dottie Cox • Roger & Randy Hammer, Admin.

Real Estate Auction Saturday • May 30 • 10 a.m. • 625 W. Hughs • Bolivar, Mo. Estate of Bradford & Chestine Ahart

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5/18/15

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• Friday Night, May 29th – Military Night – Active military FREE, spouse and retired half price, Kids 11 and under FREE, Goat Scramble sponsored by Salem Butcher Shop

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We Carry a Full Line of Late Model Equipment!

• Saturday Night, May 30th – Pink Night – Calf Scramble sponsored by NewKirk Auction, Large screen TV giveaway by Cable America

Rodeo Saturday Events: 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Games for all ages, Food and craft vendors, parade at 2 p.m.

Entertainment throughout the day.

Interested writers can email writing samples to julie@ozarksfn.com

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