Feddes Herefords

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Longwood Herefords

HEREFORD AMERICA • November/December 2021 Stenberg... “The day he left (for Denmark), I started working on three head of cattle,” Dave recalled with an ornery chuckle. (continued from page 1) He ended up showing them at Sioux in partnership for 10 years. Falls and Parker where he had the re-

As with any business relationship, serve champion heifer and bull. Ove there are bound to be areas of disagree- must have been convinced by his son’s ment, and the Stenberg duo was no efforts and continued success at large exception. shows. Dave remembered taking a

“I’d been after him to show cattle “good string out to the South Dakota since I was about 15 years old,” Dave State Fair” in 1954. said, but Ove didn’t see the merit in it at “There were 25 in a yearling bull the time. But, Dave took advantage of a class, and I won,” Dave said. convenient opportunity to get his foot in In 1968, ownership of Stenberg Herethe door of the show world. fords passed along to Dave and his wife,

Ove was from Denmark and hadn’t Audrey, who stuck by him through their been back to visit for as long as Dave triumphs, and like most ranch wives do could remember. With a lot of persistent at some point or another, through the encouragement, Ove travelled back to tribulations. his home country to visit family, and “We went through some tough times” Dave used that as a chance to try out selling Herefords with the rise of dwarfsomething new. ism and an overall lack of demand for

Audrey and Dave Stenberg New baby on the Stenberg farm near Colman, SD.

the breed, “but we stuck with it,” Dave said proudly.

“I tried to support him the best I could,” Audrey said.

They persevered through those tough times, and in much the way that a lot of generational operations function, there was a sense of déjà vu when Dave got a phone call from his grandson, Cody, nine years ago.

At the time, Cody and his wife were living in Brookings. Cody had gone off to college and had taken a variety of jobs. But he felt it was time to come home.

Dave answered the phone and Cody asked, “grandpa, would there be room for us on the farm?”

Of course, Dave was elated with the opportunity to work alongside his grandson, just as his father had done with him.

“He started helping me,” Dave said. “He had a pretty good eye; I could see that from the beginning.”

Again, in the cyclical fashion that the world operates at times, they didn’t always see eye-to-eye on every breeding decision that was made.

“I bought 10 cows from grandpa” and made the breeding decisions for them, Cody said.

With the opportunity to make some individual breeding decisions, they still operated with collective goals. Dave and Cody really moved their cattle forward (continued on page 6)

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