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The Andersons boosted their dairy production after opting out of broilers

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Beginning Farmers

Tragedy brought former California teachers to the Ozarks and to dairy goats

Dairy Mo nth Issue

Back From the Edge The Cherokee Nation is working to restore bison back to the plains of Oklahoma

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OFN freelancer passes: Longtime Ozarks Farm & Neighbor freelancer Gary Digiuseppe, 60, of Maumelle, Ark., was killed on June 1, 2016, in a two-car crash on the Interstate 430 bridge over the Arkansas River in Pulaski County, Ark. In addition to his work with OFN, Gary was a very well-respected broadcaster. He was the morning newscaster for First News with Kevin Miller on KARN and also provided daily newscasts for The Arkansas Radio Network. Gary was an agricultural reporter for 35 years and a member of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting since 1983. He will be missed.

Farm families honored: The Arkansas Farm Bureau has selected the district winners in its 69th annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year Program. The family of Chris and Nesha Smith of Searcy, Ark., were among those being honored. The Smiths raise registered Braunvieh and Angus cattle, and grow Bermuda and Tifton 44 hay on 2,386 acres. They have one daughter, Jalyn. Winners are judged on their farm production, efficiency, management, family life and rural/community leadership. One of the families will be selected as the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year and presented with the award at a Dec. 8, 2016 luncheon in Little Rock. The Arkansas Farm Family of the Year will go on to represent the state at the Swisher Sweets/ Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year program.

Agriculture teachers honored: Donna L. Graham and Kristina Bautista from the Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology in the University of Arkansas’ Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, have earned awards from the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture. Graham has been named an Outstanding Educator by NACTA, and Bautista has been named Outstanding Graduate Student.

Students attend future teacher academy: Dylan Johnston and Breyden Codding of the Guthrie (Okla.) FFA chapter have been selected to attend the 2016 Future Ag-Ed Teacher Academy and Scholarship Program June 20 through 24 at Oklahoma State University. Designed for 2016-2017 high school juniors and seniors interested in becoming an agricultural education instructor, the program encourages agricultural education as a positive and promising career choice.

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4 Jody Harris – Driving lessons

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MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS

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Duane Hada showcases his love for nature at the Rivertown Gallery

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Eye on Agribusiness spotlights Crestwood Storage Barns

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Town & Country features Terry Sloan

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Tragedy brings former teachers to the Ozarks and to dairy goats

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Restoring a national icon to Delaware County, Okla.

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Family sells off cattle herd to focus on show lambs

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Youth in Agriculture spotlights Easton Insco

Eugene and Judi Anderson increased their dairy operation after leaving the poultry business

FARM HELP 23 Ag Law: Court examines hobby farms vs. businesses

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The upper division class was usuJerry Crownover is ally populated with idealistic juniors a farmer and former and seniors who had hopes of being employed by professor of Agriculture the USDA’s Soil Conservation Service. That was Education at Missouri their dream job because, in addition to being a State University. He is a government job with great benefits, it would alnative of Baxter County, low them a career that afforded them the opporArkansas, and an tunity, to a great extent, to be outdoors, as they author and professional helped farmers and landowners implement soil speaker. To contact Jerry, and water conservation techniques. go to ozarksfn.com and Every year, on the first day of class, I’d have click on ‘Contact Us.’ a little fun at their expense when I would ask, “How many of you hope to land a job with the SCS after graduation?”

After watching almost every hand go up, I’d follow up by stating, “OK, then you need to know two essential facts to realize your goal.”

As I watched these eager young students grab their notebooks and pencils to start writing down my profound statement, I would recite, “Water runs downhill…and payday is Friday.”

At that point, a few students would laugh, a few would roll their eyes, and a few would get mad. I would then point out that through my several years of teaching that class, I had discovered that many students couldn’t detect the difference between up and down when they were standing in the middle of a 160 acre field.

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Blushing brides and handsome grooms. Cute decorations and delicious food. All to celebrate Jody Harris is a freelance the nuptials of the newlywed couple. It made me communications specialist, stop and contemplate about our 13-year marriage. gardener, ranch wife and It’s not the presents or the honeymoon helping us mother of four. She and keep it together. The thing that makes our marher family raise Angus beef riage click is this. We are complete opposites! cattle and other critters on My husband is a quiet, deep-thinking introvert. their northwest Arkansas I am a loud, impulsive extrovert. He is the yin to ranch. She is a graduate my yang. He’s always trying to talk me into new of Missouri State University. things and I am continuously trying to talk him To contact Jody, go to out of them. He’s a spender and I’m a cheapskate. ozarksfn.com and click on Recently, I needed to get a Coggins blood test run ‘Contact Us.’ on one of the kids’ horses. In order to participate in play day rodeos, we needed proof of a negative test.

I didn’t want to bring up the subject of hauling the horse to the vet with my husband. I talked my brother-in-law into hauling the mare over to the veterinarian’s office on his day off. The appointment was set. My husband rolled his eyes since I was having someone else chauffeur the horse and I in the trailer. It’s a huge point of contention in our house. My husband can drive, back, park anything, anywhere. I sadly, cannot even parallel-park my car well. I can drive a trailer, but I find it terrifying. I sweat the entire time. To be honest, I have never taken it further than our country roads between two different farms.

The night before the appointment my brother-in-law was called into work on his day off. I panicked! My husband’s response? “Just haul her over there yourself, Jody!”

I didn’t sleep well that night. In the morning it was pouring rain. I called the office at 8:01 a.m. and canceled the appointment. I then proceeded to schedule a farm call to have the mare’s blood drawn. The ridiculing began that evening when my husband returned home from work. He vowed to make me drive the trailer everywhere we went from here on out until I was comfortable doing it on my own. No way.

The day of the play day rodeo arrived. The kids and I got tack loaded and the car packed for the big event. My husband hooked up the trailer and the horse was loaded. I threw together snacks and a cooler along with some toys to keep the kids busy between events. When I got to the car with my last load, there was my husband in the passenger seat, grimacing. My heart started racing. I could not believe he was going to make me do this with a car full of kids and a 1,200 pound horse in the trailer.

I decided to bite the bullet and get baptized by fire. Up the driveway I went, at a speed someone’s grandmother would probably poke fun at. As we rounded the creek bed and a rock wall, my husband hollered out, “Make wide turns!” I slammed on the brakes in terror. The horse rocked around in the trailer. More hollering, “Don’t slam on your brakes and don’t accelerate too fast.” By then I was a nervous mess.

We finally rolled through the rodeo grounds and I parked the trailer in a spot that I would certainly not have to back out of. We unloaded the horse only to find that she’d gotten a small gash on her head from being slammed around in the trailer by my horrific driving. My husband continued to laugh and told me we’d just have to keep practicing.

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airy farming isn’t for someone who wants to farm part time, or someone who wants to go out and check his or her cattle once, maybe twice, a day.

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dairy farmer.

Dairy farmers spend hours each day in their milk barns, no matter the weather, then there is the feeding and care of bottle babies, dry animals, heifers and/or other livestock, not to mention fieldwork. No wonder many dairy farmers’ feet hit the floor well before the crack of dawn, and it is well past dark before many call it a day.

It’s hard work.

My dad can recall milking cows by hand, then pouring the milk into the cans many people use for decoration today, and hauling the cans to the road to meet the milk truck. Growing up, we used the old cans to haul water to hogs. The old route number was still painted on the sides of some.

On a side note, if you have never attempted to lift a full milk can into the back of a truck, take it from me, it’s heavier than you might think.

Why do dairy farmers head to the milk barn twice a day, each and everyday? Dairy farmers would laugh if we said it was for the money. For many dairy farmers, it’s simply a way of life; a life they have chosen for themselves and their families. For others, it is a long-standing family tradition that is just a part of who they are, who their parents and/or grandparents were. You might say it’s a part of their DNA. Let’s also not forget the growing number of dairy goat operations in the Ozarks.

The dairy goat industry allows those who might not have the land, the resources or the desire to go into dairy cattle the opportunity to offer milk or goat milk-based products, such as soap and cheese, to consumers. In high school, I actually milked goats for a neighbor for a little while. The first day I went to the nearby farm to learn my duties, I was prepared to milk the girls by hand. I was a little surprised to find there were actually milking machines for goats. Each goat knew her place in the barn and there was no wrestling them into the stanchions. It was a learning experience.

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Continued from Previous Page There has also been an increase in the number of sheep dairies over the last decade. According to the website mikingsheep.com, while it isn’t typical to drink sheep’s milk, it is usually higher in fat and protein than goat and cow milk, making it an excellent milk for cheesemaking. More cow and goat milk is required than sheep’s milk to make the equivalent amount of cheese. A quick Internet search showed cheese could be purchased from a Wisconsin sheep dairy for $14.45 a pound for feta cheese, up to $21.50 a pound for an awardwinning truffle cheese. Pricey stuff.

As I have written in this space previously, our dairy producers face opposition from anti-animal agriculture and animal rights groups, and are branded as bad people who are cruel to their cows and calves, all for a paycheck. Those groups have obviously not seen the cost of inputs. Many farmers are lucky to break even.

Raw milk, goat milk and sheep milk producers are not immune to scrutiny.

PETA has taken a hard stance on all dairy production in recent years, crying the same foul it has about cow dairies for the last decade.

Organizations like PETA are too jaded from incorrect information, most of which was conjured up by their own people, to see what actually happens on our family farms, the passion we have for our industry and our concern for the welfare of our animals.

As we celebrate National Dairy month, make it a priority to salute our country’s dairy farmers with an ice cold glass of moo juice, a slice of sheep milk cheese or a cup of goat milk yogurt in support of all dairy producers in the Ozarks.

After all, they are special people. **** Sadly, the OFN family is mourning the sudden loss of longtime freelancer Gary Digiuseppe of Maumelle, Ark. Gary was a great asset to Ozarks Farm & Neighbor and to the agriculture community. Gary was killed in a car crash on June 1 in Arkansas.

He will be greatly missed.

Our thoughts and prayers go to his wife, Mary, and the rest of the Digiuseppe family.

Life Is Simple Continued from Page 3 It was almost sale time and I decided I’d better get to the seating area while there were still seats to be had. It had been a long day and I was tired, so I decided to take the elevator instead of climbing the stairs (the state-of-the-art auction barn only has two levels). As a friend and I boarded the compartment and the doors began to close, a fellow rancher stuck his hand out to block the door from closing.

“You boys going up?” he asked.

I answered, “Yep,” immediately, before realizing that, from the ground floor, up is the only option. I thought of those students from years ago.

As if that “senior moment” wasn’t enough I had the cowboys out a week later to help me with the springtime cattle-working. We had put in a long day and were ready to gather the last bunch of cows and calves, which required repo-

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sitioning several portable corral panels.

Since the panels are 20 years old, many are bent and warped and require two people to hook them together. Danny was on the end with the latches, while my job was to either raise or lower my end to enable them to fit together. Once Danny had latched the bottom fitting on one of the panels and was attempting to connect the top, he yelled to me, “Lift.”

Like an idiot, I asked, “Up?” “Oh, I don’t know,” Danny replied in his typical cowboy drawl. “Have you ever tried to lift down?”

Overhearing my faux pas, the other three cowboys had to take a knee to laugh it off and all I could think about was how I had chided those college students, so many years ago, for not knowing the difference between up and down.

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By Pam Fortner

Marion County, Ark., couple trains cattle as family milk cows, nurse cows The Neptune family of rural Marion County, Ark., lives the way most of us think we would like to live – grow our own food, be away from the hustle and bustle, take care of ourselves, not be dependent on anyone.

It seems idealistic, but it’s lots of work.

Alan and Bridgette Neptune and their seven children – Cleo, Roland, Adam, Sophie, Molly, Jude and Ivan (and one more by Christmas) – do it every day, but everyone has a job and it’s a job every day.

They make their living off their 20-acre farm and neither Alan nor Bridgette has a job off the farm. In addition to selling milk and cream, this husband and wife team train dairy animals to halter for individuals who want a family milk cow or nurse cow.

Bridgette says she grew up in Washington state and was around animals all the time and was used to halter-breaking them.

“When we moved out to Arkansas, I started halter breaking our own cows,” Bridgette said. “As I grew older, I realized

Alan and Bridgette Neptune, pictured with their children, work to provide dairy cows that can be used as a family milk cow, or as a nurse cow.

Photo by Pam Lamb

The Neptunes have a small dairy herd people didn’t know how to halter-break that needs to be milked twice a day, cows and they were afraid to handle meat cattle, hogs to be fed, chickens cows. I’m good at it. And Alan’s gotten (both meat and egg layers) to be tended, to be really good at it, too. We found Katahdin sheep, rabbits, three yard dogs, that people aren’t willing to buy a cow they can’t handle and train five cats, a miniature pony it themselves, even though and a guard donkey.

Everton, Ark. they can get one cheaper.

They sell both milk and They’re willing to pay a little cream but Alan said, “With extra for the training.” the size of our family, we eat Purchase a cow from the Nepall the eggs the chickens can tunes and it is halter-broke, easy to lay.” They also butcher the handle and gentle around people. hogs primarily for themselves.

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The Neptunes also believe that some cows are good for nursing and some are good for milking.

“Some cows are made to be nurse cows and some cows don’t want anything to do with a calf,” Bridgette said. “So it’s kind of like ‘staffing,’ to where you fit the cow to what she’s actually called to.”

Bridgette then referred to the next cow that was coming up for milking.

“She just loves babies,” she said. “She’ll go in there and she’ll steal babies. She’s a milk cow, too, but her best job is going to be a nurse cow.”

There are several situations where a nurse cow might be needed. For example, if a cow has prolapsed and dies, or won’t take her offspring, then a nurse cow will take the orphaned calf.

The Neptunes recently had a client who was going to buy a nurse cow because he had an embryo transplanted calf and the recipient cow didn’t have any milk.

The Neptune children don’t have any problem being around the menagerie of animals at their farm. They’re used to being around the animals, harvesting and eating them.

They aren’t squeamish about what needs to be done. One of the Neptune boys said his job is taking the heads off the chickens when it’s time to harvest.

The children show their cows and belong to the local 4-H. Their cousins, the Brent and Glenda Rozeboom family, live nearby. With six children themselves, the Rozebooms and the Neptunes can take up quite a lot of space in a county fair barn.

“At the last show, the Rozebooms had a quarter of the barn, we had a quarter of the barn, a quarter was empty and all the other participants took up the other quarter,” Bridgette said. “The other families only have one or two kids.”

It is more than apparent that Alan and Bridgette Neptune are focused on living a good life and teaching basic values to their family. Like Alan said, “This is what we do.”

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The Andersons boosted their dairy production after opting out of broilers Judi and Eugene Anderson own 200 acres and rent an additional 30 acres for their Gold Standard dairy farm in Coin community, near Green Forest, Ark. An old TV show fostered the premise that “father knows best.” In this case, their mothers knew best when they forced their almost grown children to go to a dance.

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“Dairying is what we know best and provides more flexibility within a day, which is more important to us than being able to get away on vacations or have my days more regimented by working for somebody else,” Eugene said. “I know I am helping feed people, and we like to do it even at the price of having to milk when sick.”

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“They were two mean mommies,” Judi their more personal relationship, a result of milking twice a day. recalled with a smile and a laugh.

Each animal has a name, and one named Eugene and Judi have now been marBugsie likes to follow them around. ried for 35 years.

“Bugsie thinks she’s a dog and would Early in their marriage, Judi raised chickens in addition to their dairy to let us hand feeder when she was a heifprovide a way for her to stay home while er,” Judi said.

One of the steps to transitioning to a raising their son.

Time passed and when they were told full-time dairy was the purchase of 60 heifers to add to the Anderthey needed to upgrade their son’s 80 cows. The Anderbroiler houses, the couple deCoin, Ark. son’s prefer a Holstein/Jersey cided the large investment was cross and have three bulls: not a wise decision at their age. two Holsteins and one Jersey.

Eugene and Judi never con“I really like the Holstein/Jersidered commercial cattle to sey cross because the cows produce help make up for the income almost as much milk as purebred loss.

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meet your neighbors Holsteins, but have good butterfat content as well,” Eugene said of his herd.

Judi added, “As far as I’m concerned, no beef taste quite as good as a Holstein/ Jersey cross.”

The Anderson’s keep their heifers as replacements and have added none since the 2011 purchase of the group of 60 as they progress toward a closed herd.

Bull calves are sold soon after birth to a buyer in War Eagle, Ark., who always buys all of their bull calves.

Currently, Eugene and Judi are milking 65 cows, and bulls are kept with the cows year round in order to keep the number of milking cows at a fairly constant level.

The couple milks at 8:30 a.m. and at 3:30 p.m. each day.

“It doesn’t really matter that the times are not exactly 12 hours apart, which is what gives us a degree of flexibility within our day if something important comes up,” Eugene said. “With this schedule, we don’t have to get up too early or milk too late in the day.”

Another part of the daily routine is Eugene feeding the cattle grain at night in addition to milking times. Each cow receives 30 pounds of grain per day in order to maximize milk production.

“I feed what I call ‘trash feed’ that I have custom mixed nearby,” Eugene said.

This feed is a 14 percent protein mixture of cottonseed and soybean seed hulls, corn gluten and ground corn. The cattle also have free choice minerals and hay.

To help control cattle movement, the Anderson’s have a 40-acre field the cattle graze continually, with two side pastures and a 12-acre pasture where the cattle spend the night. The night pasture is where the cattle receive their grain and

hay. Judy’s dad taught Eugene years ago that hay keeps up the butterfat content.

When the couple was raising chickens, they use the litter as fertilizer, but have switched to a commercial fertilizer now that their own litter is no longer available. The pasture and hay ground is comprised of Bermuda, fescue and Orchardgrass, with red clover intermixed. The land is well-established and does not need reseeding, although weather determines how much red clover is available.

Weeds are another issue. The Anderson’s broadcast spray and spot spray, with hemlock and buttercups being the most persistent weed problems.

“With dairy cattle you have to be especially careful when and where you spray,” Eugene said.

The cattle are vaccinated and wormed once a year.

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The couple watches especially for mastitis and sore feet and will treat most animals when these issues arise, but without antibiotics.

“I will treat a good cow and cull a sorry one,” Eugene said.

Eugene’s definition of a “sorry cow” is one with insufficient milk or with a kicking habit.

Additionally, bulls are selected according to temperament and the size of the head and shoulders to help ensure easy birthing. Bulls are routinely changed and culled sooner if they become too large.

“We had to get rid of my favorite bull, Goliath, because he just got too big. He reached 2,400 pounds and broke down the cows,” Judi said.

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Duane Hada has combined his love of art and the Ozarks inside his Rivertown Gallery A long-time Ozarks art gallery has relocated in Mountain Home, Ark. Rivertown Gallery is the name on the uniquely designed building of Duane Hada, full-time artist and fly fisherman.

His recent move from the square in downtown Mountain Home to Highway 62, just west of the city, was for purely business purposes. He needed more visibility.

“If you’re going to make a living as an artist, you have to be out there, you have to be professional and you have to have a place,” Duane said. “I was in other galleries for a long time, but there, your piece is hung with 30 other artists. It’s a tough market.”

Duane’s career as an artist has been long and steady. Raised in the Ozarks, he paints what he knows: lakes, rivers, fish, landscapes, flora and fauna.

Duane was born in the Harrison, Ark., hospital because his dad was a Wesleyan

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minister in nearby Bergman. The elder Hada had received his degree in ministry from Miltonvale Wesleyan College in Kansas. Sending the Hada family to the Ozarks to plant a church was the equivalent of sending them to deep, dark Africa; it was way out there.

“We were near Bergman and pastored there for 14 years,” Duane recalled. “Then we moved over near Hasty, which is between Jasper and Western Grove. So my bringing up and roots is the rural Ozarks.”

But not much was offered in the way of art classes at either of these schools.

So Duane would sketch during regular school classes. On the back of one of his report cards is a comment from his teacher that Duane “should spend less time drawing in class and more time doing math.”

“I was one of those kids that just always had to be drawing. My church bulletins and papers were always sketches,” Duane said.

He said as long as he could answer his mom’s questions about the sermons, she allowed him to keep drawing during church as a way to keep little Duane quiet.

When it was time for college, Duane decided to major in fisheries and wildlife

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management. But what happened next changed his life.

“Basically, out of boredom, I took an art class,” he said. “Growing up, I could draw parts well, but just didn’t have the training to go along with it.”

All it took was one class and Duane was hooked on art. He received his bachelor’s in art from the University of Central Arkansas and taught art for five years at Mena High School.

Then one day came a call from the Woodsmen Company, a one-stop shop for outdoor gear in Fort Smith. Duane was hired to head up their fly fishing program. He thought if it didn’t work out, he could always go back to teaching.

Well, it worked out.

“It was a huge leap of faith, but we did it and I haven’t looked back since,” he said.

Due to his job at Woodsmen, Duane was able to take groups of people fishing all around the world.

“For a hillbilly out of Bergman, Ark., I’ve been to about 23 foreign countries…I would lead them on expeditions to Alaska, Central America, the Bahamas, and went to the Christmas Islands on two different occasions,” Duane recalled. “You go to Hawaii and spend the night and fly another 1,500 miles about halfway to Australia and land on a horseshoe in the middle of the ocean – very primitive peoples there and just an amazing experience. The fishing is just unbelievable. People say, ‘You have to go that far to fish?’”

Duane also coached the U.S. youth fly fishing team for two years (1998 and 1999).

He is a certified instructor with the Federation of Fly Fishers. In 1987, it was Duane’s design that was used for the official Arkansas trout stamp. He has taught numerous courses in fly fishing and art at local colleges and universities. Although he doesn’t do many private fly fishing guided tours anymore, there are a few people who will call and ask specifically for him. He can’t refuse.

Entering Duane’s art gallery is like stepping into the heart of the Ozarks – a genuine part of the Ozarks. Don’t look for prints here. Duane only offers oneof-a-kind original paintings.

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are. It makes a connection – here’s what we like, here’s where we live and here’s something that’s significant to me.”

Duane’s paintings speak so well to the Ozarks experience that many of them are currently on display in the Capitol Rotunda in Little Rock.

Duane works mostly in acrylic, but sometimes he does watercolor and oil. He says he likes acrylic “because it dries fast…It’s something that I can paint with in the outdoors that will hold up in the elements.”

Murals are Duane’s pride and joy. He has painted murals for TLC Bank, the River Rock Lodge, the baptistery at Twin Lakes Baptist Church, the Forrest L. Wood Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center in Jonesboro, at the Gov. Mike Huckabee Delta Rivers Nature Center in Pine Bluff and at the Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas Nature Center in Little Rock, and many murals for private homes.

He holds workshops on a regular basis to teach watercolor, acrylic and oil. Since moving into his new gallery in February, he has also held a workshop in carving a trout to use as a wall hanging. He sells jewelry in his gallery, note cards, and even bar stools with a fish motif.

The Hada roots are deep in the Ozarks and deep in art. His paternal Hungarian grandmother was a quilter on the prairie. Her use of color was a little different than most. Duane said they would say, “I never thought of putting those two colors together.” But with her, it worked.

Art works for Duane, too. Grandma Hada would be proud.

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Not Reported* 85.00-105.50 † 75.00-107.00* 80.00-106.00 † 74.50-92.00 † Not Reported*

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5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 115.00-123.00; wtd. avg. price 120.11.

Heifers: 118.00-123.00; wtd. avg. price 120.11.

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Receipts: 144 All goats and sheep graded by MO Dept of Ag-USDA Graders and bought per cwt. based on in-weights at the 27.00-101.50 † buying station. Offerings were made up of 40 percent 86.00-113.00 † goats and 60 percent sheep. Next scheduled market date 90.00-106.00* Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards 6/9/16 will be Saturday, July 2nd. All prices per cwt.

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The 61-80 lbs 205.00.

80.00-110.00 † Ozarks Regional Stockyard supply consisted of 6 percent Springer Heifers, 4 percent Slaughter Does/Nannies: Selection 1-2 100.00-125.00.

95.00-109.00* Stilwell Livestock Auction Bred Heifers, 40 percent Open Heifers, 4 percent Fresh Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1-2 110.00.

Tulsa Livestock Auction 776.50-111.00 † and Milking Cows, 2 percent Bred Cows and 18 percent SHEEP: baby calves.

The balance was made up of weigh cows Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 hair under 60 lbs 10 30 50 70 90 110 130 and beef animals. All quotes are on a per head basis for 180.00; 60-80 lbs 150.00-165.00. Good and Choice 1-2 Holsteins unless noted otherwise. under 80 lbs 100.00.

Springer Heifers Bred Seven to Nine Months: Supreme Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-3 65.00, Cull 1-2 Individual Jersey 1480.00, Approved Individual 1200.00, 45.00.

Crossbreds 1330.00-1350.00, Medium Crossbreds 1000.00- Slaughter Rams: aged 65.00.

(Week of 6/12/16 to 6/18/16) 1250.00, Common 860.00-950.00.

Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy Diamond, Mo. • TS Whites Sheep and Goat Sale 6/2/16 Heifers Bred Four to Six Months: Supreme 1600.0065.00-87.00 † 1610.00, Approved Individual 1130.00, Ind. Crossbred Ash Flat Livestock 60.00-85.50 † Receipts: 1888 1100.00.

Supply was good and demand was very good with a standBarry County Regional Livestock Not Reported* Heifers Bred One to Three Months: Approved 1100.00- ing room only crowd on hand. Lamb and ewe markets Benton County Sale Barn 50.00-85.00 † 1190.00, Medium Individual 825.00, Crossbreds 925.00were slightly lower compared to last month while goat Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction 67.00-85.50* 950.00. markets were steady to slightly higher. Supply included 63.00-81.00 † Cleburne County Livestock Auction Open heifers: Approved 200-300 lbs Crossbreds 300.00† 11 percent slaughter ewes and rams, 49 percent Slaugh60.00-74.50 County Line Sale - Ratcliff 390.00, 300-400 lbs Pkg 8 hd 384 lb Jerseys 700.00, Crosster lambs, 22 percent kid goats, and 9 percent bucks and Decatur Livestock Auction Not Reported* breds 400.00-460.00, 400-500 lbs Pkg 20 hd 489 lb Jerseys does. All prices are per hundred weight (CWT) unless 70.00-82.00* Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita 1000.00, 500-600 lbs Individual Crossbred 610.00, 700-800 noted otherwise.

Farmers Livestock - Springdale 65.00-85.50 † lbs 700.00-850.00, Crossbreds 875.00-925.00, Individual SHEEP: 59.00-82.00 † Ft. Smith Livestock Jersey 925.00, Medium 300-400 lbs Pkg 3 hd Crossbreds Feeder Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 32-50 lbs 200.00I-40 Livestock 27.00-81.00 † 400.00, 400-500 lbs Crossbreds 450.00-460.00, 500-600 220.00. Medium and Large 2 28-38 lbs 165.00-185.00.

Joplin Regional Stockyards 55.00-92.00 † lbs Individual 500.00, 600-700 lbs Individual 525.00, Ind. Slaughter Lambs: Mid-State Stockyards 55.00-88.00* Jersey 570.00.

Wool and Hair lambs: Choice 3-5 40-90 lbs 185.0052.00-86.50 † North Arkansas Livestock Fresh/Milking Heifers and Cows: Approved 1100.00195.00; 100-115 lbs 165.00-170.00. Good 1-2 40-92 lbs 69.00-86.00 † OKC West - El Reno 1225.00, Medium 1025.00-1100.00, Common 700.00170.00-182.50.

54.00-80.00 † Ouachita Livestock Auction 850.00, Individual Jersey 700.00.

58.00-94.00 † Ozarks Regional Stockyards Bred and Springer Cows: Approved Individual 1100.00, Stilwell Livestock Auction 70.00-83.00* Ind. Crossbred 1000.00, Medium Individual Crossbred Tulsa Livestock Auction 46.00-95.00 † 850.00.

87.00-101.50* 88.00-108.00 † 90.00-97.00 †

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----150.00-155.00 135.00-143.00 130.00-133.00 -----

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145.00-171.00 134.00-146.00 125.00-130.00 127.00 -----

52.00-170.00 71.00-150.00 64.00-140.00 60.00-135.00 -----

143.00-177.00 135.00-150.00 130.00-142.00 133.00-138.00 -----

145.00-150.00 138.00-148.00 133.00-141.00 129.00-136.00 131.00

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6/17/16

Compared to last week slaughter lambs were steady to sharply higher except at San Angelo, TX where they were sharply lower. Slaughter ewes were steady to 5.00 higher, except at San Angelo 5.00-10.00 lower. Feeder lambs were firm to sharply higher. At San Angelo, TX 7105 head sold. No sales in Equity Electronic Auction.

In direct trading slaughter ewes were not tested and feeder lambs were weak. 4300 head of negotiated sales of slaughter lambs were 3.00-8.00 higher. 6700 head of formula sales had no trend due to confidentiality. 4,826 lamb carcasses sold with 45 lbs and down 14.17 higher; 45-65 lbs no trend due to confidentiality; 65-75 lbs 4.20 higher; 75-85 lbs 1.14 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 100-150 lbs 120.00-140.00.

VA: wooled 110-125 lbs 176.00.

PA: shorn and wooled 110-130 lbs 222.00-225.00; 130-150 lbs 222.00-230.00.

Ft.Collins, CO: wooled 130-140 lbs 160.00-173.00; 155165 lbs 152.00-158.00.

South Dakota: shorn and wooled 105-145 lbs 163.00173.00.

Billings, MT: no test.

Kalona, IA: no test.

Missouri: no test.

Equity Elec: no sales.

Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 1:

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120

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127 5(3257('

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Slaughter Ewes: Wooled: Good 3-4 125-250 lbs 60.00-75.00.

Hair Ewes: Good 2-3 61-135 lbs 130.00-150.00. Utility 3-4 60-170 lbs 70.00-90.00. Several replacement hair rams 2-3 years old 80-170 lbs 130.00-150.00.

Slaughter Hair Rams: Good 2-3 115-200 lbs 82.50100.00.

Feeder kids: Selection 1 20-38 lbs 270.00-280.00. Selection 2 22-38 lbs 230.00-255.00. Selection 3 27-38 lbs 210.00-235.00.

Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 40-65 lbs 285.00-300.00.

Selection 2 40-70 lbs 265.00-280.00. Selection 3 42-70 lbs 230.00-257.50.

Slaughter Does: Selection 1 55-130 lbs 185.00-200.00; 220.00-270.00 Per Head Selection 2 55-160 lbs 130.00155.00. Selection 3 60-125 lbs 100.00-120.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 2 95-155 lbs 130.00-150.00.

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Ft. Smith Livestock 6/13/16

I-40 Livestock Ozark 6/16/16

Joplin Regiona Stockyard 6/13/16

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203.00 160.00-170.00 150.00 142.00-146.00 -----

157.00-185.00 145.00-158.00 139.00-150.00 139.00-143.00 -----

170.00-185.0 162.00-184.0 152.00-169.0 140.00-163.0 140.00-152.5

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166.00 151.00-159.00 140.00-153.00 122.00-130.00 -----

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----162.00 141.00-145.0 136.00-147.0 -----

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143.00-151.00 136.00-151.00 128.00-136.00 120.00-128.00 114.00-120.00

140.00-152.00 129.00-142.00 123.00-133.00 125.00-126.00 -----

153.00-156.00 151.00-156.00 132.00-150.00 125.00-128.00 -----

150.00-163.00 140.00-149.00 128.00-142.00 130.00-132.00 -----

154.00-165.0 140.50-160.0 131.00-158.0 132.00-145.0 132.00-142.0

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Corn

Sorghum

20 16 12

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11.48

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645

5465

2-13 Lower

3-12 Lower

2050

163.74 147.04 161.04 145.00

cow/calf

2550

138.31 136.46

155.16

135.35 *

pairs

1750

145.60

160.43

*

* 165.21

None Reported †

1250

144.09 134.00

162.45

(Week of 6/12/16 to 6/18/16)

750

140.46 137.27

154.10

2250

150.66 ***

***

141.54

159.75 *** *** 153.91 156.53 155.00

*** *** 139.69 150.39 148.00

157.31

141.39 138.86

161.41 162.46

140.97 ***

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146.58

164.21

*

* 153.44

169.50

143.48

158.57 **

**

2750

6/13/16

N. Ark. Livestock Green Forest 6/15/16

OKC West - El Reno, Okla.

6/15/16

Ouachita Livestock Ola, Ark. 6/17/16

Ozarks Regional West Plains 6/14/16

Stilwell Livestock Auction* 6/15/16

Tulsa Livestock Auction 6/13/16

484

736

9554

265

2672

716

2169

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3-20 Lower

5-10 Lower

St-8 Lower

6-14 Lower

139.33

159.00 167.75 156.03 154.37 149.50

151.26 137.97 134.03 135.97

153.01

141.80

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159.52

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170.00-185.00 162.00-184.00 152.00-169.00 140.00-163.00 140.00-152.50

160.00-195.00 149.00-185.00 137.00-162.00 130.00-144.00 138.00

180.00-196.00 160.00-186.00 152.00-162.00 140.00-150.00 132.00-135.00

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173.00-175.00 153.00-175.00 140.00-149.00 130.00-137.00 -----

173.00-180.00 171.00-176.00 145.00-165.00 142.50-156.00 135.00-145.00

180.00-198.00 160.00-177.00 135.00-149.00 128.00-142.00 116.00-130.00

189.00-205.00 160.50-193.00 137.50-158.50 128.50-140.50 126.00-135.50

----140.00-147.00 134.00-146.00 124.00-135.00 120.00

----162.00 141.00-145.00 136.00-147.00 -----

155.00-184.00 144.00-172.00 133.00-155.00 120.00-133.00 100.00-121.00

----152.00-168.00 141.00-151.00 130.00-145.00 122.00-128.00

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----154.00 150.00-153.00 130.00-135.00 120.00

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150.00-163.00 140.00-149.00 128.00-142.00 130.00-132.00 -----

154.00-165.00 140.50-160.00 131.00-158.00 132.00-145.00 132.00-142.00

150.00-171.00 140.00-155.00 125.00-148.00 112.00-134.00 -----

155.00-165.00 142.00-157.00 132.00-142.00 125.00-129.00 -----

150.00-157.00 147.00-153.00 138.50-154.00 138.50-153.50 127.00-137.30

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159.00 142.50-155.00 130.00-155.00 128.00-134.00 126.00

155.00-171.00 140.00-155.00 133.00-147.00 116.00-130.00 110.00-121.00

147.00-166.50 145.00-160.00 136.00-147.00 127.00-137.00 115.00-126.00

135.45

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146.95

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150.95

163.60

250

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149.45 142.51

158.60

880.00-1310.00 † 80.00-110.00 † Prices reported per cwt

1550

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

152.00

900.00-1375.00 † 1100.00-1250.00 †

155.59 146.43 141.97 145.45 148.95

129.32 138.72 126.42 127.16

139.99

142.02

142.19

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141.81 134.54

133.55

146.17

133.03

157.70 130

Apr. 16 May 16

*

700.00-1270.00 *

1050

Mar. 16

158.13

725.00-1600.00 †

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

Jan. 16 Feb. 16

heifers 550-600 LBS.

*

750.00-1200.00 †

Week of 6/12/16

ith ck

1250.00-1800.00* 800.00-1225.00 † 855.00-1250.00 †

1600.00 † Not Reported* Barry County Regional Stockyards Benton County Sale Barn 1300.00-1625.00 † 1050.00-1775.00* Cattlemen’s Livestock Cleburne County Livestock 1000.00-1950.00 † † County Line Sale - Ratcliff None Reported Decatur Livestock Auction Not Reported* Farmer’s & Ranchers - Vinita 1250.00-1800.00 * Farmers Livestock 900.00-1075.00 † Ft. Smith Livestock 850.00-1575.00 † I-40 Livestock - Ozark 1100.00-1800.00 † Joplin Regional Stockyards 1100.00-1775.00 † 900.00-1550.00 * Mid-State Stockyards North Arkansas Livestock 1025.00-1275.00 † 1450.00-1625.00 † OKC West - El Reno Ouachita Livestock Auction 1130.00-1160.00 † 700.00-1750.00 † Ozarks Reg Stilwell Livestock Auction 1400.00-1885.00* Tulsa Livestock Auction 1375.00-1700.00 †

Week Ended 6/21/16

Soybeans

Oct. 15 Nov. 15 Dec. 15

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

Not Reported*

Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy Ash Flat Livestock

avg. grain prices

July 15 Aug. 15 Sept. 15

steers 550-600 LBS.

750.00-1475.00 * 1000.00-1425.00 † 79.00-98.00 † Prices reported per cwt

Mid-State Stockyard North Arkansas Livestock

550

June 15

Week of 5/22/16

slaughter lambs were steady to at San Angelo, TX where they aughter ewes were steady to 5.00 Angelo 5.00-10.00 lower. Feeder rply higher. At San Angelo, TX les in Equity Electronic Auction. hter ewes were not tested and k. 4300 head of negotiated sales e 3.00-8.00 higher. 6700 head of rend due to confidentiality. 4,826 th 45 lbs and down 14.17 higher; to confidentiality; 65-75 lbs 4.20 higher and 85 lbs and up no ality. All sheep sold per hundred otherwise specified. ice and Prime 2-3 90-160 lbs: wooled 100-150 lbs 120.00-140.00. s 176.00.

110-130 lbs 222.00-225.00; 130-150

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Week of 5/29/16

6/17/16

Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.5450 and 40# blocks at $1.5150. The weekly average for barrels is $1.5450(+.0480) and blocks, $1.5260(+.0605).

Fluid Milk: Hot humid temperatures across the U.S. are affecting cow comfort and in some cases, causing noticeable decreases in milk production. Northeast and upper Midwest contacts, however, indicate that milk production outputs remain strong. Several areas in the West are running summer meal programs and, in turn, are lessening the typical seasonal decrease in bottling orders. Southwest area milk processors are taking in loads from out of state, filling in any openings in their processing schedules. Some Southeast milk marketers are shuffling around deliveries to meet fluid milk needs. Butterfat levels are trending seasonally lower. Ice cream production is seasonally strong, causing cream to tighten. Cream spot loads 50 are increasingly difficult to come by. Cream multiples are 1.201.42 in the East; 1.18-1.28 in the Midwest; and 1.03-1.24 in the West.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM, $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT F.O.B. producing plants: Upper Midwest - $2.5659-2.7834.

850.00-1835.00 †

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Week of 6/5/16

ion 1 55-130 lbs 185.00-200.00; d Selection 2 55-160 lbs 130.00125 lbs 100.00-120.00. ction 2 95-155 lbs 130.00-150.00.

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$175

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Arkansas Cattle Auction - Searcy

Week of 5/22/16

on 1 40-65 lbs 285.00-300.00.

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$210

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dairy sales

National Dairy Market at a Glance

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$245

Week of 5/29/16

1 20-38 lbs 270.00-280.00. Selec-255.00. Selection 3 27-38 lbs

replacement

San Angelo: 40-60 lbs 200.00-230.00; 60-70 lbs 162.00176.00; 70-80 lbs 150.00-162.00; 80-90 lbs 138.00-146.00; 90-110 lbs 138.00-143.00, few 150.00.

12 Month Avg. -

$280

Week of 6/5/16

-250 lbs 60.00-75.00.

61-135 lbs 130.00-150.00. Utility 0.00. Several replacement hair rams 130.00-150.00.

Good 2-3 115-200 lbs 82.50-

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

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Native American’s main source of food.

Ranchers began to capture bison in an attempt to domesticate them. Bison hides were processed into leather; bones were used in refining sugar, fertilizer and in bone china. Bison bones sold between 1868 and 1881 represented an estimated kee had attempted to breed the animals 31 million bison.

By 1884, only 325 wild bison were in nearly half a century. Today, young left in the United calves can be seen States, including 25 roaming with Kenwood, Okla. in Yellowstone Natheir mothers, and tional Park. hopes are the herd William Hornawill continue to flourish for years day, director of the to come.

New York ZoologiApproximately 60 million bical Society, estison populated North America when

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meet your neighbors mated the total bison population in 1889 to be just over 1,000 animals, including free ranging herds, the federal herd in Yellowstone, herds in Canada, in zoos and private herds. The American Bison Society (ABS), founded by Hornaday and supported by President Theodore Roosevelt and Canadian Governor Earl Grey, was established in 1905 to preserve and increase the American Bison and was re-established as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

Bison herds can be found in all 50 states today. Public herds are managed in several national and state parks, wildlife management areas and national refuges.

Tribal bison herds are managed on more than 1 million acres of tribal lands. Private ranches are using bison for tourism and production with herds across the country. The economic value of bison is estimated at more than $300 million.

The Cherokee people have a deep connection and history with bison as a source of food, tools and clothing and in traditional ceremonies. The Cherokee Nation, headquartered in Tahlequah, Okla., had not raised bison in 40 years. Cherokee Nation worked with the ITBC for two years in an attempt to bring bison back to Cherokee Nation in 2014.

Thirty-eight 2-year-old female bison from Badlands National Park in South Dakota were delivered to Cherokee Nation land in Delaware County, Okla., in 2014.

Ten bulls joined them from Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota a few days later. The tribe’s Natural Resources department cares for the bison.

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“The ITBC is a super good organization as far as projects and support. You can call them today and if we needed a range technician out here tomorrow, we would have one out tomorrow. Anything we have needed from them, they do their best to provide it for us,” Cherokee Nation Bison herdsman Chris Barnhart said. Cherokee Nation worked with the ITBC and other experts to develop a nutrition program for the bison.

“The herd is growing,” Gunter Gulager director of natural resources for Cherokee Nation told OFN. “We had 21 new calves last year and will have that many or more this year. We would like to get up probably around 200 head,” Gunter said.

“It is up to the council and the leadership of Cherokee Nation to decide how to use the fullness of our herd.”

The Cherokee Nation has 200 acres fenced off for the bison with room to expand.

“The birth of these spring calves is an excellent sign for the growth of our bison herd. It means the herd has settled into its new home and they are flourishing,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker said. “The reintroduction of bison to the Cherokee Nation is significant because it allows our people to reconnect with an important chapter in our history, when bison were essential to our daily lives.”

In May, the bison became the official national mammal of the United States under legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama.

Lawmakers spearheading the effort say the once nearly extinct icon deserves the elevated stature because of its economic and cultural significance in the nation’s history.

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Pin Oak Club Lamb became the focus of the Reynolds operation seven years ago Mike Reynolds is getting ready for the next step.

It was seven years ago when Mike and his wife Karon sold off their cows and decided to concentrate on club lambs.

Their Pin Oak Club Lambs in Greenbrier, Ark., supplies local 4-H and FFA youth with project lambs to show at county, district and state fairs Reynolds told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor he gave an adamant “no” when his oldest daughter asked to show a lamb the first time.

“I didn’t want anything to do with it,” he recalled with a laugh. But, his daughter got her lamb.

The family really enjoyed the first year, and the second year they noticed there was a shortage of local club lambs. Kids had to go out of state for lambs, and the cost of the animals and travel made that burdensome. So the Reynolds family got into the business, and now there’s been a resurgence in locally produced lambs.

“When we first started, there were about 100 Arkansas-bred lambs that would show at state fair,” he said. “Last year, we were almost at 200, and I’m pretty certain we’re going to be close to 250 lambs at the Arkansas State Fair – over half raised in the state.”

Youth activities come naturally to Reynolds. In addition to his daughter, who won numerous showmanship awards at fairs, he puts on showmanship clinics and an annual camp for FFA students, and helps out with Faulkner County shooting sports and the two state competitions for 4-H shooting sports. Oh – and he’s the Livestock Superintendent for the Faulkner County Fair, and runs the goat and sheep show at the Arkansas Southeast District Fair and the Market Lamb show at the State Fair.

This is on top of the military surplus store he owns, and Karon’s demanding job as an emergency room registered nurse. And now, they’re about to branch out from club lambs to a commercial flock. Why?

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“Because of low input,” he said. “I am on intensive rotational grazing here; I rotate my fields every four days. I started that for parasite control, where they’re not on the same paddock for more than 30 days at a time. When I started this rotational grazing my better grasses started coming through, so I needed to graze them down more.”

His club lambs are Suffolk/Hampshire crosses; the commercial flock will be White Dorpers, which Reynolds says will eat more of the weeds on his 35 fenced-in grazing acres.

Reynolds is currently running 100 sheep, but Mike said he has room for at least 125 and expects to have about 60 head of Dorpers in the next year. Market outlets are limited; he can sell them at either the small ruminant sale at the Salem Livestock Market or the buying station at Hope. “There are a few people on the commercials that want breeding stock,” he said.

Mike and Karon Reynolds found club lamb production to be more economical than cattle.

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His breeding season starts with turnThere’s also the wool; Mike has a ing out the rams the first of August. shearer who comes in from Dardanelle That means he’ll start having lambs every spring. in late January and early February.

“It takes me about 40 minutes to shear They’re weaned after 60 days, and one, and it takes him about three,” he then exhibitors show up the second said. The wool from the club lamb week of April to start picking their Hampshire flock is of low quality and is projects. They spend the summer feed- used for material like felt. ing and working with their The Reynolds’ are constantly lambs so they’ll be ready for working on the 115 acre county fair season, which farm. They’ve erected a barn Greenbrier, Ark. starts in Arkansas the latter that will be used for breeding part of August. Fairs are latand flushing – Mike said he er in Texas and Oklahoma, has good enough ewes now that so those kids get Reynolds’ they’re worth flushing – and are smaller, later lambs. building some pens with the help Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com

of the local FFA kids. There’s a smaller enclosure for creep feeding the newly weaned lambs. He’s also putting in a watering system, so there’s an alternative to ponds on low pastures.

They’re also diverse. Karon intends to build some chicken houses, and they’ve got some Belted Galloway cattle.

“I don’t like what everybody else has got, and it’s kind of different,” Mike said.

A few dairy goats, and various working dogs that help move the sheep in Reynolds’ rotational grazing system.

The system is not labor intensive. “It’s opening a gate,” Mike said. “They’re really easy to handle. If I bring a new one in they have a hard time finding the gate, but after you move them a couple times they know that if you open the gate, there’s fresh grass.”

The pastures come together at a fourcornered gate, and the Reynolds can rotate them counter-clockwise, or skip a pasture if the grass growth isn’t there.

And it’s worked for parasite control; he said four years ago, he spent a fortune on dewormers and lost a number of sheep. This spring, only two of his ewes needed treatment.

It’s been a learning curve on the farm.

Mike said he bought his first lambs from a man in Oklahoma who was very helpful, but they didn’t have much success with that initial set. “It was a whole new ballgame for us,” he said. “We had raised almost everything in the past, and when we started raising sheep I found out pretty quick they were harder to raise than I thought.”

He got more sheep out of Oklahoma and some out of Texas, doing better with each batch, and began attending as many seminars and classes as he could on parasites and grazing and said, “That helped get us off the ground to where we were raising a healthy flock.”

His advice for anyone else who wants to get into club lambs: “Start with a small set of the closest genetics they can get – five sisters. That would be consistency.”

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“What I like best is seeing youngsters enjoy agriculture because there seems to be less and less interest. Watching them get excited and maybe become part of it is really neat.”

Who is the most influential person in your life?

“My grandpa, Kenneth Insco, is the most influential person because he introduced me to agriculture and taught me everything I know about cattle. It’s kind of cool being the only one he’s patient with, especially since he taught me not to make a huge fuss about things but to smile and keep going.”

What is your current involvement in agriculture, including your daily routine?

“I get up at 5 a.m. so I can feed the horses and my heifer, and then after school I go to my grandparents where I feed the feed the heifers and the cows and whatever else needs to be done. In the summers I help rake hay but am not trusted with the baler yet. I also help my grandfather round up the heifers to take to the vet to be worked. I also help round up and herd the cattle that need to be wormed into the chute. Sometimes in the summer I also work for my FFA advisor, Mr. Nelson, collecting eggs and picking up dead chickens.”

What are some of your agricultural memories?

“My grandpa used to have a dairy, and I couldn’t wait until I was old enough to clean out the milk barn although looking back at that now, I couldn’t imagine why I ever felt that way. However, I never really got to do it because my grandparents retired from dairy before I was old enough to help clean it out. Some of my best memories are watching calves being born because I was with my dad, and it’s something most people don’t get to do. A funny memory is my brother and I having a motley faced heifer that we broke to ride using her tail to steer her.”

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n a remarkable decision, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Tax Court opinion dealing with a Thoroughbred racehorse owner’s activities. This case is important to the livestock industry because IRS hobby loss regulations, the subject of the opinion, apply to livestock as well as horse activities.

John Alan Cohan is a The case, Roberts v. Commissioner, concluded lawyer who has served that the taxpayer’s horse racing activities were enthe farming, ranching tered into for profit. The Court characterized the and horse industries since Tax Court decision as untenable, in that it in effect 1981. To contact John Alan concluded that a business’s start-up costs were not Cohan, go to ozarksfn.com deductible business expenses and that every busiand click on ‘Contact Us.’ ness starts as a hobby and becomes a business only when it achieves a certain level of profitability.

The taxpayer, Merrill Roberts, was a successful owner and operator of restaurants, bars and nightclubs in Indianapolis. In the 1990s, he began withdrawing from the business, becoming a consultant instead, and learned about the financial aspects of the horse-racing business. In 1999, he bought two horses for $1,000 each, and in the first year netted $18,000 in purses. He built a horse track on a farm and increased his stock of race horses to 10, plus a breeding stallion. In addition, Mr. Roberts passed the state’s licensed-trainer test and obtained his horse-training license.

In 2005, Mr. Roberts acquired a larger property and invested in improvements for the training of racehorses. He trained the horses himself. He lobbied the Indiana legislature on behalf of horse racing, pushing for legislation to permit slot machines at racetracks, which ended up being enacted. He took on leadership roles in two professional horse-racing associations.

Roberts spent upwards of 12 hours per day working with the horses on race days and about eight hours a day on other days.

During the years at issue, Roberts’ expenses significantly exceeded his earnings.

The Tax Court held that Roberts’ activity was a hobby in 2005 and 2006, but that it became a bona fide business in 2007. Accordingly, the Tax Court held that Roberts’ business expense deductions for 2005 and 2006 were denied.

The Tax Court, which was reversed by the 7th Circuit, held that Mr. Roberts’ activity in 2005 and 2006 was a hobby, and became a business in 2007. The 7th Circuit said that the activity evolved from his decision in 2005 to build a larger training facility, and to make substantial improvements to the property: “The Tax Court’s finding that his land purchase and improvements were irrelevant to the issue or profit motive until he began using the new facilities is unsupported and an offense to common sense.”

The 7th Circuit added, “The judge seems not to have understood that the decision to build the facility, and its construction, are also indications of a profit motive.”

The 7th Circuit found the Tax Court’s opinion confusing and contradictory. The 7th Circuit characterized the IRS regulations on the horse industry as “goofy,” and commented that the Tax Court would be better off if, rather than “wading through” the factors in the IRS Regulations, that before deciding, “the court must listen to the owner’s protestations of business motive.”

It is extremely rare for a hobby loss case to be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which rarely reverses the Tax Court. It is not only an expensive undertaking, but also takes a long time. The Tax Court handed down the Roberts decision in April, 2014, and the 7th Circuit issued its ruling in April 2016, two years later.

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In today’s mechanized society, more and more jobs being done with evolving technology rather than by hand.

While things like checking cattle with drones and a camera or using a smartphone to take a credit card payment at a farmers market might make some farmers shake their heads, technology does have it’s place in the agriculture industry.

It has been used to make this noble trade safer, faster, and more efficient. One of the latest trends in agricultural technology is robotic milking systems. It’s certainly a long ways from the days of milking cows by hand, but robotic milking systems might just be the way the future of dairy is headed. ilking with a robotic system is different than milking by hand. The idea of a robotic system, or Automatic Milking System (AMS), is designed to accommodate cows as part of a set group being milked at a set time, or to accommodate voluntary milking, where the cow chooses when she feels like being milked and can enter the system at her leisure anytime during a 24-hour period. Since the system is fully automated, there is not always a need for a farmer presence. The milking unit is comprised of a milking machine, a teat position sensor, which is typically a laser, a teat cleaner, a robotic arm for automatic teat-cup application and removal, and a gate system for controlling cow traffic. nvesting in a robotic milking system is an expensive endeavor – according to Hoards Dairyman, an AMS system for 55 to 60 cows can cost $180,000 to $220,000, so it is important to do your research before installing one of these in your milking barn.

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“Good production comes from good genetics and mediocrity creates mediocrity whether your milking goats like me or cows.”

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Larry Tranel, the dairy field specialist from the Iowa State University Extension, did a study evaluating new technology, such as an AMS. The study showed that farmers should consider the “cash-flow ability” of the farm versus the “net-financial impact and quality of life” when making such a large and important purchase decision. abor and the cost associated with it is obviously a large part of a dairy operation. A robotic milking system can help save on labor costs, but ultimately the profitability of an AMS system is going to depend on management. In order for a robotic milking system to truly help producers make money, there must be increased milk production from the cows.

Proper nutrition and management practices can help a dairy farmer achieve this. In an article on AgWeb.com, Dairy Editor Jim Dickrell suggests that increasing milk production through improved management or higher quality feed can be achieved through the labor that is freed up by the robotic milking system. eep current milk prices in mind when thinking about purchasing a robotic milking system is important.

“A $17.50-per-cwt average price might be break even in some herds with high milk production,” Dickrell stated. “A $20 price could typically push robots into profitability, but a $15 average would bleed budgets red.”

While a robotic milking system might not work for every farm, it is certainly something to consider as your operation continues to grow and change, and as the industry continues to move into the future.

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“When I buy both bulls and cows, I look for maternal traits which includes good milk production, birth weight and weaning weight. Genetics determine potential.”

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By Julie Turner-Crawford

Crossbreeding in dairy operations can increase production Crossbreeding animals to potentially increase performance is nothing new in the livestock world, and dairy production is no exception.

According to experts from Oklahoma State University and the University of Missouri Extension, crossbreeds have found a spot in the dairy industry, and producers seem to be happy with the results.

Dr. Sara Place, associate professor of animal science at Oklahoma State University, said crossbreeding of dairy animals has become popular for many commercial producers.

“It’s really an effort to combine some of the traits of the different breeds,” she said, adding that the Jersey/Holstein cross appears to be the most popular at this time.

“Like any crossbreeding situation, you are looking for that heterosis impact.”

There are several benefits that can be realized through a well-managed crossbreeding program.

Improved reproduction

Traits with low heritability tend to be the traits that can be most easily and quickly improved by heterosis through crossbreeding. Fertility is one of these traits.

“Data from Minnesota indicates fewer days open for first lactation crossbreds compared to pure Holsteins,” Ted Probert, University of Missouri Dairy Specialist said.

“Fertility benefits may represent one of the greatest advantages of crossbreeding for seasonal pasture-based herds but can also be a plus for conventional operations.”

Moderation of body size

U.S. dairy cows, particularly Holsteins, have increased in body size during the past several decades.

Place said the crosses tend to be a little smaller framed.

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and animals that are good at converting feed into milk,” Place said. “Also, maybe facilities are a little older, and they don’t want to remodel their barn, so they want a little smaller animal. Sometimes our modern Holsteins get a little too big for older facilities, so this is a way around that.”

Breeding Holstein heifers to a smaller breed sire, Place said, can also reduce calving issues.

Increase milk solids

The value of this benefit varies depending on the pricing of butterfat and protein in various milk markets, but most producers will receive at least some increase in price with added solids.

While crosses don’t typically yield as much milk as a purebred Holstein, Place said a Jersey/Holstein cross brings an increase in milk components.

“Your are trying to optimize the animal you have in that system,” Place said.

Improved survival

Heterosis realized from crossbreeding results in improved survival of F1 cows through first lactation and into second lactation compared to straight Holsteins. Calf survival is also favorably influenced through crossbreeding.

“Most producers understand and appreciate the potential for improved performance from crossbred offspring produced by two purebred parents (F1s),” Probert explained. “Many, though, worry about how to mate F1s to continue the advantages of hybrid vigor into succeeding generations. Sustaining a successful crossbreeding program requires a plan and the commitment to follow it.”

Two crossbreeding systems most commonly used in dairy herds are the two-breed rotation and the three-breed rotation.

“In the two-breed system, F1 offspring are mated back to one of the original parent breeds, and mating sires for succeeding

generations are alternated between the two breeds,” Probert said. “This system will sustain 67 percent of the hybrid vigor possessed by the original F1 generation.”

The three-breed rotational crossbreeding system uses three breeds. Probert said it starts with a two-breed F1 female and mates the F1 to a third breed. The rotation continues, alternating among sires of the three breeds for each subsequent generation. Under this system, 86 percent of full heterosis will be maintained.

“At the end of the day, if you get a threeway cross, that is where you are going to maximize that hybrid vigor, that heterosis,” Place said. “The breeds you chose all depends on the goals of the farm. It could be a Jersey/Holstein and another breed, but it just depends on what you are wanting out of it. Be it beef cattle production or dairy cattle, a three-way cross is usually going to maximize that heterosis in that situation.”

Place added that European dairy breeds, such as the Scandinavian Red and other “Continental cattle” are often found as the third cross in a three-way cross.

“People like hybrid vigor, but all that means is that the offspring is just going to perform better than what you would expect the average to be,” she said. “If your goal is just pounds of milk produced, pounds of protein, pounds of fat, and you are crossing with a lower producing breed, you are going to give up milk production.

It really depends on the goals of the dairy.”

Crossbreeding does not diminish the importance of good sire selection, Probert added.

“Rather, crossbreeding should be viewed as a step toward enhancing the breeding value of highly selected sires,” he said.

“Matings to sires with marginal genetic merit will produce offspring with marginal genetic merit whether the animals are purebreds or crossbreds.”

Place agreed.

“You don’t want to take just some random sire,” she said. “You want to look at the merit of that sire, and pay attention to all of those aspects.”

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