Cattle Out Front with Outfront Cattle Services by SHARON NIEDERMAN
D
ennis Adams, head of Outfront Cattle Service Professional Charolais Sales Management, remembers his first encounter with the breed he now promotes all over the country. “We got our first Charolais in 1962,” he recalls. They were half Charolais and half Angus heifers out of Texas.” A neighbor
had seen them at the Houston Livestock Show and thought the breed looked promising. “I was starting FFA at San Jon High School, in San Jon, NM” he says. From the tender age of 15, he was hooked. With the encouragement of his family and a neighbor, Frankie Flint, who was “big in the
Angus field and a pioneer in performance testing and carcass evaluations, really, a foundation Angus breeder,” he learned enough so that he started testing bulls at Tucumcari. The Adams bought some purebred Charolais cows that produced the first Charolais to win the bull test, with the highest weight gain. “He later became
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