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The ‘Calling’ of a Dairyman The Hamlet family continues the dairy tradition at their Dallas County farm

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Extension Councils participate in online fundraiser: The Greene and Webster County Extension Councils participated in the first-ever Give Ozarks 24-hour online day of giving on May 5. In both counties, supporters were asked to make online donations in support of local extension programming in youth, nutrition, horticulture and agriculture. The Webster County Extension Council exceeded its $10,000 goal, finishing with $11,924 in donations. The Greene County Extension Council finished with $3,285 in donations for the day.

Leaders with both groups said it was a productive day and effort.

Photo contest still taking entries: The fourth annual Show-Me Snapshots Photo Contest, sponsored by Missouri Farm Bureau partnered with the MFB Foundation for Agriculture continues to take entries. The contest, launched in January and ending Oct. 16, is open to Missouri Farm Bureau members and their dependents in both adult and youth categories. Photo submissions will be used to portray and promote today’s agriculture in the state of Missouri in future publications, promotions and social media by Missouri Farm Bureau. All photos must represent and exemplify safe farming practices. Winning photographs will be on display at the 101st Missouri Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in December at Tan-Tar-A in Osage Beach, Mo. For more information on contest guidelines and how to enter, go to mofb.org or call 573-893-1468.

Show-Me-Select Sale results: The 32nd Show-Me-Select Bred Heifer Sale May 15 at the Joplin Regional Stockyards can best be described as “solid,” according to Eldon Cole, livestock specialist with University of Missouri Extension. There were 80 registered buyers with 39 of them taking home from one to 19 heifers each. Buyers came from Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Arkansas and Missouri. The top lot of heifers sold for $3,600.

Students honored with scholarships: Students from the region have been awarded 2015 DFA Cares Foundation Scholarships, which are awarded to outstanding students pursuing a career in the dairy industry. The scholarship recipients were: Maura Butler of Seneca, Mo., who is planning to attend Missouri State University and major in agriculture education; Madelaine Giebler, of Neosho, Mo., who attends Crowder College and is majoring in nutrition; and Whitney Davis, of Mountain Grove, Mo., who is attending University of Missouri and majoring in veterinary medicine.

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A lifetime of farming

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Mountain Grove teen is becoming a top Jersey breeder

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Town and Country features LeeAnn Wantland

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Lifelong friends share dairy heifer business

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Brett and Jessica Dixon blend Guernsey and Ayrshire cows into their operation

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Youth in Agriculture features Ashton Attberry

Rex and Brent Hamlet continue the family tradition Eye on Agribusiness features Boudreau’s Acres

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Missouri’s dairy farmers, and their cows, have racked up some pretty imJulie Turner-Crawford pressive numbers in recent years. is a native of Dallas Most Americans have heard or read the phrase, County, Mo., where she “Got milk?” Missourians can respond, “Yes we grew up on her family’s do, let me show you.” farm. She is a graduate Missouri ranks 25th in the nation for milk proof Missouri State duction, and nearly each county in the state has University. To contact at least one dairy farm. According to the Midwest Julie, call 1-866-532-1960 Dairy Association, Missouri’s more than 1,200 or by email at editor@ dairy farms produced about 161 million gallons ozarksfn.com. of milk in 2014, and the average milk cow in the state produces about 1,700 gallons of milk a year.

Those are some pretty impressive statistics.

Dairy farming has a long-standing tradition for many families in the region – yet another reason to celebrate. You’ll read about some of those families in this edition of Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, 97 percent of the dairy farms in the United States are family-owned operations, not the “corporate farms” that non-agricultural folks like to complain about.

The state’s dairy farmers also provide much more to the state than milk and cheese.

Dairy farms have a greater impact on the local, regional and state economy than many people might think. In Missouri alone, there are nearly 30 milk-processing facilities that provide jobs to Missourians. Those jobs include the truckers who bring the milk from the farm to the processor, workers who process and package the milk or other dairy products, warehouse workers and those who reload the trucks for another group of truck drivers who deliver dairy products to retailers.

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just a thought Across the Fence Continued from Previous Page Along the rural roads where I grew up, there was dairy farm after dairy farm; some big, some small. Today, very few remain. Some producers stopped milking because of health or age issues, for others replacing their milk cows with beef breeds meant the difference between survival and bankruptcy. I’m sure most readers can think of similar stories.

As Missouri milk production dropped, dairy-processing plants followed.

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Continued from Page 3 From all I’ve heard about him, the old man would never set out to intentionally cheat someone, but if that same someone’s inexperience, stupidity or greed opened the gate for them to hang themselves on a deal, the old man would gladly lend them all the rope they’d ever need.

Most of his business was done on a handshake, and his word was his bond. Reportedly, he once said, “If a man’s word ain’t no good, then why the hell would his signature be any better?” And again, according to people who knew him, if anyone was ever dishonest in some dealing with the old man, they would live to regret it, because he wouldn’t just get even – he’d get ahead.

The legend was also notorious for being the most frugal person most people had ever met. By the time he had reached his golden years, the old man had acquired more than a dozen farms and “owned the paper” on at least that many more. Many

The state’s lawmakers have seen the plight of the state’s dairy farmers with the passage of the Missouri Dairy Revitalization Act of 2015, which was signed into law by Gov. Jay Nixon in April.

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A Continuing Love of Dairy Farming

By Terry Ropp

James Rantz bought his first cows after graduating high school The Rantz Dairy Farm in Spokane, Mo., was started in 1970 by James Rantz’s grandfather, Lloyd.

James’ parents, Tim and Diana Rantz, took over the family operation after they were married in 1978. The farm remained an operational dairy until Tim’s death in 1992. James was only 13 at the

The Rantzs own 300 acres and lease another 150 in the area that is used as pasture for heifers and steers. All cows have been raised on the farm.

Currently the diary milks 110 cows, with 80 heifers and 30 babies.

James switched from live cover to AI in 2012 after completing an AI class.

James Rantz, pictured here with his wife Carrie, have revitalized Rantz Dairy in Spokane, Mo. Photo by Terry Ropp

The change was prompted for a couple time and he remembers the cows being or reasons. sold after his father’s death.

“Holstein bulls can be temperamenWhen James graduated high school, he decided to go back into the dairy business. tal and I need to keep Carrie and our 5-year-old son Jackson as safe as I With some help from can,” James said.

Diana, James bought 10 Performing AI year-round at a 75 dairy cows and went back to 80 percent conception rate in business. “This is a true rather than in fall and spring family operation with coordiseasons works best for James. nated and consistent effort by everyone involved, including Spokane, Mo. The number of cows milking and production levels my wife Carrie and my sister stay more consistent, and Amber,” James said.

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Another reason for using AI is genetics. The Rantz cows average 60 pounds of milk per day, but they don’t produce a butterfat level as high as James would like.

Therefore he selects semen from bulls that produce cows with high butterfat averages.

An additional genetic selection component is screening for bulls that produce more moderate birth weights in order to decrease birthing stress for the cows.

“Holsteins tend to produce larger calves, and I am more interested in quality milk at good production rates,” James explained.

Finally, James selects for strong feet and legs in order to raise cows and calves that can withstand the rocky and hilly terrain of the Ozarks. He supports his sire selection for strong feet and legs by making sure to keep up with hoof trimming for his cattle.

The recent installation of an upgraded automatic, hands-off feed measurement and delivery system in the dairy barn also promotes simplicity.

James uses a rotational grazing system determined by the predominant type of grass in each pasture with rotations occurring in as little as 12 hours or as long as a week. He uses ryegrass and wheat for cold weather grazing, and Sudan with liberal amounts of clover for the rest of the year. Haying occurs only on the 300 acres surrounding the dairy barn. Harvesting is done twice a year and produces 800 to 1,000 large bales.

Soil tests are taken annually to determine exactly how much commercial fertilizer is needed for healthy growth.

In five years James hopes to have additional fencing and improved watering systems in place and later hopes to build a larger milk barn.

James isn’t the only member of the family who loves life on the farm. James said Jackson loves being around the calves and may someday follow in his footsteps.

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The ‘Calling’ of a Dairyman

By Julie Turner-Crawford

Rex Hamlet and son Brent continue the dairy tradition at their family farm For longtime residents of Louisburg, Mo., in northern Dallas County, there are a few staples in the tiny community, such as the Louisburg Baptist Church and Williams Brothers Store.

Just west of town there is also Hamlet Dairy, which has been milking cows twice a day, everyday since 1957.

Rex Hamlet, left, began milking cows at the family’s current farm in 1957. Today his son Brent, grandson Brock and Brent’s “adopted son” Trenton Houston work on the farm as well.

place, then we bought this place and have milked cows ever since,” Rex recalled.

The Hamlet Dairy was one of the first dairies in Dallas County to have a bulk tank, which was 400 gallons. The tank was installed in 1957.

“We used milk cans up to that time and a truck would come and pick up the cans,” Rex recalled. The first dipstick for

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the tank now hangs in the “new” milk barn, which was built in 1989. The newer barn boasts a 1,000-gallon tank, as well as automatic feeders and automatic take offs on the milking machines.

“Things sure have changed,” Rex said.

Brent remembers going to town to get Rex Hamlet and his late wife, Margret, started dairy farming once Rex left the loads of feed in a pick up, a couple of U.S. Army after a two-year stint. Today, tons at a time, then hauling it home and loading it into the grinder mixer.

84-year-old Rex is joined in “Today, 10, 12 ton is just a call the family business by his away and they will bring it to you,” son, Brent. he said. “I don’t want to go Rex started milking with his back to shoveling feed… Gofather in 1944 and the time he ing back to the old days now spent in the military was the only Louisburg, Mo. would be like going back to time he didn’t milk. a rotary phone after having “Margaret and I started milking a cell phone. Not that they for ourselves in 1954 at a rented

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meet your neighbors were bad times, we just did with what we had.”

The Hamlet family patriarch said being a dairyman was the only thing he has ever wanted to do.

“It’s a calling,” Rex said. “I guess it’s like when a preacher gets called. I have just spent my whole life doing this and I think the Lord called me to do this.

Back in the time we are talking about, kids went into the occupation of their parents. If their parents were farmers, they farmed; if the parents taught school, they taught school. When you get to the grandkids now, they aren’t going to be too interested in it; they aren’t called to be a farmer. They want to do something to make them more money.

You can stick money in your pocket if you are at a job, but on a farm, you have to stick money into the farm.”

The family is currently milking about 100 head on the original 440-acre farm bought by Rex and Margaret.

Rex said they raise all of their own replacement heifers, and hold back their Holstein steers until they are about 600 pounds.

Brent worked away from the farm for a few years, but was never far from the milk. His off-farm career was spent at Mid-Am Dairy (now Dairy Farmers of America) in Springfield and Lebanon.

After the plant in Lebanon closed, Brent returned to the farm full-time.

“He asked me how many vacation days he was going to get,” Rex recalled with a laugh.

“I had five weeks (of time off) at the time,” Brent said. “When I came here, I gave up 52 weekends, so that’s 104 days, nine holidays and vacation. It’s like 139 days a year and you figure that over a 15year period, that is a lot of time I haven’t had off.”

While Brent jokes about not having any vacation time, he said the time on the farm is worth it.

“When I worked at Mid-Am, I worked just as many hours there as I do here,” he said. “You never work 40 hours anywhere, plus I have always had my kids out here with me. Brock and Chase both rode the arm seat. We’d get up at 5 a.m. and they would be asleep with their heads on my shoulder … I’m like dad, dairy farming has to be in your blood.”

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Today, Brent’s 16-year-old Brock, and Brent’s “adopted son” Trenton Houston, 16, are part of the family business. The boys do most of the field work and all of the haying, putting up about 1,000 big bales of hay for the farm, as well as about another 500 for a nearby family member. Chase, 28, is an insurance broker in Springfield, but comes to help on the farm when he’s needed, including last winter when Brent was out of commission for about a week after a fall.

“They can all do what needs to be done around there,” Brent said.

When asked if the Hamlet family ever considered a different path, Rex was quick to answer.

“Not for me,” he said. “This is my calling.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes and if there is one thing that I don’t care about in all of this, that’s getting older.”

While the Hamlets are optimistic about the future of their family operation, Rex said costs and unstable milk prices make it hard for dairymen.

“Milking cows, you’ve never had a system where the prices are guaranteed from month to month,” he said. “We need to have something in place where our dairy farmers can get $22 a hundred (weight) each month for his milk. Until we can do that, it’s hard to make it. Last summer, we were getting $27 a hundred for the milk, today we are getting $14, $16. We need to get about $22 (per hundred weight) to make any money and to be able to put money back into the farm. What we need in dairy farming is a guaranteed price.”

Brent agreed.

“The market is so volatile,” he said.

“Last year, farmers were able to pay some bills, but now the prices are down and a lot of guys are just getting by.”

By having a fixed price each month, Rex speculated that the dairy industry could stablize.

“You can’t make a living on what you are getting paid today, let alone buy a farm, buy cattle and pay the loan,” Rex said. Brent added that it would take many years for new farmers just to pay for a new bulk tank.

“That’s not including the farm, the cattle or of the cows,” he said. “It’s insane how much it takes just to milk. You just about have to grow into farming.”

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By Jennifer Ailor

Noel Rogers reflects on his more than nine decades of farm life Ninety-six-year-old Noel Rogers of Rogersville, Mo., is typically out the door by 7 a.m. to do his morning chores.

He feeds his “flock” of cats, pumps water for several Black Angus bulls and feeds steers and heifers separated from the herd. Then he starts his old diesel pickup and drives out in the pasture to check on the herd of 44 momma mixedbreed cows and their calves.

Son Wendal, who lives down the road, works for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Ozark and knows a lot about livestock forage. Cows can’t eat any better than they do on the Rogers farm of 160 acres. The farm’s pasture is a lush mix of wheat, clover and orchard grass; other pastures offer Caucasian bluestem and fescue.

Noel has been a farmer all his life. Born on a hard-scrabble farm near “Nixie,” he and his five siblings all worked from an early age.

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“We didn’t have spit,” Noel recalled. “I don’t know how we made it.”

During high school, he milked 10 or 12 cows for a couple and did their other chores.

“I’d be up at 4:30 (a.m.), do the chores and finish in time to get on the school bus,” Noel said. “Evenings I did it all over again. It got to where I couldn’t stay awake at school, and so I quit in 10th grade.”

His own family milked cows and raised pigs, farming with horses and mules; later his dad got two tractors. In the winter, the kids pulled corn off the stalks in the field and fed it to the pigs. The cows got the leftovers.”

The elder Rogers hired himself out during thrashing season and pitched bundles of grain in the field onto the wagon that carried the load to a thrashing machine.

Thrashing would start around July 4, and Noel drove the Red River Valley thrasher owned by “Old Man” Jim McCauley.

“It would be me and Old Jim, and four pitchers. We’d leave early of a morning

and lots of times thrashed until dark and then go home. You didn’t get much sleep.

We didn’t know anything about an eighthour day. You worked sunup to sundown,” he said. All for 50 cents a day.

Noel also remembered running a clover huller, which thrashed red clover and often got clogged up.

“You’d pick at it with a stick and have to get down under it. I did a lot of that. Back then you did what you had to do,” he said.

Once a year the family would make the 10-mile trip to Springfield to get outfitted in clothes for school.

“It took all day, and it was a rough ride. ... But we kids always looked forward to that trip,” he said.

At 22, Noel joined the Air Force, working as a mechanic in Louisiana and Texas and later in France, where he managed a crew of about 15 men, working on P-51 Mustangs.

Back in Springfield after the war, Noel worked for a body and fender shop.

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“They couldn’t get good respirators, and paint would get up in your nose, and I had the awfulest time with sinuses. The doctor finally said to get out of there and in the open,” Noel said.

The only thing he knew to do was farm, so he went to work for a farmer and eventually saved enough to buy the farm he lives on today in Christian County. In 1952, when he and his wife (Edith), two daughters and son moved there, the farm was in bad shape, with fences down and rocks everywhere. They built a Grade A dairy and milked cows – up to 40 head at one point. He bought a square baler and did some custom baling to earn a little extra money. Years later when Wendal wanted a round baler, Noel finally bought one, baled one bale and said not to ask him to bale anymore with the machine.

He was happy with his square baler.

Mainly, though, he and Wendal picked rocks to the point where Wendal protested that his dad was working him to death. The hard labor paid off, though, and through the decades the pastures became better and better. Early on, Noel remembered there was little help or information for farmers about using pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, rotational grazing and keeping cattle out of streams.

“Today most farmers have more education and keep up on all the different varieties of grass and clover. It’s so much better. They can farm their cattle and have good pasture, and that’s a plus. Then there’s these agencies, like Wendal’s, and they really help farmers,” he said.

When asked what advice he has for people wanting to get into farming, he replied, “I’d tell them to think that over quite a while and get it all figured out. Him and his wife would both have to have second jobs. They better get ready to eat dirt.”

Looking out over his big garden of potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, onion and much more, Noel said he enjoyed just about everything about farming, but first and foremost he liked it because he had his family around him every day, all day.

Then, as he contemplated his next task of the day, mowing the yard with his zero-turn mower or spraying brush, Noel said he really didn’t like to spray, “but it has to be done.” And, he admitted, “I’m getting a little old for this.”

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Boudreau’s Acres Horse Motel and Boarding Owner: Joan Walker Location: Bois D’arc, Mo. History: When Joan Walker laid eyes on a neglected 32-acre farm in Bois D’arc, Mo., several years ago, she knew in her heart it had potential. Joan worked tirelessly to clean up, clear out and completely transform the property. The result is Boudreau’s Acres, a lovely, pristine home and farm with facilities for short-term and long-term horse boarding. “I know what care I want for my horse. I want to give that same kind of care to every horse that comes here,” Joan Walker explained. She gave her business the name, Boudreau’s Acres, because Boudreau is her maiden name. “It is to honor my dad,” said Joan.

The name also pays respect to her son who passed away before he could fulfill his dream of owning a horse farm he planned to call Boudreau’s Acres. “I thought, ‘I will name this place Boudreau’s Acres, for him,’” said Joan.

Services: Boudreau’s Acres offers full-stall board, which includes hay and grain feeding, stall cleaning and daily turnout. “We provide whatever they need. We have people come to us with needs I have never heard of,” said Joan with a smile. No matter the need, Joan finds a way to accommodate her customers’ requests. Boudreau’s Acres also provides pasture boarding, horse sitting and horse motel services. The farm’s close proximity to Interstate 44 makes it an ideal stopping place for people traveling long distances with their animals. “It is starting to pick up for the spring now. We are getting repeat customers now. It is fun to meet the people and see all the different horses,” said Joan.

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Making a Name in the Dairy Business

By Lois Krizan Waters

Tucker Peterson is quickly becoming one of the top Jersey breeders in the nation Tucker Peterson is the youngest of seven children, and a descendant of several generations of farmers making a living in the Mountain Grove area.

His forefathers came to the Missouri Ozarks by covered wagon from Kentucky in the 1800s, so he can surely be called a native of Mountain Grove. He has accomplished a lot in 19 years and is well on his way to becoming a leading Jersey breeder in the United States.

“When the children were small, they started out showing sheep because they could handle them in the show ring,” she recalled. “Later on, some showed beef, some dairy and even some hogs.

Now, some of my grandchildren are showing sheep.”

Even though the farm is a Grade A dairy, Ethan is raising some South Down sheep and has a hog operation. Caleb is a licensed A.I. technician and also a technician for Mid-South Dairy Records.

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Also pictured is Tucker’s mother Janet Peterson, and brothers Ethan and Caleb.

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When asked why he selected Jerseys as Peterson Dairy is a family farm containing over 250 acres north of Mountain Grove, his breed of choice Tucker, responded as a seasoned dairyman.

Mo., along Highway 95. Janet “My grandparents always had Jerseys Peterson is a single mom of but I like them because of their small her brood of seven – Jacob, frame, they can tolerate the heat Luke, Sadie, Caleb, Ethan, well, and are able to get up and Callie and Tucker. The farm has Mountain down the hills with ease. They always been a dairy, but over the Grove, Mo. are a good, durable breed.” years has had several livestock projects for the different ages and — Continued on Next Page preferences of the children.

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meet your neighbors Making a Name in the Dairy Business Continued from Previous Page All cows are artificially inseminated with semen of bulls from to their respective breed, which is followed with a Jersey clean-up bull.

In addition to the traditional dairy, Tucker has earned a reputation for owning

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a prime line of show stock in the dairy industry. His Jerseys and Milking Shorthorns are not only in local and state shows, but are shown extensively and successfully on the national show circuit. He has improved his bloodlines until they are well-

known in the dairy industry. He has an entire wall in their house completely covered with trophies and ribbon earned from his herd that are too numerous to mention.

Caleb and Tucker work together on the farm and travel to shows all over the Unit-

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ed States and take turns showing different animals at competitions even though the animals are registered to Tucker.

Last year, Tucker showed the Grand Champion at the Southern National Spring Jersey Show at Stillwater, Okla., and Caleb showed the Milking Shorthorn Junior Champion Heifer at the International Junior Shorthorn Show at the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis. The heifer was also the Unanimous Junior All American Fall Heifer Calf in 2014. Tucker and Caleb are part owners of the 2014 Reserve Junior All American Jersey Milking Yearling in Louisville, Ky. Show animals are given special treatment at Peterson Dairy, so they will look good and show well in competitions.

“Show animals are housed in separate buildings in almost solitary confinement and are in good condition and a healthy environment,” Tucker said.

The Petersons do all the training, trimming and show preparation themselves.

Tucker was on the Missouri State 4-H Judging Team selected to go to Scotland and Ireland in 2014, and he has received a scholarship to be on the dairy judging team at Kaskaskia College in Centralia, Ill., which he will attend this fall.

While it is no easy task to breed and show two breeds of cattle around the nation, the entire family shows is support for each other.

And for the Peterson family, farming is a way of life.

“Most people simply do not know what farming is all about. It is a business and you have to treat it like a business,” Janet said.

“It is not just an 8-hour a day job, it is a 24-hour a day job.”

The Peterson farm is rolling grassland seeded in mostly fescue and clover, fenced into several pastures for rotational grazing. The Petersons cut their own hay and bale into round bales, but do some square bales for their show stock. Water sources are mostly ponds (some with automatic waters), some springs and Beaver Creek on the backside of the farm. The dairy consists of an average of 75 milking cows, mostly registered Jersey with some registered Milking Shorthorns.

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LeeAnn Wantland In Town: Niangua, Mo.’s LeeAnn Wantland has been working fulltime as a legal assistant since 2009, which is the same year her youngest child started school.

She has worked at various law offices in Springfield and Lebanon, and she is currently employed with Allen and Rector Attorneys at Law in Lebanon.

“I really love working with the people,” she said.

She obtained her legal assisting degree in 2001, but opted to take a “break” after graduating and worked at the Webster County Courthouse for several years, and was a full-time farm mom for seven and a half years.

In The Country: LeeAnn and her husband, Jeff, have been married for 21 years and have three daughters: 18-year-old Katie, 16-year-old Ellie Wantland and 11-year-old Lila.

The family currently milks between 60 and 65 head of Holsteins on a farm that has been in Jeff’s family for generations in Webster County, Mo. LeeAnn said her ties to farm life and the dairy industry were established well before she and Jeff were married.

“Jeff has always had the farming background and grew up on the farm where the milk barn is and where the dairy cattle are, and my very first job at the age of 15 was milking cows. I did that for the next three years, all through high school.”

Being dairy farmers, LeeAnn added, is just part of the Wantland family tradition.

“It has to be in your blood,” she said. “I can’t see someone just coming into a marriage that had never had any experience with cattle and accept all of the a early mornings, late nights and no vacations.”

That same blood is running through the veins of the three Wantland girls.

“From the time they could toddle out to the calf pen, they were holding a bottle, feeding a calf,” LeeAnn said.

About the time LeeAnn and Jeff were married, Jeff’s mother, Mary, offered a piece of advice that LeeAnn has always remembered.

“She told me, ‘You will learn that stuff to bought for the farm comes first. You may need a new car, you may need new furniture, but not if you need something on the farm because that is needed more.’”

During the summer months, the Wantlands spend a lot of family time on the road, going to local and regional dairy cattle shows.

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bulls

beef

(Week of 5/24/15 to 5/30/15)

Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

124.50-157.50* 1

Buffalo Livestock Market

124.00-144.00 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

125.00-163.00 † 123.50-156.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

140.00-153.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction Mo-Ark - Exeter

135.00-155.00*

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

128.00-155.00 †

No Sale - Holiday †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

90

110

130

slaughter

150

170

190

cows

(Week of 5/24/15 to 5/30/15)

98.00-125.50*

Buffalo Livestock Market Douglas County Livestock Auction

90.00-130.00 † 90.00-124.00 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards Joplin Regional Stockyards

90.00-137.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

102.00-137.00 † 110.00-132.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction Mo-Ark - Exeter

96.00-134.00* 98.50-124.00

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

95.00-120.50 †

South Central Regional Stockyards

No Sale - Holiday †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

40

60

†

82.00-130.50 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

80

100

cow/calf

120

140

160

pairs

(Week of 5/24/15 to 5/30/15) Buffalo Livestock Market

2025.00-2575.00* 1750.00-3000.00 † 1

Douglas County Livestock

None Reported †

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

1925.00-2575.00 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

None Reported

Kingsville Livestock Auction

†

Mo-Ark - Exeter

3025.00

None Reported

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna Springfield Livestock Marketing

1000

No Sale - Holiday

2000

3000

replacement

4000

5000 Steers, Med. & Lg. 1

(Week of 5/24/15 to 5/30/15)

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

1800.00-2300.00* 1275.00-2200.00 †

Douglas County Live

1635.00-2175.00 †

Interstate Regional Stockyards

1450.00-2650.00 †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

2000.00-2200.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction

1400.00-2350.00*

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

None Reported †

Ozarks Reg

1100.00-2550.00 † 1475.00-2210.00

South Central Regional

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No Sale - Holiday †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

1650

2150

2650

Holsteins, Lg. 3 300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

None Reported †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

1150

Ava Douglas County† 5/28/15

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†

cows

Buffalo Livestock Market

5/14/15

Receipts: 353 At this month’s special dairy sale at the Producers Auction Yard, demand was good on a moderate supply.

The supply consisted of 5 percent Springer Heifers, 5 percent Bred Heifers, 26 percent Open Heifers, 4 percent Fresh and Milking Cows, 8 percent Bred Cows and 16 percent baby calves. The balance was made up of weigh cows and beef animals. All quotes are on a per head basis for Holsteins unless noted otherwise.

Springer Heifers Bred Seven to Nine Months: Supreme 2150.00-2250.00, Approved 1650.00-1875.00, Individual Crossbred 1575.00, Medium 1225.00-1525.00, Individual Jersey 1125.00.

Heifers Bred Four to Six Months: Supreme Individual 2000.00, Individual Crossbred 1800.00, Approved 1625.00-1875.00, Individual Crossbred 1700.00, Individual Brown Swiss 1600.00, Medium 1250.00-1400.00, Individual Jersey 1475.00.

Heifers Bred One to Three Months: Approved Individual 1600.00, Individual Crossbred 1500.00.

Open heifers: Approved 200-300 660.00-725.00, Crossbred 650.00-685.00, Pkg 3 hd Jersey 690.00, 300400 810.00-840.00, Crossbred 825.00-875.00, 400-500 900.00-970.00, Crossbred 960.00-970.00, 500-600 960.00-1075.00, Individual Crossbred 1150.00, 600-700 1160.00-1240.00, Individual Crossbred 1010.00, 700-800

Pair Crossbred 1250.00, 800-900 Individual 1350.00, Medium 200-300 Individual Crossbred 510.00, 400-500 Pair 740.00, 600-700 Individual 1010.00, Individual Shorthorn 1000.00, 700-800 Individual 1025.00, Jersey 835.00-880.00.

Fresh Milking Heifers and Cows: Supreme 1900.002350.00, Approved 1450.00-1800.00, Individual Crossbred 1525.00, Individual Shorthorn 1575.00, Medium 1125.00-1275.00, Crossbred 1050.00-1100.00, Individual Jersey 1100.00, Common Crossbred 725.00-785.00.

Bred and Springer Cows: Supreme 2050.00-2275.00, Approved 1675.00-2000.00, Individual Crossbred 1875.00, Jersey 1525.00-1750.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein Heifers 440.00-520.00, Holstein Bulls 450.00-570.00, Jersey Bulls 220.00-270.00, Crossbred Heifers 270.00-290.00, Crossbred Bulls 220.00-370.00, Beef Cross Heifers 475.00-570.00, Beef Cross Bulls 370.00-560.00.

sheep &

3150

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

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Butler Mo-Kan Livestock† 5/28/15

Cuba Interstate Regional† 5/26/15

5/26/15

Receipts: 525 Supply was good and demand was good to very good.

The supply made up of 54 percent slaughter and feeder lambs; 12 percent ewes and rams; 29 percent kid goats; and 5 percent does and bucks. All prices per hundred weight unless noted otherwise.

SHEEP: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 wooled few new crop 43 lbs 200.00; old crop 63-67 lbs 170.00187.50, 83-88 lbs 162.50-170.00. Choice and Prime 2-3 new crop hair 40-45 lbs 182.50-200.00, 60-72 lbs 170.00-190.00, 84-95 lbs 160.0-172.50; few old crop 118-155 lbs 100.00-137.50. Good and Choice 3-4 new crop 40-58 lbs 157.50-177.50.

Feeder/Stocker Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 24-35 lbs 195.00-205.00. Medium and Large 2-3 25-38 lbs 165.00-185.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-2 few 91-135 lbs 70.00-90.00. Cull and Utility 1-2 119-200 lbs 60.00-73.00.

Slaughter Rams: few 148-215 lbs 92.50-102.50.

GOATS: Feeder Kids: Selection 1 25-37 lbs 280.00-290.00.

Selection 2 25-38 lbs 260.00-275.50. Selection 3 25-

stocker & feeder

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goats

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1600.00-2350.00 †

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

16 16

Norwood, Mo. • Producers Auction Yards

1800.00-3300.00*

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler

650

Receipts: 703 The demand was very good. The supply was moderate and included a herd dispersal. There were 05 percent springer heifers, 11 percent bred heifers, 28 percent open heifers, 09 percent fresh and milking cows, 09 percent bred and springer cows, and 08 percent baby calves. The balance was steers, bulls and slaughter cows. Prices reported are on a per head basis and for Holsteins unless noted otherwise.

Springer Heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme 1775.00-2100.00, ind Jersey 1780.00, ind Guernsey 1840.00, few crossbreds 1775.00-1800.00, Approved 1500.00-1750.00, ind Jersey 1600.00, Medium 1300.001475.00.

Heifers bred three to six months: Supreme 1800.002050.00, crossbreds 1700.00-1800.00, Approved 1575.00-1775.00, crossbreds 1485.00-1675.00, Medium 1275.00-1450.00, crossbreds 1270.00-1410.00, Common few 1000.00-1150.00, few crossbreds 1000.00-1050.00.

Heifers bred one to three months: Supreme few 1700.00-1850.00, Approved 1550.00-1680.00, ind Jersey 1600.00, crossbreds 1500.00-1650.00, Medium 1000.001350.00, few crossbreds 1450.00, Common few 975.00, ind crossbred 885.00.

Open Heifers: Approved 200-261 lbs 650.00- 800.00, ind crossbred 600.00, 330-381 lbs 800.00- 870.00, few crossbreds 710.00, 410-495 lbs 800.00- 950.00, Jerseys 890.00-960.00, pkg 6 Jerseys 428 lbs 1000.00, crossbreds 840.00-1050.00, 503-590 lbs 1070.00-1090.00, Jerseys 870.00-1080.00, crossbreds 850.00-890.00, pkg 6 crossbreds 578 lbs 1170.00, 608-693 lbs 1220.00-1280.00, pkg 6 Jerseys 634 lbs 1380.00, crossbreds 1050.001290.00, 703-795 lbs pkg 5 at 761 lbs 1420.00, crossbreds 1210.00-1450.00.

Medium: 340-370 lbs Jerseys 590.00-670.00, 405-430

lbs few crossbreds 630.00-790.00, 635-675 lbs few 810.00-985.00, 713-795 lbs Jerseys 910.00-1050.00,few crossbreds 990.00-1080.00.

Replacement Cows: Fresh and Milking Cows: Supreme 1800.00-2050.00, ind crossbred 1825.00, Approved 1550.00-1755.00, crossbreds 1625.00-1700.00, Medium 1325.00-1525.00, crossbreds 1200.00-1500.00, Common 950.00-1150.00, few Jerseys 910.00-1160.00.

Springer Cows: Supreme few 1900.00, Approved 1700.00-1825.00, Medium 1500.00-1550.00, crossbreds 1300.00-1550.00, Common 1325.00-1400.00.

Bred Cows: Supreme ind 1995.00, Approved 1575.001790.00, crossbreds 1425.00-1650.00, Medium 1250.001500.00, Jerseys 1180.00-1410.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein heifers Scarce, Holstein bulls 420.00-530.00, small 300.00-380.00, Jersey bulls few 180.00, crossbred heifers 420.00-500.00, small 300.00-390.00, crossbred bulls 500.00-600.00, small 390.00-480.00, beef cross heifers few 640.00, beef cross bulls 450.00-650.00.

2280.00-2440.00*

Lebanon Livestock Auction

0

cattle

Springfield, Mo. • Springfield Livestock Marketing Center 5/26/15

134.50-145.00 †

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna

70

dairy

120.00-159.50*

Ozarks Regional Stockyards

5/31/15

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 157.00-162.00; wtd. avg. price 159.32.

Heifers: 157.00-161.00; wtd. avg. price 159.29.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 247.00-253.00; wtd. avg. price 251.60.

Heifers: 250.00-252.00; wtd. avg. price 251.48.

127.00-161.00 †

Douglas County Livestock Auction Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

cattle

Exeter Mo-Ark Livestock* 5/30/15

1505

1413

608

654

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Lower

St-5 Lower

Steady

305.00-347.50 290.00-330.00 267.00-292.50 238.00-269.00 226.50-237.50

315.00-340.00 285.00-321.00 268.00-291.00 238.00-255.00 215.00-228.00

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255.00-305.00 258.00-278.00 235.00-251.00 215.00-234.00 200.00-213.00

302.50-304.00 252.00-280.00 228.50-252.00 199.50-232.00 194.00-200.50

276.00-317.50 251.00-285.00 234.00-247.00 ----196.50-202.50

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345.00 304.00-310.50 269.00-290.50 230.00-272.50 230.00-244.00

300.00-375.00 270.00-325.00 250.00-292.00 225.00-265.00 210.00-230.00

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260.00-320.00 240.00-275.00 220.00-258.00 210.00-230.00 200.00-227.00

USDA Reported * Independently Reported

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ce and Prime 2-3 wooled few old crop 63-67 lbs 170.000-170.00. Choice and Prime lbs 182.50-200.00, 60-72 lbs s 160.0-172.50; few old crop .50. Good and Choice 3-4 new 77.50.

Medium and Large 1-2 hair 0. Medium and Large 2-3 25-38

y and Good 1-2 few 91-135 d Utility 1-2 119-200 lbs

48-215 lbs 92.50-102.50.

1 25-37 lbs 280.00-290.00.

60.00-275.50. Selection 3 25-

Interior Missouri Direct Hogs

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hog markets

Mo. Weekly Weaner & Feeder Pig

5/8/15

Receipts: 6768 Weaner pigs near steady. Feeder pigs no sales reported.

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

Early weaned pigs 10 lb. base weights, FOB the farm 0% negotiated 4067 head, 10 lbs, 36.00-38.56, weighted average 36.71.

Early weaned pigs 10 lb base weights, Delivered 74% negotiated, 2701 head, 10 lbs, 36.62-41.00, weighted average 39.03.

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

Feeder pigs in all lot sizes, Delivered 100% negotiated, No Sales Reported. *Early weaned pigs are under 19 days old.

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Joplin West Plains

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Butler Springfield

264.50

272.40 255.90 270.70 259.19

232.22 231.80 239.49 222.80 226.94

267.36

239.88

266.51

228.72

255.58

232.79

265.88 272.45 266.32 282.02 264.43

234.61 236.65 238.24 236.73

282.34

234.92 233.49

269.36

236.03

264.32

Springfield Livestock Marketing† 5/27/15

Vienna South Central† 5/27/15

West Plains Ozarks Regional† 5/26/15

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657

1386

268

2821

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300.00-375.00 270.00-325.00 250.00-292.00 225.00-265.00 210.00-230.00

305.00-335.00 300.00-335.00 260.00-309.00 228.50-267.00 230.00-232.00

320.00-336.00 280.00-325.00 255.00-270.00 230.00-252.00 235.00

327.50-350.00 294.00-332.50 265.00-307.00 231.00-269.00 223.75-235.00

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228.00-262.50 215.00-239.00 205.00-215.00 175.00-212.00 155.00-177.00

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275.00-286.00 251.00-273.00 227.50-256.00 208.25-250.00 207.00-225.00

260.00-320.00 240.00-275.00 220.00-258.00 210.00-230.00 200.00-227.00

282.00-315.00 250.00-289.00 240.00-267.00 227.00-244.00 214.00

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287.50-330.00 265.00-290.00 245.00-265.00 225.00-241.00 203.00-230.00

293.96

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Lebanon Livestock Auction* 5/28/15

265.13 271.79 256.99

243.47 243.33 239.08 236.08 238.99

278.02

Soybeans

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15 12 9 6 3 0

9.67

9.14

9.55

7.65 7.29 4.86 4.51 3.74

270.90

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5.03

3.65

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8.90

245.64 231.70

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240.83

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261.91

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229.56

279.71

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Cuba Vienna

227.95

267.46

5/29/15

Most producers still waiting for sun and some dry weather so they can get in the fields. It has been a very slow start to the hay season. Fescue is maturing each day and although yields are still increasing quality is beginning to suffer as maturity increases. Starting to be more interest in pricing of new crop hay however the market will remain mostly untested until more hay is actually baled. The supply of hay is moderate and demand is light. Prices are steady. The Missouri Department of Agriculture has a hay directory available for both buyers and sellers. To be listed, or for a directory visit http://mda.mo.gov/ abd/haydirectory/ or for current listings of hay http://agebb.missouri.edu/haylst/ (All prices f.o.b. and per ton unless specified and on most recent reported sales price listed as round bales based generally on 5x6 bales with weights of approximately 1200-1500 lbs).

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

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

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

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

Good quality Mixed Grass hay: 75.00-95.00.

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

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

Fair to Good quality Bromegrass: 50.00-70.00.

Wheat straw: 3.00-6.00 per small square bale.

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FLUID MILK: Milk production in Northeast and Midwest is trending up at or close to peak. Southeast milk outputs are stable. The spring flush and favorable climate in the Midwest are aiding milk availability. Milk levels in the West are decreasing due to high temperatures and dryness. Drought in California is negatively affecting dairy farm operations. Bottling orders are steady to lower nationwide since the majority of schools end soon. Cream availability is adequate in the East and plentiful in the Midwest. The cream market is balanced in the West.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM: $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT, F.O.B., producing plants, Upper Midwest $2.2621-2.3579.

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Base carcass meat price: 73.00-74.00.

Sows (cash prices): steady to 4.00 lower, 300-500 lbs. 20.0026.00, over 500 lbs. 26.00-30.00.

$160

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emand was good to very good.

54 percent slaughter and nt ewes and rams; 29 percent t does and bucks. All prices less noted otherwise.

$200

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Some early weaned lots have a slide of .50-1.00 per pound.

Week of 5/24/15

goats

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40 lbs 205.00-250.00.

Slaughter Kids: Selection 1 40-65 lbs 300.00-312.50, 65-75 lbs 275.50-285.50. Selection 2 40-60 lbs 285.00-297.50. Selection 3 40 lbs 240.00-260.00.

Replacement Does: Selection 2 40-140 lbs 150.00-165.00.

Slaughter Does: Selection 2-3 50-110 lbs 125.00-145.00.

Replacement Bucks: Selection 1 55-100 lbs 180.00-210.00, Selection 2 100-158 lbs 150.00-175.00.

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Their dairy supply business handles rouwhere they formed a partnership at a beautiful spring and creek feed 300-acre farm tine distribution of supplies, service calls, near Seneca, Mo. On that farm, they both and installation and repair of equipment. have homes and raise dairy heifers together. They are on-call 24-hours a day. Handling all supply needs is part of their service, John’s dairy supply business, as they carry Westfalia, Mueller Dairy Seneca Dairy Supply, which Farm Equipment and GEA Farm was established in 1977, has Technologies. With advancealso been located on their farm ments in farm innovations, they since 1997. John’s business, in are even handling installation which Denny heads up instalof robotic equipment by Lely. lation of equipment, has been Seneca, Mo. “We are working with a around long enough to see many company out of Illinois, and changes in the dairy industry.

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meet your neighbors will be doing our first robotic installation at a farm in Fort Scott, Kan. The robotic milkers are suppose to increase milk production, and reduce labor,” shared John.

Though robotics aren’t for everyone, John says the cows are allowed to go into the barn free-choice, and usually get milked three times a day. One robotic milker can handle up to 60 cows.

Now that the business has grown, John and Denny have help from a few more full-time employees. Jerry Eckhardt takes care of delivery routes, while Tim Barnes, Alex Wolgamott and Denny’s son, Keith Wilson, handle service and installation.

Interest in technology by some of the younger members of the crew has helped John gain confidence in going into the robotic innovations. Victoria Geibler and John’s wife, Kay, help with office work.

Victoria is currently achieving a master’s degree in animal science from Missouri State University in Springfield while working at the dairy supply and helping on her family’s dairy farm in Neosho, Mo.

“I’m an eternal optimist. I’ve seen a lot of ups and downs, and in this year I think we have hopefully hit bottom, for now, and milk prices are moving up.”

With milk prices helping farmers last year, and with the increase of beef prices, dairies have been able to do some needed repairs and upgrades.

“We’ve been really busy the last couple of years. A lot of farmers have been making upgrades and repairs that they have been putting off for awhile.” John said. “I wasn’t really raised on a farm, but I knew that’s what I wanted to do.

As a diary supplier, I feel like I’m one of them. I’ve learned that there is a delicate balance of supply and demand with dairy.”

John recalls the struggle to make it through the years after 2008, but changes to exports have increased the milk market.

“The export expansions have been a plus for the dairy in the U.S.,” explained John.

Even though there are less dairies in the area since his early years in the busi-

“I see the neighbor down the road is hooked up to his discbine just chomping at the bit to get in the field.”

ness, his business has grown, and so has the territory that his operation reaches.

The size of the dairies that they supply are larger as well.

John and Denny’s partnership with raising dairy heifers has been a collaborative endeavor that they have found rewarding for many years. The business has changed through the years, but generally, they buy weaned dairy heifers from area farmers, grow them out, breed them to one of their Jersey bulls and sell as a springing dairy replacement heifer.

“We try to buy a lot of our heifers from our customers, and some from dairy sales, too,” explained John.

A sizable portion of their business is done with dairy cow supplier, Terry McCall, along with son, John, of McCall Farms in Elkland, Mo. “Terry has been working with us a long time and thinks it’s cool that Denny and I have been friends forever, and raised our kids together and have this farm partnership too.”

Yes, they have been together a long time, and now, living side by side, they are starting to enjoy life with grandkids as well.

“My wife, Kay, and I have raised five sons, and now have 13 grandkids,” shared John.

“Denny and Tina have four kids, three boys and a girl, and have six grandkids.”

Denny restored an old barn in between their homes on the farm, and they have also cleared out an area on the creek with an arbor where several area couples have had their weddings.

In his spare time, when he can find it, Denny also enjoys forging knives. He has donated a few of these for benefit auctions.

“The knife I donated for the Neosho Christian Schools benefit auction went for $1,500, and I’m working on another knife for a benefit auction for a young lady in our church raising money for a lung transplant, and another for the four-state breast cancer benefit auction this fall,” explained Denny.

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By Laura L. Valenti

Brett and Jessica Dixon blend Guernsey and Ayrshire cows into their dairy operation Brett and Jessica Dixon both grew up on family dairy farms and as a result, both developed a love of the industry and the animals involved.

Today, they own and operate Stil Dreamn Dairy, which includes 130 acres with 65 cows in southwest Laclede County, Mo., outside of Conway.

“Brett says his whole life he’s always known he never wanted to do anything but dairy,” Jessica said with a big smile.

“He has worked a couple of side jobs along the way and so did I, but this is what we’ve always done.”

Both grew up around Holsteins, but they have discovered other loves along the way – Ayrshires for her and Guernseys for him.

“We found that the colored breeds graze better and last longer, literally live and produce longer, than some other breeds,” Jessica said. “We are currently milking several cows over 10 years old that still calve every year. That’s not uncommon for Ayrshires. They do better for the component market too, producing milk with higher butterfat and protein levels, rather than just depending on the production of pounds of milk, as is the case with Holsteins. Our milk goes to a cooperative and is marketed for evaporated milk and cheese, rather than the liquid milk market.”

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Brett and Jessica Dixon, pictured with their son Diesel, grew up on dairy farms and continue that tradition today at their Stil Dreamn Dairy.

Brett added that he and Jessica put a great deal of emphasis on the genetics of their herd.

“We are looking for good conformation, good udders, strong legs – cows that last,” he said. “My father had the grass. It has allowed us to keep milkGuernseys, as well as Holsteins. I find ing with almost no input.”

They currently have about 40 paddocks, (the Guernseys) to be the best tempered with better components... Besides, they ranging in size from about an acre and a half to three acres, depending on the grass. are prettier.”

The Dixons are also considering marketBoth Brett and Jessica showed dairy cattle as teenagers and that is where Jes- ing their own grass-fed cheese in the future.

“Cheese is one of the things that Ayrshire sica first learned about Ayrshires, which were originally developed in Finland milk is ideal for making, so that is an advantage for us,” Jessica said. “It’s also something and Scotland. “(Ayrshires) developed on mountain- that is unique for the area and we’ve toured sides so they are really hardy and take a couple of herds out east that do it. It’s all the heat well, which some breeds don’t,” kind of a dream that it will happen, but if Jessica explained. “Ayrshires and Guern- you want to remain in the dairy industry, diseys are more suited to graze. We focus rect marking is the key to being profitable.”

Brett and Jessica are active on the naon intensive grazing, which allots us a far greater profit margin than traditional fed tional level of organizations that support their respective breed of choice. Jessica and TMR (total mixed rations) dairies.

“We primarily feed several different is a national director for the U.S Ayrshire Breeder’s Association and Brett varieties of ryegrass. We let is a candidate for the National Out(the cows) out on grass as standing Young Guernsey Farmer we can and only feed grain of the Year. in the barn. The Ayrshires Jessica said being a leader for and Guernseys really excel at the national Ayrshire assogoing out and grazing compared Conway, Mo. ciation keeps her very busy, to a Holstein. It really offers us but she enjoys being able to to cut down out input costs by promote the breed. making the cows go out and eat

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“It means going to national meetings and the national convention,” she said.

“The best part is getting to help shape the direction of where the breed is going. It is an elected position so it is an honor and opportunity to make positive changes, as well as addressing problems for the association.”

Brett and Jessica still enjoy showing cattle and also market their cattle at various national sales. Jessica said they recently sold cattle at the Iowa Spring Extravaganza and in Louisville, Ky., at the Kentucky Nationals.

“There is a good market for registered (show-quality) cattle and we’ve been able to sell several high-dollar cows to help out when milk prices are low,” Brett said.

The couple added that the market for show cattle doesn’t fluctuate the way normal cattle markets do.

The next generation of Stil Dreamn Dairy is helping out on the farm, too.

The couple’s 2-year-old son, Diesel, was quick to find his boots when asked if he wanted to go see the cows.

“He loves the cows, of course,” Jessica said with a laugh.

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he FFA contest season has finished up and the state champions have been crowned after competing at the Missouri State FFA Convention at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Jessica Bailey is an Since my days as a Crowder College Aggie, I agricultural lender at Hometown Bank in have helped judge at the Crowder Aggie Day Neosho, Mo. A resident each year, in areas from landscaping to poultry of Newton County, she to, this year, employment interview. It has been also raises cattle on a pleasant experience to observe how well many her family’s farm and of our young FFA students are being prepared for is an active alumni of the professional world. Through my judging exthe Crowder College perience this year, I’ve seen how many areas that Aggie Club. these students are judged on have application in the real life world of our farms and ranches.

One substantial area we judge these students on is presence. How do they carry themselves? Are they timid or overpowering? Friendly or stand-offish? Respectful or not? What message are they sending with their body language? Is it in sync with their verbal communication?

As we market our operations and the products of those operations, our presence can have a direct effect on our marketing efforts. One’s product can be the best of the best, but if our verbal and non-verbal communication is not compatible with the product, we are not realizing our operations’ full potential. As farmers and ranchers, we are not marketing our products only but our operations and ourselves as well.

Secondly, students are judged on consistency. Is the resume consistent with the application, and does the in-person interview support both? The same can apply to our day to day operations on our farms and ranches. Does what we say about our operation line up with how we actually operate on our farmers and ranches? Or is it a case of “do what I say, not what I do”? If we believe we are producing quality products, let us make sure our operations reflect that pride every day. Consistency in our industry is our best friend – consistent products, consistent operation and consistency between the two.

Finally, a good interviewee is always prepared. They have multiple copies of the required paperwork in hand, knowledge of the position and/or industry, and are prepared to give an answer to any question put to them. These practices extend far outside the job interview. For instance, when questioned about industry practices by those with no first-hand knowledge of the industry, we need to be able to give well informed, articulate answers.

Or, a familiar situation for many of us, be prepared with your request, financial information and goals when talking with your loan officer. In each instance, you, the farmer/rancher, are selling your industry, your operation, yourself and your goals and dreams, to your interviewer, whether it be the public or your loan officer. We are living in the best industry out there, agriculture.

Let’s all put our best foot forward and ensure agriculture is seen by all to be the best industry in each and every aspect and show our deserved pride in being today’s farmers and ranchers.

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Groups, food manufacturers want farmers to skip dehorning and select polled animals Milk and dairy product merchandisers are prodding producers to switch to polled breeds at the encouragement of animal welfare groups who believe dehorning to be inhumane.

In August 2014 Nestle, North America’s largest dairy producer, said it had signed an agreement with the non-governmental organization World Animal Protection requiring the Swiss company to adopt guidelines that “seek to minimize pain for farm animals by using veterinary practices that reduce pain, or avoiding the practices in the first place by different animal husbandry practices. An example would be the dehorning of cows.”

More recently General Mills, which makes Haagen-Dazs ice cream and Yoplait yogurt, adopted a new animal welfare policy that states, “General Mills supports the use of polled genetics breeding programs to promote polled or naturally hornless cattle, thereby eliminating the need for dehorning.”

In a 2013 study, researchers from Purdue University concluded selection of polled cattle presented no additional expense compared to dehorning. The scientists estimated the cost of dehorning at $7 per animal and of selecting semen from a bull without horns at an additional $8. Factoring in the additional cost of treating a calf after dehorning and running a computer simulation, they concluded a producer could spend an additional $7.50 per head for polled genetics and still break even.

Dr. Scott Poock, a University of Missouri Extension veterinarian who was raised on a dairy farm and told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor he is passionate on this issue.

He said when cattle were dehorned when he started in private practice 28 years ago.

“We didn’t do much for analgesia or pain control when I left practice,” Poock said.

“Most guys had turned to dehorning calves when they’re much younger, and providing some kind of analgesia or local anesthetic to decrease the pain.”

He said the university has some polled cattle in its herd, and there are more polled bulls in AI tests.

“It will take time to get all polled cattle,” Poock said.

Although the polled gene is dominant, if a calf carries the horned, recessive gene, even if it’s bred to a heterozygous polled bull and 25 percent of its offspring, will be

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horned. Therefore, even as the herd is bred for the polled trait, there will still be some need for dehorning.

Producers dehorn cattle to minimize injury or trauma to other cattle, Dr. Jeremy Powell, University of Arkansas Extension veterinarian, told OF&N. “When they’re eating out of a feed bunk all their heads are together, and cattle will inherently push and shove on one another in that situation because they’re aggressive for the feed that’s in the bunk,” he said, adding it’s also for the safety of workers.

Powell said one method that involves minimal trauma is the use of a caustic paste that’s applied to the horn bud. “It causes the tissue to necrose around the base of the horn; the horn falls off, and the tissue scabs over and is fine,” he explained.

The calf cannot be exposed to rain or allowed near other animals for six hours, and the paste cannot be used in calves over 8 weeks of age. Other, more traditional methods include the use of a hot iron to cauterize the cells around the base of the horn, or cutting off the horn using a “scoop dehorners.”

“There is going to be some trauma involved in that, because you’re removing a piece of skin and the horn from the calf’s head, so you have to be careful with how you do it and also concerned with flies,” Powell said. “There are steps you can take to minimize secondary infection.”

Movement toward polled dairy cattle has been gradual.

“I get a few people calling for them, but the genetics are not there with the rest of them,” Joe McClellan, a Willow Springs, Mo. dairy producer, told OFN. McClellan milks polled Holsteins along with registered dairy cattle from other breeds, and also occasionally sells breeding stock. He said while there are bulls that can match horned production, the bulls overall do not rate as well on the American Holstein Association’s Total Performance Index (TPI) chart, which measures such variables as feed efficiency, somatic cell counts, the calving ease of daughters and the fertility index.

However, McClellan said, the polled Holsteins “are fast catching up, because the good ones are worth some money,” and added anecdotally – based on what his wife and 7 year old daughter say – they’re of easier temperament.

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Using Supplemental Gain

By Gary Digiusepee

The protein and energy needs of a dairy cow are greater than beef cows Extension scientists told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor supplemental grain can be crucial to a dairy cow’s production and reproduction, and successful operation of a strictly forage based herd can be very difficult.

Dr. Shane Gadberry, University of Arkansas Extension cattle nutrition expert, noted both the protein and energy needs of a dairy cow are greater than those of a beef cow.

“If we’re talking about trying to have a herd that’s managed without grain, then we’re assuming that all of our management inputs are going to go into pasture management, so we really have to focus on good, year round forage supply,” Gadberry said. “That, in some situations, can be a challenge. In the fall and the spring we’re fairly capable of producing some very high qualities of forages that are complementary to very good levels of milk production from our dairy cows. However, during the wintertime there’s often a two to three month lag where we’re going to be feeding conserved forages, even in that grazing situation, and most often the conserved forages are going to be of lesser quality than grazed forage.”

Feeding that forage without supplementation would lead to reduced dairy production, as well as a decrease in the cow’s body condition score. Gadberry said he gets calls from dairy producers who are worried about reduced milk output and want to have their feed concentrate tested, but haven’t examined their forages.

“Quality of forages, not only between farms but within a farm, can vary substantially from year to year,” he said.

“Understanding the nutrient composition of forages and being able to manage those for maximum quality in both the grazed and the conserved situation becomes very important.”

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In addition, during the late summer the nutritional quality of perennial, warmseason grasses will start to decline, and if drought is present the producer may also have to rely upon conserved forages. Even if those are of relatively high energy content, such as corn silage, they will be lower in protein. Gadberry recommends complementing them with a legume forage.

“It’s not to say it can’t be done,” he concluded. “There are always some grazing dairies that try to minimize, or stay completely away from grains. It’s possible, but in a situation where you’re trying to maximize yield and cost of production, I would say, would be very difficult to be 100 percent free of any grain feeding.”

Reagan Bluel, University of Missouri Extension dairy specialist in Barry County, Mo., said at best there are opportunities during the year when the forage is meeting the demands of lactation.

“If you’re an effective forage manager, you can have a window of the year where the forage is of such high quality that very minimal quantities of grain are required,” she told OFN. “But that’s so infrequent throughout the year that I don’t know that I want to make that sort of recommendation.”

One seeming exception would be seasonal dairies, which Bluel said are growing in popularity.

“They will calve every animal in February, and then they will dry every animal in December, so from December until they begin calving in February they will stop producing milk,” she said. Those dairies have timed their operations to be in peak lactation when the forage is of highest quality.

“Even those seasonal pasture-based dairies do feed a very small quantity of grain during the spring flush, and that tends to be when the forage quality is the highest.

Milk production is less, but in that seasonal mentality you’re not expecting her to breed back until much later in lactation.”

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The basic premise – infusing the cow’s teats with antibiotics – was widely adopted in the 1970s and 1980s, and the more recent practice of plugging the teats to block invasive pathogens has caught on in the last 15 to 20 years.

“It made a dramatic impact on the mastitis rates of commercial herds; it can drop the rate of new infection at the dry treating time by 20 percent or more. It’s a really effective way to prevent new infections and eliminate old infections that occurred during that lactation,” Dr. Sarah Place, assistant professor of sustainable beef cattle systems at Oklahoma State University, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor.

Place said a cow’s mammary glands restructure during the “dry time” and the backup of milk causes the secretory cells to die.

“It takes about 36 hours after the last milking for that process to happen so if you’re going to give that cow treatment, you’re going to infuse antibiotics into the mammary gland at that last milking,” Place said. “It tends to be a twopurpose, broad spectrum antibiotic to try to kill all those pathogens to prevent new infections, because as that milk is building up it can leak out from the teat ends and if the teat ends are open, that can allow pathogens to get in there.”

To prevent that, some producers use teat sealing products that are infused into the teat ends after the antibiotics have been applied. This creates a physical barrier between the teat end and the rest of the mammary gland, and prevents new infections during the dry period.

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“We can look at the level of subclinical mastitis as indicated by somatic cell counts, and determine if we can use a different approach through investigating the different organisms that are in the quarter and treating appropriately,” Bluel told OFN. “But as most studies indicate, if the decision is based exclusively on economics, you have to consider that treating every quarter of every cow would be preferable.”

Another alternative is the use of the teat sealant without applying antibiotics.

“The teat sealant’s goal is to work with or replace the natural keratin plug that is known to block the teat canal, and seal it off during the dry cow period,” Bluel explained. “Different products are in the marketplace; most of them have a paraffin wax as their predominant ingredient, and those internal sealant infusions can be very helpful in cows that are identified as low-risk, or having no infection in the gland, as an effective way to minimize the chance of new intramammary infections from forming.”

Bluel recommended that producers consult with Extension personnel or a veterinarian before moving to selective dry cow therapy.

“If you miss one of the infections in a quarter, the dry cow period or window can be hard for the cattle because the actual, physical act of milking, that forcing mechanism, is very helpful to prevent the intramammary infection from getting worse,” she said. “When we stop milking that cow during the dry cow window, that can increase the prevalence of that pathogen in the mammary gland and can create issues for the subsequent lactation. So you need to make sure, not only through low somatic cell indications but also through considering on-farm monitoring of different organisms, that these cows are truly free of mastitis when they go dry.”

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Don’t Stress

By Klaire Howerton

Understanding the impact of heat stress on dairy cows, how to keep them cool As any farmer, rancher or stockman knows, when temperatures rise in the summer months, so does the risk of a heat stressed herd.

Heat stress can be costly – it can cause a loss of money stemming from production decline, sick animals that need treated, and, in extreme cases, the death of an animal. If you are a producer with a herd of dairy cows heading into a long, hot summer, you will want to know what heat stress is, what the warning signs are, and how you can alleviate this problem on your farm.

What Is Heat Stress?

Heat stress, according to an article by the Better Health Channel, occurs when the body cannot cool itself enough to maintain a healthy temperature. This can lead to problems such as heat rash, heat cramps, dizziness or fainting, heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Overexposure to hot, humid conditions or being in cramped quarters on a hot day with poor ventilation can cause heat stress in dairy cattle.

Dairy cattle are not equipped with good biological heat reduction systems – with a reduced ability to sweat combined with the fermentation process of the rumen that produces heat, they retain a lot of warmth throughout the day.

This inefficient dissipation of heat from the body makes heat stress a real concern for the dairy herdsman.

Heat stress leads to a decline in milk production, weight loss, and a weakened immune system – but one of the biggest impacts it can have on the herd and the bottom line is a loss of fertility.

“One of the largest costs of heat stress is reduced fertility,” said Reagan Bluel, University of Missouri-Extension Regional Dairy Specialist for Southwest Missouri. Fertility is primarily compromised through early embryonic loss, she continued, and can be a direct result of

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heat stress. Humidity is often as much to blame as sheer heat – understanding the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) can help you predict the potential of heat stress on your herd.

Signs of Heat Stress

Knowing the warning signs of heat stress in dairy cattle can help you treat problems in a timely fashion. Heat stressed animals will begin to produce less milk, so monitoring your production levels closely and keeping an eye out for a decline is helpful in detecting the first signs of heat stress.

A heat stressed dairy cow will eat less, drink more, pant, urinate more frequently than normal and/or become very lethargic. Cows suffering from heat stress, Bluel noted, “often will stand more, which could have long term effects on hoof health that you might not see until early fall.”

Treating Heat Stress

Prevention is always better than a cure – so consider taking steps to reduce the risk of heat stress in your herd before the weather gets hot.

“Making sure you have provided ample shade in a clean environment with plenty of fresh air and more than enough clean water can help,” said Dawnnell Holmes of Real Farm Foods in Norwood, Mo. “Dairy cows can more than double their water intake in hot weather,” she added.

Some studies suggest increasing the density of a dairy cow’s ration to help her avoid heat stress – easing back on the fiber while still providing a balanced diet can lower the amount of heat created by digestion.

Finally, Bluel suggests investing in heat abatement tools – fans and misters are well worth the money when you consider the high costs that are associated with a heat stressed herd.

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Choosing the Right Bull

By Klaire Howerton

Selecting a bull for dairy production can ensure herd longevity In breeding any type of cattle, the bull is just as important as the cow.

This rings true for dairy animals – so if you are the caretaker of a herd of dairy cows, you want to choose your bull wisely. Making a good decision about the bull used in your breeding program can ensure longevity of your herd, and boost your profits over the long run as well – it is a win-win for everyone.

Consider Your Goals

The first step in picking a dairy bull for your herd is to clearly identify your goals for your breeding program.

“Ideally, these goals should be revisited once per year – typically when the sire summaries are released,” said Reagan Bluel, University of Missouri-Extension Regional Dairy Specialist for Southwest Missouri. Do you want to increase longevity? Boost production and maximize good production traits?

Maybe you want to improve mastitis resistance, or work on perfecting your dairy herd’s type. Or perhaps you want to use the most reliably proven dairy bull you can find.

Whatever your goals are, figuring out what the most essential objective is will help you narrow down the choices. Some of the herd goals that Bluel recommends reviewing routinely, and which would have impact on sire selection also include: success of reproduction, mammary traits, feet and legs.

Selecting Your Bull

After identifying your herd goals, the next item on your agenda will be picking out the right bull. Whether you plan to artificially inseminate (AI), or purchase or bring in a bull for natural cover, be sure you are working with reputable facilities. Your choice of dairy bull needs to be well cared for and in optimum condition in order to have a sucJUNE 8, 2015

cessful breeding season. Dawnnell Holmes of Real Farm Foods in Norwood, Mo., encourages people to look at the “masculinity” of the bull – she notes that “thick neck, square shoulders, deep girth and the actual shape of the testicles will produce a cow better suited for milking on foraging alone.”

There are certainly pros and cons to natural cover breeding or utalizing AI. For example, a big benefit to choosing AI is that you have a number of superior sires that are available to you – this gene pool is not limited by transporting and housing a breeding bull, or restricted availability of a particular bull during the breeding season.

According to an article by TNAU Agritech, “In artificial insemination the germplasm of the bulls of superior quality can be effectively utilized with the least regard for their location in far-away places.”

AI can also help limit inbreeding in dairy herds, and gives you the option of matching a particular cow to a particular bull.

“Sire selection prior to breeding is a tried and true way to improve the genetic progress in your herd,” Bluel said. Downsides to AI, however, include extra cost for equipment and the need for trained to administer the semen.

If you decide to select a dairy bull and let him naturally cover your herd, it can be far less labor intensive. The costs are generally cheaper and there is less risk involved – but you will likely have a longer calving season, and you also must foot the bill of feeding and housing the bull.

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After calving season, you will want to evaluate your choice of bull, and look at his results and whether or not they lined up with your breeding program goals.

Continuing to refine your program and your herd every year will lead to long term success in the dairy business.

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

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Fencing

Dogs For Sale

BIRD DOGS

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Kevin Coffman • Lebanon, MO

417-718-1639

Fertilizer

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6/8/15

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If you are thinking about having an auction, just give me a call and I will be happy to meet with you.

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Hatcheries

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Livestock Equipment

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MANUFACTURING

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8/31/15

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208-880-2889

6/8/15

417-322-4711

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515-771-6036

Call Wes at

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3/28/16

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The Horseman’s Horses &Horse Tack Source

Bought & Sold Daily

Lesson Program USPC Licensed Riding Center

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jobs easier

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1-888-816-6707

Box 385, Strong City, KS 66869

College of the Ozarks

HEREFORD PRODUCTION SALE

November 28, 2015 Point Lookout, MO Tammy Holder (417)342-0871

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• 85 hp, Zetor, cab & air, power shift, nice, low hours • 8 ft. 3 pt. Howse brush hog

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Quality Lumber, Ties and Timbers

14 GA., 2 3/8” Pipe & 5/8” Sucker Rod Starting at .. $3,565

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Real Estate Auction Friday • June 12 • 5 p.m. • 507 S. Wellington • Richmond, Mo. Estate of Elizabeth J. Haymes Business Liquidation / Personal Property Auction Saturday • June 13 • 10 a.m. • 1137 Lon Ln. • Bolivar, Mo. Lonnie & Mary Hagedorn, owners Dallas County Land Auction 300 +/- Acres offered in Tracts • Friday • June 19 • 6 p.m.

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DR. ZACK PHILLIPS, DVM

AM283S 9 ft. disc mower

417-840-6186

P.O. Box 346 Clever, MO 65631

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Darren Loula, DVM Joe Evans, DVM

417-743-2287

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5/9/16

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