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SHEEP & GOAT ISSUE

Building a Reputation Collecting the Data

White Dorper producer Charlie Robinson traces his with flock with NSIP

Starting in Small Ruminant Production What producers need to know before buying sheep or goats

Fair Grove, Mo., teen diligently works to improve his French Alpine herd

Royalty in the Ozarks Michael Hackbart’s flock of Royal White sheep are ideal for his Miklin Creek Farm

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Funds awarded: The Missouri Department of Agriculture has awarded $16,716,406 million in CARES Act funding to nearly 150 small and medium sized businesses. As a direct result of the reimbursement grant, more than 40 businesses were assisted in initiating or expanding their level of meat processing through a new grant of inspection or custom exempt inspection status. For a full list of grant recipients, visit go.ozarksfn.com/do6.

Tree Farm of the Year announced: The American Tree Farm System (ATFS) recognized Marvin and David Emersons’ Douglas County, Mo., tree farm with the 2020-2021 Missouri Tree Farmer of the Year Award. The Emersons manage the tree farm along with Crystal Lake Fisheries. The fish farming business has been operating at the location since 1951, when Dwight M. and Mary Alice Emerson, established the operation of a trout farm. The farm originally began with 30 acres and has since grown to more than 2,000 acres, according to the Crystal Lake Fisheries website. The Emersons implemented management recommendations from the Forest Stewardship Plan provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

This includes managing the forest, wildlife, soils and water resources to their maximum potential and productivity, providing a mix of habitat for wildlife and managing high-value hardwoods.

Former lawmaker, farmer passes: Former state Sen. Dan “Doc” Brown passed away on May 11, 2021, at age 70 at his Rolla, Mo., home. He was born in Solo, Mo., in Texas County. Brown served the Rolla area as a veterinarian for several decades. He also served as a member of the Missouri Senate, representing the 16th District from 2011 to 2019, and in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2008 to 2010, representing the 149th District. He was a member of the Missouri Farm Bureau, the Missouri Farmers Association and the American Veterinary Medical Association. He was also a charter member of the Mid-Missouri Energy and Paseo Biofuel.

MSU and U of A agree to transfer program: The University of Arkansas has signed a memorandum of understanding with Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo., to create a dual-degree transfer program with an emphasis on poultry science. The institutions have created a three-plus-one course curriculum allowing animal science majors at MSU to complete their senior year at the U of A in the poultry program and earn degrees from both universities.

Graduates will earn bachelor’s degrees from MSU in animal science and from the U of A in agricultural, food and life sciences with a poultry science concentration.

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Cole is 5 years old (going on 50) and for the past few months has started coming to the convenience store every Saturday and Sunday morning with his dad and hanging out with all of us old fossils who are there every morning, 364 days a year. We don’t do much, other than drink coffee and give each other grief on topics ranging from making fun of the way we build our fenc-es, to ridiculing each other for the brand of tractor we have, to accusations of flirting with each other’s wives.

Cole prides himself on being a “working man” and “cowboy.” It’s plain for everyone to see as well, decked out in cowboy boots, John Deere cap, Carhart shirt, coat and Wrangler jeans. He carries a pocket knife (that he’s happy to show anyone) and wears a holster holding a pair of pliers attached to a western belt with a buckle big enough on which to eat a meal. Oh, yeah, he knows how to use both the knife and pliers – safely.

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Well, I haven’t told him. Maybe he won’t notice them, or the new fences, or that I have added a milking stanchion to his shop. He gets stuff all the time and doesn’t tell me, so what harm could a couple of goats cause? Well...

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page to look at a well-muscled animal and appreciate it. I did have a few haired sheep at one point, but Barbados sheep are more often admired for their “wild” look and their ability to jump and hit you about the chest as they look for an escape route, rather than their muscle.

I like the different breeds of wool sheep; each has its own unique traits. I love the larger-framed breeds because of their overall power and appearance, but there’s something about a small-framed sheep that produces wool that hangs like ringlets.

I have grown to appreciate a good Boer goat. The first time I saw a Boer was at the Missouri State Fair in the mid-1990s.

Some of my sheep producer friends and I were impressed with the regal appearance of the bucks and the style of the does.

Never seeing these animals before, it was an education. The Boers have evolved even more over the last few decades, and the breed continues to impress.

Small ruminant production is a large part of the agricultural landscape in the Ozarks, and it’s here to stay.

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and goats are also very prolific, producing twins and triples.

Many producers in the Ozarks also have a multi-species operation, which allows them to graze their cattle, goats and/or sheep in a way that is beneficial for the pastures, the animals and the producer. It’s not a new practice, but it’s gaining in popularity.

There are also a few financial benefits in sheep and goat production.

Lambs and meat kids sell for more per pound than most feeder calves. Yes, producers will receive more per head for a feeder calf than a lamb or goat kid, but when one balances everything out, which species generates bigger profits?

After all the T’s are crossed and the I’s dotted, it just comes down to personal choice on what you raise on your farm, but don’t overlook those smaller animals.

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Micheal Hackbart says Royal White sheep are excellent mothers and are very docile.

Micheal Hackbart’s flock of Royal White sheep are idea for his Miklin Creek Farm Living the Dream may have be- until the dew is mostly off the high grass come a pop song, television show before turning them out of their pen and and catch phrase for many in re- that also helps keep the parasite problem cent year, but it is pretty close to reality under control as the worm larvae go back for Michael and Linda Hackbart of west- into the ground as the grass dries.”

Michael hays 13 acres of his Miklin ern Laclede County, Mo., as they raise Creek Farm, and that has provided an Royal White sheep on 115 acres.

A retired computer software engineer ample amount of hay for his sheep, as from oilfield services in the Houston, well as leaving him enough to sell. He Texas, area, Michael and his wife bought also rents out a portion of his pasture to a their farm and used it as a vacation desti- neighbor for cattle grazing.

The Royal White breed is proving to be nation, as did their family members, including their daughters Katie, Lauren and very hardy and requires little maintenance.

“We use alfalfa pellets as a supplement, Beckah, and son Matt, and their families.

Matt, his wife, Emily and their children but they are almost like a treat,” Micheal livre with Michael and Linda at the farm. explained. “We feed hay during the win“About 30 of our acres are in pasture ter months but we mostly pasture our and the rest is wooded,” Michael ex- sheep so our feed costs are minimal. We plained. “Our son had a farm in Ore- vaccinate with CDT (Clostridium pergon and brought us some Jacob sheep fringens type C and D and tetanus), keep lambs when they moved here, but I antibiotics on hand, and use lamb boostfound them to be pretty skittish and the er to get them started but other than ram was really destructive. We also had that and hoof trimming, there is very a few pigs at first but that didn’t real- little management involved. Our fields ly work out. Then we found the Royal are soft, muddy ground so our sheeps’ Whites and now we have 15 ewes and at hooves don’t get worn down like they would on rocky ground.” the moment, 22 lambs.”

Micheal retains some of his ewe lambs Royal White sheep are a relatively new breed, established just 20 years or so ago for his herd, but most of his ewes go into by the late William Hoag of Hermleigh, production at other farms.

“I’ll probably keep five to seven of this Texas. A hair sheep, Royal Whites are bred to produce more meat than Katah- year’s ewes, maybe even a couple more,” din or Dorper breeds, but with less fat. he added with a laugh. “I’m not selling They are characterized as the first new much commercial right now, just selling to other breeders to help them build up breed of sheep in the United their own flocks. I’ve had them come States in more than 25 years. from Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, “As a hair sheep, they reand Illinois. quire a lot less maintenance, The high materanl traits of the since there is no shearing,” Mibreed are another factor the chael explained of his registered Hackbarts apprciate. flock. “They are also naturally Lebanon, Mo. “The Royal Whites are parasite resistant so that really very docile and excellent helps. We wait in the morning MAY 31, 2021

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mothers. I have one ewe that had triplets last year and she raised them all by herself. In another example, I count sheep every night so when one was missing, I had to go looking for her,” he added. “I found her in the far pasture, refusing to leave her newborn. I managed to get the lamb into a sling, which I held outside the four-wheeler door as I drove slowly and she followed right along back to the sheep pen.”

Micheal gives speical attention to his flock’s breeding program, traveling to Kentucky recently for his new ram.

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“I am very careful to maintain a low coefficient of inbreeding (COI) in my flock so as not to magnify any genetic defects.” he explained.

While the Laclede County, Mo., property started off as a vacation tretreat, Micheal is glad to call the Ozarks home.

“We have family in Texas and Wisconsin, so we were looking for someplace in the middle and we found it right here in Missouri,” Micheal said. “We are so grateful to be here. We have a beautiful little creek down below, lots of deer hunting, wild turkeys. It’s just gorgeous here.”

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In early January, the family, which also includes Devon’s dad Nathan and younger His mom, Elise Miller, has raised meat goats since she 12, but when the Millers sister Alyssia, kidded about 30 does, producing more than 50 kids. At the height of began looking at show animals, Devon wasn’t interested in showing meat goats. He their milk production, 21 does, including mom Elise’s Nubians, were being milked gravitated, instead, to dairy goats. twice a day. Today, 10 does are currently milked in their more than 100-year-old Devon and Elise began looking for dairy goats, specifically Nubarn, which was once used for dairy cattle. bians, but every farm they went to, there were also Alpines.

The majority of the milk goes back to the kids, but there is “Alpines became my favorite breed,” Devon said. “I’ve still enough milk for the Miller family’s use and a couple been in dairy goats for about five years now. Alpines of milk customers. have the most personality. They aren’t the sweetIdeally, females will kid from the end of January est, but when you look in the eye of an Alpine, through early February. there’s just something there.”

“That’s when we start milking,” Devon exHe opted to go with French Alpines. plained. “The standard lactation of a dairy “French Alpines can be traced back to goat is 10 months. With my first freshenthe beginning of the breed, back before ers, they produce about 6 to 8 pounds of they closed the herd book in the 1950s. milk, so just under a gallon. On my oldWith the American Alpines, a page er does, they will go 10 to 12 pounds, (from the herd book) was lost, or a occasionally up to 14 pounds. Sixteen goat was bred in that wasn’t a French pounds is 2 gallons, so not too bad.”

Alpine,” Devon explained. “SomeDevon said when the family was where, something wasn’t complete, milking 21, more than 20 gallons of so that’s the American Alpine.” milk was bring produced daily.

Since venturing into dairy goat proDevon is particular about the qualduction, Devon has sought the best ity of kids sold to other producers. genetics available to build his herd.

“I’m very strict the buck kids that “I have some really exciting purcan leave with my name,” he said. chases this year,” Devon, who is “It has to be out of quality doe and 17, said. “Mom and I traveled to a buck that I would use on my herd.

Epworth, Iowa, to Pleasant Grove The qualifications are strict, and if Dairy, which milks 500 to 600 does they aren’t met, the buck is wethered a day. I picked up a buck kid and a and sold as a pet or for meat. With the doe kid. I’ve seen a buck from Pleasant doe kids, I am picky about what I kept.

Grove, Pleasant Grove Freeze Frame, used Does will be sold as registered does and go in multiple herds, and he is the sire of both to other show herds that and raise them to my buck and my doe. I need to tighten up my ulie T their best potential.” front ends, help out their shoulders and add some urner There are many misconceptions about goats, the width, and I’ve seen that in all of his daughters. I’ve -Craw biggest being that they will eat anything. f seen some nicely set front legs, right under the withers ord “Goats are the most finicky species of livestock to raise,” as they should be, and some nice, smoothly extended brishe said. “If you want a doe that is going to produce, you have kets in all of his daughters. I figured the best way to do that was to to be very strict nutritionally. If you want a doe that will produce, get a son out of him.” you are going to have to spend some money on good-quality feed.”

In addition to Pleasant Grove genetics, Devon also has genetics lines Because nutrition is critical for milk production, goats receive high-protein altracing to Iron Rod Alpines in Virginia and the P-J Bailey herd in Ohio. falfa hay and plenty of clean water.

Devon depends on his herd bucks for breeding, but he also has more “Alfalfa is a go-to, and it helps you keep your production up all year long, than 100 straws of semen he has purchased from various bucks. not just in the winter. We like for our goats to be goats, so they do forage “I can look at my doe and say, ‘I really like this, but I want to fix this,’” Devas well,” Devon said. “A lot of people who have show herds leave them on explained. “With my extensive catalog of buck options, I can pick what in the barn with alfalfa hay; that’s all they get. Ours are on 10 acres to is going to be the best. I have some plans to do some AI this fall. I got an AI Fair Grove, Mo. forage in addition to free-choice alfalfa, and we also have a free-choice kit for Christmas, which some may think is a strange gift, but I was excited.” mineral out all year that seems to help keep their coat shiny. Whole o ot

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Proper nutrition is a critical part of producing quality animals and animal products, but there has to be a foundation.

“You have to start with high-quality genetics,” Devon said. “You can feed the best feed to a doe that has mediocre genetics, and you are never going to get the same production as a top-quality genetic doe.”

Health protocols include regular fecal samples, which are performed on the farm by the Millers.

“If we see an animal that is a little run down, we can run a fecal and see what parasite we are dealing with, and treat it with the exact medication needed,” Devon explained, adding that dewormer resistance is a big problem in goat production. “Everyone, for a long time, just wormed on a schedule if they were showing signs or not, or they weren’t giving doses large enough to kill the ones in the system. Now you basically have super worms that it takes harsh stuff to kill.”

Goats receive CDT vaccinations annually to protect against Clostridium perfringens type C and D (overeating disease) and Clostridium tetani (tetanus). Adults receive a booster once a year, while kids are vaccinated at 2 months of age, followed by a booster two weeks later.

The initial move to the French Alpine breed was for show animals and the family continues to show at American Dairy Goat Association-sanctioned shows.

Wins at those shows are credited to the animal and become part of its pedigree.

“Shows prove the work you are doing is paying off,” he said.

Devon typically shows at the Ozark Empire Fair, the Missouri State Fair, and other shows, including quad and six-ring shows. Those shows, Devon explained, have multiple rings, with a judge in each.

“In a normal show, there is one ring and one judge, and that is the entire show,” he said. “With the six-ring show, there are six rings and six judges in two days.

Last year, we took our two senior bucks, and my Bailey buck won two championship legs, and it takes three to become a permanent champion. My younger buck was switching places with the breeder he came from and one of her bucks. It was funny to watch one judge place her above me; then the next judge place me MAY 31, 2021

over her in the next ring. It makes you excited to go out and consistently place well in front of six judges.”

Kids born from his two-time champion buck will have a greater value, Devon explained, because of his wins in the ring.

Devon added that he hopes the buck will get his third championship this spring.

This year’s national American Goat Society show will be held in Sedalia, Mo., and Devon hopes to take animals to that June event.

Devon’s dedication to the improvement of his French Alpine herd has caught some attention. He received the Missouri FFA Association Goat Production in April. With his state win, Devon is eligible to compete for the national award.

“My advisor, Matt Crutcher, said I had enough points, and I had a solid application,” Devon said, adding that high school juniors don’t typically apply for a state award. “I remember going up on the stage (at the Missouri State FFA Convention), and they handed me my plaque. I looked at it, and it said ‘State Winner.’

I thought, ‘Well, this is a little exciting.’”

The state-level award culminated his work in dairy goat production, but he said it wasn’t always easy.

“This hasn’t come without hard work,” Devon said, adding he has recently sold some of his older foundation does, and his two older bucks will also be going to new herds in the future. “I had to prove to my mom that this is what I want to do.”

Devon isn’t sure what the future holds for his herd, but he hopes to continue to develop the best genetics possible.

“In a perfect world, I would keep my goats all through college. I want to attend nationals and maybe win a national championship with one of my does. I would eventually like to get to the point where I’m selling top-quality genetics around the country, just like those herdsI follow on Facebook; that’s my end goal.

I’m not going to live with Mom and Dad forever, and I don’t know if I will be able to afford a farm after I graduate from college.

I would like to know, for certainty, that I would have a place for my goats so that I can continue this project. Right now, everything is a big question mark.”

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Pearl Brothers Hardware store in Joplin, Mo., has been around since 1905, although it has not always in the same location that is today.

The actual Pearl brothers originally opened the hardware store at 2nd and Main in Joplin. The initial store opened as a hardware store offering sporting goods and a pawn shop.

In 1949, father and son Jake and Jo-

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seph Berger, businessmen from Kansas City, Mo., who moved to the area and purchased the store. They did not make any name changes since it was a well-established business. In 1964, they moved the business to the location where it is today on Joplin’s Main Street, and joined True Value for which the name today is known as Pearl Brothers True Value Hardware. With this change, MAY 31, 2021

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they were no longer a pawn shop, nor did they offer sporting goods because many other larger retailers coming to the area offered sporting goods. Later, they added a large room providing a much more open area to expand their product selection.

Today, Harold Berger, the grandson and son of Jake and Joseph Berger, is the owner and manager of Pearl Brothers True Value Hardware. Harold was always involved with the business growing up. He graduated with a business degree from University of Missouri-Columbia in 1977 and came back to help his dad run the store.

“I never knew to do anything different than help with the family business,” he said.

Harold displays a picture in his office of Paul Harvey talking with his father MAY 31, 2021

at the hardware store. Paul Harvey used to be a spokesperson for True Value and stopped by the store once when he was speaking in the Joplin area.

Harold’s grandfather Jake passed away when Harold was young, but his dad Joseph was still coming down to the store to help until a few days before he passed away at the age of 92.

“He would come to the store and just talk to people. That’s what kept him going,” Harold recalled.

Pearl Brothers True Value Hardware has always been locally, and family owned and is proud to provide great customer service, as well as free nearby parking for customers. They offer a large selection of housewares and small appliances, as well as electrical and plumbing supplies and hardware.

They carry a lot of lawn and garden

supplies, and have a large area with patio and outdoor furniture, which has been a huge part of their business in the summertime.

“When you buy from us, your tax money stays in Joplin,” Harold said.

“It’s an easier trip than the big box stores. We can find the items for our customers to make for a quick and easy shopping trip if that is what the customer desires. Some customers do not want to walk through a big box store, they want to get in and out.”

The Joplin downtown area where the hardware store is located has really become very prosperous again “You have a lot of apartments and they are building the new courthouse and the Center for the Arts here. It’s going to attract a lot of people to downtown Joplin in a few years,” Harold said.

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Even though the store is not in the center of Joplin, Harold said their location has worked for a lot of years.

“We do our own thing and I’m satisfied with the way it is.” They have always supported local groups as much as they can.

“During the pandemic, people learned they could work in their yard and sit out on their patio and repair this or that.

We draw people within a 50-mile radius which is about 350,000 people. We have a lot that travel to shop here, including many all over the four states.”

Many of their employees have worked at the store well over 30 years. Their employees know their products and can offer personal service to help customers find what they are looking for whether it be a unique gift, everyday product or small appliance or hardware item.

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J&J Procesing

By Rachel Harper

H Owners: James and Julie Etter H Location: Pierce City, Mo. History: James and Julie Etter bought an older building in Pierce City, Mo., in January 2001 in hopes of starting J & J Processing, a custom processing plant. The building had once been a processing and packing plant, but when they purchased it, it was set up as only a packing plant.

They remodeled the building, made some repairs, and bought their equipment. They opened the processing plant in the fall of 2001 during deer season.

Soon after, they began processing beef and pork.

“It was really hard at first starting a new business,” James said. “I hired a friend who was a meat cutter when we started.” James was raised on a farm and had previously worked in the processing plant for several months in 1993. Before starting the business, James and Julie worked at Leggett & Platt.

In February 2007, they had enough business for James to quit and become full time at the processing plant. Julie came to the plant as the office manager full time in 2012. The family-owned business started out with three employees and now there are five.

“We have always had good employees. It takes good employees to do this. They are hard workers.”

Their son Seth works at the plant full time, and their daughter Hayley helped when she was younger A lot of family and friends help out especially during deer season.

Products and Services: “We custom process beef and pork. Customers bring their animals in and we process them to their liking. During deer season, we do all the different sausages and deer sticks.”

They process around 15 beef and 10 hogs a week. They also do their own smoked and cured pork.

“People really enjoy our bacon and the way we cut it. We do a little different cutting style than most processing plants. We do a retail style cutting and do not leave a lot of bone in our products, along with a lot of knife and saw work.”

Future Plants: James said they would like to expand in the near future.

“We are looking to a larger carcass cooler for longer hangs,” he said.

Most processing plants are passed down through generations, but the Etter’s with J&J Processing are unique in that they are a first-generation family-owned processing plant.

James and Julie’s son Seth is looking forward to continuing the family business.

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meet your neighbors

Collecting the Data

By Julie Turner-Crawford

White Dorper producer Charlie Robinson traces his with flock with NSIP Charlie Robinson was introduced to Katahdin and Dorper sheep in high Charlie is retaining most of his ewe lambs to help build his flock. He also plans to restock the paddocks of the poultry operation this summer. Due to predator issues, school through a neighbor, and he had a few head of his own.

After a few years, it was off to college, then to veterinary school, so his sheep op- Charlie said his current plan is to buy ewes, breed them in December/January, then eration stopped. As time went on, Charlie graduated from vet school and became a sell them as bred ewes.

“The end goal of these sheep is at the consumer level. The producers I am selling partner in Wooderson Vet Clinic in Bolivar, Mo. About a year after arriving in Polk County, Charlie partnered with a client on a Dorper operation; he was back in the breeding stock to need rams that will deliver on the rail,” Charlie said. “The sheep sheep business. The partnership, however, dissolved after a year and a half, leaving that rotate around the chicken barns are commercial, but the goal of Doc Robinson Charlie with a flock of sheep and no pasture. As luck would have it, another client had Dorpers is to produce breeding stock for commercial producers so they can produce high-quality slaughter lambs for the consumer. There are a portion of the seedstock gotten out of the goat business, so Charlie rented that farm; it was, howlambs that don’t make the cut for breeding stock and they go to slaughter. Dopers ever, a little too far from home. He then worked with a pasture-poultry cut out at a higher percentage, have larger loins, bigger rumps, and can do it all operation to graze down paddocks. It was going well, but changes were on on grass.” again on the horizon.

Breeding the dams and sires of those high-quality meat animals is where “When the market went sky-high this winter, I thought someone else needCharlie’s flock comes into the equation. ed to own those ewes,” Charlie said.

“We are getting so far away from normal production and getting into the Charlie still has a flock of about 30 White Dorpers and plans to expand to Bolivar, Mo. about 200 ewes through a rotational grazing program created by working with — Continued on Next Page the Natural Resources Conservation Service on his 80-acre farm near Bolivar.

Charlie Robinson plans to increase his White Dorper operation to about 200 ewes.

Photos by Julie Turner-Crawford

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meet your neighbors Collecting the Data

Continued from Previous Page show ring so much that there are almost two different breeds. Coddling a show lamb is great for 4-H kids because they need to learn responsibility, but not so great for a producer who wants to make money. I’m not saying there aren’t show rams out there that can produce lambs that make money; the problem is they don’t have any reliable data.

Phenotype is an important aspect of evaluating the animal but we need the production data to complete the picture.”

Through the National Sheep Improvement Program (NSIP), Charlie tracks genetic data and compares it to other producers’ lambs, especially those with the same genetic lines.

“I want to buy breeding stock from someone on NSIP who has high-quality animals, with good numbers on birth weight, weaning weight, post-weaning weight (generally at about 120 days of age) and eye muscle depth.”

Bigger isn’t always the better when collecting data in White Dorpers. Data shows weaning weights are inversely correlated to eye-muscle depth in the breed.

“Ewes with high eye-muscle depth don’t often have high weaning weights, that’s what we are striving for though. It can be done, it’s just hard to do,” Charlie explained.

“We’ve also found that muscle depth carries a lot of genes for maternal traits.

Typically, the higher eye muscle is the more maternal-style animals, while those with higher weaning weight will be higher terminal-style animals. It makes sense because if you are going to breed to a terminal stud, you want a higher weaning weight.”

To build his flock, Charlie has sought his breeding stock from White Dorper breeder Paul Lewis of the state of Oregon. Charlie considers Paul to be one the top breeders of “non-coddled” White Dorpers in the U.S. Paul, Charlie explained, has 600 head of White Dorpers roaming the “tundra” of Oregon, where rainfall is light and conditions are sometimes harsh.

Paul has been breeding Dorpers long enough for his genetics to be found in both the Australian Lamb Plan system and NSIP. Dorpers are a composite breed of horned Dorsets and Fat Tailed Persian sheep originating in South Africa. Due to embargoes, U.S. breeders can not obtain genetics directly from South Africa, with most coming from Australia.

“In White Dorpers, when you turn in your data on NSIP, they go back and send it to Lamb Plan, which runs equations that spits out the data for the EBVs (Estimated Breeding Values),” Charlie said. “For the last two years, I haven’t bought anything outside of his stock because he’s the only place I can go to get those records, outside of flying to Australia, buying a couple of rams, collecting them and then importing the semen, which is what Paul does. What I buy are those AI-sired rams. He has a lot of rams from his breeding, and I am looking at one of those rams for next year, and it’s in the top 5 percent of the breed for eye-muscle depth.”

Because his sheep are not destined to be show animals, Charlie wants them to perform the way the breed was intended.

“I want to preserve that White Dorper style that will work on pasture, with minimal human interaction,” Charlie said. “None of my ewes lamb in jugs, none of them have special care. These ewes do not need, unless it’s the extreme cold like we had in Feb-

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ruary, coddling. Ewes that lamb on pasture are better mothers, are probably better at staving off predators, and the lambs are hardier all around.” He added he did bring in his ewes that were lambing during the extreme cold blast more for his own compfort than that of the ewes and lambs.

His “no coddling” approach to sheep production also carries over to the ram side.

“The pasture-raised ram may grow slower, but he will still reach the same size at maturity. The ram’s goal is to breed ewes, not be 60 pounds at a month old,” Charlie said.

Ewes receive feed only before breeding to improve the chances of twins, and while nursing. After lambs are weaned at 90 days, it’s back to grass.

When selling breeding stock, Charlie is armed with NSIP data, ready to show the potential of each animal.

“The data is the most important thing we have,” Charlie said. “NSIP is keeping track of the pedigree of that animal to compare to other flocks, and develop your accuracy.

Lambs in Australia being raised in the outback are being compared to Paul Lewis’ lambs in the tundra of Oregon, and to my lambs raised in Southwest Missouri on fescue. We are getting a look at how good our genetics are because of the vast array of areas they are being raised.”

Demand has been good for Charlie’s rams, so good he sold two the three rams he planned to use for his breeding program, including a ram that is in the top 5 percent of the breed for maternal weaning weights.

“I sold him with the agreement I could collect semen from him,” Charlie said. “His daughters are really, really good, and I want to keep his genetics around. I can’t replace his production numbers.”

Ewes typically lamb at about 2 years of age, and lambs are offered a creep feed at about 2 months. Creep feeders, however are limited feeders so Charlie can control the amount fed per day. While feed is available, his lambs eat very little, and if the grass is in good shape, he may not offer any to weaned lambs.

As he builds his operation, Charlie’s plans for the future are clear.

“My goal is to produce a line of rams that are super-high weaning weight rams, and I would like to have a line of super-high eye-muscle depth rams,” he said. “Then I want the rest to be right in the middle, just solid all-around rams that have weaning weights in the top 20 percent and still have a 2 for eye-muscle depth so they can be used for about anything, for retaining ewes or butcher lambs. The ideal is to walk out in a pasture of 20, 30 rams and show people rams that will produce those lambs that will sell at 60 pounds at the sale barn, and here’s 10 to pick from. If they want that ram that will improve their flock all around, then here’s the line you need to go with. We have to have something to look at rams that isn’t just phenotype. That’s all we’ve had for a long time.”

Charlie added that the sheep market in the Ozarks has tremendous opportunities ahead.

“We are developing a market for larger slaughter lambs than the normal 60 pounder at a Droper specific packer that offers value added programs such as all natural, free range and organic. These labels lead to higher premiums on our high quality carcasses,” he said.

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H Hometown: Sarcoxie, Mo H Family: Parents Glenn and Anna Bittick; brothers Bryan and Jason Bittick; and sisters Carol Meyer and Johnna Greathouse

In Town: Randy Bittick started working part time at Leggett & Platt in Carthage, Mo., 21 years ago while he was in college. He is now a full-time laborer at the company’s wire mill. He welds wire and sends it down the line. Randy has dual degree in animal science and agronomy from Missouri State University, but said he could make a good living at Leggett & Platt, so that is where he has stayed. “It works out pretty good for having a farm because it gives me more hours here,” he said.

In the Country: Randy grew up on the farm he lives on today in Sarcoxie, Mo. He farms with his dad Glenn and together they have around 75 Angus crossbred cow/ calf pairs. Randy also has 80 Boer cross goats and one crossbred pig. He owns 15 acres of his own, and his dad has around 400 acres which are all pretty close to the homestead. The goats run on the 40 acres at his home and the cows are on about 200 acres of pasture. They farm with one tractor and minimal equipment.

“I pretty well take care of the land to pay for me being able to run my livestock on his land. I just enjoy being around animals and being outside. I started in with goats because they were bushhogs. They were saving me time and fuel on the tractor.”

His dad is now retired so he feeds hay with the tractor during the colder months.

Randy would like to invest in better fences so he can run the goats on more ground. He said he learned a lot about animals and agronomy in school but most of what he knows about farming he learned from his dad.

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bulls

slaughter

beef

80.00-101.00*

Douglas County Livestock Auction - Ava

87.50-108.00 †

Four State Stockyards - Exeter

Not Reported*

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

79.50-95.50

Joplin Regional Stockyards

77.50-108.00 †

Mid Missouri Stockyards

MO-KAN Livestock Auction

69.00-104.00 †

South Central Regional Stockyards

75.00-90.00 †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

50

sheep &

74.00-99.50 †

70

90

slaughter

110

130

150

cows

(Week of 5/16/21 to 5/22/21) Buffalo Livestock Market

50.00-70.00*

Douglas County Livestock Auction - Ava

35.00-67.50 †

Four State Stockyards - Exeter

Not Reported*

Interstate Regional Stockyards

29.00-70.50 †

Joplin Regional

15.00-76.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

55.00-77.00 †

Mid Missouri Stockyards - Lebanon

40.00-77.00*

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

47.50-75.50 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

27.00-77.00 †

South Central Regional Stockyards

32.00-64.00 †

Springfield Livestock

2

20.00-73.00 †

22

42

cow/calf Buffalo Livestock Market

62

82

102

pairs

(Week of 5/16/21 to 5/22/21)

1000.00-1275.00*

Douglas County Livestock Auction - Ava

None Reported †

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

None Reported †

Four State Stockyards - Exeter Joplin Regional Stockyards

1200.00-1500.00* None Reported †

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

700.00-1625.00 †

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna Springfield Livestock Marketing

None Reported

1800

reported per cwt PricesPrices reported per cwt

(Week of 5/16/21 to 5/22/21) Buffalo Livestock Market

775.00-1100.00*

Douglas County Livestock Auction - Ava

700.00-1150.00 †

Four State Stockyards - Exeter

Not Reported*

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba Joplin Regional Stockyards

675.00-1285.00 † None Reported †

Mid Missouri Stockyards

900.00-1250.00*

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

525.00-1250.00 †

MO-KAN Livestock Auction - Butler

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna Springfield Livestock Marketing Center

16 16

100

Bulls, Med. & Lg. 1

725.00-1080.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

600

None Reported †

650.00-1060.00 †

1600

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Heifers, Med. & Lg. 1

1150.00 †

1100

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

2100

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

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Mid Missouri Stockyards* 5/20/21

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844

816

558

1,157

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1,531

1,132

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St-5 Higher

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1-3 Higher

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170.00-175.00 161.00-186.00 152.00-179.50 140.00-155.00 129.50-136.00

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185.00-190.00 175.00-181.00 164.00-177.00 149.00-159.00 135.00-150.00

189.00-192.50 172.00-189.75 160.75-178.75 140.10-166.50 137.00-149.00

170.00-195.00 165.00-182.00 153.00-178.00 141.00-164.00 130.00-144.00

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148.00-168.00 134.00-158.00 128.00-143.00 131.00-137.00 112.00-118.00

147.50 148.00-153.00 129.00-143.00 127.00-138.00 118.75

153.00-156.00 143.00-158.00 130.00-145.50 124.00-130.00 125.50-129.00

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170.25 148.75-161.00 128.50-150.00 132.00-151.00 133.00

150.00-170.00 136.00-157.00 126.00-148.00 123.00-135.00 118.00-128.00

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South 258.00 242.50 Billin 297.50 90-10 Misso Slaug San A (flesh flesh) Cull a 80.00.

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2300 Steers, Med. & Lg. 1

5/21/21

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cows 1300

replacement

0

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650.00-950.00 †

800

National Sheep Summary

Compared to last week slaughter lambs mostly sharply lower with most decline on light lambs under 70 lbs; slaughter ewes very uneven, mostly steady; no comparison on feeder lambs. At San Angelo, TX 12,177 head sold in a two day sale. No sales in Equity Cooperative Auction. In direct trading slaughter ewes and feeder lambs were not tested. 3,479 lamb carcasses traded with no trend due to confidentiality. All sheep sold per hundred weight (CWT) unless specified.

Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3: San Angelo: wooled and shorn 110-150 lbs 150.00168.00.

New Holland, PA: wooled and shorn 100-125 lbs 270.00-315.00.

Ft. Collins, CO: wooled and shorn 100-145 lbs 210.00235.00.

South Dakota: wooled and shorn 100-150 lbs 221.00245.00.

Kalona, IA: wooled and shorn 100-130 lbs 215.00257.50.

Billings, MT: wooled and shorn 100-115 lbs 229.00239.00.

Missouri: wooled and shorn 100-150 lbs no test.

Equity Coop: no sales.

Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 1-2: San Angelo: hair 40-60 lbs 230.00-262.00; 60-70 lbs 224.00-250.00, few 258.00; 70-80 lbs 219.00-238.00, few 250.00; 80-90 lbs 212.00-232.00, few 240.00-244.00; 90-105 lbs 210.00-226.00, few 232.00-244.00. wooled and shorn 50-60 lbs 242.00-246.00; 60-70 lbs 226.00250.00; 74 lbs 238.00; 80-90 lbs 214.00-234.00; 90-100 lbs 210.00-226.00.

New Holland: wooled and shorn 40-50 lbs 285.00305.00; 50-60 lbs 280.00-315.00; 60-70 lbs 270.00-295.00; 70-90 lbs 270.00-300.00; 90-100 lbs 285.00-305.00. hair 40-50 lbs 305.00-310.00; 50-60 lbs 280.00-295.00; 60-70 lbs 260.00-290.00; 70-80 lbs 250.00-290.00; 80-90 lbs 260.00-290.00; 90-100 lbs 275.00-295.00.

Ft. Collins: wooled and shorn 49 lbs 225.00; 70-80 lbs 250.00; 80-90 lbs 260.00-270.00; 90-100 lbs 245.00265.00. hair 60 lbs 265.00; 70-80 lbs 210.00-235.00; 80-90 lbs 200.00-255.00; 95 lbs 200.00.

Kalona: wooled and shorn 50-60 lbs 230.00-255.00; 60-70 lbs 222.00-252.50; 70-80 lbs 221.00-236.00; 80-90 lbs 225.50-249.00; 90-100 lbs 231.00-257.50. hair 76 lbs 231.00; 89 lbs 235.00; 105 lbs 230.00.

stocker & feeder

None Reported †

Mid Missouri Stockyards

5/6/21

Receipts: 1,869 Another large crowd was on hand for this May sale.

Many new buyers were present as well as active internet bidding and buying. Compared to last month, slaughter lambs traded 15.00 - 22.00 lower. Slaughter ewes traded steady. Feeder kid goats traded steady to 25.00 higher. Not enough receipts last month for a slaughter goat comparison. Supply was heavy with moderate demand for sheep, and very good demand for goats. Supply included: 61% Slaughter Sheep/Lambs (11% Wooled & Shorn, 61% Hair Breeds, 3% Ewes, 24% Hair Ewes, 2% Hair Bucks); 12% Feeder Goats (100% Kids); 23% Slaughter Goats (53% Kids, 37% Nannies/ Does, 8% Bucks/Billies, 3% Wethers); 3% Replacement Goats (61% Nannies/Does, 39% Families).

Slaughter Sheep/Lambs: Wooled & Shorn - Choice and Prime 1-3: 242.50300.00.

Wooled & Shorn - Choice 1-3: 227.50-230.00.

Hair Breeds - Choice and Prime 1-3: 265.00-340.00.

Hair Breeds - Choice 1-3: 230.00-265.00.

Hair Breeds - Good 1-2: 167.50-225.00.

Ewes - Utility and Good 1-3: 100.00-155.00.

Ewes - Cull and Utility 1-2: 75.00-87.50.

Hair Ewes - Good 2-3: 140.00-210.00.

Hair Ewes - Utility and Good 1-3: 90.00-140.00.

Hair Ewes - Cull and Utility 1-2: 90.00-97.50.

Hair Bucks 1-2: 117.50-150.00.

Feeder Goats: Kids - Selection 1: 375.00-495.00.

Kids - Selection 2: 295.00-375.00.

Kids - Selection 3: 185.00-275.00.

Slaughter Goats: Kids - Selection 1: 370.00-480.00.

Kids - Selection 2: 295.00-390.00.

Kids - Selection 3: 260.00-310.00.

Nannies/Does - Selection 1-2: 185.00-285.00.

Nannies/Does - Selection 3: 125.00-185.00.

Bucks/Billies - Selection 1-2: 190.00-310.00.

Wethers - Selection 1: 310.00-370.00.

Wethers - Selection 3: 255.00.

Replacement Goats: Nannies/Does - Selection 1-2: 280.00-360.00.

Families - Selection 1-2 w/<20 lbs kid: 200.00-428.00.

550.00-1700.00 †

MO-KAN Livestock Auction - Butler

300

5/22/21

Receipts: 1,217 Compared to last month, slaughter lambs traded 40.00 lower. Not enough other classes of sheep for a market comparison. Sheep supply moderate with light demand.

Slaughter kid goats traded 30.00 lower with a light supply and good demand. Supply included: 74% Slaughter Sheep/Lambs (5% Wooled & Shorn, 86% Hair Breeds, 8% Hair Ewes, 1% Hair Bucks); 1% Replacement Sheep/ Lambs (100% Hair Bucks); 13% Feeder Goats (100% Kids); 12% Slaughter Goats (73% Kids, 27% Nannies/ Does); 1% Replacement Goats (100% Nannies/Does).

Slaughter Sheep/Lambs: Wooled & Shorn - Choice and Prime 1-3: 180.00-225.00.

Hair Breeds - Choice and Prime 1-3: 190.00-270.00.

Hair Breeds - Choice 1-3: 180.00-230.00.

Hair Ewes - Good 2-3: 150.00-170.00.

Hair Ewes - Utility and Good 1-3: 95.00-125.00.

Hair Bucks - 1-2: 107.50-130.00.

Replacement Sheep/Lambs: Hair Bucks - Small and Medium 1-2: 175.00-450.00.

Feeder Goats: Kids - Selection 1: 345.00-405.00.

Kids - Selection 2: 290.00-350.00.

Kids - Selection 3: 190.00-260.00.

Slaughter Goats: Kids - Selection 1: 345.00-430.00.

Kids - Selection 2: 240.00-360.00.

Kids - Selection 3: 195.00-260.00.

Nannies/Does - Selection 1-2: 155.00-215.00.

Replacement Goats: Nannies/Does - Selection 1-2: 240.00-350.00.

Diamond, Mo. • TS White Sheep/Goat

Not Reported*

Kingsville Livestock Auction

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Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards Sheep/Goat

70.00-111.00 †

5/23/21

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo, Nm, Mn) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 118.00-121.25 ; wtd. avg. price 119.81.

Heifers: 118.00-121.00; wtd. avg. price 119.46.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 188.00-189.00; wtd. avg. price 188.92.

Heifers: 190.00-190.00; wtd. avg. price 190.00.

70.00-108.00*

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

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Kingsville Livestock Auction

cattle

Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

(Week of 5/16/21 to 5/22/21) Buffalo Livestock Market

market sales reports

✝ USDA Reported * Independently Reported

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ooled and shorn 100-150 lbs no test. : no sales. ambs: Choice and Prime 1-2: hair 40-60 lbs 230.00-262.00; 60-70 lbs 0, few 258.00; 70-80 lbs 219.00-238.00, few 0 lbs 212.00-232.00, few 240.00-244.00; 10.00-226.00, few 232.00-244.00. wooled 0-60 lbs 242.00-246.00; 60-70 lbs 226.00s 238.00; 80-90 lbs 214.00-234.00; 90-100 26.00. d: wooled and shorn 40-50 lbs 285.000 lbs 280.00-315.00; 60-70 lbs 270.00-295.00; 0.00-300.00; 90-100 lbs 285.00-305.00. hair 5.00-310.00; 50-60 lbs 280.00-295.00; 60-70 90.00; 70-80 lbs 250.00-290.00; 80-90 lbs 0; 90-100 lbs 275.00-295.00. wooled and shorn 49 lbs 225.00; 70-80 lbs 0 lbs 260.00-270.00; 90-100 lbs 245.0060 lbs 265.00; 70-80 lbs 210.00-235.00; 0.00-255.00; 95 lbs 200.00. oled and shorn 50-60 lbs 230.00-255.00; 2.00-252.50; 70-80 lbs 221.00-236.00; 80-90 49.00; 90-100 lbs 231.00-257.50. hair 76 lbs s 235.00; 105 lbs 230.00.

prices

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0-190.00 0-181.00 0-177.00 0-159.00 0-150.00

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Kingsville Livestock Auction† 5/18/21

Mid Missouri Stockyards* 5/20/21

4/30/21

Receipts This Week: 109,257 Early weaned pigs steady to weak. All feeder pigs 8.00 per head lower. Demand moderate for moderate offerings. Receipts include 51% formulated prices.

Volume By State Or Province Of Origin: Missouri 6.5% Total Composite Weighted Average Receipts and Price (Formula and Cash): All Early Weaned Pigs: 103,857 head, wtd. avg. 46.15.

All Feeder Pigs: 5,400 head, wtd. avg. 79.78.

Daily Direct Hog Report

5/21/21

Barrows and Gilts Purchase Swine (including Packer Sold) Negotiated (Live) National Head Count: 3,071 On a National basis, compared to the previous day’s weighted average (LM_HG200): 4.64 lower.

National Price Range: 101.68-111.75.

Western Cornbelt Wtd Avg Price: 109.60.

Western Cornbelt 5 Day Rolling Avg: 114.49.

dairy & fed cattle

National Dairy Market

5/21/21

Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.6075 and 40# blocks at $1.5700.

The weekly average for barrels is $1.6375 (-0.0925) and blocks, $1.6135 (-0.1590).

Springfield Livestock Marketing† 5/19/21

Vienna South Central† 5/19/21

West Plains Ozarks Regional† 5/18/21

1,531

1,132

1,116

2,042

3,817

St-6 Higher

1-3 Higher

St-4 Higher

St-10 Higher

5-10 Higher

189.00-192.50 172.00-189.75 160.75-178.75 140.10-166.50 137.00-149.00

170.00-195.00 165.00-182.00 153.00-178.00 141.00-164.00 130.00-144.00

179.00 167.00-178.00 155.00-173.00 142.50-153.50 136.50-148.75

183.00-199.00 169.00-191.00 161.00-183.25 141.00-169.50 127.00-152.00

177.00-185.00 170.00-183.00 157.00-177.00 144.00-161.00 136.00-144.00

hay & grain markets

Mo. Weekly Hay Summary

avg. grain prices Soybeans

170.25 148.75-161.00 128.50-150.00 132.00-151.00 133.00

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--------------------150.00-170.00 136.00-157.00 126.00-148.00 123.00-135.00 118.00-128.00

----165.00-171.50 ----125.00-136.00 --------138.00-149.50 130.00-145.00 124.00-132.00 122.00-123.00

--------------------146.00-161.00 142.00-153.50 132.00-151.00 128.00-137.00 131.00

----152.50-155.00 133.00 --------152.50 143.00-161.00 134.00-147.50 130.00-145.00 120.00-131.00

Week Ended 5/21/21 Soft Wheat Corn Sorghum* * Price per cwt

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Temperatures are slowly starting to warm up but the overall cool weather and moisture seems to have a lot of hay fields looking pretty short. Heavy rains caused flooding in many areas this past week and lack of anything more than one or two days in a row have made it difficult to get started cutting hay. Ideally Fescue should be on the ground by now to get the highest quality possible but weather sure hasn’t allowed that. Traditionally many farmers do choose to wait a bit longer and give up some quality for increased yields and hay season generally doesn’t kick into high gear till about Memorial Day. There has been a lot of talk about new crop pricing but thus far not much has been concrete. There is still some old crop hay being offered in several locations but moment is light. The supply of hay is moderate, demand is light to moderate and prices are mostly steady although sales are very limited at this time. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has a hay directory visit http://mda.mo.gov/abd/haydirectory/ for listings of hay http://agebb.missouri.edu/haylst/ Alfalfa - Supreme (Ask/Per Ton): Medium Square 3x3: 200.00250.00.

Alfalfa - Supreme (Ask/Per Bale): Small Square: 7.00-10.00.

Alfalfa - Premium (Ask/Per Ton): Medium Square 3x3: 160.00200.00.

Alfalfa - Good (Ask/Per Ton): Large Round: 120.00-160.00.

Alfalfa - Good (Ask/Per Bale): Small Square: 5.00-7.00.

Alfalfa - Fair (Ask/Per Ton): Large Round: 100.00-125.00.

Alfalfa/Grass Mix - Good/Premium (Ask/Per Bale): Small Square: 6.00-8.00.

Mixed Grass - Good/Premium (Ask/Per Ton): Large Round: 80.00-120.00.

Mixed Grass - Fair/Good (Ask/Per Ton): Large Round: 60.0080.00.

Mixed Grass - Fair/Good (Ask/Per Bale): Small Square: 3.006.00.

Mixed Grass - Fair (Ask/Per Bale): Large Round: 20.00-50.00.

Straw: Wheat (Ask/Per Bale): Small Square: 4.00-6.00.

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Week of 5/9/21

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d, PA: wooled and shorn 100-125 lbs 0.

CO: wooled and shorn 100-145 lbs 210.00-

Fluid Milk/Cream: Milk production is leveling off in the Northeast and Central regions, decreasing in the Southeast, and mixed throughout the West. Class I demand varies, but milk supply is steady for bottling needs. Although summer programs and educational institutions are preparing to supply free meals to kids throughout the summer, some contacts expect Class I sales to decrease as the school year comes to a close. Midwestern cheesemakers report that spot milk is abundant as cheese production ramps up. Cream supply is meeting demand and is particularly plentiful in the West.

Butter churning is seasonally active, and Class II cream-based manufacturers are working through healthy volumes. Cream price changes are mixed from region to region. Condensed skim markets are stable, and some operations are working through steady contract sales. Cream multiples this week are 1.32 ñ 1.37 in the East, 1.26-1.42 in the Midwest, and 1.05-1.30 in the West.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM: $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT, F.O.B., producing plants, Midwestern U.S. - $2.3881 - $2.5718.

Week of 4/25/21

South Dakota: wooled and shorn 70-80 lbs 225.00258.00; 80-90 lbs 230.00-252.50; 90-100 lbs 225.00242.50.

Billings: 50-60 lbs 287.50-295.00; 60-70 lbs 285.00297.50; 70-80 lbs 275.00-291.00; 80-90 lbs 260.00-280.00; 90-100 lbs 245.00-247.00.

Missouri: no test.

Slaughter Ewes: San Angelo: Good 3-4 (very fleshy) no test; Good 2-3 (fleshy) 93.00-124.00; Utility and Good 1-3 (medium flesh) 112.00-136.00; Utility 1-2 (thin) 102.00-112.00; Cull and Utility 1-2 (very thin) 90.00-100.00; Cull 1 80.00.

Week of 5/2/21

5/21/21

550-600 lb. steers

$214

Week of 5/9/21

Summary

o last week slaughter lambs mostly sharply most decline on light lambs under 70 lbs; wes very uneven, mostly steady; no comparir lambs. At San Angelo, TX 12,177 head o day sale. No sales in Equity Cooperative direct trading slaughter ewes and feeder not tested. 3,479 lamb carcasses traded d due to confidentiality. All sheep sold per ght (CWT) unless specified. ambs: Choice and Prime 2-3: wooled and shorn 110-150 lbs 150.00-

24 Month Avg. $252

Week of 5/16/21

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meet your neighbors

A Passion for Showing

Photo by Rachel Harper

By Rachel Harper

Faith Calvin hits the show ring with her registered Shropshire sheep

Faith Calvin has helped on her have met a lot of friends through showfamily farm in Dudenville, Mo., ing Shrops,” Faith said.

Shrops are her favorite animals to since she was 5 years old. Along with her parents, Kenlee and Sarah Calvin, she show because they are very friendly.

“It’s a lot of hard work, but I would helps raise Red Angus cattle, Shropshire like to continue showing through FFA,” sheep, and Polish and Dutch rabbits.

She has grown up helping her dad she said.

Faith is very involved in her local 4-H with cattle chores and attending 4-H meetings with her mom, who is her 4-H club, where her projects also include leader and also the ag teacher at Avilla horses, dogs, sewing, archery, vet science and shooting sports.

School where Faith attends.

Faith is also on the horse judging team Faith may only be 12 years old, but currently has around 20 calves of her and has been part of the horseless horse own that she feeds and cares for daily. project for three years, where she works She is the Southwest Coordinator for with a horse named Gunter regularly the Missouri Junior Red Angus Asso- and shows him at local fairs.

Faith’s mom Sarah raised sheep when ciation, where she helps promote the she was younger and has educated breed and informs others of activities.

In 2017, she purchased her first regis- Faith over the years, as well as helped tered Shropshire lamb, followed by a few her care for them. Faith’s favorite chore more the next year. She bred her first ewe on the farm is to feed and care for the in 2018. She currently has 28 registered bottle lambs. During lambing time, a Shropshires and one Shropshire cross- camera is used in the pens to keep an bred she has purchased locally and from eye on the lambing sheep, which are afar, including animals from Pennsylva- checked every couple hours. The lambs nia, Ohio and Illinois. She also bought stay with their mothers penned up for her first rabbits about two years ago and about a week in the barn before they are let out with the others. now has a total of 18.

“When they are born, we give them Faith shows her cattle, lambs and rabbits at many shows including the Jas- colostrum gel to give them energy which per County Youth Fair, Ozark Empire helps them get up and around quicker,” Fair, Missouri State Fair, and the North Faith said.

DNA testing is done on lambs to enAmerican International Livestock Exsure they are not scrape or spider carriposition in Louisville, Kentucky.

She is very competitive when it comes ers. They also vaccinate by giving CDT to showing and names all of her ani- (Clostridium perfringens type C & D plus tetanus) at about 2 to 3 weeks old mals. In 2019, her ram was and then wean them at 60 days. Afsupreme grand champion ter they are weaned, they get a lamb in the youth division at the starter creep feed. Faith then Ozark Empire Fair and Sustarts working with the lambs preme Champion in the 4-H show at the state fair.

Dundenville, Mo. to break them to lead. When they are 5 to 6 months old, “Showing is fun and a good which is show age, they beexperience. You learn how to gin deworming the lambs. make your animals better. I

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Faith Calvin has a passion for showing livestock, including her registered Shropshire sheep.

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meet your neighbors Deworming must be done four times a year. They feed ADM Showtech to their show lambs and ADM breeding sheep to the ewes and rams. The sheep eat alfalfa and orchard grass and are provided mineral tubs. Sometimes vitamin A and D are given around lambing time. SpectaGuard is also kept on hand if needed for scours.

“It takes about an hour and half to do chores twice a day, so three hours a day,” Faith said of her chores.

Faith helps her dad with morning chores, then again in the evening.

“Sheep chores include hay, grain and water, and cleaning the stalls or pens.

Rabbits get water and feed pellets and sometimes hay,” Faith shared.

Faith has a very impressive collection of trophies and a ribbon tree that she has earned through showing her animals and participating in 4-H contests. She currently holds the traveling Marilyn Powell trophy for lead line where she dressed up in a wool outfit while showing her sheep. This is a promotional contest to support wool wearing. Often times the contestants make their own wool outfits, which she has done in the past.

Before each show, Faith’s dad helps her sheer the sheep.

“We slick sheer them right before a show and we go all the way down to the bottom of their wool.” The other sheep are sheered once a year. Some sheep are fitted but Shrops have to be slick sheered.

“There is a certain point on their legs you have to go to, or you are counted off.”

They only wash the sheep right before the show.

“If you wash them every day then they’ll get wool fungus, which is contagious and kind of like ringworm. If you wash them out, then they’ll lose their lanolin which is what protects their skin,” Fair said.

Faith has been very fortunate to have retired ag teacher John Dillard help her with her sheep. She said, it is always good to have someone with experience to call when needed.

The last few years, Faith has obtained the titles of Little Miss Jasper County 2017, Jasper County Junior Princess and has earned the National Shropshire Little Bopeep award.

MAY 31, 2021

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Tuesday • June 8th

Reg. Feeder & Holstein Steer Special Wednesday • June 9th

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H Age: 17 H Parents: Mark and Darci Ashby H Siblings: Micah and Maddi Ashby H Hometown: Walker, Mo. H FFA Chapter: NEVC FFA H Advisor: Brett Neil How have you been involved in agriculture over the years?

“My family and I live on a Boer goat farm. We raise and show our goats. My dad sells them as well. We raise goats from the time of their birth until they pass away.”

What is your favorite part of being involved in agriculture?

“My favorite part about living on a goat farm is getting to see all the newborn kids. I enjoy showing my goats at the Vernon County Youth Fair in Nevada, Mo., I am also part of the NEVC FFA Meats Judging Team. We finished sixth at state competition, earning a group one gold medal classification.

What are your future plans?

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“A 5 perecent increase in price received, a 5 percent decrease in costs, and a 5 percent increase in yield will often produce more than a 100 percent increase in net returns.

The effect is cumulative, multiplicative, and compounding.”

This is a reminder that it is the little changes that add up to big improvements. If someone told you that you need to increase revenue this year by 41 percent, you would probably think they just fell off the turnip truck, but if they asked you if you could increase your price by 5 percent, you would probably think that’s achievable. This same 41 percent increase over three years would produce more than a 100 percent increase in net returns.

Price increases can generally be achieved by making a plan and sticking to it. Set the price you need and make it happen. I encourage people to work with a grain marketer if possible. The biggest problem in marketing your own crop is waiting for another increase. You just know the market has one more increase left, and then it drops. Determine your operations breakeven, add a profit, set your price, and then sell when you get there. A grain marketer will keep you disciplined. Remember, 90 percent of the people at the coffee shop didn’t hit the high either. They just said they did. You’re not competing with your neighbors; you’re running a business.

I’m not an agronomist, so I’m not going to try to tell you how to improve your yield, but speak to someone who is and ask them for some suggestions. Farmers are very prideful and typically don’t like to ask for help, but we need to get over that and seek input from others. You know the farmers in the area whose crops always look good.

Ask some questions and find out what they are doing differently. Maybe they are using a new drought-tolerant seed or one that is inclined to grow faster and stronger. Ask your seed salesperson or the co-op what’s new and shows promise.

Cost savings might be recognized from a variety of things: • More precision chemical application instead of treating the entire field • Taking advantage of prepaid discounts • Paying on time to avoid late fees • Getting updated quotes on property insurance on a routine basis • Purchase in bulk with other producers • Refinance higher interest rate loans • Limit the number of suppliers to get better pricing – ask for a quote and shop around The 5 Percent Rule is easy to remember, and I often think about it in my profession.

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Shepherds are utalizing EBVs to improve their flocks When shepherds evaluate an animal for its potential to be added to their flock, typically the first thing they do is take a good look at the animal. Though an important step, visual assessment fails to reveal all of an animal’s merit. If shepherds want to select animals based on more than what they can determine by looking at the animal, they may utilize Estimated Breeding Values (EBVs) to guide their decisions.

EBVs are relatively new and used by some, but not all, sheep breeds. They are similar to the Expected Progeny Differences (EPDs) used in the cattle industry. EBVs help to predict the performance of an animal’s future offspring. The National Sheep Improvement Program (NSIP) supports producers interested in obtaining EBVs for their animals.

Values are assigned to ewes and rams that predict differences in the performance of their offspring.

EBVs evaluate growth traits, wool traits, carcass traits, reproduction and parasite resistance.

“There’s been an increase interest in wanting to know what EBVs are and how they work,” Chelsey Kimbrough, Ph.D., livestock specialist with the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture, said.

Most commonly, EBVs are generated by sending in performance data of animals that have been measured in the same contemporary group. Researchers analyze the data to identify the difference in performance in contemporary groups and look at the relationships in parentage. According to NSIP, EBVs are calculated on the performance of the individual animal, related animals in the same flock and related animals in other flocks.

From that analysis, researchers can determine what percentage of the difference in the animal’s performance is due to actual genetic differences and which is due to environment.

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“They are easy to handle and take care of.

They also take up less acreage than cattle.”

“Every time we go in and measure an animal’s weaning weight about 30 percent of it is a genetic value and 70 percent is environmental in what we see,” Alan Culham, director of operations with Katahdin Hair Sheep International, said.

EBVs allow producers to compare animals on a genetic level. Utilizing EBVs gives producers the ability to combine sound management with good genetics. “What we need to do is get rid of that camouflage of the environment and the management, and look at what is truly a genetic feature of that animal,” Culham added.

If producers are looking for a specific genetic trait to help them better their flock, EBVs can help guide animal selection decisions.

This could be beneficial if a producer is deciding be-tween two animals that look similar and have a similar phenotype. The shepherd could consult the EBVs to guide in the decision.

Commercial producers do not have EBVs for their sheep because they manage unregistered flocks. However, commercial producers still may want to take a look at an animal’s EBVs if they are purchasing a purebred ram for their flock.

Industry leaders are working to improve the accuracy of EBVs. Even with excellent records, it can take years to get solid EBVs on a ram. “All we know about that animal when it is born is what it’s parents have done,” Culham explained.

“You can’t find out how a ram’s daughters are going to produce until we get them into production which can be four or five years.”

Culham and other experts are working with researchers to develop genomically enhanced breeding values for sheep. The enhanced breeding value evaluates information about the ani-mal and its DNA to make a prediction of the animal’s genetic merit.

“By using the DNA and enhancing those breeding values, we can get that information a lot quicker, which allow us to decrease generation intervals and make progress more rapidly,” Culham explained.

“You can have less acreage and make more money per pound than with cattle.”

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“Over cattle, you don’t have to have as much land, and their diet is variable. They ae also easier to handle.”

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“They are really multi-purpose animals. They can improve pastures and other land, the market is high for meat goat kids, and they work well on farms of all sizes.

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What producers need to know before buying sheep or goats Before diving deep into the small ruminant business, consider some of the following tips from experts in order to keep a first- time operation above water.

Start small

If it is a producer’s first time owning a flock or herd – start small. A critical factor in success is understanding stocking rates. A misconception held by some new producers is they can stock large numbers of sheep or goats on minimal property.

“Start off with two per acre so you can figure out what you can handle,” Chelsey Kimbrough, Ph.D., livestock specialist with the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture, said Even if producers start small, they are able to increase their flock or herd quickly over a short time period. “The beauty of sheep and goats is that that they average a 150 percent crop,” Kimbrough explained.

“So, you are going to almost double what you started with in a year’s time.”

New producers can increase their numbers by retaining replacement females. Producers can maintain a closed herd, bring in sires and eliminate the need to buy dams.

In addition, it is easier to determine if those animals are good, hardy and resilient animals or if they need to be culled.

Do Research First

Before buying any animals do extensive research, visit farms and get involved with local, state and national breed organizations and associations. Gathering as much information prior to bringing the animals home, will help exponentially in the long run.

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When the time comes to buy animals, make sure they come from reputable operations. “If you are just getting started you need to buy from a reputable breeder and not from the sale barn,” Kimbrough stated.

The adage, “if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is,” applies in this situation. “Be wary of animals that are really, really cheap. If they are a bargain, they are probably not a bargain,” Alan Culham, director of operations with Katahdin Hair Sheep International, said.

“Generally, quality is worth the money.

Don’t buy other people’s problems.”

Take a close look at the animal’s feet and how they walk. Experts warn to avoid animals that limp, have foot rot or other foot problems.

In addition, purchase animals from reputable breeders in areas that are similar in climate. Small ruminants are more likely to thrive, if they are already adapted to the climate and environmental factors of the new producer’s farm. Buying the same or very similar breed of animals, and grouping them according to like nutritional and management needs, will help the operation run more smoothly.

Build Relationships

Establish good working relationships with other breeders and find a local mentor. New producers benefit from the expertise of the people raising sheep and goats in their area. Find producers who can help answer questions about nutrition, marketing, deworming and management practices.

Additional Preparations

Prior to bringing the animals to the farm, establish paddocks and grow forages. Set up perimeter and cross fencing.

Invest in a guardian animal such as a dog, llama or donkey. Find a veterinarian who will work on sheep and goats. Since many products are off-label for sheep and goats,

it is important to have a relationship established with a veterinarian.

Scrapie tags are also required for sheep and goats. Call 1-866-USDA-TAGS to receive the tags.

Lastly, learn what the current value of the animal is and keep on top of it.

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In small ruminants, health problems can spiral from bad to worse in the blink of an eye.

Frequently, by the time sheep and goats present warning signs they are sick, treatment may not be enough to save them.

That’s why experts recommend vigilant observation and prevention protocols.

“The best way to avoid disease in sheep is to prevent disease,” Alan Culham, director of operations with Katahdin Hair Sheep International, said. “Once a sheep gets sick it is hard to treat them. Sheep diseases are handled best by prevention rather than cures.”

An important step in prevention involves checking animals daily.

“This is especially important because this time of year many are kidding or lambing or just finishing up,” Chelsey Kimbrough, Ph.D., livestock specialist with the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture, said.

“Those ewes and does are under a lot of stress and we need to know if they are feeling good or not,” she added.

When evaluating health in goats or sheep, producers should observe how the animals are behaving.

For example, are they perky and happy or are they lethargic and listless? Another health indicator is body condition. Does the animal look like it is in good flesh or is it thin?

In goats, take a look at their hair. Is it nice and shiny or rough in appearance?

Also, check for diarrhea.

Small ruminant producers can utilize FAMACHA ( FAffa MAlan CHArt) scoring to determine animal health. The FAMACHA scoring chart corresponds to a sheep or goat’s eyelid color. This is an established management practice for identifying anemia in an animal. The presence of anemia indicates parasites, typically barber pole worms.

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Implementing management practices to keep barber pole worms at bay translates into improved herd and flock health. In the spring, conditions are prime for a surge in barber pole worms. Though in years past, regularly deworming the entire flock or herd was a standard practice, experts now warn against that protocol.

“The more we use dewormers, the less effective they become due to the parasites developing resistance,” Culham explained.

Experts recommend only deworming animals that indicate parasitic infection through FAMACHA scoring or body condition. Another way to determine if an animal has barber pole worms is through a Fecal Egg Count Reduction Test (FECRT). In order to get a FECRT, a fecal sample must be collected.

Keeping consistent records of treated animals allows producers to track which animals may be more genetically predisposed to parasitic infections. If an animal needs to be repeatedly treated for parasites, then it should be at the top of a producer’s cull list.

Rotating animals to fresh pastures or paddocks every six to eight weeks can break up the natural cycle of the barber pole worm. In addition, it is beneficial to run small ruminants in the same pasture with cattle. The cattle ingest some of the worms while they graze. Thus, reducing the worm count in the pastures.

Other health issues small ruminant producers can keep an eye out for include foot rot, white muscle disease, bloat, urinary calculi and coccidiosis.

Proper minerals added to an animal’s diet can help prevent some of these health issues. Before producers take any action, experts encourage producers to consult with their veterinarian about prevention measures and treatment options that are specific to their operation.

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Management When a billy or a ram is hard at work during the breeding season, his body condition and health may decline. That’s why the way producers care for their bucks and rams in the off-season plays a critical role in the overall health of those animals. Creating an off-season game plan will prepare billies and rams for the next breeding season.

First, industry leaders encourage producers to remove their billies from does, and rams from ewes, in order to maintain a predictable kidding and lambing schedule.

“If you leave the ram in all the time there is potential ewes will lamb whenever they want to lamb, rather than when you want them to lamb,” Alan Culham, director of operations with Katahdin Hair Sheep International, said.

Knowing the lambing date allows producers to establish a more effective nutritional routine for their animals.

“The management of your flock is based on the lambing date. If you don’t know when they are going to lamb, you can’t manage your flock,” Culham explained.

Once the billy or ram is separated from the females, producers will want to evaluate the animal for nutritional and overall-health needs.

“When rams are out there working, their number one priority is breeding ewes,” Culham stated. “They will lose condition because they aren’t as interested in eating while working.”

They may also lose condition while they are being fed with the ewes or does. A billy or ram typically outweighs the females.

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weight than the does and ewes in the same lot or pasture.

If the billy or ram has lost condition, they will need an increase in grain, forage and minerals. Experts advise assessing each animals’ individual needs while the animals are taking a break from breeding season. Rams and billies should be fed according to what their nutritional needs are for where they are in their production schedule for the year.

Many will need more input daily in order to get their body condition back to normal.

In addition, take a look at their overall health. Deworm them if they need deworming. Trim their feet if needed. Work to return them to excellent health by providing forage, grains, supplements and minerals.

In the off-season there is another important production protocol that helps producers prepare their flocks and herds for the next breeding season.

“I think the biggest thing producers forget to do is to get breeding soundness exams done, so that way we understand if he is actually fertile,” Chelsey Kimbrough, Ph.D., livestock specialist with the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture, said. “If for some reason he gets tested and he is not, then you have plenty of time to go find a new buck or ram before you are letting them out on your does or ewes.”

Industry leaders remind producers to remember one size does not fit all when it comes to maintaining animal health. Customizing protocols for the needs of the individual animal will generate the best results. For billies and rams the off-season is simply a time for the animal to recondition, recharge and rev-up for the next breeding season.

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more information 3-5 Lawrence County Youth Fair – Lawrence County Fairgrounds, 610 Main Street,

Freistatt, Mo. – 417-466-3102 5 Free Pesticide Collection Event – Producers Exchange No. 84, 21127 Hwy 65,

Lincoln, Mo. – for more information visit dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/pesticide.

7-12 Heart of the Ozarks Fair – Heart of the Ozarks Fairgrounds, West Plains, Mo. –

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Cuba, Mo. – for questions, call 573-458-6256 or register online at go.ozarksfn.com/iz1 8 Youth Livestock Showmanship Clinic – Lebanon, Mo. – call 417-532-3921 for

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Field Day – 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. – Cost: Free – MU Southwest Research Center,

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for more information contact Marsha at 660-232-1836 or oldtrailsregion@gmail.com 12 Taney County 4-H Youth Livestock Show – 9 a.m. – Forsyth, Mo. – for

more information contact Willa at 417-546-4431 or williamswl@missouri.edu 12 18th Annual PAC Cattlemen’s Steak Fry – $35 before June 1, $40 at the door –

social hour 5 p.m., dineer 6 p.m. – tickets include steak dinner and beverages –

Missouri State Fairgrounds, Agriculture Building, Sedalia, Mo. – for more

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18715 Cedar Street, Hermitage, Mo. – to register call 417-745-6767 16-19 Pulaski County Regional Fair – Community Center, St. Robert, Mo. – www.pulaskicountyregionalfair.com 16-7/21 Cooking Matters – Online via Zoom – call 573-458-6260 for more information 17-19 Wright County Junior Fair –June 17, horse show at 7 p.m. – Friday June 18th,

Livestock Show – Saturday, June 19, Dairy Goats and Cattle Show – open to

all youth under 21 – Grovespring, Mo. – 417-462-0114 or 417-259-3634 17-19 Polk County Fair – Fairgrounds, Bolivar, Mo. – 417-326-4916 18 Mental Health First Aid for Youth – 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. – Online via Zoom –

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sullivankd@missouri.edu – register online at https://extension.missouri.edu/ events/mental-health-first-aid-for-youth-virtual-1616009188 19 Golf Tournament – 8 a.m.-2 p.m. – Oaks Hill Country Club, Dixon, Mo. – to

register call 573-774-4766 or email pulaskico@missouri.edu 22-26 Dade County Youth Fair – Fair Building beside the American Legion Hall,

Lockwood, Mo. – www.dadecofair.weebly.com 24-26 Dallas County Fair Junior Livestock Show – Dallas County Fairgrounds, Buffalo, Mo.

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— ZONE B AUCTIONS — 6/5

Firearms Auction, Doolittle, Mo. • J&J Sales, LLC

— ZONE C AUCTIONS — 6/4

Simmons Estate Auction, Billings, Mo. • Bob Kollmeier Auctions 6/5 McInturff Living Estate Auction, Springfield, Mo. • Foreman Auction Service, LLC 6/5 Mr. Jim Downing Estate Auction, Springfield, Mo. • Hidden Treasures Auction Barn LLC 6/5 Real Estate Auction, Ozark, Mo. • Glenworth Auction and Real Estate, 417-767-4345 • See Our Ad on Page 31 6/5 Shelly Farms Equipment Auction, Rogersville, Mo. • Case Auction Co. 6/8 Estate Auction, Powell, Mo. • Venture Group Auction 6/12 Carl Estate Auction, Aurora, Mo. • Foster Auction & Appraisal Service MAY 31, 2021

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