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President Elaine Monaghan Flatonia, Texas 512-293-0421

Vice President Dr. Richard Gingles Long Beach, Mississippi 228-864-4339

Director John Banken Bridge City, Texas 409-338-8610

Director Keith Colteryahn Whitesboro, Texas 940-443-1634

Director Aryon McGuire Grayson, Lousiana 318-376-1161

Director Sean Rogers Iowa, Lousiana 337-912-9557

Secretary Eddie Benoit Lacassine, Lousiana 337-794-1343

Director Ron Jones Lexington, Texas 512-940-0332

Director Michael Sander Weslaco, Texas 956-968-9650

Treasurer Ken Peterson Spicewood, Texas 512-423-0125

Director Ryan King Cameron, Lousiana 337-309-2882

Director Kurt Trammell Gonzales, Texas 830-857-4943

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American Red Brangus Association 3995 E. Hwy. 290 Dripping Springs, TX 78620 512-858-7285 arba@texas.net Office hours Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (CST)

americanredbrangus.org OFFICE MANAGER Michele Hanson 512-858-7285 RECORDS DEPARTMENT: American Red Brangus 11500 N Ambassador Dr., Ste 410 Kansas City, MO 64153 816-595-2444

I nside Cover: Working for the Breed 2 President’s Message 2 Calendar of Events 4 Letter from Chris Shivers 6 Mike Levi and the Red Brangus Breed

By Mike Levi 12 Membership Application

MEMBERSHIP Active-$75/year Associate-$75/year Junior Active-$75/year Junior Membership-$30/year

13 Red Brangus Improve Your Bottom Line

ARBA OFFICERS: President: Elaine Monaghan Vice President: Dr. Richard Gingles Secretary: Eddie Beniot Treasurer: Ken Peterson

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ARBA DIRECTORS John Banken Keith Colteryahn Ron Jones Ryan King Aryon McGuire Sean Rogers Michael Sander Kurt Trammell Statements of fact and opinion in this publication, including editorial and advertisements, are the responsibility of the authors and advertisers alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the magazine staff, officers or members of the American Red Brangus Association.

POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: American Red Brangus Journal 3995 E. Hwy. 290 Dripping Springs, TX 78620

Inside This Issue:

Cover photo: ARBA

16 ARBA 2018 Directory

Index of Advertisers: ARBA Sale - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 Bayou Frais- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11 Double W Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 Joy Hill Farms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11 Paleface Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 14–15 Precision Guesswork Cattle Co. - - - - - - - - - - - IBC R2 Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5 Red Brangus, The Commercial Choice - - - - - - BC Red Oak Farms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IBC Siphorien Bayou Ranch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 23 Southern Star Ranch- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 23 Sunbelt Red Brangus Breeders Organization - - 22 Vogel Farms - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5

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President’s Message

Emotions As I write this I’m feeling so many emotions, happy, sad, excited and thankful.

EXCITED

Show. The kids had a blast and the animals were outstanding.

Roger Smith did a great job putting the show together.

Congratulations to all. Thank you to all sponsors, parents, grandparents, friends and teachers for making the show possible.

At our Board of Directors meeting in June, Elaine Monaghan, ARBA president we unanimously voted to hire Chris Shivers of Infinity Cattle Services. Chris will be collecting data on the sale bulls that are in the feed test and ranking them. Chris will also be assisting with other projects to improve our data on EPD’s, carcass data and promotions.

Please read his bio in this issue. Come meet Chris at the Annual Meeting and Sale and listen to his educational seminar.

I’m also happy to report attending the Texas Southwestern Cattle Raiser’s and the Independent Cattleman’s Association conventions was successful. We had a lot of interested folks that will be receiving a catalog to the Annual Sale, and our Fall Journal. Thank you to Ken Peterson and Michele Hanson for helping man the booth.

Our Third Annual Sale and Annual Meeting will be held September 21st & 22nd in Bastrop, Texas. Our Annual Meeting will be on Friday September 21st at 5:00 p.m. An educational seminar will be presented by Chris Shivers at 6:00 p.m., with a dinner following. The Sale will be Saturday September 22nd.

Please check out the ad for sale and hotel information.

HAPPY

I’m happy to report we had another awesome National Junior

SAD On April 26th we lost one of the greatest men I have ever known, Mike Levi. Mike was an inspiration and great friend to many of us. Kind, caring, intelligent generous, funny a true cattleman, and hero are just a few of the words that describe Mike. Mike will be truly missed.

THANKFUL Our Association is on sound financial ground. We have Michele Hanson, Office Manager, that does an outstanding job for all of us and we have great members. Thank you to all Board Members, Committee Chairmen and volunteers, you make serving as your President a pleasure.

See you in September Elaine Monaghan

Calendar of Events 2018 September 21 September 22 October 12

2019 January 30–February 1 February 7–11 February 12–15 February 25 February 27 March 6 March 7 March 7–17 March 29–31 June 5–9 June 19–21

Around the ARBA Office…

American Red Brangus Association Annual Meeting, Bastrop, TX American Red Brangus Sale, Hills Prairie Auction, Bastrop, TX State Fair of Texas, Red Brangus Show, Dallas, TX

NCBA Convention & Trade Show, New Orleans, LA San Antonio Open Breeding Cattle Shows San Antonio Junior Breeding Heifer Shows Houston American Red Brangus Open Show Move In Houston American Red Brangus Open Show Houston Junior Red Brangus Show Move in Houston Junior Red Brangus Show Rio Grande Valley Livestock Show TSCR Convention & Expo, Fort Worth, TX American Junior Red Brangus Association National Show, Bryan, TX Independent Cattleman’s Association of TX Convention & Trade Show, San Marcos, TX

To add more events please call the Dripping Springs office at 512-858-7285.

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Michele Hanson is the ARBA office manager. She handles the day-to-day operations of the association. Feel free to call her if you have any questions. Michele can be reached at 512-858-7285 or by email at arba@texas.net.

Office hours at the Dripping Springs office are Monday‑Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (CST).

ARBA has two locations. Following is contact information and what happens at each location:

Dripping Springs Office:

Kansas City Location:

American Red Brangus 3995 East Hwy 290 Dripping Springs, TX 78620 512-858-7285

American Red Brangus 11500 NW Ambassador Dr. Ste 410 Kansas City, MO 64153 816-595-2444

• Advertising/Public Relations

• Registrations

• Member Services

• Transfers

• Convention/Annual Meetings/ Board Meetings

• Duplicate Certificates

• Ballots for Board of Directors

• Whole Herd Billing

• National Junior Show

• Whole Herd Payments

• Scholarships

• Processing New Members

• Mail out Inquire Packets • Budgeting • Magazine

• DNA/Blood Typing Records

AMERICAN RED BR ANGUS

ANNUAL SALE Selling the Best the Industry has to Offer!

Saturday, September 22, 2018 1 PM

Hills Prairie Livestock Facility, 1177 Hwy. 304 S, Bastrop, TX 78602

ACCOMMODATIONS: Best Western Bastrop Lost Pines 107 Hunters Crossing Bastrop, TX 78602 512-321-0900

Performance Tested Bulls Cow/Calf Pairs & 3-N-1’s Bred Heifers Open Heifers

Auctioneer/Sale Manager: 210-415-0888

SALE SCHEDULE: 8 a.m. — Coffee, donuts and cattle viewing 11:30 a.m. — Lunch 1 p.m. — Sale

Information: ARBA Office Michele Hanson 512-858-7285

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Hello American Red Brangus Breeders: My name is Chris Shivers, owner of Infinity Cattle Services and Executive Director of the Texas Association of Fairs & Events. Infinity Cattle Services is a unique, vision driven, service oriented company committed to developing successful revenue producing cattle operations.

I hope that each of you are doing well and receiving the proper amount of rain. In Texas we were preparing for what looked to be a dry Summer. Fortunately a few weeks ago the rains started and the pastures have greened up and might even be ready for a cutting of hay in the near future. With the record temperatures and drier conditions the role of the American Red Brangus has even become more important. Science has proved that your cattle with the added Brahman content, red hide and added heterosis excel in the Southern climates. It is time that you let the industry know what you have to offer.

Your Board of Directors met and have developed an extremely aggressive plan to improve and promote the American Red Brangus Breed. Among other things they approved a proposal to utilize my company Infinity Cattle Services. Some of you may know me from my days as Executive Vice President of the American Brahman Breeders Association as well as a judge of your cattle at both the National Junior Show and in Houston. Prior to founding Infinity Cattle Services in 2017 I served as the Executive Vice President of the American Brahman Breeders Association for 13 years. During my tenure at ABBA I facilitated programs to make the association more proactive and visible within the global beef industry as well as improve the association’s efficiency.

Under my leadership the ABBA saw an increase in registrations, memberships, revenue and an increased prominence in the beef industry. From 2000 – 2004 I served ABBA as the Director of Association Services/Youth overseeing the American Junior Brahman Association, the associations performance and research projects, the F-1 Certification Program and facilitating its shows and special activities. I have served as the Secretary of the American Breeds Coalition, President of the US Beef Breeds Council, on the Beef Improvement Federation Board of Directors and recognized by several organizations for my leadership and dedication to the beef industry.

I am a native of Mississippi where I grew up on a small diversified farm and was involved in 4-H, FFA and the Mississippi Junior Cattlemen’s Association. In 1999 I graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in Agricultural & Extension Education. My wife Kasey and I currently reside in Houston TX. The board will utilize my expertise to develop breed improvement programs, liaison with ABRI to develop new EPD traits, and assist with your convention and sale. To start this process and to better understand your needs a survey will be sent out to the ARBA Membership in the near future. I encourage you to take time to complete this survey as this information will be utilized to better meet your needs. The board of directors also wants to place an emphasis on the collection of carcass data. This data will be collected via ultrasound on your test bulls and through harvest data on purebred Red Brangus steers that are entered into a feeding competition. Be looking for information on both of these programs in the coming months so that you can be sure to save some animals back to participate. I look forward to us meeting and you hearing my plans to help move the breed forward. I will be attending the Annual Meeting and giving a presentation on the ARBA Performance Programs and how they can be used. I along with the Board of Directors are extremely excited about the future of the American Red Brangus breed and hope that you will join us at the convention and get involved.

I hope to see everyone on September 21 at the Annual meeting and the 22nd for the Sale. As you can see the American Red Brangus Breed is going places and we want you to be there with us!

Chris Shivers

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Mike Levi and the Red Brangus Breed

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hen people think Red Brangus, one certain name and ranch comes to mind, Mike Levi of Paleface Ranch. Mike had a dream of producing the finest cattle in the United States and watching those cattle go worldwide.

Mike along with his father Malcom developed the Red Brangus breed. The Red Brangus breed was developed to produce seedstock that would work exceptionally well in the commercial cattle industry. The emphasis is on performance and growth, not show. Officially, the breed dates to 1946 when Malcolm Levi of the Paleface Ranch crossed superior cattle of purebred Brahman and Angus breeds and then interbred these crosses. The American Red Brangus Association, chartered in 1956, Mike Levi was one of the original 9 Charter Members of the ARBA. Mike and his father and seven others formed the American Red Brangus Association in 1959 during a meeting at Paleface Ranch. Mike served as the organization’s first president and remained on the board of director’s years later. He served as President of the Association in 1959, 1960, 1961 and again in 1981 and 1982 Mike raised a lot of good cattle and sent them all over the world. They have done well wherever they’ve gone, and Mike is very proud of that. It has been very interesting to be intimately involved in the development of a breed of cattle and being with it for the whole time.

Paleface Ranch, Home of Red Brangus is on the east side of Highway 71 near the Pedernales River has both literal and historical value. Malcolm Sr. shared ownership of Paleface Ranch with Mike and with Mike’s sister, Jocelyn. The “Paleface” name came from the white-face Hereford that were already on the ranch.

Mike was an awesome cattleman and a great friend. He was the type of cattleman many would want to be, and it was very amazing how he was basically self-taught about cattle breeding and ranching, and was always willing to listen, learn and teach to all he met. Below are a few pages of his memories that was being written at the time of his passing.

Mike was “The Red Brangus” but he was so much more.

Larry Anderson

Mike’s Story, In Mike’s Words

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have in mind to give you a little background on the family, because it’s a little unusual for people of our background to get in the cattle business the way we did.

I was born in Pennsylvania, and both sides of our family were from there. My father was in a family business, the Liberty Throwing Co., which was in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, My father was and made yarn out of raw silk. They a very unique subsequently used other materials, but at individual. the time that’s what it was. He was in that business with my Uncle Charles Epstein (my father’s sister’s husband). At some point—and I’m not sure when—my dad decided he didn’t want to stay in that business, so he sold out to my uncle.

But while he was in the business, he moved our family was trying to figure out where he wanted to live. We lived for to Long Island. I think the business had an office in New York. a few months in Spokane, Washington; we lived for the better I was 5 maybe, and I started school on Long Island and went to part of a year in Phoenix, Arizona; and when we left Phoenix, school there for the first, second and third grades.

My father was a very unique individual. He was very smart. In we moved to San Antonio, Texas. I had been in school for three years; my sister hadn’t started yet. He rented a house in San the crash of 1929, he actually made money in the stock market, Antonio for a year and decided that’s where we were going to and always had an interest in it. He decided that he didn’t like live. [Then he found] a place with 1,280 acres about 20 miles the (silk) business, so we spent several years traveling while he 6

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north of San Antonio that had a house on it. He bought that during that first year, 1936, and so we moved out there. The little town closest to where we lived was Bulverde. So we went to private school in San Antonio; I went to Texas Military Institute and my sister Jocelyn (Straus) went to St. Mary’s Hall.

Jocelyn still lives in San Antonio. Her husband Joe is a wellknown businessman. They were involved in the Straus-Frank business, which was a wholesale distributor of a number of products over much of South Texas. Then he became involved in horseracing. His father owned racehorses and had some good ones. Joe Straus is still involved in Retama horseracing.

Joe Straus Jr., my nephew, is the Speaker of the House in Texas.

He’s not running again, though; he’s been there five years. A lot of people think, and I happen to think so too, that he was kind of the intelligent voice in Republican politics in San Antonio.

He was unpopular with the far right and decided to go back into private business.

There was some cattle on this ranch that my father bought, some Brahmin cross cattle, but he decided that since Joe Straus Sr. had a ranch of Hereford cattle, that was what he was going to raise, too. So we called our ranch Paleface Ranch, after the Hereford cattle. And after a year of that, in 1937, he cross-bred cattle in the back pasture. We had cattle in that back pasture that weighed a hundred pounds more than the registered Herefords in the front pasture. So he He started out could see immediately the developing a advantage in cross-breeding.

That got him interested in registered pursuing it in an intelligent Brahman herd. way, by using good blood on both sides and seeing what he could produce. He started out developing a registered Brahman herd. So he bred Hereford shorthorn and Angus cows to Brahman bulls he had raised. And then he contracted the calves back and raised all three crosses to see which ones performed the best, and determined the Angus crosses were best. So he got started in what was already called the “Brangus” business.

An American Brangus Association already existed. I’ve got a couple of publications here. One is a state folder talking about the crossbreeding in Texas. We initially called our cattle “Indu-Angus,” rather than “Brangus,” because the association decided their standard would be three-eighths Brahman and five-eighths Angus, and we were raising half-blood cattle— half-Brahman, half-Angus. So we didn’t want to use the same name. We had mostly black cattle, but some turned out red.

My Dad thought there was some advantage to the red, so over a period of years we kept the reds and eventually sold the blacks.

We sold the last of the blacks in 1957, I think. But starting in the 1940s, we had both red and black Brangus cattle.

He wanted to learn as much as he could about the cattle business, and he studied genetics and when he was going to get into the Brahmin business to start with, he went around and saw lots of different people’s cattle. He also hired a guy named

Phil Griffin, who had a real background in crossbreeding cattle, as a consultant, and relied on his advice on a lot of different things. He had me spend a lot of time with Phil. I know Phil was influential on me, and he helped my father, too, in selecting good cattle and setting up a breeding program. We joined the American Brangus Association, because most of our cattle were black at that time. We tried to get the association to register our red cattle, too, but they weren’t interested.

So in 1956 or ’57 we registered the American Red Brangus Association, and decided that we would have our own, separate herd book because the black breeders weren’t interested in taking us in. That was during the drought of the ‘50s, and even though we had a charter for the organization, we didn’t activate it until 1957. We had our first organizational meeting there at our ranch. We had nine breeders. And I’ve got all their names and stuff. We decided all nine of us would be the original directors, and they elected me as president. I was 29 years old.

Dad was still in charge of running the ranch. He didn’t put me in charge until later.

I went off to college in the summer of 1946, to the University of Wyoming. Dad had a friend who was dean of the law school there. Dad hauled me up there and got me enrolled. Most of my friends went to the military service. I ended up with a degree in philosophy. Matter of fact, I spent more time in journalism.

I was news editor of the paper and active in a lot of campus life, and thought journalism was what I wanted to do. Matter of fact, I got offers from a couple of newspapers in Wyoming, and wanted to go to work up there. But Dad asked me to come home and help him in the cattle business and see if I didn’t like it better than journalism. So he directed me—where I went to school, and what I did, what I got into for real work. You know journalism never paid very much.

I graduated in 1949, and it wasn’t long before I was glad he’d made that “suggestion.” I loved the cattle ranching. He had an office in San Antonio, and I spent some time in the office, but most of the time on the ranch. I neglected to tell you that in 1938, after he had had the home ranch for a year, he decided that it wasn’t big enough, and he bought the place where I ended up living most of my life, up in Spicewood, Texas, a small town about 30 miles west of Austin. The ranch was on the Pedernales River arm of Lake Travis, so it had some waterfront, and it was a fairly large place, about 8,000 acres, and that’s really where we got our real financial start in Texas. My mother and father were divorced in 1952, and they split the ranches up.

For estate planning purposes, Dad had deeded land to my sister and to me, so my mother and father had a third, I had a third, and my sister had a third, then he leased it all back from us to make the payments. Consequently, when they divorced, she got the place outside of Bulverde, and my sister and I had equal interests with my father in the Spicewood ranch. (It was also held under the name of Paleface Ranch.)

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had been city manager, or something like that, for a while.

They got together in the cattle business and he got me to start buying some cross-bred cattle to put on this place out there in Arizona, and also to re-sell, because this guy had an associate who was supposed to be good at that. To make a long story short, he didn’t do well re-selling cattle, and within very few months, my father sent me out there. And I got there with a whole lot of calves that I had bought in the stockyard that hadn’t been sold like they should have been. What we were trying to do was develop a cross-bred herd of good quality.

So we kept the females that looked like they would work for us; I think there were about 3,000 head that I had bought, and we needed fewer than 100. So I got busy selling cattle, and fortunately the market was okay, so we didn’t lose any money, made a little, probably, and Roy Hislop got interested in our cross-bred cattle. He had a little irrigated place on Buckeye Road, and we had this place out in the desert, at Queen Creek, not very far from Phoenix. I lived in that cabin on Buckeye Road and took care of the desert place. Anyway, we established an operation out there, and then over the next couple of years, I sold quite a few cattle out in Arizona and further west. We moved registered cattle that we wanted to sell out there, so we had the registered cattle there on the irrigated place, and I got a couple of years of experience away from home. I learned a lot there, too; I got a lot of experience in the registered business and the commercial business, too.

The cattle business is primarily a commercial industry; a huge percentage of the cows in the United States are commercial, not registered. The registered business is primarily based on producing breeding stock and primarily sells bulls to commercial ranchers. It’s good to have a background in the commercial business so you know what they’re going to want. Over the period of my lifetime we developed a very successful registered operation. I think there were 25 bull sales held there at the ranch, selling bulls mostly to commercial cattle people. . .some registered breeders, too, of course, but your main market in bulls is going to commercial herds. Of course you keep the best females, then sell your other females to other registered breeders. Our herd at Spicewood was the original Red Brangus herd, and the largest and most influential herd in the breed.

My father wanted me to come home when he and my mother divorced. He gave me enough warning that we sold the registered cattle and the commercials. We shut down the operation before I left for Texas. I lived with my mother for a year or two and then I got married and moved up to the ranch.

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What I have in mind—and I’m not sure if it will work—is telling enough of my personal life [for context], but making the theme of this discourse kind of the history of the American Red Brangus breed. I think it would have more interest.

I was very influential in the development of the breed. I was elected three terms as president of the breed association, then in the 1980s I came back in and was elected a couple of more times. I stayed active on the board, in fact, up until this year. I didn’t run it, but I had a voice in it. We accomplished a lot of things as a relatively small breed. We only have 150 or so members, and that’s small compared to most cattle breed associations.

My father lived in Austin. We had a country store and barbecue and gas station—a commercial operation there—out at the ranch. It was on the highway, and a pretty successful business. My father kept that and I bought all the cattle business from him and assumed quite a bit of debt. Because with the drought, the cattle didn’t make any money, and we borrowed money to live.Like everybody else at that time, we borrowed using land or cattle as collateral; the bank preferred cattle, which were considered liquid assets, compared to the land. We would borrow on the cattle, then go to the land bank and borrow there, too. So we had significant debt, between the land and the cattle. So many of us in the cattle business were really [in financial straits]— you’re not broke because you have the land, and we didn’t borrow all the land was worth—but our cattle business was upside down. In fact we started selling land during the drought, put in several little subdivisions. We did about everything we could do to make it all work.

In 1959, when we finally activated the charter of our American Red Brangus Association, we held our first meeting at our Paleface Ranch in Spicewood, and there were nine Red Brangus breeders represented there. The nine charter members were: Harry Thompson Sr., #1; Walter Henshaw, #2; Jud G. Alexander, #3; Henry Potthast, #4; E. R. Cotulla, #5; Joe F. Perry, #6; Gus Wilhelm, #7; Braswell Locker, #8; and Malcolm Levi, #9. (Those numbers indicated their herds in the herd book.) They were all from Texas. Harry Thompson had a home in San Antonio, but most of his cattle were in South Texas.

The Henshaws lived in San Antonio, but their ranch was in South Texas, too. Jud Alexander was from Chapel Hill, toward Houston. Henry Potthast and E.R. Catulla were both from South Texas. Joe Parry was from East Texas. Wilhelm and Locker were from Central Texas, like we were. There probably

weren’t more than 400 or 500 Red Brangus in those herds altogether at the time.

We elected everyone that was there to the board of directors. Then they elected me as president. I had the time and the inclination to do the organizational work, like developing membership certificates and registration papers so that we could set up a system to register cattle.

We decided to have flexible percentages, so that our cattle could be utilized in different parts of the country. Further north, cattle with more Angus would do well, and down in the south, it took more Brahmin blood. The percentage of Brahmin and Angus varied, depending on the climate where you were. There are several reasons for registration: primarily, it has to do with the recognition of the breed and the ability to market the cattle, in other countries as well as in the U.S. If you don’t have a registration paper, you really aren’t recognized as a breed. We had to develop a herd book and write a standard of excellence that the cattle needed to adhere to in order to be recognized. We didn’t have a real organized meeting for two or three years. We had all this work to do to get ready to organize, but we didn’t have bylaws and the things in writing that we needed to open our herd book. (The herd book lists all the cattle that are registered.) So we really spent the first few years getting ready to open for business, so to speak. We probably didn’t start registering cattle until about the third year.

By this time, all my cattle were Brangus, some black and some red. There were several reasons. First of all, we thought that the Brahmin-Angus cross produced the best beef cattle of any cross. Like I told you before, we had Hereford, shorthorn and Angus crosses, and the Angus cross turned out the best. It was the uniformity of the cattle and the carcass quality was the primary difference. Now, when it comes to the red color, that’s a different issue. Red is more heat-tolerant than blacks, they attract fewer insects than blacks, and primarily they blend with most of the commercial cattle as far as color is concerned. Most of the commercial cattle in the country were Herefords, and it was a logical cross, because they’re both red, and it produces a very uniform product. The people who were breeding them had a common goal, so I don’t think anybody can take credit for “discovering” all this; it just kind of developed over time.

We grew slowly. We did a little advertising, and people would contact us and we would show them the cattle and some would decide to purchase some and raise them. But the first few years were pretty slow. [At this point, Mike was raising cattle for beef but also to sell to other ranchers to establish herds.] All breed associations are groups of people breeding a type of cattle, and even though beef quality is a very important factor, they really are organizations of people who are raising those cattle and consequently a significant portion of their sales goes to other breeders.

The process of getting recognized in the industry is also pretty slow. We (Paleface Ranch) started advertising our Red Brangus cattle in breed publications in 1960. We didn’t show many cattle in stock shows, because we thought that the stock show environment was not where the cattle were going to be used primarily. Potential buyers would come to the ranch to see the breed. You just showed them what you had and they either liked them or they didn’t. Getting a market was never really a problem. Cattle people like to go to another person’s ranch and see their cattle under range conditions, so they’ll get an idea of how those cattle will perform for them. So even thought it wasn’t fast or easy, it also was a very effective way to market cattle.

The buyers would take very few (five) to quite a few (40 or 50)—no huge numbers; we didn’t have huge numbers.

They’d develop their own herd, keep the heifers and grow the herd. There weren’t a lot of breeders with a big herd in our breed; the average breeder had 25-30 head. It’s still the same way. If you wanted to put together a 100-head herd, you’d have to go to 10 different places. They have to be raised, and that’s always been a factor in our breed; we’ve never had great numbers of cattle.

The association went through a period of growth, and it is back down in numbers today. It’s not a big breed. We probably only have 150-200 herds, and at one time when everybody was expanding and exploring new things, we probably had 600 or 800 herds. It’s kind of funny. We attracted a lot of people who weren’t really interested in expanding or growing bigger. Consequently, they didn’t market their cattle to other people much; they just kind of liked what they had. Most of the members are not big marketers. They’ve got their red cattle, they like the way the cattle perform for them, they might sell a few bulls to their neighbors, but they don’t really care about marketing the cattle as a breed. Still, there were and are herds all over the country. However, most of them are in the southern tier states. Because almost all Brahmin cattle are in the southern climates, because they do better. When you get up into the Plains and the northern part of the country, there’s little in the way of Brahmin-influenced cattle.

Nobody knows if the breed will have another growth period, become popular again. We have several compelling stories to tell about what we can offer to the industry. We (Paleface Ranch) were the first people to actually progeny test our cattle as to what they’d produce. You take a bull and breed him (usually artificially) to a bunch of cows, then you follow those calves all the way through the feedlot and the packing plant, where you actually know what the animal will produce (meaning quantity and quality of meat that you get from each cow). We were one of the first to do that in any breed, but certainly among the Brahmin breeds. In the industry, the Brahmin is not thought to produce as good a quality as the British breeds, but we Fall 2018 — American Red Brangus Journal

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proved that our cattle would produce on par with anybody else. And Paleface entered a bunch of our bulls in what was called Certified Meat Sire Program. And this was set up by the original performance organization, Performance Registry International. It was the leading performance registry and promoter in the country for years. (But later all that became dispersed into the various breed associations, because they all kind of set up their own systems.)You had to have at least 10 calves out of one bull that went through the program. At least half of them had to grade “choice.”

And an awful lot of cattle never will. You also had to have a yield grade that was satisfactory. The vast majority of cattle that will grade “choice” will have yield grades of three or four, and in this program they had to be yield grade two.

So that meant you had plenty of marbling to grade “choice,” but you also had to have a good yield grade (yield is the percentage of high-quality beef in a carcass: the lower the number, the higher the percentage of high-quality beef, so yield grade 2 would be better than yield grade 3 or 4.) So we can produce “choice” quality/yield 2 beef, and not many cattle can do that.

Theoretically, people want to know what their cattle are going to produce on the rail, and the only way you know that is the Progeny Test, but it’s very expensive. You have to raise a lot of cattle that are just going to the feedlot.

Consequently, most people don’t want to spend the money.

And just because mine would pass, doesn’t mean the next herd’s would.

At our last meeting, Mike told me he was very pleased about a foundation that the PFR had created to offer scholarships to young people who participate in the Red Brangus shows. The Association owns some land in Dripping Springs, Texas, and a coffee company has leased part of the land for a parking lot. The Association will keep some of the funds for operating purposes, and the rest will go to the foundation. Even though he was no longer working actively in the cattle business, Mike was still thinking about it, and how it could be improved, all the time.

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As I said, we (Paleface) had an annual bull sale for 25 years, and sold cattle all across the country, and it really helped the breed association. It provided national advertising for (other Red Brangus ranchers). Our annual sale became a highlight for the breed because we would bring in people from everywhere, and sell bulls to commercial cattlemen from one end of the country to the other. They would see the ads, or by word of mouth they’d hear about what we had.

In some ways the cattle business is not really that much fun. And it’s not very lucrative. You ask anybody in the business, and they’ll tell you they have as many bad years as they have good years. The biggest appeal is a way of life; if you like it, you enjoy it. And if you don’t like it, you don’t get into it, or if you do get into it, you don’t stay. What’s that “way of life?” When you wake up in the morning, you don’t have anybody to answer to except yourself. You don’t have anybody telling you what time to go to work or what to do. There’s an awful lot of people who enjoy riding a horse.

There’s not too many ways to make a living riding a horse.

So for those people it’s a way of life. They live out on a ranch, see the sun come up and go down, and enjoy listening to the sounds out there or the lack thereof; it’s just different than living in town and going to work every day. But ranching in Texas was hot and humid. It takes a unique person to like it.

Hollis Walker, who once wrote and reported for the Santa Fe New Mexican, volunteered her time to visit with Mike over a period of a month. They had a great time and Mike enjoyed educating the city girl about the ranching business. They were moving into the foundation-Mike’s wonderful contribution to the Red Brangus Association, when Mike suddenly became ill and left us. April 26, 2018. Although Mike is gone, he has left a piece of himself with everyone who ever met him. A good friend of his called recently and told me ”Mike was my hero.” He was, indeed.

Jennie Levi

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Red Brangus Improve Your Bottom Line :: DISPOSITION Temperament is an important factor in the cattle business. Red Brangus have proven to be docile and easy to handle on foot, horseback, or with a vehicle.

:: CALVING EASE Red Brangus calves hit the ground weighing 70 to 75 pounds. Of course, this varies depending on the environment. Their growth is quick, often surpassing most contemporaries.

:: HARDINESS Red Brangus have the innate ability to thrive in a variety of climates. Red Brangus are solid red and naturally heat tolerant, with resistance to diseases.

The eye pigmentation of Red Brangus virtually eliminates pinkeye and eye cancer. Reports from the feedlot operators claim that Red Brangus are healthier and hardier in the lot, resulting in faster weight gains and more profitable feeding.

:: MILKING ABILITY Commercial and registered breeders often praise the high volume of milk that Red Brangus females produce.They exhibit well formed udders and have no problem with sunburning due to their skin pigmentation. The high milking ability is even passed on to half-bloods retained as replacement females.

:: HIGH PERFORMANCE :: PREDICTABILITY Red Brangus cross well with many breeds. Most Red Brangus have earned the reputation of combinations result in maximum hybrid vigor. producing a large percentage of solid red or red Selection for high performing bloodlines can baldfaced, polled calves when mated to commercial produce an extra 100 pounds per calf.The weight cows. This creates uniformity at market time and gaining ability is exhibited through the yearling eliminates the need to spend the money and time stage. Feeders and branded beef programs such as to dehorn.

Nolan Ryan’s All Natural Tender Aged Beef seek out Red Brangus cross calves due to profitability. :: VERSATILITY Red Brangus offer both commercial and seedstock :: SIZE producers a variety of production and marketing The ability of Red Brangus to yield high weaning options. Heifer calves stand right beside their steer and yearling weights with moderate frame size is mates with tremendous post weaning performance a big bonus for cattlemen. Mature Red Brangus in the feedyard, or they can be marketed as topbulls typically weigh in at 1,800 to 2,000 pounds, notch replacement females. while females weigh 1,000 to 1,200 pounds in range condition. :: LONGEVITY :: MARKETABILITY Typically Red Brangus bulls are in service through the age of 12, while cows are still producing well Records show that Red Brangus Sired Calves beyond the age of 14. History has proven that Red continue to top national markets and commercial Brangus live and produce at least two years longer cattlemen have consistently received top dollar at than British or Continental breeds. local auctions. Packers desire the manageable size of their carcasses and consumers demand the Yield :: EARLY MATURITY Grade 2, USDA Choice carcass that Red Brangus Red Brangus bulls mature early and can go into consistently produces. Red Brangus is documented light service well before two years of age. Most as the breed yielding more Certified Meat Sires heifers can be bred at 12 to 14 months of age, than any other American breed. producing their first calves before their second birthday. Typically Red Brangus females have less than a 12-month calving interval.

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PFR Likeness ET 8/5 - 129979 8/5 was a modern bull with an exceptional pedigree. His sire, 153/1, was a progeny proven producer of high quality beef, recognized as a Certified Meat Sire, as was his grandsire, 73/1. His dam was one of our top mother cows, who produced 3 herd sires and 6 keeper heifers, before she was entered in our embryo transfer program. We are offering a few young herd sire prospects by 8/5 at our Cameron, Texas location.

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Fall 2018 Membership Directory ARBA active members listed by state followed by associate and junior members listed in alphabetical order.

Active Members

Active Members — Alabama – Arkansas – Florida – Georgia – Louisiana – Mississippi

ALABAMA 14683 Killam, Brent & Ashlynn Killam Farms 466 State Line Rd. Flomaton, AL 36441 251-296-2733 Home 251-809-4130 Cell killamfamily3@gmail.com

ARKANSAS 3024 Walker, Josh Mike Red Bud Farms P.O. Box 175 Ben Lomond, AR 71823 870-287-4329 Home 870-648-5389 Cell jowalker@arkansas.net 692 Whiting, Tom D. & Martha Best Creek Ranch 11980 Best Creek Rd. Rogers, AR 72756 479-530-2731 Home

FLORIDA 840 Marvel, Daniel & Sandra Marvel Farms 28616 N.W. 142 Ave. High Springs, FL 32643 386-454-3488 Home 352-226-0537 Cell dmarvel@acpafl.org

GEORGIA 14665 Milligan, John Lynn & Timothy Silas Allen Farms Inc 5041 Stanfield Road Patterson, GA 31557 352-317-3838 lynnde@cox.net

LOUISIANA 2595 Barron, Jack & Beverly Siphorien Bayou Ranch 138 Barron Pvt. Dr. Mansfield, LA 71052 318-871-2855 Home/Ranch 318-393-7543 Cell jebbsb@yahoo.com

2887 Benoit, Eddie CMC Farms P.O. Box 154 Lacassine, LA 70650 337-794-1507 Home 337-794-1343 Cell peggybenoit18@gmail.com

13348 King, Ryan & Courtnie Happy Ridge Red Brangus 214 Leonce Nunez Ln Cameron, LA 70631 337-309-2882 Cell 337-912-9860 Cell courtnieking@gmail.com

13614 Suire, Corey & Shannon Suire Farm 17139 LA Hwy. 35 Abbeville, LA 70510 337-643-2509 Home 337-652-8507 Cell csuire@kaplantel.net

2888 Benoit, Kent Anthony K&K Farms P.O. Box 9 Le Blanc, LA 70651 337-542-4834 Home 337-274-6943 Ranch 985-714-0543 Office lynhiggi@cox.net

14359 Lasiter, James & Karey 461 Crouch Rd Benton, LA 318-617-7219 jlasiterdmv@gmail.com

14557 Vercher, Don and Kayron Vercher Cattle Co 3217 Newman Lane Shreveport, LA 71119 318-297-4000 Cell

10748 Benoit, Kris Funky Farms P.O. Box 9 Le Blanc, LA 70651 337-334-6706 Cell 337-278-8809 Cell kkfarms@camtel.net

14410 Lee Jr,DVM, Stephen Circle Lee Farms 21608 Turkey Creek Dr. Baton Rouge, LA 70817 225-571-8713 Cell stephenlee12@hotmail.com

14554 Benoit, Lynette H P.O. Box 9 LeBlanc, LA 70651

14162 McGuire, H. Aryon & Cathy Joy Hill Farms 370 Hillman Rd. Grayson, LA 71435 318-649-5583 Ranch 318-376-1161 Cell aryonmcguire44@att.net

14413 Graham, Whitney Yellow Rose Cattle Co 24543 Hwy 10 Kentwood, LA 70444 985-517-4387 Cell 42023@bears.smcc.edu

14608 Pennebaker, Todd Pennebaker’s Farm 48 Carson Rd. Delhi, LA 71232 318-614-7758 Cell jjpennebaker@angus.com

13697 Huckaby, Monty Huckaby Ranch 458 Family Rd. Jonesboro, LA 71251 318-249-8679 Home 318-248-8687Cell mhuckaby51@gmail.com

13711 Porterfield, Mike & Jackie Five Oaks Red Brangus 1767 Hauser Rd. Deridder, LA 70634 337-396-3767 Cell mikesherd@hotmail.com

14588 Jones, Huel and Christie True Vine Cattle Co 238 Don Lane Mansfield, LA 71052 318-471-4279 Cell truevinenursery@gmail.com

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13889 Rogers, Sean & Stephanie Rogers Reds 6405 Earl Daughenbaugh Rd. Iowa, LA 70647 337-912-9557 Ranch pouldeau1@gmail.com

MISSISSIPPI 14250 Benoit, Wade & Heather M&M Farms 3 Lake Michael Lane Poplarville, MS 39470 601-795-8833 Home 601-466-8484 Cell whb793@mymedia3.com 12858 Craig, John & Becci C-Curb Farm 1336 Dora Rd. Brooksville, MS 39739 662-272-5030 Ranch 662-295-5570 Office/Cell jcraig@southernionics.com 1343889 Craig, Jacob C-Curb Farm 1336 Dora Rd. Brooksviile, MS 39739 662-272-5030 Ranch 662-295-5570 Cell jcraig@southernionics.com 10510 Gingles, Grace & Houston Bayou Frais Red Brangus 6420 Beatline Rd. Long Beach, MS 39560 228-864-4339 Home 228-341-5026 Cell gbwgingles@cableone.net 2985 Gingles, Richard B. Bayou Frais Red Brangus 6420 Beatline Rd. Long Beach, MS 39560 228-863-8490 Office 228 864-4339 Home 228-209-8490 Cell gbwgingles@cableone.net

2876 McWilliams, Greg and Angie McWilliams Enterprise Inc 903 Airport Rd Magee, MS 39111 601-259-0415 Cell Missouri

2072 Richardet, Mike & Lottes, Bob 1212 P.C.R. 804 Perryville, MO 63775 575-547-2043 Home 573-513-2087 Cell robyn@rolletbros.com

NEW MEXICO 108 Hille, Rod Rod Ranch HC 32 Box 79 Truth or Consequences, NM 87901 575-894-7983 Home 575-740-1068 Cell rodhille@gmail.com

OKLAHOMA 2220 Branscum, Dwight & Ranallo Branscum, Melanie Branscum Ranch 8005 Boneta Trail Austin, TX 78729-7629 918-423-1384 Home 512-748-2661 Cell andrewranallo90@gmail.com Branscumranch.com 14606 Compher, Rebecca & Emberton, Mike M-R Cattle 14919 S. Hwy.377 Madill, OK 73446 303-330-8182 Cell cr.25horses@yahoo.com 1377 Riggs, Herbert & Melinda Riggs Mountain Ranch P.O. Box 987 Sallisaw, OK 74955 918-775-6304 Ranch 918 775 1430 Cell c21riggs@aol.com

483 McCord, John D. Tollgate Farms 1186 Roy Sellers Rd. Columbia, TN 38401 931-388-6710 Home 931-797-6494 Cell Jdmccord1@charter.net

TEXAS 11669 Acord, Damon Broken A Ranch 6316 Hwy. 75 South Madisonville, TX 77864 936-348-5980 Home 936-348-9797 Cell brokenaranch@hotmail.com 12704 Atkinson, Charles, Sue, Charlott & Daniel Bar C Bar Red Brangus 6017 FM 1301 Rd. Wharton, TX 77488 979-532-8366 Home 979-559-6021 Office charles.barcbarcattle@gmail.com 2425 Banken, John W. Red Oak Farms 1205 Dogwood Bridge City, TX 77611 409-735-2389 Home/Fax 409-338-8610 Cell 523 Bell, Hubert Jr. Bell Farms 170 Beaver Road Elgin, TX 78621 512-281-5657 Home 512-913-2042 Cell bellhjr@aol.com 14468 Billings, Mark & Carolyn Salt Branch/Partridge Cattle 7085 N State Hwy 80 Nixon, TX 78140 830-534-4302 Cell 830-424-3718 Home ckaybillings@gmail.com 14609 Boger, Ryan & Emily 5479 CR 817 Nacogdoches, TX 75964 903-948-7498 Home emily.boger@yahoo.com 14455 Bostick, Stephanie 1110 CR 134 Brownwood, TX 76801 325-642-4444 Cell bosticksl@yahoo.com

11200 Brister, M.C. & Janet MC’s Red Brangus 1301 Cantrell Sanson Rd. Ft. Worth, TX 76131 817-306-9336 Home 817-914-2620 Cell

12822 Elliott III, James Tuna Rosa Ranch P.O. Box 825 Gonzales, TX 78629 830-857-4943 Cell ktrammell@outlook.com

1343839 Bull, Reagan Tripple B Cattle Co 32519 Rangerville Rd. San Benito, TX 78586 956-535-2271 Cell aggie4vida85@yahoo.com

645 Fernandez, Alberto T. Cuatro Milpas Ranches 2700 West FM 140 Jourdanton, TX 78026 210-488-7983 Cell 830-264-3145 Ranch albesa5@yahoo.com

13554 C Bar M Ranch LP 11418 Shadow Way St. Houston, TX 77024 713-461-4768 Home 830-683-2538 Ranch 713-206-7853 Cell mpmoore@aol.com

2644 Fischer, John & Mandy Trademark Genetics 28115 Clarke Bottom Rd. Hempstead, TX 77445 281-599-8646 Home 713-204-7525 Cell 832-622-1923 Office nthepurple@gmail.com

392 Cantu, Raul V. & Mary G. Cantu Ranch 3255 PFC Pedro Martinz Rd Mercedes, TX 78570 956-975-0177 Cell 956-975-1815 Cell shihancantu@aol.com 600 Chamberlain, Don Seven Bar Ranch 76 Rawhide Ln. Luling, TX 78648 830-875-2964 Ranch 281-734-7105 Cell don.chamberlain@gmail.com 10468 Colteryahn, Keith and Jana FXT Ranch 4788 C.R. 115 Whitesboro, TX 76273 940-665-9921 Ranch 940-443-1634 Cell fxtranch@hotmail.com 14598 Dreibrodt, Ryan & Shannon 4D Cattle 1620 Bulverde Rd. Bulverde, TX 78163 830-832-8229 Home 830-832-6459 Cell ryanshan@gvtc.com 13389 Elizondo, Dr. B. Octavio South Texas Red Brangus 1389 W. 77 Sunshine Strip, Ste. E. San Benito, TX 78586 956-399-3366 Home 956-399-9929 Office 956-536-6858 Cell boe@southtexasredbrangus.com

2095 Fischer, Mandy 28115 Clarke Bottom Rd. Hempstead, TX 77445 281-599-8646 Home 713-204-7525 Cell nthepurple@gmail.com www.trademarkgenetics.com 14641 Gordon, Brett Diamond G Ranch 706 Musting Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 254-220-3476 bdcr93@yahoo.com 14574 Gray, Donald & Lisa Gray Cattle Co 10722 Will Lehman Rd. Needville, TX 77461 979-793-6973 Home 979-236-9864 Cell gcattlecompany@yahoo.com 1343875 Greene, Joe Cates Ranch 998 County Rd. 4127 Decatur, TX 76234 918-271-0273 Cell greene.sheryl@gmail.com

Active Members — Mississippi – Mew Mexico – Oklahoma – Tennessee – Texas

2188 Priggel, Martin Ponderosa 2397 State Hwy. W Oran, MO 63771 573-262-3428 Home 573-262-3676 Office mpriggel@sbcglobal.net

TENNESSEE

14421 Gunter, Randy & Paula 17342 Sunset Ranch Montgomery, TX 77316 281-413-9650 rpcattle87@gmail.com

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14285 Harper D’Ann Rafter Two Ranch 22 Champion Trail San Antonio, TX 78258 210-481-2286 Home 210-415-0027 Cell dharper@cbharper.com 918 Harris, Vernon Jr. 1584 Red Town Rd. Elgin, TX 78621 512-281-3104 Home/Ranch vernharris@earthlink.net

Active Members — Texas

527 Hendrick, John Hendrick Farms 423 CR 4804 Timpson, TX 75975 936-254-2000 Home 936-645-4304 Cell cnhendrick@yahoo.com 13500 Hewitt, Karen K Bar H Red Brangus P.O. Box 819 Coldspring, TX 77331 936-767-4495 Home 832-599-5671 Cell hewittkaren@yahoo.com

14047 Kalina, Zachary P.O. Box 511 Flatonia, TX 78941 361-865-2974 Home 361-772-6666 Cell zachkalina@gmail.com 14579 Kilgore, Thomas Kilgore Ranch 12104 Johnny Weisneller Ln. Austin, TX 78748 979-218-4043 Cell tk@centerpolesolutions.com 247 Leseman, Gary Double Diamond Ranch 5005 Hidalgo St. Unit 810 Houston, TX 77056 713-899-2273 gleseman@lesemanranch.com 2673 Lesikar, Spence Lesikar Cattle Co. 4530 Otto Ln. Flatonia, TX 78941 832-266-8415 Ranch spence_lesikar@yahoo.com

13758 Hobbs Three Way Ranch 405 CR 117 Wharton, TX 77488 979-533-6465 timmy.hobbs@yahoo.com

2217 Luciano, Richard R2 Ranch, LLC 551 John Knox Rd. Fischer, TX 78623 830-935-2343 Sara 830-481-4043 Ranch toussaint.r2r@gmail.com

14504 Isgren, John Mocking J Ranch P.O. Box 213 Thicket, TX 77374 832-205-6186 Cell john.isgren@mockingjranch.com

14551 Martinez, Jr Juan & Lisa Martinez Ranch 2141 Camino De Verdad Mercedes, TX 78570 210-875-2834 Cell onefast55@hotmail.com

510 Jones, Ron Graham Cattle Co. 3487 CR 309 Lexington, TX 78947 512-940-0332 Cell 1rgjones@gmail.com

14537 Mathiews Gary & Michelle Mathiews Cattle Co P.O. Box 157 Woodson, TX 76491 940-345-6652 Home 940-873-3250 Cell gmmathiews@brazosnet.com

9 Jones, Ron PaleFace Red Brangus 2433 North US Hwy 77 Cameron, TX 76520 512-940-0332 Cell 1rgjones@gmail.com

1374 Mayborn, Anyse Sue Mayborn Farms P.O. Box 6114 Temple, TX 76503 254-773-5072 Home 254-778-4444 Office 254-718-4871 Cell mbfarms@maybornfarms.com

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88 McDonald, Darryl E. McDonald Ranches P.O. Box 3757 Bryan, TX 77805 979-828-5569 Home 979-822-6359 Ranch 979-676-0142 Cell oldmcs@aol.com 2276 Monaghan, Elaine New Journey Ranch P.O. Box 1059 Flatonia, TX 78941 512-293-0421 Cell monaghan@gvec.net 14374 Moore, Mary M-Bar-M Ranch LP 11418 Shadow Way St. Houston, TX 77224 713-206-7853 Cell mpmoore@aol.com 1789 Murphy, Edward J. Broken M Ranch 289 F.M. 86 Red Rock, TX 78662 512-601-3111 Home/Ranch namvetdn54@yahoo.com 14113 Murphy, Kay 289 F.M. 86 Red Rock, TX 78662 512-601-3111 Home/Ranch namvetdn54@yahoo.com 13984 Nunez Jr., Guadalupe B. & Sofia Nunez Ranch P.O. Box 974 Los Fresnos, TX 78566 956-371-5240 Ranch 19 Perry, Dean 122 Navato Hollywood Park, TX 78232 830-990-8721 Home 2991 Peterson, Kenneth P.O. Box 602 Spicewood, TX 78669 830-693-6695 Home/Office/Fax 512-423-0125 Cell kjp@tstar.net 1776 Pool, David & Katrina Pool Ranch 8192 CR 314 S. Laneville, TX 75667 903-863-2171 Home 903-646-2068 Cell david@poolranch.com

14687 Poppe, Kyle & Heidi Bar P Bar Cattle Co 1632 CR 230 Weimar, TX 78962 979-561-6597 Home 512-627-2131 Cell hhoskins@hotmail.com 2802 Pratka, Ronald E. & Carmen 5P Red Brangus 302 Oak Dale Dayton, TX 77575 936-258-5097 Home 936-334-4360 Cell 14489 Prokop, Megan Greenwood Cattle Co. P.O. Box 218 Planterville, TX 77363 281-740-0572 Cell 713-492-6158 Home greenwoodcattleco@yahoo.com 13709 Randall Jr., J.S. (Randy) P.O. Box 1959 San Benito, TX 78586 956-494-8900 Cell erandyrandall@ca.com 14677 Rangel, Tomas & Adriana Rangel Ranch 307 S. Pleasantview Dr. Weslaco, TX 78596 956-975-8543 Cell trchevy20@yahoo.com 14666 Rasuli, Venus Rasuli Ranch 2039 N. Hwy. 287 Decatur, TX 76234 817-372-0005 rasuli07@yahoo.com 2640 Reifel, Daryl & Nancy Reifel Cattle 301 F.M. 2917 Alvin, TX 77511 281-393-1634 Home darylreifel@yahoo.com 2639 Reifel, Trevor 301 F.M. 2917 Alvin, TX 77511 713-829-8213 Home trevorreifel@yahoo.com

11927 Roberts, Paul & Sandy Roberts Ranch 1447 Limerick Ln. Canyon Lake, TX 78133 830-935-4723 Home 210-392-5303 Cell proberts@gvtc.com

13375 Stofa, Rhumina Stofa Rosa Ranch 9096 Bilnoski Rd. Willis, TX 77378 936-344-2003 281-787-6407 rstofa@stofarosaranch.com

2045 Sander, Michael H. & Claudia Southern Star Ranch 2702 South Westgate Drive Weslaco, TX 78596 956-968-9650 Home 956-650-5141 Cell 956-968-4528 Office claudia.sanders@yahoo.com

2266 Thomas, Patricia A. Thomas Hills of Ivan Ranch P.O. Box 7122 Fort Worth, TX 76111 817-926-7034 Home 940-362-4313 Ranch 817-336-5569 Office trish2thomas@att.net

2977 Schick, Bobby, Nancy, Mike & Christy Schick Farms 8640 F.M. 1346-3 San Antonio, TX 78263 210-912-7913 Home 210-355-1370 Cell schickfarm@yahoo.com

14020 Trammell, Kurt 637 CR 244 Gonzales, TX 78629 830-857-4943 Cell ktrammell@outlook.com

2733 Schrab, Dianne H. Dana Hellen Ranch 711 Diamond Leaf Houston, TX 77079 713-464-0406 Home 361-527-4858 Ranch 713-249-6269 Office 713-703-5617 Cell danahellen@aol.com 14506 Smith, Steve & kathy SK Smith Ranch 909 Single Oak Rd. Seguin, TX 78155 210-380-1707 scsmith@valspar.com 14685 Somers, Ross & Lesley R & B Cattle Company 1230 Plantation Dr. Richmond, TX 77406 713-876-8359 Cell jrsomers1963@yahoo.com

2447 Vogel, Dustin 8936 Mile 1 E. Rd. Mercedes, TX 78570 210-565-5855 Home 979-324-8651 Cell

13922 Worthy, Jerry Worthy Ranch 3113 So Hwy 87 Big Spring, TX 79720 432-267-8094 Ranch 432-263-8297 Office

3714 Williams, Monte P.O. Box L Altair, TX 77412 817-566-6405 Home 979-758-1529 Cell williamsmonte2017@gmail.com

13319 Wunderlich, Katy Knox Diamond K Ranch P.O. Box 907 Hempstead, TX 77445 979-571-7498 Cell katy@diamondkranchtexas.com

12578 Williams, Tanner Cole P.O. Box L Altair, TX 77412 979-234-3535 Home 979-758-1529 979-758-1528 Office honestmonte@pgw.com

2620 Young, Ron, Darlene, Cody & Christy Young Ranch P.O. Box 1825 Johnson City, TX 78636-1825 512-576-0162 Home/Office 830-868-7778 Ranch ryoungranch@gmail.com

14045 Wilson, Cory & Jan Wilson Ranch 2497 N. F.M. 2191 Falfurrias, TX 78355 361-510-9716 Home 361-219-1768 Ranch wilsonranchreds@yahoo.com

14647 Villarreal, Romiro & Monica Villarreal Ranch 21036 Retama Rd. Harlingen, TX 78550 956-792-2205

111 Womack, Baxter Double W 4900 Beverly Skyline Dr. Austin, TX 78731 512-452-6916 Home 512-471-5907 Fax womack@utexas.edu

Active Members — Texas

14639 Schofield, Michael & Cynthia 2039 Three Forks San Antonio, TX 78258 210-254-3759 210-618-8289 cindyskofe@yahoo.com

107 Vogel, Don & Shirley 8936 Mile 1 E. Rd. Mercedes, TX 78570 956-565-5855 Home 956-535-0509 Cell 956-968-7502 Office vfrb67@sbcglobal.net

10646 Wied, Ladd A. & Bruce 9287 N. Hwy. 71 El Campo, TX 77437 979-543-1384 Home 979-677-3342 Office tammy@glenflorafarms.com

Associate Members 1696 Dawson, Julius L. Red Hawk Ranch 2495 Co. Rd. 426 Dime Box, TX 77853-5113 979-884-6100 Ranch 281-798-4220 Cell j.dawson@swbell.net

164 Hastedt, Laura 336 Dewees St. Columbus, TX 78934 979-732-2572 Home

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Junior Members 13822 Acord, Audrey 6316 Hwy 75 South Madisonville, TX 77864 936-348-8787 Cell brokenaranch@hotmail.com

14431 Buentello, Oleana Lea 1803 Sandstone Dr. Mission, TX 78574 956-566-4404 Cell invjperez209@hotmail.com

14369 Fischer, Madison 28115 Clarke Bottom Rd. Hempstead, TX 77445 713-204-7525 Cell nthepurple@gmail.com

14566 Henderson, Larry 1417 Old Attair Rd. Eagle Lake, TX 77434 979-232-0699 Cell alphenderson@yahoo.com

14632 Beerwinkle, Laiken 9403 CR 7310 Wofforth, TX 79382 806-928-2879 matt.beerwinkle@yahoo.com

14673 Chantos, Micah 2992 Oak Hollow Dr. New Braunfels, TX 78132 830-708-0438 Cell micahajc3@gmail.com

14689 Fucik, Addyson Leona P.O. Box 354 Garwood, TX 77442 979-578-3344 Cell afucik@fscinc.net

14199 Isgren, Margaret J. P.O. Box 213 Thicket, TX 77374 832-221-4439 Cell misgren@sbcglobal.net

14616 Bice, Faith 40598 Day Ln. Hempstead, TX 77445 281-979-8478 Cell onehoofatatime@gmail.com

14644 Combs, Karlee Ann 305 S. Oklahoma Weslaco, TX 78596

14535 Garcia, Allie 1003 Gantt St. Bangs, TX 76823 254-485-9448

13719 Ivey, Abby Joe 4541 Brady Lane Brownwood, TX 76801 325-752-6037 Home 432-940-1275 Cell sdivey@hotmail.com

Junior Members

14585 Bice, Jaycie 40598 Day Ln. Hempstead, TX 77445 281-979-8478 Cell onehoofatatime@gmail.com 14077 Bostick, Dustin 1110 C.R. 134 Brownwood, TX 76801 352-998-5320 Cell 14078 Bostick, Dylan 1110 C.R. 134 Brownwood, TX 76801 325-998-3223 Cell dylan_bostick64@yahoo.com 14219 Boswell, Austin 5002 Buchanan Loop Rd Texarkana, TX 75501 903-276-4822 Cell tbswell@cableone.net 14406 Boswell, Shelby 5002 Buchanan Loop Rd Texarkana, TX 75501 903-276-4822 Cell tbswell@cableone.net 14477 Brooks, Avery 2250 FM 2685 Gladewater, TX 75647 903-238-5288 Cell sbfarma09@hotmail.com 14599 Brooks, Chloe 2250 FM 2685 Gladewater, TX 75647 903-238-5288 Cell sbfarma09@hotmail.com

14567 Conkle, Celine P.O. Box 111 Pearland, TX 77588 409-526-9660 Cell conklce1000@gmail.com 14305 Damesworth, Calli McKay 1119 C.R. 4845 Celeste, TX 75423 214-232-1277 Cell ddamesworth@totalfire.com 14333 Dreibrodt, Karagen 1620 Bulverde Rd Bulverde, TX 78163 830-832-6459 Cell ryanshan@gvtc.com 14562 Dreibrodt, Reagan 1620 Bulverde Rd Bulverde, TX 78163 830-832-6459 Cell ryanshan@gvtc.com 13957 Elizondo, Kassie I. 1389 W. 77 Sunshine Strip, Ste. E San Benito, TX 78586 956-536-6858 Home boe@southtexasredbrangus.com 13814 Elizondo, Krissy 1389 W. 77 Sunshine Strip, Ste. E San Benito, TX 78586 956-536-6858 Office boe@southtexasredbrangus.com 14590 Escalon, Michael A 1901 Cornell Ave. McAllen, TX 78504 956-763-0423 Cell tj.escalon@yahoo.com

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14660 Garza, Emilee 30259 Old joseph Rd. Hockley, TX 77447 832-608-0736 kimberly@relocatewithkimberly.com 14659 Garza, Marcela 30259 Old joseph Rd. Hockley, TX 77447 832-608-0736 kimberly@relocatewithkimberly.com 12788 Goerlitz, Taylor 2550 Selma Lane Brenham, TX 77833 979-836-8557 Home chanagoerlitz@yahoo.com 14642 Gordon, Carson 706 Mustang Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 254-220-3476 Cell carsong1999@yahoo.com 14681 Gordon, Reagan 706 Mustang Trail Harker Heights, TX 76548 254-220-3476 Cell bdcr93@yahoo.com 14617 Hanke, John 442 Los Ranchitos Rd. Cameron, TX 76520 254-541-4699 Home jhanke73@gmail.com 14662 Hayden, Rozlyn 23571 Cecil Painter Rd. Franklinton, LA 70438 985-517-4387 Cell whitneyg412@gmail.com

14295 Ivey, Audrey 4541 Brady Lane Brownwood, TX 76801 325-752-6037 Home 432-940-1275 Cell sdivey@hotmail.com 13932 Ivey, Trey 4541 Brady Lane Brownwood, TX 76801 325-752-6037 Home 432-940-1275 Cell sdivey@hotmail.com 14610 Kaminsky, Brian 215 Edgwood Dr. Richmond, TX 77406 832-935-4941 5cookies15@gmail.com 14397 Kempken, Ty 312 St Cloud Friendswood, TX 77546 281-898-3439 tkempken@comcast.net 14519 King, Brett 214 leonce Nunez Ln. Cameron, LA 70631 337-912-9860 Cell 14667 Klepac, Kyler 5862 CR 359 Sweeny, TX 77480 979-388-5545 doug.smith@hlayinka.com

14587 Krengle, Reagan 14207 Orchards Farms Ln Houston, TX 77062 832-289-5083 Cell rkrengle@yahoo.com

14394 Pope, Jodi 488 Whitewright Rd Savoy, TX 75479 903-965-4929 Hm jjp488@aol.com

14635 Lund, Chase Riley 5414 Arcadia Park San Antonio, TX 78247 361-726-1186 eric.grahmann@tamuk.edu

14447 Rabel, Barrett A P.O. Box 563 Mercedes, TX 78570 956-975-1815 Cell shihancantu@aol.com

14550 Luster, Camryn E 8640 FM 1346-3 San Antonio, TX 78263 210-843-9137 Cell schickfarm@yahoo.com

14536 Rabel, Carina Antonia P.O. Box 563 Mercedes, TX 78570 956-463-1460 Cell shihancantu@aol.com

14649 Martinez, Leslie San Benito, TX

14638 Rabel, Carlie Ann P.O. Box 563 Mercedes, TX 78570 956-463-1460 Cell shihancantu@aol.com

14538 Mathiews, Brody P.O. Box 157 Woodson, TX 76491 940-345-6652 14640 Mercado, Justin Troy 14946 N. 491 Mercedes, TX 78570 956-358-9278 renemercado8@gmail.com 14558 Neill, Travis Parker 12132 Frantz Rd. Cat Spring, TX 78933 713-906-8881 Cell angelaneill67@gmail.com 14597 Patterson, Madison 707 Cherokee Dr. Tioga, TX 76271 903-647-2058 Cell spiff_colt@hotmail.com 14643 Perkins, Landry 404 Riverview Circle Harlingen, TX 78550 956-454-9871 rosemary.perkins@hotmail.com

14626 Reifel, Tabitha 301 FM 2917 Alvin, TX 77511 713-829-8213 Home 14661 Rimes, Rantley 23571 Cecil Painter Rd. Franklinton, LA 70438 958-517-4387 whitneyg412@gmail.com 14083 Riojas, Audrey 8800 Mile 1 East Mercedes, TX 78570 956-535-0509 vfrb67@sbcglobal.net 14082 Rodriguez, Riley 9287 N. Hwy. 71 El Campo, TX 77437 979-533-3167 Cell tammy@glenflorafarms.com 14139 Rogers, Megan L. P.O. Box 1366 Lockhart, TX 78644 210-414-2316 Cell david.wayne.rogers@hotmail.com 14509 Rutledge, Terry P.O. Box 842 Bertram, TX 786056 512-749-6264 det2211@yahoo.com

14636 Wied, Raley 9287 N. Hwy 71 El Campo, TX 77437 979-541-6352

14267 Stubbs, Shanna Ruth 1121 S. Colorado Ave. Mercedes, TX 78570 956-343-8437 stxrose793@gmail.com

14678 Wilson, Ty 120 Hooker Ln Sheperd, TX 77371 281-543-9772 five.t.wilson@gmail.com

13609 Suire, Seth 17139 LA Hwy. 35 Abbeville, LA 70510 337-643-2509 Home csuire@kaplantel.net 14675 Thompson, Alex 2322 Uplane Park Dr. Sugarland, TX 77479 281-731-6560 Cell alex@gtlawlip.com 14679 Tiemann, Cassidy 10633 Walker Rd. Beasley, TX 77417 832-600-5260 Cell mike_deb@rocketmail.com

Junior Members

14341 Mascheck, Kayden Waytt 1700 East State Eagle Lake, TX 77434 979-758-4216 Home tnt_trophies@hotmail.com

14645 Villareal, Gilbert Ram 901 W. Buchanan Harlingen, TX 78550

14481 Smith, Molly Sloan 475 Catfish Lane Lockhart, TX 78644 812-970-3211 Cell 512-422-8933 Home mollysloan@hotmail.com

14680 Tipton, Hannah 4315 Dawn Creek Ln Spring, TX 77388 281-467-2732 Cell marsha.tipton@att.net 14561 Traweek, Mackenzie 12225 CR 142 Bangs TX 76823 325-998-3948 girlonthefarm10@gmail.com 14530 Trevino, Emma Katherine 413 W Sam Houston Blvd Pharr, TX 78577 956-460-4064 14648 Trevino, Rylee M P.O. Box 1150 Mercedes, TX 78570 yblanco22@yahoo.com 14646 Ubina, Kayla 2107 E Crockett Dr. Harlingen, TX 78550

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The Great Commercial Beef Producer

By Larry Anderson

R

ed Brangus bulls are very ideal and extremely sought after as a great Commercial Bull. Many cattlemen look for the qualities that are possessed by the Red Brangus and what they pass on to their offspring. They are moderate to large framed and are red in color, naturally polled, heavy muscled with a lot of depth and clean underlines.

They will produce females that are very feminine, less ear and have good udders and milk production. They also have a high calving ease. Calves are very hardy and have high weaning weights. The Red Brangus breed is known for their disease resistance due to their thick hide. Their longevity and docility make them able to produce many calves in their long lifetime. The steer calves have very high weaning weights and the ability to convert feed into very high-quality beef in a short period of time. These calves are small at birth, averaging 70 to 75 pounds, but yield high weaning weights. These calves continue to gain efficiently in the feedlot and yield the lean and tasty Yield Grade 2 Choice carcasses the consumer demands.

Red Brangus Bulls have genetics that are ideal for both tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Red Brangus Bulls combine the hardiness, disease resistance and unmatched maternal instincts of the Brahman breed with the superior carcass quality, fertility, maternal and milking ability of the Angus. Bulls can be used for breeding as early as 14 months and still in service at age 10 and older.

Dr. Richard Gingles, the current Vice President of the ARBA from Long Beach, Mississippi is a strong believer of the use of Red Brangus bulls on commercial cows to produce outstanding quality steers for the feedlot. He breeds moderate frame cows that wean calves on an average of 550 pounds.

This year he sent 17 steers to a test in Oklahoma that had a slaughter weight of 1360 pounds and produced around 1000 pounds of usable carcasses. Red Brangus has always been a great Mother Cow Breed, but now is the time to see what a great Bull Breed it is by looking at what they can do in breeding quality steer calves for beef.

ATTENTION RED BRANGUS IN: Arkansas • East Texas • Florida • Louisiana Mississippi • Missouri • Oklahoma • Tennessee If you are interested in joining the

SUNBELT RED BRANGUS ORGANIZATION A satellite of the ARBA

Please contact: Jack Barron 138 Barron Private Drive Mansfield, LA 71052 318-871-2855 or 318-393-7543

Let’s join together and push Red Brangus eastward!

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The 17 steers were on test at Buffalo Feeders in Buffalo, Oklahoma from June through January. They went into the test at an average weight of 769 pounds they all gained during that time an additional 730 pounds or a daily average of 3.76 pounds per day. This is amazing and it shows how Red Brangus bulls pass on great gains to their calves. Beef producers are in the business of converting feed into animal product as cost efficiently as possible.

Feed provision accounts for over 75% of direct costs of beef production.

The Financial summary of these calves, Total Investment, which includes feeding expenses, delivery cost, feeding cost was an average of $1307.36 per head. Net Sales were at $1759.38 per head giving a Gross Profit of $452.02 per head.

Carcass merit is definitely a strength the breed can bring to any operation. In today’s economy, cattle must excel on the rail and be desired by the consumer. Red Brangus cattle routinely grade Choice and produce a pleasant eating experience.

Red Brangus sired calves are efficient feeders and because they have that touch of ear, they are hardy and strong. Their rates of gain and feed conversion are very desirable with documentation from studies and individual feedlot reports to validate the merits of Red Brangus calves.

SUNBELT RED BRANGUS ORGANIZATION A satellite of the ARBA

Jack Barron, President • 318-393-7543 The following members can meet your needs for quality breeding stock: Bayou Frais Red Brangus Long Beach, MS Richard and Grace Gingles 228-209-8490 C-Curb Farm Brooksville,MS John and Becci Craig Pete and Peggy Craig 662-295-5570 Joy Hill Farms Grayson,LA Aryon and Cathy McGuire 318-376-1161 Pool Ranch Laneville, TX David and Katrina Pool 903-863-2171 Red Oak Farms Bridge City, TX John and Donna Banken 409-338-8610

Siphorien Bayou Ranch Mansfield, LA Jack and Beverly Barron 318-871-2855 Tollgate Farms Columbia, TN John and Margaret McCord 931-797-6494 True Vine Cattle Co Mansfield, LA Huel and Christie Jones 318-471-4279 Vercher Cattle Company Shreveport, LA Don and Kayron Vercher 318-297-4000 Yellow Rose Cattle Co Kentwood, LA Whitney Graham 985-517-4387

RED BRANGUS BREEDERS

Bulls & heifers for sale year round!

Jack & Beverly Barron 138 Barron Pvt. Dr. Mansfield, LA 71052

Phone: 318-871-BULL (2855) Fax: 318-871-COWS (2697)

sanderpharmacy@rgv.rr.com

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A Note From the Junior President Brett King, AJRBA president

A Note From the Junior President

Bonjour (Hello), My name is Brett King. I have been given the honor to be elected President of the American Junior Red Brangus Association at the 2018 National Show. I am a 4th generation Red Brangus Breeder. I live in Creole, Louisiana.

Wow, we had a great 2018 AJRBA National Show in the grand town of Bryan, Texas. The show was a huge success. I had a blast with the Junior Members. The show was a fun time as well as a learning experience. The participation in the show and contests was outstanding. I would like to congratulate all the participants, especially the winners. The activities challenged members’ abilities to display cattle, do public speaking, recognize farm tools and equipment, and most importantly demonstrating general knowledge of our breed.

I would like to give a special shout out to say thank you to our Junior Show Chairman, Mr. Roger Smith. Your efforts to make our show successful were extraordinary. Thank you to all the parents and family members that work throughout the year as they help us with our cattle project and assisted with the show activities. Sponsors, we would have not had a show without your continuing donations and support. Thank you so very much. Our show would not have been possible without the help given by each one of you.

Our Red Brangus breed is a “top pick”. They are “top picks” because of the traits of easy fleshing, light birth weights, and heavy weaning

weights. They are also very adaptive to the climate that they are in. Our breed is extremely versatile and make perfect show animals.

Our junior organization has 80 members, and I look forward to seeing each of you at our 2019 National Show. I also look forward to working with the American Red Brangus Association led by Ms. Elaine Monaghan, the Board of Directors, the Junior Officers, and Junior Board of Directors as we promote Red Brangus cattle.

AJRBA President, Brett King

L–R: Kayden Mascheck, Brett King, Audrey Ivey, Karagen Dreibrodt, Reagan Dreibrodt

A Special Thank You to All of Our Sponsors Diamond Level - PaleFace Ranch - Ron Jones

Platinum Level - Siphorien Bayou Ranch – Jack & Beverly Barron

Gold Level - Marvel Farms - Dan & Sandra Marvel; CMC Farms - Eddie Benoit; True Vine Cattle Co - Huel & Christie Jones; Rafter Two Ranch - D’Ann Harper; Hobbs Three Way Ranch; Lesiker Cattle Co - Spence Lesikar; Mathiews Cattle Co - Gary & Michelle Mathiews; Reifel Cattle - Daryl & Nancy; Precision Guesswork Cattle Co - Monte Williams, Megan Rogers; Mocking J Ranch - John Isgren, Don & Stephanie Bostick; M-BAR-M Ranch - Mary Moore; Rogers Reds - Sean & Stephanie Rogers; Diamond K Ranch Shawn & Wayne Knox and Paul & Katy Wunderlich; Stofa Rosa Ranch - Rhumina Stofa; Kulak Cattle Co - Jonathon Kulak Silver Level - Bayou Frais Red Brangus - Dr. Richard & Grace Gingles; Trademark Genetics - John & Mandy Fischer; MC’s Red Brangus - M.C. & Janet Brister; Eagle Nest Ranch - Ken & Sharon Peterson; Schick Farms - Bobby & Nancy Schick; M-R Cattle - Mike Emberton & Rebecca Compher; Seven Bar Ranch - Don Chamberlain; McDonald Ranches - Darryl McDonald; Red Oak Farms - John Banken; Five Oaks Red Brangus - Mike & Jackie Porterfield, John Hanke & Family; Riggs Mountain Ranch Herbert & Melinda Riggs; Vogel Farms - Don & Shirley Vogel

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T

he ARBA Foundation is proud to announce The Mike Levi Memorial Scholarships to be awarded annually to the AJRBA Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion Female and the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion Bull.

The 2018 Mike Levi Memorial Scholarship Winners are: Grand Champion Female — Avery Brooks — $1,000 Reserve Champion Female — Kayden Mascheck — $500 Grand Champion Bull — Taylor Goerlitz — $1,000 Reserve Champion Bull — Marcela Garza — $500

The 2018 Graduation Seniors Scholarship Winners are:

The Foundation is committed to awarding $3,000 in Showmnship Scholarships annually to the top three exhibitors in each three age divisions, ARBA juniors have the opportunity to earn scholarships throughout their young career. Upon their graduation the money that has been awarded during their show career will be made available to them under the standard scholarship rules.

The 2018 Showmanship Scholarships Winners are: Junior Division Champion – Laiken Beerwinkle – $500 Reserve – Marcela Garza – $300 Third – Reagan Dreibrodt – $200 Intermediate Division Champion – Audrey Ivey – $500 Reserve – Avery Brooks – $300 Third – Jaycie Bice – $200 Senior Division Champion – Molly Smith – $500 Reserve – Megan Rogers – $300 Third – Taylor Georlitz – $200

L–R: Abbey Ivey, Elaine Monaghan, Audrey Acord

Audrey Acord — $1,000 Audrey will be attending Tarleton State University majoring in Agricultural Communications.

Abbey Ivey — $1,000 Abbey will be attending Cisco College to persue a degree in Agriculture Education.

Congratulations to all the exhibitors of the 2018 National Show.

A Royal Round Up

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American Red Brangus Foundation Awards & Scholarships

American Red Brangus Foundation Awards $8,000 to Outstanding Juniors at the 2018 National Junior Show

2018 AJRBA National Junior Show Champions

Grand Champion Female: Avery Brooks Reserve Grand Champion Female: Kayden Mascheck

Grand Champion Bull: Taylor Goerlitz Grand Champion Bred and Owned Bull: Taylor Goerlitz

Reserve Grand Champion Bull: Marcela Garza

Grand Champion Bred and Owned Female: Kayden Mascheck

Reserve Grand Champion Bred and Owned Female: Audrey Acord Reserve Grand Champion Bred and Owned Bull: Audrey Acord

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Junior Intermediate Senior Adult

1st: Chloe Brooks 1st: Kayden Mascheck 1st: Hannah Tipton 1st: Todd Mascheck

2nd: Laiken Beerwinkle 2nd: Avey Brooks 2nd: John Hanke 2nd: Erin Reifel

3rd: Tabitha Reifel 3rd: Kayden Mascheck 3rd: Molly Smith 3rd: Roger Smith

Junior Intermediate Senior Adult

1st: Camryn Luster 1st: Trey Ivey 1st: Molly Smith 1st: Roger Smith

2nd: Chloe Brooks 2nd: Austin Boswell 2nd: Karagen Dreibrodt 2nd: Scott Brooks

3rd: Reagan Dreibrodt 3rd: Brett King 3rd: Megan Rogers 3rd: Todd Mascheck

Junior Division Intermediate Division Senior Division

1st: Chloe Brooks 1st: Avery Brooks 1st: Megan Rogers

2nd: Camryn Luster 2nd: Jaycie Bice 2nd: Abbey Ivey

3rd: Marcela Garza 3rd: Kayden Mascheck 3rd: Molly Smith

Skill-A-thon Contest:

Costume Contest:

Public Speaking Contest:

Junior Division 1st: Camryn Luster Intermediate Division 1st: Kayden Mascheck2nd: Senior Division 1st: Molly Smith 2nd: Allie Garcia 3rd: John Hanke Quiz Bowl — 1st: Shawna Goerlitz, Shelby Boswell, Austin Boswell; 2nd: Heidi Poppe, Kayden Mascheck, Marcela Garza; 3rd: Heather Brooks, Avery Brooks, Camryn Luster

Sales Talk Contest: Junior Division Intermediate Division Senior Division

1st: Camryn Luster 1st: Kayden Mascheck 1st: Megan Rogers

2nd: Tabitha Reifel 2nd: Jaycie Bice 2nd: Molly Smith

3rd: Trey Ivey 3rd: Abbey Ivey

Junior Division Intermediate Division Senior Division Adult Division

1st: Chloe Brooks 1st: Brett King 1st: Karagen Dreibrodt 1st: Todd Mascheck

2nd: Camryn Luster 2nd: Avery Brooks 2nd: Molly Smith 2nd: Scott Brooks

3rd: Reagan Dreibrodt 3rd: Kayden Mascheck 3rd: John Hanke 3rd: Roger Smith

Junior Division Intermediate Division Senior Division Adult Division

1st: Camryn Luster 1st: Trey Ivey 1st: Molly Smith 1st: Roger Smith

2nd: Marcela Graza 2nd: Avery Brooks 2nd: Abbey Ivey 2nd: Shawna Goerlitz

3rd: Laiken Beerwinkle 3rd: Audrey Ivey 3rd: Taylor Goerlitz 3rd: Heidi Poppe

Cooking Contest:

Herdsman Quiz:

Livestock Judging:

3rd: Chloe Brooks 2nd: Reagan Dreibrodt 1st: Marcela Garza Junior Division 3rd: Trey Ivey 2nd: Shelby Boswell 1st: Avery Brooks Intermediate Division 3rd: Molly Smith 2nd: Taylor Goerlitz 1st: Audrey Acord Senior Division 3rd: Shawna Goerlitz 2nd: Ryan Dreibrodt 1st: Scott Brooks Adult Division Good Herdsman — 1st: John Hanke; 2nd: Taylor Goerlitz Stall Award — 1st: Camryn Luster; 2nd: Marcela Garza Outstanding Exhibitors — Junior: Camryn Luster; Intermediate: Kayden Mascheck; Senior: Molly Smith Walter Rogers Newcomer of the Year Award — Chloe Brooks 2018 – 2019 Officer Team — Reporter: Audrey Ivey; Secretary: Karagen Dreibrodt; Vice President: Megan Rogers; President: Brett King; Director: Reagan Dreibrodt; Director: John Hanke; Director: Kayden Mascheck 2018 – 2019 Queen — Audrey Ivey; Princess — Reagan Dreibrodt

Showmanship Results:

Junior Showmanship 1st: Laiken Beerwinkle 2nd: Marcela Garza 3rd: Reagan Dreibrodt Intermediate Showmanship 1st: Audrey Ivey 2nd: Avery Brooks 3rd: Jaycie Bice Senior Showmanship 1st: Molly Smith 2nd: Megan Rogers 3rd: Taylor Goerlitz Show Champions — Grand Champion Female: Avery Brooks; Reserve Grand Champion Female: Kayden Mascheck; Grand Champion Bull: Taylor Goerlitz; Reserve Grand Champion Bull: Marcela Garza; Grand Champion Bred and Owned Female: Kayden Mascheck; Reserve Grand Champion Bred & Owned Female: Audrey Acord; Grand Champion Bred & Owned Bull: Taylor Goerlitz; Reserve Grand Champion Bred & Owned Bull : Audrey Acord

A Royal Round Up

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2018 AJRBA National Junior Show Awards & Recognition

First Time Exhibitors — Laiken Beerwinkle; Jaycie Bice; Marcela Garza; Hannah Tipton Photography Contest:

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Red Oak Farms AMERICAN RED BRANGUS • Calving ease • Stay ability • Good milkers • Great mother cows • Heavy weights at weaning

Home: (409) 735-2389 Mobile: (409) 338-8610

Red Oak Farms

Owners: John & Donna Banken

E-mail: RedOakFarms@yahoo.com

P r a i se t h e l o r d f o r h i s m a

Karagen Dreibrodt — Champion Red Brangus, Champion American Division & Reserve Supreme Overall, 2017 Houston Stock Show.

National Champion, 2017 Junior Nationals

Jaycie Bice — Champion Red Brangus, 2017 Texas State Fair & Senior Division Champion, 2018 San Antonio Stock Show

ny b lessings Tatum Crossland, grandaughter of Monte Williams, in peewee showmanship — Start them off on the right foot with genetics from PGCC!

Bulls & Females always available!

PRECISION GUESSWORK CATTLE COMPANY Monte Williams 979.758.1529 williamsmonte2017@gmail.com

CROSSLAND CATTLE COMPANY Chloe Brooks — Reserve Calf Champion, 2018 San Antonio Stock Show

Chance and Whitney Crossland 361.920.0417 and 940.390.7062 crosslandcattleco@hotmail.com

RED BRANGUS THE COMMERCIAL CHOICE

Red Brangus sired calf out of horned Hereford cow “Red Brangus are tough enough to stand the extremes in weather that West Texas has to offer. Winters go down to well below zero and the hot dry summer go up to 105 degrees.”

“The Red Brangus calves are really small when they’re born, but in two weeks time they’ve caught up with the Hereford sired calves and they really come on!”

Red Brangus sire calf out of Gelbvieh base cow

Red Brangus sire calf out of Black Baldie cow

“Out of 25 Red Brangus sired calves from black baldy and Hereford cows, I got only two black calves. And, my weaning weights are up 100 pounds.”

Red Brangus sired calf out of gray Brahman cow AMERICAN RED BRANGUS ASSOCIATION

3995 East Hwy. 290 • Dripping Springs, TX 78620 512-858-7285 arba@texas.net www.americanredbrangus.org