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New head of MSU Ag Department named: As of Aug. 1, Missouri State University’s Darr School of Agriculture will hand over the reins to a new director: Dr. Ronald Del Vecchio. He was selected to replace the longstanding director, Dr. Anson Elliott, who retired Dec. 31, 2015. Del Vecchio will also be responsible for administration of facilities associated with the School of Agriculture. The school has a unique position among academic units in that the work of the director includes primary level oversight for the Fruit Science Experiment Station at Mountain Grove and several other locations, including Shealy Farm, Journagan Ranch, Bakers Acres and the Woodlands. Del Vecchio most recently was at the University of Minnesota – Crookston. He served as a professor and was the department head of the agriculture and natural resources department from July 2008-July 2015.

Ozarks residents place in annual contest: The results of the 86th annual Hoard’s Dairyman Cow Judging contest were recently announced, with residents from the Ozarks receiving honors.

In the agriculture instructor category, Ramona Andrus, Mountain Grove, Mo., received an honorable mention. In the family division, Andrus Dairy Family of Mountain Grove, Mo., and the Mike Rauch Family, of Billings, Mo., received honorable mentions.

Agencies benefit from fundraising campaign: The Greene and Webster County Extension Councils, as well as the H.A.Y. (Horses Assisting Youth) Foundation, participated in the second Give Ozarks 24-hour day of giving on May 3. The H.A.Y. Foundation received $40,630 in donations. The Webster County Extension received $15,718 in donations and the Greene County Extension Council finished the day with $7,454.

Grant winners announced: The Missouri Department of Agriculture announced that 31 farmers markets from across Missouri were awarded grants through the 2016 Farmers’ Market Promotion Matching grant program. Each of the 2016 awardees will receive up to $1,000 in matching grant funds toward promotion projects.

Winning markets from the Ozarks are: Ash Grove Farmers Market (Greene County), Branson Farmers Market (Taney County), Farmers Alliance of Rural Missouri (Camden County), Farmers Market of the Ozarks (Greene County), Greater Springfield Farmers Market (Greene County), Hickory County Farmers Market (Hickory County), Monett Area Farmers Market (Barry County), Nixa Area Farmers Market (Christian County), Ozark Downtown Farmers Market (Christian County), Vernon County Farmers Market (Vernon County) and Webb City Farmers Market (Jasper County).

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Missouri State University, I was, once again, blessed with good fortune and is an author and when the university assigned me to do my professional speaker. student teaching under this gentleman in the To contact Jerry, go to spring of 1974. Although I had never met the ozarksfn.com and click man, I most certainly knew his reputation as on ‘Contact Us.’ one of the very best ag teachers in the Midwest.

He had trained dozens of championship judging teams and assisted scores more in exhibiting their champion dairy, beef, swine, and sheep at fairs all over the area. His FFA chapter had sent more students on to become American Farmers, State Farmers and State Officers than just about any other program in the state, and on top of all these accolades, he was considered an outstanding classroom teacher as well. That was quite the package to throw at a naïve 21-year old country boy from way back in the sticks.

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hen I came to work at Ozarks Farm & Neighbor a little over a year ago, I knew I had found my “dream job.”

Julie Turner-Crawford I get to talk about livestock just is a native of Dallas about everyday, I get to talk to farmers just about evCounty, Mo., where she eryday, and I have the opportunity to be an advocate grew up on her family’s for agriculture with every stroke of the keyboard. farm. She is a graduate What farmer’s daughter wouldn’t love it? of Missouri State I recently, however, discovered a new calling – University. To contact an agriculture technical advisor for television and/ Julie, call 1-866-532-1960 or movies. Now, I don’t know if this is a real job or or by email at editor@ not, but I think Hollywood can use my help. ozarksfn.com.

One recent evening at the Crawford Ranch, Bill and I were settled in and opted to watch a movie. It was a comedy, our favorite movie genre, and we had no idea that there would be any tie to agriculture, but there were a couple.

Of course, a “rancher” in the movie was all decked out in his very best Roy Rogers outfit and said the word “shucks” several times, and there were a few “yee-haws,” all of which I’m sure were part of the comedic aspect of the movie – at least I hope so anyway. It was pretty comical to watch the “rancher” strut around like a proud little show pony while rambling on in a horrible fake accent, but as I said, it was a comedy.

As the movie progressed, the “rancher” showed his city-dwelling kinfolk his pride and joy, calling it his “100 percent certified Angus” steer.

Bill and I looked at each, shook our heads and let out a very boisterous, “No, it’s not!”

The prized “Angus” steer looked more to me like a big ol’ Hereford-cross with its red body and white face, complete with a red ring around one eye and a huge set of horns. There might have been a little Longhorn in him with the look of those curves in his horns.

The “rancher” gave the steer a chunk of meat from the table and sent him on his way. Yes, the steer ate meat.

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page The agriculture misconceptions continued for a few scenes, but thankfully there weren’t many more.

It isn’t the first time the studio executives have been wrong when it comes to livestock and agriculture. In the early 1990s, a movie hit the silver screen that was billed as a “Western comedy.” It had all kinds of issues, but perhaps the one that stuck out to me the most was the “birthing scene.”

The one of the main charterers assisted a cow/heifer in the delivery of a steer calf. Please correct me if I am wrong, but don’t they have to be bulls first?

Also, the calf, a pretty little Jersey with big brown eyes, was born to a little Hereford momma. I wonder if she was a recip?

For a large portion of this nation’s population, unfortunately, movies are the

closest they get to a cow or any other livestock. It’s just too bad they aren’t getting the right information.

Getting the right information out to the general public is something farmers and ranchers have struggled with for generations – and TV and movies aren’t giving an accurate depiction of our industry.

So at this time, I am officially declaring my agricultural knowledge available to Hollywood. It might take the producers and directors a while to realize that they really do need me, so in the meantime, I plan on staying right here at Ozarks Farm & Neighbor – where the real stars shine in each and every issue.

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When the last bell rang that day, the old gentleman invited me into is small office to get to know me. I nervously listed what I thought were my strengths and weaknesses.

He soaked those comments in for an awkwardly long time before asking, “Why do you want to be an ag teacher?” I gave him a short but genuine answer that brought (at least, in my mind) the slightest hint of a smile to the lower, left corner of his mouth.

Silently, he looked me over from head to toe (remember, it was 1973) before stating, “You will be getting a haircut and shaving that moustache before you arrive to teach?”

I assured him that I would show up looking like a professional teacher. “Very good,” he answered. “I’ll see you here in six weeks.”

When I showed up to begin student teaching, he warned me that we would be working with students every day and night while I was there – except for Thursday nights – that was his bowling night. He didn’t mislead me, for we pretty much lived at the school that spring and, at the end, I was convinced MAY 30, 2016

that I had learned more in that semester than I had in all my previous 15 1/2 years of schooling.

A master teacher, Mr. Young had many effective teaching techniques, but my favorite was where he would play the fool by pretending he had forgotten some fact or procedure and ask the students if they could refresh his memory. They would roll their eyes and quickly come up with the correct information to show that they were smarter than the teacher.

It’s a method that I used throughout my teaching career, even though it was less of a stretch in acting for me, because I usually had forgotten the information.

In attendance at the visitation and funeral were scores of his former students.

Since I live two counties away, I didn’t know a fraction of the hundreds of mourners, but even I recognized many successful farmers, auctioneers, attorneys, salesmen, business leaders, college professors, bankers, accountants, teachers and even the owner of the funeral home, that had all been his students at one time. Undoubtedly, he influenced their lives in a positive way as much as he had my own.

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The Bob and Kim Coulter family strive for increased efficiency Peak View Farm, owned and operated by the Coulter family and located in Webster County, Mo., is well named.

Situated upon a gently rolling hill with the farmhouse at the top, Peak View Farm has a beautiful view of not only the surrounding countryside, but also the herds and flocks that call the farm home.

Bob and Kim Coulter and their nine children work diligently to raise and preserve not just the stock on their

Kim Coulter, pictured with four of her nine children, owns Peak View Farm with her husband Bob. The couple and their family raise sheep, pigs and poultry.

and their children to work together as a family.

At the time, Bob and Kim were living in Colorado and changing the type of food they were bringing into their home to fresher, healthier items, so farming and raising their own food was a natural progression. The Coulter family moved to their current 38-acre farm in Seymour, Mo., in 2014, and began to cultivate their land using practices modeled after Joel Salatin’s natural approach.

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Today, Peak View Farm is home to a flock of 40 Katahdin sheep, more than 100 Red Sexlink laying hens, 150 broiler chickens, a small herd of pigs, as well as a few cows and rabbits.

“We’re trying to be as diverse as posfarm, but the health of the forages and sible,” said Bob. Peak View Farm uses what Bob calls soil as well. a “migration process” across the farm Farming is a business and that allows the Coulters’ to rotaa lifestyle that the Coulter tionally graze their animals and family is well suited to. use every available bit of land.

Family matriarch Kim grew Bob noted that “efficiency per up on a farm, and after Bob’s Seymour, Mo. acre is important here.”

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pect of Bob and Kim’s business plan.

While all the ventures on the farm are important, the Coulters’ are focusing on making lamb their niche.

“Lambs we’ve raised here from birth put on a bigger size,” Kim said, adding that through the purchase of a larger ram, they hope to achieve greater carcass weights to be more efficient.

The breeding program for the ewes at Peak View Farm is to breed them every nine months, which allows for more rest for the ewe between lambs, therefore increasing longevity with a little extra care.

Peak View Farm markets its products, which includes all cuts, organs and even the lamb skins, through two local farmers markets, their own website and at local health food store.

All of the animals on Peak View Farm are raised on pasture, and allowed to forage as they would naturally, with supplemented non-GMO feed with a mineral mix of the Coulters’ own design.

The mineral mix, which also acts as a natural dewormer, includes organic powdered sea kelp, diatomaceous earth, salt, garlic and cayenne pepper.

The laying hens at Peak View Farm are moved every three days via two rolling “egg-mobiles” and electric netting.

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The family’s future plans include tripling their meat production with broilers, and continuing to perfect the hanging weights of their lambs, using the same efficient and diverse techniques to produce quality products.

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Her first goats came from a swap meet in 1993 or 1994 when she bought two Nubian.

“I’ve just always thought goats were neat and cute,” Barbara said. “Whenever I would see some out in the field I’d say, ‘Oh, look at the little baby goats.’ I didn’t do it from an economic standpoint.”

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Barbara Holaday started a Boer goat operation in 1995.

She said she started with goats simply because she thought they were “cute.”

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They love that. They love gingersnaps, but they aren’t too picky,” she said.

Barbara has several dapple Boer goats.

Around 1995, Barbara got into Boer “From the South Africans, we started goats.

“I bred my Nubians to some Boer bucks,” with the traditional-colored Boer goat,” she recalled. “It kind of took off from she explained. “That’s the white ones there, and I had a good market for them.” with the red heads. Then paint got kind of Barbara said the Boer breed was “just popular and then red. People started getcatching on in the 1990s and coming to ting more and more of those. Then when the United States.” Even though she had a the dapples started getting more popular, couple of Nubians, which are a dairy breed, that sort of took off. I like them too.”

While she likes the coloring of her Barbara never went into milk production.

“I didn’t milk because I didn’t want to get dappled goats, she still wants a structurmarried to the milk stand twice a day, and I ally correct animal.

“It’s been kind of a challenge to make had a full-time job,” she recalled. “I thought the Boer goats would be a good goat to mi- sure you get a good quality dapple with grate to because they don’t usually milk good conformation,” Barbara said.

Although popular now, Barbara said the the meat goats. They were commanding a very good price for the percentages and the dapples started out as “accidents.”

“The South Africans used many full-bloods.” Even though she indigenous goat breeds to develop does like the Nubian breed, the Boer goat and some of those Barbara no longer has any in breeds were naturally spotted, her operation. so all those different goats are The best farming advice Barabra said she ever received Springfield , Mo. in the background somewhere,” she explained. was to start small.

“While the South Af“Start with a few; no more ricans tried to solidify the than five goats before you ever breed so they would get mostly expand,” she said. “Learn about their metabolism and health. Learn how all white with red heads, once in a while to choose good ones, parasite-resistant something else would pop up. Americans would save and start producing those.” ones. Learn good management.”

She believes the appeal of the dapple is Barbara insists good management is key the color and that it’s something different. to a successful goat herd.

“Seems like the black Dapples are “I’ve been to a lot of seminars and visited a lot of farms,” she said. “Get out there and most popular at the moment,” she said.

Barbara sells mostly breeding stock, see what other people are doing and decide what you want to incorporate on your farm. but she is careful about the animals she “A lot of people get out of goats be- sells to other producers.

“I have a lot of bucks,” she said. “Some cause they have problems with managing goats. If you learn first, you won’t that are not as good a quality, and I don’t have as many problems and you won’t want to sit on a bunch of bucks trying to get caught losing a lot of money because sell them to individuals, I’ll take them you’ve got a whole bunch of goats and to the sale barn.”

Barbara has her grain custom mixed don’t manage them well.”

Barbara likes the Boer goats because for her operation.

“It’s mostly oats, barley, wheat bran, and she believes they are easier to manage.

She puts them in stalls and deworms an extender pellet of some sort,” she said. them, and has their feet trimmed as of- “I have a nutritionist balance it, and he will ten as possible. Barbara also uses a lot of help me figure out what works. Right now herbs and essential oils to boost their im- I’ve added some sunflower seeds and alfalfa pellets, and took out soy hull pellets.” mune system, and kill or deter parasites.

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James Rosbrugh has been around livestock for all of his 76 years Tucked away in a barn on one of the highest points in St. Clair County, Mo., is the first tractor James Rosbrugh learned to drive.

Purchased new, by his father, Marvin A. Rosbrugh, in 1941, this piece of machinery formed the foundation of a life-long livelihood. James and his wife, Karen, live down the road from where James grew up.

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James became rooted in agriculture at an early age and has continued the family tradition of raising cattle for 76 years.

“When I was a kid, we had chickens, hogs, sheep, cattle, wheat, oats, and corn,” explained James who was nine years old when his father started raising registered Angus cattle in 1948.

“You name it, we were farmers. I have been driving a tractor since I was old enough and big enough to do it,” he replied.

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James was in seventh grade because their tion James does not overlook. He believes dad worked off the farm as a rural school when producers rotationally grazing the teacher. James vividly recalls the hours cattle it reduces the parasite load. he spent plowing, planting, and taking “You can see that in the quality of the care of the cattle until he graduated from calves,” James said. “I do not use any El Dorado Springs High School in 1957. growth hormones. I am not certified that “We did most of the farming as far as way. I don’t do it because I don’t like it.” the crops were concerned, except the The way cattle are grazed is one of the harvest, because Daddy would be out biggest changes to the beef industry James of school in the summertime and would has witnessed over the years. help us with the harvest,” he recalled.

“We used to turn the herd out on a big James spent a few years away from the pasture and leave them there,” he exfamily farm while he served in the Air plained, adding that they would bring the Force as a B-52 navigator and bombardier. cattle home during the winter months.

After James retired The types of forfrom the Air Force, ages that cattle are he and Karen refed have changed turned to Missouri in throughout the years.

1993 and purchased “We have gone from I won’t keep 40 acres west of El prairie hay, to now Dorado Springs and we have some grass anything I can’t three registered Anmixtures. I inherited walk up to and gus cows with calves mostly Fescue, but I at their side. pet or won’t come still have some pas“When my dad tures of native prairie to me and take passed away, he had a that has never been fair amount of land so a cube out of my plowed,” he clarified we seven siblings dithat he will graze and hand. Docility vided it up. I have this bale those pastures. part of it that Daddy James has transitioned is definitely bought in 1967 and his operation from important. they actually lived continuous grazing to in this house for 18 rotational grazing and – James Rosbrugh years,” James said as he tries to keep the cattle referenced the house off the hay ground as where he now resides. much as possible.

James and Karen In addition to currently run 63 head working on the farm, of crossbred beef cattle on 250 acres of James was a familiar face in the El Doowned and rented land. Several Angus rado Springs R-II School District, where cows and a registered Angus bull are still he spent 14 years employed as a bus drivpart of the herd. er and 12 years as a substitute teacher.

James prefers to retain heifers only if they James and Karen are active in their meet certain criteria. He emphasizes the ge- church and community. Both are dedinealogy of the heifers. “What was grandma cated members of Lions Club Internalike, what was momma like, what does she tional. James is a prominent leader in the look like, and then I’ll look at the confor- El Dorado Springs Lions Club, where he mation of them; basically it’s their genetic has been the president, vice president background,” James explained. “I won’t and secretary. He has served as district keep anything I can’t walk up to and pet or governor, covering eight counties in won’t come to me and take a cube out of Southwest Missouri, and has been on my hand. Docility is definitely important.” many committees on the local, district If they charge us, they are gone,” Karen and state level. The couple faithfully atadded. tends the El Dorado Springs Church of Scheduling vaccinations and parasite the Nazarene, where James is the Sunday control methods are aspects of the opera- School Superintendent.

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Lockwood Packing Company Story and Photo By Julie Turner-Crawford

Location: Lockwood, Mo. Owners: Allan and Koleen Frickenschmidt History: Allan and Koleen Frickenschmidt opened Lockwood Packing in 1987. The facility had previously been a meat processor, but had been closed for a couple of years.

The Frickenschmidt family completely refurbished the facility, which continues to grow.

Steven Ogden, manager of raw production of Lockwood Packing, said the facility has now expanded several times since the purchase and is currently about 30,000 square feet.

About three years ago, a retail market was added, which features Frickenschmidt Foods specialty products.

Services and products: Lockwood Packing annually processes about 1,000 beefs and 1,200 hogs, and has about 30 fulltime employees.

“We do custom slaughtering and processing of our customers’ animals, right down to the curing of pork,” Steven said. All processing and curing is done in house.

Customers can select a variety of custom processed products, including a variety of brats, sausage, summer sausage and custom cut steaks.

Lockwood Packing has won several awards for its cured meats, including Grand Champion Beef Summer Sausage at the Missouri Cured Meat Show, as well as Best of Beef with a jalapeno and cheese summer sausage.

USDA inspectors are available two days a month, which allows customers to do their own direct sales through farmers markets and other venues. There is no extra charge associated with the USDA inspection On the retail side of the business, Steven said it started off very small, mostly with a freezer filled with regular cuts, hamburger, sausage and other items. But, as the business grew, so did the store.

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“We moved on this farm in 1979 and we have been here ever since,” Ronnie said.

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The trends in the sheep industry have The Dains family is known for raising and showing registered Dorset sheep. changed over the years.

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— Continued on Next Page They have around 25 ewes, MAY 30, 2016

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While the demand has shifted away from “We have really been blessed with wool and more toward synthetic fabrics, the amount of people that have worked value is still placed on lamb meat. around us and with us. It’s been more of “We went to more meat animals, put- a family project,” Ronnie shared. “The ting more muscle and meat on them,” memories are what I will go back with.”

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The shows have brought the Dains fam“We went from muscle and meat to tall ily a great deal of attention over the years. and big, and now they are coming back,” “We never were, what you would say, Debbie added. a high-budget operation,” Ronnie ex“As far as the quality of animals, I be- plained. “We have always done with lieve it has improved immensely,” Ron- what we could and done the best that nie assured. we could. We have won the Missouri The Dains’ focus is to produce a high- State Fair, we had a junior champion at quality show animal.

Louisville; Kalie did. The last year they “The Dorsets we have had breeding sheep at are the big, showy kind,” the American Royal, Ronnie explained. she won that. We have Debbie said they have had success.” sold a few of their DorRonnie is the chairman set as weathers, but the probably won’t of the Missouri Sheep breed simply isn’t “built Merchandising Council make you a for that.” and is an active member living, but it Completeness, motherof the Missouri Sheep ing ability and size are deProducers, Inc. He was ciding factors in replacepart of the committee ment ewes. that started the fitting ”Not necessarily are contest at the Missouri they going to be the , State Fair. This contest biggest, but they have is one of the few in the along with the nation where the exhibithe ability to go out on grass and produce a tors fit a raw lamb to be calves. lamb,” said Ronnie. show ready. It has since The couple’s daughexpanded to include the – Ronnie Dains ters began their showing fitting of slick lambs. careers at the Bates County Youth Fair “Trimming of the sheep is a lost art,” and over the years they traveled many Ronnie said. miles showing sheep at the Ozark Empire In addition to working with her family Fair, Missouri State Fair, Tulsa State Fair, at the Missouri State Fair, Debbie has proAmerican Royal and the North American moted lamb by helping serve dinner to the Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Ky. exhibitors in the Missouri State Fair Sale “Different years, we would go different of Champions for the last 10 years. places with what our schedule would alCattle and goats also call the farm home. low,” Ronnie said. “Both of us worked; Ronnie has a crossbred Angus cow-calf we have always made time and had fun. enterprise and Tayton has a herd of Boar We have always had fun. It’s been re- goats. ally, really good for the family. It’s been a “It takes it all to make one,” Ronnie family affair, it really has.” said. “Sheep probably won’t make you a His grandsons, Tayton Dains and Jar- living, but it will add to your cash flow, rett Long, have taken an interest in along with the calves.” showing sheep and are following in their Off the farm, Ronnie has been emmothers’ footsteps. Tayton is a competi- ployed with Hiland Dairy for the last tive sheep and goat showman on the 18 years and Debbie works part-time for county and state level.

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Dorsey Demott raises Balancer cattle on land that was homesteaded by his ancestors Dorsey and Kathy Demott will be the first to admit their registered Balancer cows are spoiled.

On 120 acres in rural Pulaski County, Mo., between Richland and Crocker, they have approximately 30 momma cows and at the moment, a dozen calves.

Kathy’s favorite is a calf she has bottle fed from birth named Rosebud.

“She was one of a pair of twins and the momma would not accept her, so I took

that are only 4 years old and one of the best bulls ever, from Freeburg. I like using the Balancer bulls that are 75 percent Angus and 25 percent Gelbvieh, to get the muscling. The Gelbvieh are particularly docile and produce lots of milk so that helps provide stability.”

Dorsey said a recently-sold group of calves did very well for him.

“I’m just doing commercial right now, but they bring high dollar,” he said. “I’ve

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Dorsey Demott lives on 120 acres in rural Pulaski County, Mo., where he raises Balancer cattle.

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also done registered bulls in the past and will probably go back to that again soon.

Sometimes, my neighbors ask me to sell care of her,” she said as she rubbed the to them and I usually end up selling to calf’s head, which both seemed to enjoy. them as well.

“I like to sell as good a quality as I pos“I like the Balancer, the Gelbvieh with the Angus,” Dorsey added, getting down sibly can. I’m pretty picky about the EPDs for all the cattle, especially the to the serious business of cattle bulls. Everyone is moving toward the production. “I bought half EPDs, so much so that you know my herd from Neosho Mo., the EPDs on a calf even before the red and the black half from its born, what with the bull’s Freeburg, Mo. I run both red and Richland, Mo. and cow’s birth weight, weanblack so I can follow the market ing weight, and the yearling either way. I have a really young herd, all first time heifers, averag— Continued on Page 20 ing 6 to 7 years old. I have a few

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“The best part of being a banker is helping people,” Kim said. “Banking has changed over the years in that now, as bankers, we get out of the office to meet the customer at their business or on their farm. Years ago, that wasn’t greatly appreciated, back when I first started in banking in the early ‘80s. We, the bankers, were seen more like an adversary, like we were checking up on people. Today, our customers like to show us what they are doing and I certainly enjoy it.”

In the Country: Kim grew up on the farm where he and his family now live and have 55 stock cows in a cow/calf operation.

“We have 255 acres and lease another 160 acres, all in Laclede County,” Kim explained. “We also have 160 acres in hay each year. We have somebody else doing it, round bales on shares so we get 50 percent of it. It works out better for us that way.

There is only so much time in the day to get things done.

“My parents, Johnny and Janey Light, raised commercial cows on this same farm and my dad also raised hogs. My dad passed away five years ago but my mother still lives on the family farm.

“My daughter loves the farm and has every intention of taking it over when I decide I’m done. She was the valedictorian of her high school senior class last year and a three-sport athlete, but she would still come home each day to feed the cattle,” Kim said. “It doesn’t matter what we are doing there, vaccinating, castrating, she’s right there, lending a hand.”

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slaughter

market sales reports

bulls

beef

(Week of 5/15/16 to 5/21/16)

Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle 94.00-113.00*

Barry County Regional Stockyards

88.00-116.00 † 74.00-98.50 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

87.50-107.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

78.00-109.00 †

Mid Missouri Stockyards

95.00-110.00* 87.00-102.50 †

MO-KAN Livestock Auction - Butler

89.00-95.50

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna

40

†

Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards

84.50-105.00 †

Springfield Livestock Marketing Center

20

dairy

80.00-109.50*

Ozarks Regional Stockyard

60

80

slaughter

100

120

140

cows

(Week of 5/15/16 to 5/21/16)

65.00-87.00*

Barry County Regional Stockyard

63.00-83.50*

Buffalo Livestock Market

50.00-82.00 †

Douglas County Livestock

52.00-76.50 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards Joplin Regional Stockyards

51.00-85.00 † 57.50-86.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction Mid Missouri Stockyards

75.00-84.00*

MO-KAN Livestock Auction

60.00-84.00 † 52.50-87.00 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyard

53.50-74.00 †

South Central Regional

49.50-88.50 †

Springfield Livestock Market

10

30

50

70

cow/calf

90

110

130

pairs

(Week of 5/15/16 to 5/21/16) Barry County Regional

1125.00-1750.00*

Buffalo Livestock Market

None Reported*

Douglas County Livestock Auction

1350.00-1500.00 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

None Reported †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

None Reported †

Ava Douglas County† 5/19/16

950.00-1700.00 †

Ozarks Regional South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna Springfield Livestock Marketing

850

1725.00-2500.00

†

1285.00-1500.00 †

1350

1850

replacement

2350

cows

2850 Steers, Med. & Lg. 1

(Week of 5/15/16 to 5/21/16)

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

850.00-1375.00*

Barry County Regional

1070.00-1575.00*

Buffalo Livestock Market Douglas County Livestock

1025.00-1275.00 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards

1000.00-1385.00 †

Joplin Regional

Holsteins, Lg. 3 300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

775.00-1650.00 †

Kingsville Livestock

885.00-1285.00

Mid Missouri Stockyards

†

1250.00-1600.00* 1060.00-1385.00 †

MO-KAN Livestock Market Ozarks Reg

700.00-1700.00 †

South Central Reg

Heifers, Med. & Lg. 1

1100.00-1500.00 † 725.00-1400.00 †

Springfield Live

18 18

goats

Diamond, Mo. • TS Whites Sheep and Goat Sale

5/5/16

Receipts: 1288 Supply was good and demand was very good with a standing room only crowd on hand. Lamb and Ewe markets had a lower undertone compared to last Month while goat markets had a slightly higher undertone.

Supply included 16 percent slaughter Ewes and Rams, 33 percent slaughter lambs, 30 percent kid goats, and 14 percent Bucks and Does. All prices are per hundred weight (CWT) Unless noted otherwise.

SHEEP: Feeder Lambs: Medium and Large Choice 28-35 lbs 240.00-255.00. Good 2-3 33-37 lbs 230.00-237.50. Utility 3-4 20-30 lbs 200.00-210.00.

Slaughter Lambs: Wooled: Choice 2-3 40-85 lbs 220.00230.00. Good 2-3 63-75 lbs 180.00-205.00; Old Crop 80-94 lbs 140.00-165.00; 108-145 lbs 120.00-135.00.

Hair Lambs: Good 1-2 40-63 lbs 220.00-240.00; 65-75 lbs 200.00-210.00. Good 2-3 42-60 lbs 210.00-217.50; 76-88 lbs 165.00-180.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Wooled: Utility 3-4 128-141 lbs 70.0082.50. Culls 135-235 lbs 52.50-70.00.

Hair Ewes: Good 2-3 65-145 lbs 110.00-125.00; 165-170 90.00-105.00. Utility 3-4 69-103 lbs 125.00-140.00. Cull 3-4 65-240 lbs 62.50-90.00. Several replacement hair rams 2-3 years old 250.00-340.00 Per Head.

Slaughter Hair Rams: Good 2-3 105-380 lbs 60.0090.00.

Feeder kids: Several groups of Dairy and dairy cross bottle babies 30.00-50.00 per head. Boer bottle babies 50.00-90.00 per head. Selection 1 20-38 lbs 260.00295.00. Selection 2 22-38 lbs 230.00-255.00. Selection 3 22-37 lbs 180.00-210.00.

Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 40-65 lbs 280.00-295.00; 70-95 lbs 220.00-240.00. Selection 2 40-85 lbs 250.00275.00. Selection 3 42-70 lbs 200.00-235.00.

Families: several Boer and Boer cross does with single or twin kids 85.00-115.00 per head.

Slaughter Does: Selection 1 100-130 lbs 165.00-200.00.

Selection 2 60-158 lbs 130.00-160.00. Selection 3 60-85 lbs 100.00-125.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 2 70-135 lbs 140.00-150.00.

Selection 3 76-180 lbs 115.00-125.00.

National Sheep Summary

stocker & feeder

1150

1650

2150

2650

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Barry Co. Regional Stockyards* 5/21/16

Buffalo Livestock Auction* 5/21/16

Butler Mo-Kan Livestock† 5/19/16

5/20/16

Compared to last week slaughter lambs were mostly steady to 15.00 lower, except at Ft. Collins, CO steady to 10.00 higher. Slaughter ewes were uneven, 5.00-10.00 lower at San Angelo, TX and Sioux Falls, SD and steady to 5.00 higher at New Holland, PA and Ft. Collins. Feeder lambs were mostly 5.00-10.00 lower. At San Angelo, TX 6681 head sold. No sales in Equity Electronic Auction. In direct trading slaughter ewes were not tested and feeder lambs were steady.

3100 head of negotiated sales of slaughter lambs were 2.00-4.00 higher. 9,900 head of formula sales had no trend due to confidentiality. 4,624 lamb carcasses sold with 45 lbs and down 15.80 lower; 45-65 lbs no trend due to confidentiality; 65-75 lbs .87 higher; 75-85 lbs .07 higher and 85 lbs and up no trend due to confidentiality. All sheep sold per hundred weight (CWT) unless otherwise specified.

Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 90-160 lbs: San Angelo: shorn and wooled 100-155 lbs 126.00136.00, few 141.00-148.00.

VA: no test.

PA: shorn and wooled 110-130 lbs 210.00-230.00; 130150 lbs 195.00-205.00; 150-200 lbs 175.00-185.00.

Ft.Collins, CO: wooled 134 lbs 185.00.

South Dakota: shorn and wooled 110-135 lbs 155.00159.00.

Billings, MT: no test.

Kalona, IA: no test.

Missouri: no test.

Equity Elec: no sales.

Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 1: San Angelo: 40-60 lbs 200.00-222.00; 60-70 lbs 170.00190.00, few 190.00-216.00; 70-80 lbs 160.00-178.00, few 180.00-188.00; 80-90 lbs 151.00-168.00; 90-110 lbs 150.00-168.00.

Pennsylvania: 40-50 lbs 265.00-300.00; 50-60 lbs 240.00-

1400.00-1800.00*

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

650

5/12/16

Receipts: 263 At this month’s special dairy sale at the Producers Auction Yard, demand was good on a moderate supply.

The supply consisted of 5 percent Springer Heifers, 16 percent Bred Heifers, 18 percent Open Heifers, 2 percent Fresh and Milking Cows, 5 percent Bred Cows and 17 percent baby calves. The balance was made up of weigh cows and beef animals. All quotes are on a per head basis for Holsteins unless noted otherwise.

Springer Heifers Bred Seven to Nine Months: Supreme 1400.00-1525.00, Approved Individual 1285.00, Medium Individual 1175.00, Crossbreds 1150.00-1175.00, Common Ind. 800.00, Ind. Jersey 825.00, Ind. Crossbred 900.00.

Heifers Bred Four to Six Months: Supreme 1400.001535.00, Crossbreds 1400.00-1420.00, Approved 1240.001325.00, Ind. Crossbred 1300.00, Medium 975.001175.00, Ind. Crossbred 1025.00, Common Crossbreds 625.00-700.00.

Heifers Bred One to Three Months: Approved Crossbreds 1150.00-1260.00, Ind. Shorthorn 1000.00, Medium 800.00950.00, Common Crossbreds 625.00-650.00.

Open heifers: Approved 200-300 lbs Pkg 7 hd 420.00, Crossbreds 290.00-370.00, Ind. Jersey 430.00, 300-400 lbs Individual 475.00, Ind. Jersey 585.00, 400-500 lbs Individual 525.00, 500-600 lbs Pair 740.00, Individual Crossbred 700.00, 600-700 lbs Crossbreds 710.00-800.00, 920 lbs Individual 960.00, Medium 400-500 lbs Pair 400.00, 500-600 lbs Individual 465.00, Ind. Crossbred 590, 600-700 lbs Individual 675.00, 700-800 lbs Pair 650.00, Crossbreds 600.00-650.00, 850 lbs Pair 700.00.

Fresh Milking Heifers and Cows: Scarce, Medium Individual 1000.00, Ind. Crossbred 1000.00.

Bred and Springer Cows: Supreme Individual Crossbred

sheep &

1160.00-2000.00 † 1

Mid Missouri Stockyards

150

cattle

1400.00, Approved Individual 1325.00, Ind. Jersey 1150.00, Medium Crossbreds 1075.00-1100.00, Common 800.00-850.00, Crossbreds 750.00-775.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein Heifers 280.00-310.00, Holstein Bulls Large 190.00-230.00, Small 165.00-175.00, Jersey Bulls 95.00-115.00, Crossbred Heifers Large 210.00260.00, Small 170.00-185.00, Crossbred Bulls Small 125.00-140.00, Beef Cross Heifers 210.00-280.00, Beef Cross Bulls Small 160.00-220.00.

1400.00-1825.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auctionn

350

5/22/16

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 124.00-132.00; wtd. avg. price 130.08.

Heifers: 125.00-132.00; wtd. avg. price 129.96.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 201.00-206.00; wtd. avg. price 203.97.

Heifers: 202.00-206.00; wtd. avg. price 204.44.

90.00-116.00*

Buffalo Livestock Market Douglas County Livestock Auction - Ava Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

cattle

Cuba Interstate Regional† 5/17/16

prices Joplin Regional Stockyards† 5/16/16

Kingsville Livestock Auction† 5/17/16

Mid Missouri Stockyards* 5/19/16

1172

381

1525

1048

996

4670

2570

933

2-5 Lower

Uneven

2-3 Lower

Uneven

Firm-5 Higher

Uneven

Uneven

2-4 Higher

----170.00-185.00 157.50-174.50 148.00-164.00 140.00-147.00

169.00-192.00 165.00-181.00 148.00-174.00 150.00-163.00 134.00-146.00

175.00-210.00 163.00-180.00 157.00-168.00 148.00-164.00 143.00-150.00

205.00 174.00-192.00 166.00-188.50 149.00-174.00 150.00-154.00

190.00-215.00 183.50-202.00 166.00-190.00 150.50-168.00 142.00-155.25

196.00-210.00 170.00-190.00 162.00-186.00 145.00-171.00 148.00-158.00

208.00-218.00 175.00-195.00 165.00-188.00 151.85-176.00 146.75-158.50

185.00-205.00 170.00-192.00 160.00-195.00 147.00-165.00 140.00-152.00

----111.00-120.00 112.50-114.00 95.00 -----

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--------98.00-102.00 97.00 85.00-90.00

--------93.50 94.50 -----

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----115.00 ----106.00 -----

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125.00-140.00 115.00-130.00 110.00-120.00 104.00-112.00 100.00-105.00

165.00-170.00 152.50-162.50 140.00-154.00 132.50-140.00 ------

150.00-169.00 138.00-155.00 136.00-148.00 137.00-148.00 123.00-131.00

148.00-172.00 140.00-160.00 136.00-147.00 128.00-143.00 126.00-135.00

170.00-176.50 158.00-169.00 153.00-159.00 144.00-150.00 150.00

182.00 159.00-172.00 151.50-162.00 142.50-152.00 134.25-139.75

163.00-175.00 150.00-165.00 141.00-159.00 141.00-147.00 137.00-147.00

176.50-191.00 155.00-170.50 140.00-160.75 140.00-156.75 149.75

170.00-185.00 158.00-173.00 147.00-162.00 135.00-152.00 130.00-140.00

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

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reports

50 lbs 265.00-300.00; 50-60 lbs 240.00-

rices

00 00 00 00 00

00 00 00 00 00

Kingsville Livestock Auction† 5/17/16

5/24/16

Estimated Receipts: 445 Supply and demand are light to moderate.

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

Base carcass meat price: 64.00-69.00.

Sows (cash prices): steady, 300-500 lbs. 36.00-43.00, over 500 lbs. 42.00-48.00.

Mid Missouri Stockyards* 5/19/16

Springfield Livestock Marketing† 5/18/16

Vienna South Central† 5/18/16

West Plains Ozarks Regional† 5/17/16

2570

933

1738

1671

3081

Uneven

2-4 Higher

Uneven

Firm-5 Higher

St-15 Higher

208.00-218.00 175.00-195.00 165.00-188.00 151.85-176.00 146.75-158.50

185.00-205.00 170.00-192.00 160.00-195.00 147.00-165.00 140.00-152.00

212.00 179.00-190.00 160.50-186.50 147.00-175.50 138.50-150.00

190.00-204.00 186.00-192.00 172.00-190.00 150.00-169.25 150.25-163.50

197.50-225.00 182.50-193.00 166.00-185.00 140.00-174.00 151.00

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125.00-140.00 115.00-130.00 110.00-120.00 104.00-112.00 100.00-105.00

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------------90.00-110.00 80.00

176.50-191.00 155.00-170.50 140.00-160.75 140.00-156.75 149.75

170.00-185.00 158.00-173.00 147.00-162.00 135.00-152.00 130.00-140.00

----154.00-171.50 140.00-157.00 137.00-141.00 136.50

173.00-185.00 159.75-176.00 155.25-163.50 134.00-155.00 130.25-147.25

172.50-182.50 157.50-180.00 146.00-160.00 143.00-148.00 132.50-142.50

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hay & grain markets

Mo. Weekly Hay Summary

5/20/16

Field work was slow once again this week as moisture continued to fall and sunshine was been limited. Some areas even set new record lows as temperatures have been staying well below average. On a positive note only 15 percent of the state remains on the latest drought monitor. Over all hay harvest so far this season is running right in line with the 5 yr average with 16 percent of the 1st cutting of alfalfa and 8 percent of other hay harvested. The supply of hay is moderate, demand is light and prices are steady. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has a hay directory available for both buyers and sellers. To be listed, or for a directory visit http://mda.mo.gov/abd/haydirectory/ for current listings of hay http://agebb.missouri.edu/haylst/ (All prices f.o.b. and per ton unless specified and on most recent reported sales price listed as round bales based generally on 5x6 bales with weights of approximately 1200-1500 lbs).

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

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

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

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

Good quality Mixed Grass hay: 75.00-100.00.

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

Fair quality Mixed Grass hay: 15.00-35.00 per large round bale.

Fair to Good quality Bromegrass: 50.00-80.00.

Wheat straw: 3.00-6.00 per small square bale.

Soybeans

* Price per cwt

18 15 12

10.55

10.10

10.51

9 6

5.56 4.53 4.22

5.42

3

3.93

3.88

0

3.70

10.41

9.91

5.83

5.47

3.75

3.55

O ct .1 4 No v.

14 De c.

14 Ja n.

15 Fe b.

15 M ar ch 15 Ap ril 15 M ay 15 Ju ne 15 Ju ly 15 Au g.

15 Se pt .1 5 O ct .1 5 No v.

15 De c.

15 Ja n.

16 Fe b.

16 M ar ch 16 Ap ril 16

4

4 .1 pt

Au g.

1

Se

14

14 ly

ne

steers 550-600 LBS. Ava Kingsville

Butler Springfield

Cuba Vienna

Joplin West Plains

heifers 550-600 LBS. Ava Kingsville

Butler Springfield

151.93

Cuba Vienna

Joplin West Plains

142.67

160.56

144.13

165.50 169.84 157.71

152.59

Week of 4/24/16

163.66

140.97 160.29 146.56 144.90

161.03 166.35

149.37 139.70

155.73 164.00

145.85

160.82 162.14 166.63 161.12

160.82 142.88 143.19 141.66 *

*

138.92

162.94 168.54

149.46 152.29

172.72 173.62 163.06 178.95 172.48

155.09 150.81 149.27 149.54

167.70

145.32 148.93

168.68

avg. grain prices

Week Ended 5/13/16 Soft Wheat Corn Sorghum*

Ju

M

Ju

ay

14

$120

Week of 5/1/16

Interior Missouri Direct Hogs

es.

Choice and Prime 1: lbs 200.00-222.00; 60-70 lbs 170.00-216.00; 70-80 lbs 160.00-178.00, 80-90 lbs 151.00-168.00; 90-110 lbs

l ds†

Receipts: 7624 Weaner pigs mostly steady to weak. 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, 3620 head, 10 lbs, 36.00-38.75, weighted average 37.40.

Early weaned pigs 10 lb base weights, Delivered 57% negotiated, 4004 head, 10 lbs, 32.10-38.00, weighted average 35.38.

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

Feeder pigs in all lot sizes, Delivered 100% negotiated, No Sales Reported. *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 .501.00 per pound.

CHEESE: Barrels closed at $1.3550 and 40# blocks at $1.3150. The weekly average for barrels is $1.3555 (+.0635) and blocks, $1.3010(+.0220).

FLUID MILK: Milk production varies this week across the different regions. The Northeast is reaching seasonal peaks while Southeast milk producers faced warm temperatures and tapering production. The North Central area reports little to no signs of slowing production. California farm level milk output has plateaued and Arizona production is declining because of high temperatures.

Pacific Northwest milk production continues to climb. Regardless of geographical region, bottling demand is decreasing. Educational institutions across the country are readjusting orders as they dismiss for the school year. However, California bottlers did report slightly higher requests from grocery stores and restaurants. Cream is readily available in the East. Demand for cream in the North Central area is flat. Cream handlers in this area are hopeful for warmer weather to spike interest in Class II cream into ice cream. Industry contacts in the South Central area are seeing moderate increases in cream demand. Overall, Central region manufacturers are optimistic for ice cream demand as schools dismiss and vacation season approaches. Demand for ice cream and frozen desserts are inching up in Arizona. Cream supply is mixed in the West. Some areas report plentiful supply while, in other pockets of the region, cream is tight.

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meet your neighbors Back in the Cattle Business Continued from Page 16 weight – it all plays into it. I know in 180 days, mine will be 600 to 650 pounds. It costs owes a debt of thanks to friends and neighbors who have been more than willing to more up front, but it pays off later. The feed lots want the cross in cattle and they do help him through the years. He and Kathy live in the house where he was raised. better, with calving ease. The female “This place was homesteaded through calves run 45 to 50 pounds and the bull my mother’s family,” he added. “Parts calves 55 to 60 pounds, but that avoids of this house are probably 200 years any calving problems. A live calf is old. I don’t know exactly what the worth more than a dead one and while original acreage was and I’ve never Balancers are a hybrid breed created by crossing a purebred they may be a bit smaller to start, they done the Century Farm thing. I know catch up fast. this farm has been 120 acres since the Gelbvieh with a purebred Angus. This 50 percent Gelbvieh/50 “Of course, your forage has a lot 1930s. My dad, Dorsey W. Demott Sr., percent Angus cross combines Gelbvieh’s growth, muscle and to do with it, too. All of my land is had milk and beef cows both here. I in pasture so I buy good quality hay. grew up around it and although I quit leanness with Angus’s calving ease, moderate size and marbling.

That works out better for me, rather for a while, I’m glad to be back at it.”

Balancers offer the consistency of their parents combined with than raising my own hay. I also rent For the Demott’s quality his the the hybrid vigor of a crossbred. They are registered with 40 acres occasionally to wean calves. main priority.

The truth is I’m still learning as I go.”

“I keep all cows wormed and vaccidocumented parentage and EPDs. Dorsey has worked for McGuire Pernated and I don’t use any growth hor– Source, the American Gelbvieh Association mones,” Dorsey said. “The result is I formance Center in Lebanon, Mo., as a mechanic for more than 20 years don’t have any sickness and that’s the and Kathy worked for H.D. Lee’s, Quality Manufacturing of Richland, Mo., which important part. This is basically our retirement and I really enjoy the cattle.” made windows, and Dowco in Lebanon.

In a very real sense, Dorsey has come home to the life in which he started, raising Cattle have run through several generations of Dorsey’s family and he says he also cattle and the best news is that he and his wife are both enjoying it thoroughly.

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William chose the Boer breed because “for shows and for selling breeding stock, they’re the goats that make the money.”

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“I’ve cut down. I did have 100. I had 30 or 40 surrogate moms (recipient does) and 20 or 30 does, and four or five breeding bucks,” he explained.

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His resolve lasted six months, then he said. “Usually they have twins.”

He doesn’t like triplets because it is hard decided he needed something.

“I went to the Ozark Empire Fair and on the doe to nurse them. Sometimes a saw them showing Boer goats,” he re- doe will even have four or five kids.

Even though they are smaller animals, called. “When I went to California, there weren’t Boer goats. I left (Missouri) in they do have birthing issues from time to time.

1987 and they didn’t bring “Kids come backwards; kids with these Boer goats in from their heads back and their legs Africa until 1992. I thought coming,” Williams said. “If you that might be a good hobby.” can get one leg and the head, So in 2007, William began raising Boer goats on his Marshfield, Mo. you can pull them. Once in a while they’ll be mixed up in farm in Webster County, near Marshfield, Mo. The name of — Continued on Next Page the farm is Quality Boer.

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meet your neighbors Back to Farming Continued from Previous Page there and there will be two legs, but it’s two different kids. You have to go in and untangle them and try to get one started.

I’ve spent all night with them.”

Some are born with “ribbon” ears.

“That means when they were born, their ears were folded,” William explained. “There’s nothing wrong with them. That’s just how they came out.

When they’re little you take a piece of cardboard and make a flap and duct tape around it. You leave it about a week. You can register them, but you can’t show them. They would be disqualified.”

The biggest health issue at Quality Boer is internal parasites.

“Goats would be easy to raise if it wasn’t for the worms,” William said.

“You look at the does and they look real healthy, then one day they’ll have the runs. You catch them and pull that eyelid down; white as a sheet. They’re anemic; it should be dark pink. You’ll be lucky to save them. The more goats you have and the longer you have them, the more trouble you have with worms.”

A goat’s hooves also need attention.

William trims feet three or four times a year.

“Because you feed them a lot of highprotein feed, those feet grow. You have to trim them every two or three months,” he explained.

William enjoys showing his goats.

“I also enjoy taking two animals and trying to produce a better one. I always wanted a proven animal and to see if I could make a better animal each time. I have all registered goats,” he added.

His biggest challenge was to have a winner.

“My main interest was to have a national over all grand champion doe or buck at the national show. I never did get the over all, but I’ve had two grand champion senior bucks. So I’ve done pretty good.”

William shows at the American Boer Goat Association National Show and also the Missouri State Fair, Ozark Empire Fair, as well as at county fairs.

He usually sells some goats in August at a sale in Southeast Kansas, and in September at a sale at the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, and at a sale in Stillwater, Okla. He can put 10 goats in each sale.

He also sells through private treaty.

BOER GOAT FACTS The development of the Boer goat in the early 1900s can be traced to the Dutch farmers of South Africa. Boer is a Dutch word meaning farmer. With meat production setting the selection criteria, the Dutch farmers developed the Boer goat as a unique breed of livestock. The Boer goat has a rapid growth rate, excellent carcass qualities and is highly adapted to different environments.

The first full-blood Boers were brought into the United States in 1993, the same year the American Boer Goat Association was formed.

Docile, high fertility and a fast growth rate are some of the traits that set the Boer goat apart in the purebred and commercial segments of the American meat goat industry. Mature does can weigh between 190 and 230 pounds and mature Boer bucks can weigh between 200 and 340 pounds.

The demand for high-quality, lean, healthy red meat is the one of the underlining forces behind the development of the American meat goat industry.

With an eager base of ethnic consumers, the demand for goat meat continues to grow in the United States each year. The importation of goat meat into the United States is estimated at more than $30 million annually.

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While many of the diseases seen in sheep and goats are similar to those seen in cattle, there are some unique differences that can make medicating small ruminants challenging.

When evaluating disease in sheep and goats, my rule of thumb is always “parasites are the problem Dr. Mike Bloss, DVM, owns until proven otherwise.” Internal parasitism is by far and operates Countryside the number one disease issue I see in both sheep and Animal Clinic with his wife, goats. Because of the way they graze, nipping grass Kristen Bloss, DVM. The off near the base of the plant. Internal parasite larvae mixed animal practice is live in the base of grass plants and are ingested in located in Aurora, Mo. large numbers when pastures are contaminated. Another factor contributing to increased parasitism is that often owners stock large numbers of animals on relatively small acreages, thus increasing the manure concentration and contaminating the pasture with more parasite eggs.

Developing a plan to treat internal parasites is a multifactorial approach in my opinion. I first recommend collecting multiple fresh manure samples and doing fecal flotation exams to determine parasite load within a group of animals. The number of samples varies with the number of animals; your veterinarian can help determine the best number of samples.

Once a diagnosis and parasite burden has been determined, treatment plans can be tailored to best fit the needs of the flock. Always consult with your veterinarian when deworming sheep and goats; because these animals metabolize medications differently than cattle, dosages are much different. Also, there are few products that are labeled for small ruminants, making deworming products an extra label drug use in a food animal.

Management changes can also help decrease parasite caused disease. Reducing stocking rates on pastures, providing pastures with brush plants that sheep and goats can browse rather than graze at ground level to decrease parasite larva ingestion, and rotating pastures to decrease pasture contamination can all help control parasitism.

In addition to parasites, small ruminants suffer from many of the same disease conditions we see in all livestock. Respiratory disease is a common problem, especially in crowded groupings and young, stressed animals. Getting a proper diagnosis and using appropriate drugs usually lead to successful outcomes. Dystocia is a common problem seen during lambing or kidding season, as twins and triplets are common.

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An infestation can lead to anemia, death in sheep and goats The sheep industry is using everything in the tool box to defeat Haemonchus contortus.

Better known as the barberpole worm, H. contortus is the scourge of sheep producers. Adult worms attach to the lining of the abomasum or true stomach and feed on the blood, causing anemia and potentially death. Females can lay over 10,000 eggs a day; those are passed out in the animal’s feces, and the larvae climb up on grass blades to be re-consumed, continuing the cycle.

The worm has gained varying degrees of resistance to anthelmintics. Dr. Charlotte Clifford-Rathert, state small ruminant specialist for Lincoln University Cooperative Extension in Jefferson City, Mo., said that’s from using dewormers too frequently, rotating them too frequently and underdosing.

“That results in the increased selection of ‘superworms’ that are resistant to all drugs,” she told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “It’s genetically controlled and once established, it is set in the population.”

The worm has developed higher resistance to some chemistries (Ivermectin, Albendazol, Fenbendezol) than to others (Levamisole, Moxidectin, Amprolium).

Clifford-Rathert said it’s best to use common sense when managing for the parasite.

Since dry grass forces the larvae to stay at the base of the plants, delay grazing until dew has lifted, and don’t distribute feed on the ground.

The FAMACHA system is used to determine how severely an animal is infected; the redness or whiteness of the conjunctiva of the eye is measured against a chart to determine the extent of the anemia. It’s now been extended to a five-point system that also assesses the back for the body condition score, the tail for the soiling of breech or Dag score, the hair coat for roughness, and the jaw for the accumulation of fluid or “bottle jaw.”

But Dr. David Fernandez, University of Arkansas Extension livestock specialist at Pine Bluff, said producers are going to have to stop relying upon ineffective dewormers.

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“The biggest advantage of raising sheep or goats as to cattle is that you can put six goats to one cow. Therefore, if you’ve just got a couple of acres, it would be a wiser investment of your pasture and money to raise sheep or goats rather than large livestock.”

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“This really bothers a lot of producers,” he told OFN. “Producers would like to have a clean animal, and they don’t want to have any parasites in the animal. But the animals live outside, so they’re going to be ingesting parasites on a regular basis.

The question is really how many can they carry, and still not be adversely affected?

We’re going to set a threshold where, above a certain limit, we’re going to have to treat, but below that we’re just going to tolerate that worm.”

He called for an integrated pest management approach that includes keeping grass more than 3 inches tall, because the larvae won’t climb that high; grazing cows with the sheep, because cows are a terminal host for the barberpole worm and won’t excrete the eggs; and genetic selection. “If you find that you have to treat that animal multiple times, that’s an animal that should be culled,” Fernandez said. “About 20 percent of the animals in your flock or herd are producing 80 percent of the eggs that are being put out on the pasture, so eliminating that 20 percent is almost as good as deworming your entire flock or herd.”

Control can also get an assist from high tannin feeds like sericea lespedeza or chicory, in combination with a slow-release copper oxide wire particle bolus (COWP) a couple of times a year. If all of that fails, Fernandez said, that’s when you would want to move to the chemical dewormer. “There’s still a place for using them,” he said, “but what we’re trying to do is reduce their use to the point where we lower the resistance of the worms to that chemical dewormer, so it will stay effective for as long as it possibly can.”

Treated sheep should be released into the pasture with the rest of the flock. The idea is that the only worms left in that animal will be the ones resistant to that particular anthelmintic; their hatchling larvae will mate with the other worms in the field, some of which will still be susceptible to that chemistry, so the offspring will not be uniformly resistant. It’s just one more tool, and producers need them all because, Fernandez said, “if we can’t really get a good handle on them, it’s going to put the smaller producers in the country out of business.”

“The start up risk, financially, is much less. If you are starting out, and you don’t know everything, you are going to make mistakes, and if you actually lose an animal, your investment is much less. Also, you have multiple births. I have twins, triplets and I even had a set of quads this year, and your return on your investment happens a lot quicker.”

“For me, they are just easier to handle.

Also, for my small acreage, I was able to add more animals. I think they are also a good way for kids or beginning farmers to learn more about farming.”

“The input costs are much less, and you can make more money per acre. While the input costs are less, to keep it that way, you need to make sure if you buy stock that you get it from a clean breeder, one that is free of parasites, doesn’t have foot rot or things like that. A bargain won’t be a bargain if she won’t breed or has other issues.”

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Fulfilling Nutritional Needs

By Gary Digiuseppe

Proper minerals, vitamins are a critical to sheep, goat production Sheep have special supplemental mineral needs – and nutrition companies are at the ready to help.

The issue is not just composition of the supplements, but how available the minerals are to be taken up by the animal. St. Joseph, Mo.,-based Biozyme, for instance, offers Vitaferm, which boasts “highly available sources of trace minerals and extra Vitamin E to support maximum reproduction and health.”

The loose product, which can be fed free choice or blended into a grain product, lists 10 minerals and three vitamins; the company says it meets or exceeds the National Research Council requirements for sheep.

Loose minerals are best, according to Dr. David Fernandez, University of Arkansas Extension livestock specialist based in Pine Bluff.

“A lot of people like the block because it’s convenient and easy to use; it doesn’t have too much of a problem with being rained on,” he told Ozarls Farm & Neighbor. “But they don’t get as much of the mineral, and often don’t get enough mineral, if it’s a block. If you think about it, it’s like licking a brick; after a while your tongue is going to get tired and you’re just going to stop, whereas with loose mineral they can get as much as they need, and there’s salt mixed in there to help keep them from overconsuming.”

But sheep don’t need much copper, and that’s why it’s dangerous to feed a supplement to sheep that’s designed for other animals. The Biozyme product doesn’t even list copper as an ingredient.

In a study, researchers at the University of Missouri Department of Food Animal Medicine and Surgery said it’s thought sheep are predisposed to chronic copper poisoning because they don’t eliminate the mineral very quickly in their bile or MAY 30, 2016

urine, and because of the way proteins that take up zinc and copper are distributed in their livers. As a result, they say, there’s a “relatively small difference between the copper concentrations reported to be adequate for sheep rations, and those dietary copper concentrations considered to be potentially toxic.”

Sometimes sheep can be provided a bolus made from copper oxide wire particles (COWP). ”It’s a slower release, and it’s not absorbed terribly well,” Fernandez said.

“And it can also potentially help them a little bit with parasites....Goats, on the other hand, tend to need a little bit more copper, and the requirements for goats are not well worked out yet. There are new requirements that have been published by the National Research Council, but they’re based a lot on metabolics, body size and on other species, and not the kind of ‘feed them and we’ll see what happens if we don’t give them enough’type trial that we used to do with cattle.”

Goats in Arkansas would likely need a copper supplement, because Arkansas forages tend to be deficient in that mineral. They’re also often short of selenium, which works with Vitamin E to repair cell damage in the body. But there are some areas of Arkansas where forages are high in both copper and selenium, and selenium can also be toxic at high doses, so Fernandez advised caution to avoid overfeeding.

And, he added, trust the supplement formulators. “The thing about minerals is they often have interaction,” he said. “Magnesium and calcium interfere with each other; copper, iron, manganese and cobalt all interact. It’s very difficult for doctoral-level nutritionists to get right, so for you to try to do it is probably not your best bet. Your best bet there is to rely on the feed companies to put together a good, solid mix.”

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Too Young to Breed?

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Breeding younger ewes, goats can cause undue strain “We want twins,” Fernandez said. “That’s what we’re expecting out of our sheep Sheep and goats can be bred as young as 7 months of age – if and goats. If you have two animals to sell instead of just one, you’re going to make they’re properly managed.

Dr. David Fernandez, University of Arkansas Extension livestock specialist at Pine an awful lot more money. I don’t care if the one is significantly larger and gets a betBluff, said success may depend upon whether the females have attained 65 percent ter price; if you have two smaller ones, even if they get a discount, they’re still going to bring you more money at the of mature body size. end of the day.”

“If they’re smaller than that, Your ewes and does will live sevyou probably ought to hold off,” en to 10 years, and should produce he told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor.

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Co-pasturing Can Save Money, Time

By Gary Digiuseppe

Sheep, goats and cattle prefer different forages Not only can cattle and sheep co-exist in a pasture, you can save money mingling the two.

“There’s a study that shows you can graze two sheep for every cow, without altering your cow production,” Dr. David Fernandez, University of Arkansas Extension livestock specialist at the Pine Bluff campus, said. “They’ll still produce the same way they normally would, but you’ll also have the two sheep as well that are producing for you.”

Sheep, cattle and cows prefer different forages. Goats are browsers and prefer woody species of the sort that cattle producers try to eliminate from pastures. Fernandez said both sheep and goats also like broadleaves; while cattle ranchers spray them as weeds, “Actually they’re very high quality nutrition in many instances,” he said. “They’re very high in protein and energy, and even the cattle producers should consider leaving the weedy species and not going so much for a pure stand of grass.”

Producers can’t turn the goats in on the browse species too long, because they take longer to recover. However, if they’re on a mixed forage pasture, they’ll only eat grass 20 percent of the time.

“They can often keep the pastures in balance where no one species gets ahead of the other,” Fernandez said. “Many times if you’re grazing just cattle, you’re going to get the browse species taking over because they don’t touch the browse.”

Rotation improves pasture utilization.

Dr. Charlotte Clifford-Rathert, state Extension small ruminant specialist with Lincoln University Cooperative Extension & Research in Jefferson City, Mo., recommended allowing fast growing pastures to rest 10 to 14 days in the spring, and to keep the grazing height from falling below 3 to 6 inches. That’s important for parasite management, but it also ensures grasses can take maximum advantage of photosynthesis for full growth.

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Fernandez also said rotational grazing will help to reduce unwanted invasive species.

“The animals will be less selective in their grazing habits,” he explained.

“They’re forced, basically, to eat what’s there before they move on to another pasture, so you can actually use it as a form of undesireable weed control.” And it can facilitate higher stocking rates; he said while animals will only use 30 to 35 percent of the forage on a single pasture, rotational grazing can push that up to 6075 percent, and “you can double or nearly triple the amount of forage that you take off the pasture without harming it.”

Producers can monitor whether animals are eating enough through their body conditions. You can’t determine that just by looking at them as you do cattle; goats lay their fat inside of their bodies rather than subcutaneously, as do hair sheep. Wool sheep, of course, effectively obscure their body condition. Fernandez recommended feeling the bones along the animal’s loin; if you feel a lot of dents, there’s not enough fat and muscle.

“If they’re not getting enough pasture,” he said. “You’ve got too many animals on the pasture.” To ensure adequate grass growth, you can fertilize; the University of Arkansas offers a free soil test with a turnaround time of about two weeks.

But, Fernandez cautioned, your problem may not be the nutrients but the pH. “In Arkansas, a lot of our pastures are very acidic,” he said. “Acid soils tend to bind the nutrients in the soil very tightly so that the plants don’t have them available, so lime is often what we need.”

There’s one other essential nutritional component to keep close tabs on. “You want to make sure that your water source is clean and not muddy,” Fernandez said.

“If they can loaf in it, they’re defecating and urinating in it; they can get mastitis that way,” as well as other diseases.

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Sheep and goats are considered “small” livestock, so because they amount to less pounds per hoof, it costs less money to purchase a few sheep or goats to get started. Where as a bred heifer can cost upwards of $1,500, a producer can get into the sheep and goat business by taking that same $1,500 and purchasing four to six purebred ewes at approximately $200 each.

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Farmers and stockmen know that there are many different choices of livestock they can raise on their farm or ranch, ranging from big to small to feathered to furry.

Each different species of livestock can bring something distinctive to your farm – and sheep and goats are no different.

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Due to their smaller size, the sheep and goat farmer does not require as much gear to properly maintain his or her animals.

“We can get by with smaller panels and equipment,” said Armand Bechard, of Bechard Family Farm in Conway, Mo., of his sheep operation.

“There is less equipment needed,” said Kim Coulter of Peak View Farm in Seymour, Mo. She went on to say that her family farm does not have the facilities to work beef cattle, but that sheep, with their smaller size, are a perfect fit.

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Bechard said sheep and goats “tear up less” on the farm than larger animals might. This was one reason Coulter and her family chose to raise sheep on their smaller acreage. “Sheep leave less of an impact on the property,” Kim said, “and they graze and fertilize very well.” Sheep and goats are known for their ability to utilize poor quality forage and remove brush, so oftentimes less feed is required to finish out a sheep or goat.

Simpler Handling

Many farmers prefer sheep and goats come working time due to their smaller size. Coulter said her sheep are simpler for her to handle during kidding season, and less dangerous than cattle when being handled.

“It’s a lot easier to turn a sheep on its side than a cow,” she said.

Faster Return

There is a solid market for sheep and goats – especially the meat, which is favored by ethnic cultures and gaining rapid popularity in America – and producers have a much quicker turnaround time to cash in on the market with sheep and goats.

“The turnaround is faster,” Bechard said. “It’s one year with a sheep compared to 28 months for cattle.”

Sheep and goats can be used for such diverse purposes – meat, milk, brush clearing, fertilization and more – that they can fit in and benefit almost any farm or ranch operation.

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Adding Livestock

By Klaire Howerton

Creating a symbiotic relationship on the farm Many farmers and ranchers strive to diversify their operation.

Diversity can help protect producers in hard times, promote creativity, and can benefit the land, and all parties who call the farm home.

Pairing both sheep and cattle on the farm has proven to be a beneficial way to diversify the operation and create a symbiotic relationship that works for herd, flock and farmer.

But will adding a new livestock venture be worth the time?

Some producers might be concerned about adding another species to their farm due to time constraints. But if a farmer is already running beef cattle, sheep are the logical next step, especially if fencing is already in place.

The University of California Cooperative Extension Small Farm Program said, “Experts say it takes about two hours of work per year to maintain one ewe and her offspring on farm pasture.

“Farmers caring for 20 to 100 ewes, thus would add 40 to 200 more hours of work to their regular duties.”

For producers who have been considering diversifying their farm or ranch, adding sheep to a cattle operation (or vice versa) can have lasting benefits from the multi-species symbiotic relationship.

One of the biggest benefits to raising cattle and sheep together on the farm is how efficiently the two animals can utilize almost all forages, and fertilize pastures in the process.

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easily within a rotational grazing program, or a management intensive grazing program (MIG). According to the University of California Cooperative Extension Small Farm Program, “Where a farmer already has some beef cattle, there are economical and biological advantages to adding some sheep to the operation. Shared pastures can work well. Sheep tend to prefer finer plants and cattle the coarser ones.”

Bechard Family Farm, in Conway, Mo, has utilized the relationship between sheep and cattle for years.

“We use it as a multi-species rotational grazing management program,” Bechard said. “Each of their diets is different.”

Efficient grazing triggers the forages on the farm to grow back even thicker, making the pairing of sheep and cattle a sustainable farm management practice. Sheep are also efficient at brush removal, which can aid in creating more pasture for the cattle. Kim Coulter, of Peak View Farm in Seymour, Mo, said her USDA photo Katahdin sheep are good at clearing brush.

“Our hope is to put them in the woods,” she said, to further create new, open grazing areas for the rest of their livestock. Having two different species on the farm not only benefits the soil and the forages, but, according to Bechard, it also “adds another revenue stream.”

The demand for locally-raised meats in the U.S. is growing, and beef and lamb are popular products at farmers markets, health food and small grocery stores, and farm to table restaurants.

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of event (no charge) – John Vest Farm, 33235 Hwy BB, Lebanon, Mo. – 573-578-9801 12 Bates County Jackpot – Sheep, goats and hog show. Show pig and market

lamb circuit – Butler, Mo. – 660-679-4167 13 Women in Dairy Meeting – 10 a.m.-1 p.m. – Mountain Grove, Mo. – 417-847-3161 13-15 Regional Management-Intensive Grazing School – Squires, Mo. – contact

Douglas County Extension Center for more information 417-683-4409 14 Sew Native Class: Cone Flowers, They Aren’t Always Purple – 10:30 a.m.-noon

– Pulaski County Extension, 403 School Street, Suite 1, Waynesville, Mo. – 573-774-6177 15-18 Pulaski County Regional Fair – Pulaski County Fairgrounds, Waynesville,

Mo. – 573-774-6177 16-18 Wright County Junior Fair – Lions Club Fairgrounds, Grovespring, Mo. – 417-462-0114 16-18 Polk County Fair – Polk County Fairgrounds, Bolivar, Mo. – 417-326-4916 17 June Dairy Month – 10 a.m. – Ozark Mountain Creamery, 3350 Peach

Corner Drive, Mountain Grove, Mo. – 417-926-3276 17 Gardening in the Ozarks Branson Style – 8 a.m.-4 p.m. – Branson, Mo. – 417-357-6812 17-19 Southwest Missouri Dairy Goat Association quad does show – Mountain

Grove, Mo. – southwestmissouridairygoats.webs.com or 417-529-8103 18 Halltown Volunteer Fire Department Annual Appreciation Fundraiser –

Meal served 3-6 p.m., auction starts at 5 p.m. – Fire Department, 301

W. Main Street, Halltown, Mo. – 417-491-4352 20-25 NAJRAE - North American Junior Red Angus Event – Springfield, Ill.

– http://www.najrae.com – 417-766-2380 21 Brown Bag Lunch Garden Series Wild Berries – Noon-1 p.m., pack your

lunch – Taney County MU Extension Center, 122 Felkins Ave., Forsyth,

Mo. – 417-546-4431 24-26 Dallas County Fair – Dallas County Fairgrounds, Buffalo, Mo. – 417-345-7551 30 Steer Carcus Evaluation – 6 p.m. – Carthage, Mo. – 417-466-3102

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July 2016 2 Dade County Youth Fair – Everton, Mo. – 417-637-2112 or dadeco@missouri.edu 4 Highland Cattle Field Day & Picnic – 11 a.m.-4 p.m. – Highway H Highland

Cattle Ranch, Stoutland, Mo. – 417-286-3540 5-9 Laclede County Fair – Laclede County Fairgrounds, Lebanon, Mo. – 417-532-7126 6-8 Regional Management-Intensive Grazing School – Houston, Mo. – contact

Texas County SWCD for more information – 417-967-2028 ext. 3 6-9 Newton County Fair – Newton County Fairgrounds, Neosho, Mo. –

exhibits have to be in place on the 5th – 417-455-9500 8-16 Jasper County Youth Fair – Jasper County Fairgrounds, Carthage, Mo. – 417-358-2158 11 Women In Dairy Meeting 10 a.m.-1 p.m. – MU Research Center, Mt. Vernon,

Mo. – 417-847-3161 11-16 Vernon County Youth Fair – Nevada, Mo. – 417-448-2560 12 Sew Native Class: Milkweeds and Monarchs – 10:30 a.m.-noon – Pulaski

County Extension, 403 School Street, Suite 1, Waynesville, Mo. – 573-774-6177 12-16 Bates County Fair – Bates County Fairgrounds, Butler, Mo. – 660-679-4167 17-23 Howell County Fair – Howell County Fairgrounds, West Plains, Mo. – 417-256-2391 18 Feral Swine Workshop – 6 p.m. – Mt. Vernon, Mo. – 417-466-3102 19 Rock Gardening with Succulents & Sedums – Noon-1 p.m., pack your

lunch – Taney County MU Extension Center, 122 Felkins Ave., Forsyth,

Mo. – 417-546-4431 20-23 Webster County Fair – Webster County Fairgrounds, Marshfield, Mo. – 417-859-2044 21-23 McDonald County Fair – McDonald County Fairgrounds, Pineville, Mo. – 417-223-4775 22-24 Four State Farm Show – Pittsburg, Kan. – 620-421-9473 22-24 Missouri State Fair Summer Sizzler Shows – Missouri State Fairgrounds,

Sedalia, Mo. – 816-810-3277 or moQHA1@gmail.com August 2016 4 An Evening in the Garden – 5-8 p.m. – Taney County MU Extension

Center, 122 Felkins Ave., Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 5-6 Ozark Empire Fair Junior & Open Red Angus Shows – Springfield, Mo. –

Entry deadline: June 15 – 417-766-2380 9 Sew Native Class: Glade Restoration, the Flowers Return – 10:30 a.m.-noon

– Pulaski County Extension, 403 School Street, Suite 1, Waynesville, Mo. – 573-774-6177 11-21 Missouri State Fair – Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia, Mo. – www.mostatefair.com 16 Brown Bag Lunch Garden Series – First Aid Kit from the Garden – Noon-1 p.m.,

pack your lunch – Taney County MU Extension Center, 122 Felkins Ave.,

Forsyth, Mo. – 417-546-4431 17 Missouri State Fair Open Red Angus Show – Sedalia, Mo. – Entry deadline:

July 1 27 Farm Tour – Grow the Grower Program – call Taney County Extension

Center for more information 417-546-4431 29-31 22nd Annnual Missouri Women In Agriculture Conference – Springfield,

Mo. – 417-637-2112 or dadeco@missouri.edu 30-9/1 Regional Management-Intensive Grazing School – West Plains, Mo. –

contact Howell County SWCD for more information 417-256-7117 ext. 3

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Cattlemen’s Seedstock Directory

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