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Spring Forage Conference: The 31st annual Southwest Missouri Spring Forage Conference will be held Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield, Mo. The conference will also feature several breakout sessions throughout the day. Topics will include: livestock predator control, alfalfa management, advanced grazing tips, cattle health, johnsongrass, grazing and quail management, beneficial pasture bugs, brush and weed management with small ruminants, cow-share agreements, managing stocking rates to forage growth, and advice on handing down the farm to heirs when only one wants to farm. There will be a large trade show in conjunction with the conference. Conference registration begins at 8 a.m., with sessions running from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. A banquet luncheon is included with the registration. The cost is $35 per person in advance or $45 at the door. To pre-register by February 18th or to get more information, contact the Greene County USDA Office at 417-831-5246, ext.3.

Governor’s Conference Raises Money for Youth: The Missouri Governor’s Conference on Agriculture benefit auction, supporting the future of Missouri agriculture, raised more than $11,000. The auction proceeds benefit programs for youth and young professionals in agriculture including Missouri 4-H, Missouri FFA and Agriculture Leadership of Tomorrow (ALOT).

Missouri Agriculture Awards: Producers from across the state were recognized by the Missouri Department of Agriculture for their commitment to innovation, community support, committing to good land stewardship and being great examples for future generations. Award recipients in our coverage area inluded: Independent Stave Company of Lebanon, Mo., received the International Exporter of the Year; Jim McCann of Miller, Mo., received the Missouri Agriculture Beef Cattle Legacy; Randy Mooney of Rogersville, Mo., received the Missouri Agriculture Dairy Legacy; Darwin Murray of West Plains, Mo., received the Missouri Agriculture Forestry Legacy.

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John Dees supplements his cattle with corn gluten

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Youth in Agriculture spotlights Mason Hayes

Spencer Rawlins uses turnips and peas for winter grazing

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FARM HELP 21 A good supplement program can keep your cows in good body condition

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t was good to hear from an old college buddy over the holidays. revoAfter nworCwishing yrreJ yB each other well, we began to talk about how the year had been for each of our Jerry Crownover farms farming operations and, since he is priin Lawrence County. He marily engaged in row-cropping, it was obvious is a former professor of his year had not been so good. Eventually, the Agriculture Education at conversation turned to recent purchases and he Missouri State University, asked me if I had bought a certain marketing and is an author and service before the end of the year. When I reprofessional speaker. plied that I hadn’t, he reminded me of what one To contact Jerry, go to of our old professors had taught us so diligently ozarksfn.com and click about reducing our taxable income. on ‘Contact Us.’ Mr. Denker taught farm business management at the university that we both attended and he was one of the most admired and respected teachers. He was one of the few that did not have a Ph.D., but I always suspected that the reason he never attained the degree was because he was too busy making money to bother with further education. While most of my professors espoused textbook theory, Mr. Denker preached practical, reallife doctrines that had enabled him to become very successful in both farming and agribusiness. To impressionable 21-year olds, this seemed much more beneficial.

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With black cattle in high demand Carl and Angie Gann begin raising Lim-Flex cattle Carl Gann is a Dallas County original, having lived, several miles outside of Buffalo, Mo., all of his life. “Mom and dad’s place is just over on the next hill.” He pointed across beautiful green and gold fields, shimmering in the late afternoon light. “That’s where I grew up and lived until I bought this place.”

Although he has not traveled far geographically, Carl and his wife, Angie have found a way to make a living on their 100 acres where they run around 50 head of beef cattle, in addition to the 220 acres Carl owns and farms with his brother. He and Angie raise Limousin, most recently crossed with a purebred Angus bull, bringing them into the Lim-Flex circle. “Everybody in the market seems to want Black point but we decided it just wasn’t goAngus these days,” Angie added. “We’ve ing to work economically. It’s been hard had all red up to now so with Angus in de- to see the changes in agriculture over mand, we thought a cross would be good. the years and I’ll admit sometimes it still At the moment, cattle prices being what makes me mad.” they are, it doesn’t seem to matter what Even so, Carl and Angie have done an color they are and that’s not a complaint.” admirable job of finding new ways to adapt “We’ve got beef cattle, hay and soy- to an ever changing situation. “Soybeans beans,” Carl explained. In addition, he work pretty well in this area in that they has worked at the Buffalo MFA for years, are more drought resistant than corn. I including many years as the mill opera- keep about 40 acres in beans. They can tor there. He is now a truck driver for the take the dry weather, making them a more company. Angie, a brand new mom for viable crop. I’ve done a lot of custom haythe second time – baby Jacob is only four ing in the past, especially helping my dad weeks old – is the assistant manager of but now by myself and with the high cost the MFA at Fair Grove, Mo. The Ganns of fertilizer, it just wasn’t paying what it also have a 7-year-old daughter, Abby. was worth. I hay 80 to 90 acres right now, Carl admitted that he’s seen a great a lot of it in square bales. There is always a many changes over the years since he good market for those. In a dry year, round grew up next door on a dairy bales will sell but in a good year, you farm. “My parents milked can’t sell them at all. there for 50 years and we “When I was a kid, it was like continued doing so until everybody had a little bit of ev2009,” he continued. “We had erything on their farm,” Carl Grade C milk, used for butter remembered. “Everybody had and cheese and my brother and Buffalo, Mo. a few cattle, some hogs and I even looked into building a lots of chickens. Maybe that barn for Grade A milk at one is how I learned to be a Jack JANUARY 12, 2015

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Angie also grew up on a farm near Fair Grove. “My dad gave me a calf when I was growing up which I raised and then showed,” she added with a smile.

“She brought the Limousin with her when we got married,” Carl continued. “I was a dairy farmer and she was a beef farmer and that’s what we do now. I honestly don’t know how someone who wanted to get started in farming today could do it, if they didn’t inherit the land, the equipment or both. The old timers talk that it used to be that if one of your input costs was high, like feed, fertilizer or fuel, the others weren’t too bad but now, they are all high and to succeed at this, you’ve got to find a way to keep your debt load down. If you have to borrow money, you’ve got to have help somewhere else and you definitely have got to have a plan so you can save a little for that rainy day because one thing farmers know, hard times are always coming.”

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By Sherry Leverich Tucker

While building up good pasture, Spencer Rawlins utilizes annual crops such as turnips and wheat while establishing more efficient perennial ryegrass Farming in the 21st century takes hard work, direction and goals. Spencer Rawlins, who farms near Pierce City, Mo., is a farmer for the new century. Spencer has wanted to farm since helping his father on the farm when he was a boy. But, with his aim set at farming with intent, he knew that would take perspective beyond the farm he had grown up on. “It’s important to work for someone else and With costs continuing learn what other farmers are to rise, it’s important to doing. Otherwise, we don’t imkeep labor cost low,” prove.” At a young age, Spensaid Spencer Rawlins, cer started working with large who milks 250 cows dairy farms nearby. with the help of two Spencer has been working part-time employees. on establishing his dairy for five years now and is 25 years Photo by Sherry Leverich Tucker old. He is milking 250 cows with plans for expansion, keepin the barn during milking, “They get about ing large numbers of heifers that he has 10 pounds of grain in the barn, the rest is raised and increasing the acreage of pas- grass and I supplement with corn silage in ture he is leasing. the winter.” He goes on to explain, “RotaThough Spencer has developed his own tional grazing is not new to southwest Mistechniques in dairy management, the Aus- souri, but the intensiveness of it is. Most tralian style dairies where he worked when of the New Zealanders are using ryegrass. he was younger have influenced his process. The fescue that is here on our pastures, “This is a 200-acre grazing dairy. Primarily Kentucky 31, is using genetics that are now they graze on perennial ryegrass all year and over 50 years old. With the fescue toxicity, we use turnips as our intermediary crop in the cows don’t produce on it like they do on fields that are poor performers. We are sea- better quality pasture.” sonal, and start drying off this time of year, Spencer also maintains that the investand start calving in February.” ment in working your pasture up to a better Good pasture with high levels of nutri- quality, higher protein crop is economically tion is important in a nearly rewarding. “It is an investment,” said all grass-fed dairy operation.

Spencer. With economics as a con“We use a lot of foreign gesideration, he balances the cost of netics with the grasses, that leasing per acre, and what he is are formulated for grazing. New getting out of the pasture, what Zealand and Ireland are geared he spends on supplements and toward grazing, and have been Pierce City, Mo. what it costs to turn the pasdoing it for years.” Spencer pasture into a higher yielding tures extensively, only using grain food for his cows. He is cur-

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meet your neighbors rently using about 10 percent of his fields in annuals such as turnips or wheat (and sometimes a combination of radish and peas), 20 percent in BarOptima fescue, and 70 percent in Albion Ryegrass. “Ukrainians designed the Albion for their hot summers and cold winters that are similar to the conditions we have in southwest Missouri.”

Though most grasses go dormant during the hot summer, Spencer is using grasses that won’t turn off, “from the second week in June until the second week of September.”

With growth and efficiency as a goal, Spencer does most of the work himself, with the help of two part-time employees.

When calving starts in February, Spencer has a bottle-feeding system that is streamlined to handle a large number of heifers – which he keeps from birth, weaning, yearling, breeding, calving and then turns them out to the cow herd. “We get better every year at raising better heifers,” stated Spencer. Though bottle-feeding can be a timeintensive farm activity, Spencer batches his calves and feeds multiples in small pens.

When they are a little older, he places them in the pasture with larger groups where he continues to feed them with a pull-behind bottle equipped with multiple nipples. “It’s important to get them out to the pasture as soon as possible and keep them out of the confinement of the barns that can harbor germs,” he said.

When the heifers are weaned, they are rotationally grazed, just like the milk-cows.

“We get them bred at about 15 months of age, that is a little older than the typical 12-month-old breeding of dairy heifers.”

Spencer is artificially inseminating his cows with dairy crosses that work well with grazing. “I’m working towards high-producing herds. Confinement dair-

ies have poor fertility, and grazing herds have higher fertility rates.” Since Spencer doesn’t need the higher turnaround of heifers for replacement due to high cull rates from low-producing cows and lower fertility cows, he can keep just the quality heifers that he wants to see on his farm.

Keeping better quality cows on his farm longer with high fertility and low input is his goal, which can be met easier with his discrimination in genetics and better health maintained with pasturing.

The genetics that Spencer is using is predominately a Jersey/Holstein cross cow, “The smaller cows are better, they don’t mud up the fields and require less energy and have lower maintenance costs.” He is also looking for specific values in his milk as well, “For my dairy, I want higher components. Less fluid milk is being sold, and we are going towards more cheese and specialty milk products.”

As Spencer moves forward with his plans to expand, he offers encouragement to other farmers, “You can get into dairy. It’s a big investment to buy a farm, but there are dairies that aren’t being used that can be leased.” He also said that, “With grazing, you don’t need to invest as much in depreciating assets, and can invest more in land and animals which appreciate.”

Along with all the cows, Spencer lives on the farm with wife Lindsey, who is currently pursuing an upper level nursing degree at MSSU, and their two daughters, Bailey and McKenzie. He enjoys all aspects of dairy farming, “There is something new everyday.” From paperwork, working on keeping healthy cows, and working on machinery and equipment, Spencer is up for the challenge of his 21st century dairy.

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father told him. “The first memory is my dad Lawrence, and his brother Blond; they were planting corn behind a mule using a single plow. One would rest while the other walked the 20-acres to plow the field. My dad came around from his turn and he saw the water jug was turned over,” said Larry as he recalled the story his father told him. Larry’s father was convinced his brother, Blond, intentionally knocked over the water so he could refill the jug at the house and sneak in a quick listen to his newly-acquired radio. Larry continued the story, “Then dad saw Blond walking back and from a quarter-mile away he could see there was a smile on Blond’s face, and dad said to himself, ‘Lindbergh made it.’” Larry says he will never forget his father sharing that piece of history with him. To this day, Charles Lindbergh is one of Larry’s heroes.

A picture of Lindbergh standing next to his famous plane, ‘The Spirit of Saint Louis’, hangs on Larry’s office wall.

When asked why his family has held on to the farmland for so many generations, Larry replied, “A lot of people like to see things grow, like crops, land or children.”

Larry McCroskey has a love for all three and hopes those passions carry on with his grandchildren and the generations to follow.

Diversity has ensured the success and longevity of the McCroskey Century Farm Long before the city of Nixa, Mo., bustled with drive-through restaurants, convenience stores and strip malls, the area thrived with settlers who counted on the land for a living. In the mid-1800s, people starting moving to the southwest Missouri town to carve out a life on the farm. Now more than a century later, the descendants of some of those first settlers still hold on to their ancestors’ original settlements. “I think when you have blisters, scratches, sunburn, and sweat from it, you learn to love the land more than someone who doesn’t,” explained Larry McCroskey, who owns the farm his great-great grandfather purchased in 1842. Larry McCroskey, along with his sister, MacAnna McCroskey-Murray, can still trod upon the soil where their great-great grandparents toiled all those years ago. The siblings felt strongly about preserving their ancestors’ legacy. “It is not a century farm, but it is

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a century and three-quarters farm,” said Larry with a grin.

Larry and MacAnna’s great-great grandfather, Reverend Matthew McCroskey, farmed the original 190-acre plat of land beginning in the 1840s. “In those early days it was their job to grow their food to stay alive,” said Larry. A century later, when Larry’s father and grandfather worked the land, the focus centered on corn, hogs and orchardgrass seed. They kept their farm diverse, hoping to have at least one aspect of the farm that produced top-dollar for that year. “They tried to hit on something on an annual basis. They practiced diversified farming to lower their risk,” said Larry. Though they sold a variation of farm commodities, they discovered a niche with orchardgrass seed.

One of Larry’s distinctive childhood memories of the farm is helping harvest orchardgrass seed. “I got in on the last days of the threshing machine,” Larry re-

called. He remembers running the binder over the fields, bundling the orchardgrass and then stacking the bundles upright against each other so they would dry out.

“One of my first jobs was to figure out how to use the seed cleaner,” said Larry.

He remembers struggling as a kid, trying to figure out which screens to use to sort the seed. Little did he know that the tasks he mastered as a child on the farm, he would revisit years later as owner of Nixa Hardware and Seed Company.

The McCroskey farm has continued to grow and thrive through the generations and have built their farm to around 500 acres. “In my tenure, it was cattle and fescue seed. I never had corn or hogs. I did have wheat and soybeans,” said Larry. When he turned 55-years-old, Larry, sold all his beef cattle. He currently leases the land to other farmers.

When he reflects on his childhood on the farm, Larry recalls a favorite story his

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John and Joy Dees own 300 acres and lease an additional 2,000 acres in Powersite, Mo., not far from Branson. The land has been in the family since the early 1900s when John’s grandfather bought the first 80 acres. John said, “This land has been as important as a location for raising our families as for raising cattle. A lot of people have grown up here. In fact, we now have three households on the land.” John and Joy have three children and one granddaughter who lives in town but loves riding in the Kubota, being around cattle and enjoying the country.

Family is the center of everything and John readily admits that he couldn’t farm without extended famTo supplement the income from ily members helping work his cattle John Dees sells hay, cattle, build fence or whatspreads lime and fertilizer, hauls ever else needs to be done. and does custom dozing.

The farm currently supports 100 Angus/Brangus crossbred mommas and three registered John believes preconditioning the momAngus bulls. John likes the mixture be- ma cows is essential for a successful herd. cause he believes calving is easier, milk He does this by supplying good grass and is richer, calves grow better and, just supplementing with a commercial feed of as importantly, the herd handles hot at least 18 percent protein and corn gluten, weather well due to the Brahman influ- a byproduct of making ethanol. He also ence. John keeps cows typically for 12 works the cattle vaccinating, deworming to 14 years as long as they and castrating to prevent problems as have no flaws such as bad much as is possible. John prefers casfeet or eye issues. John did trating to banding because he once some AI but is not satisfied had to cut out a missed testicle. with a 60 percent pregnancy John laughed, “It’s not very hard rate combined with the cost of to count to two and then you paying someone else to do it. Powersite, Mo. are certain.”

John said, “I’d just as soon let John readily admits that the bulls do their job.” cattle prices are better than

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meet your neighbors ever before and that up until now inputs such as fertilizer, rent and feed often made making a profit difficult. He believes that good times like these are when people should pay off debts so their inputs are lower when the market drops.

John also believes in multiple streams of income. He sells hay, spreads lime and fertilizer, hauls and does custom dozing.

Though he personally was impacted far less than others by the drought, John did have to downsize his herd which is at the smallest level in many years though the numbers are now recovering. Nonetheless, the farm had sufficient water and more than enough hay for their needs.

On the other hand, fulfilling the needs of his regular customers was problematic and he had to hustle to keep them supplied. He also tried to help others, especially in Texas, where the devastation was so severe. He hauled in what hay he could and charged only what the hay and transportation cost him though that cost was still very high. John is fully aware that the damage brought about by the drought gave birth to strong cattle market now.

Government programs have been an occasional help. John used drought assistance in 2012 but also received disaster relief on rental land after a tornado in 2009 when fences needed to be rebuilt and land reconditioned. John believes the programs are there to help when you have a specific need and that taking advantage of the system hurts everyone.

John has six waterers supplied by rural water, which is cleaner and more dependable than ponds and most springs.

John quipped, “The trade-off, of course, is digging a lot of pipeline but we always have the water we need.”

John’s pastures and hay fields are mostly fescue mixed with clovers and orchardgrass. John likes Ladino Clover because it seeds back and Korean Lespedeza because it is a good hot weather legume. He fertilizes with both chicken litter and commercial fertilizer believing chicken litter is cheaper in the long run but commercial fertilizer is the optimum solution for pinpointing solutions on a specific piece of troubled ground.

John and Joy’s goals for the farm are to buy more land little by little. They JANUARY 12, 2015

want to develop a farm that will provide a good supplemental income without great difficulty and continue to be a place for raising future generations.

John Dees feeds in Ladino Clover and Korean Lespedeza into his pastures and hay fields to balance the fescue and orchardgrass.

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Jerry Hiland uses simple techniques to improve his herd and pastures One glance across the beautiful golden green rolling hills that make up the 2,500 acre Rambling River Ranch owned by Jerry and Gisela Hiland in rural Camden County explains why the former California residents bought this land and traveled back and forth for years, beginning in 1978. “I’m a pilot and I’d fly back

“Of course, none of us are exactly sure what to do right now because we don’t know how long these cattle prices will stay up but as long as they do….” He finished with a big smile.

“Right now, we have about 120 Black Angus that are crossbred with a horned Hereford bull. I lease out about 500 acres and have another 400 in pasture. I’ve

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To maintain the soil in his pastures and to save money Jerry Hiland uses a soil test before applying fertilizer.

Photo by Laura L. Valenti

every few weeks,” the now retired, full- had as many as 400 head but honestly, I time Missouri resident and cattle rancher don’t want to work that hard anymore. I explained recently while sitting in his cut a lot of hay and have four hay barns home with his own panoramic view of on the place.” The Hilands’ farm is bithe Ozarks. “I was in the retail business sected by the Dry Glaize, a waterway back then, working for IBM and then op- that can run as deep as 15 feet during erating a chain of retail cigar stores. My flood stage but is more often a creek, crossing the property and accounting son still has a cigar store in for the ranch’s colorful name.

Scottsdale, Ariz., and does a “I sell hay to a few horse people big mail order business but I in the area. One of the former always had a love for the catowners of this property, Dr. tle business. I did my research Claiborne rode his Fox Trotbefore buying and although it ter to make house calls. You varies a bit, Missouri is always Decaturville, Mo. one of the top states for cattle and cow-calf operations.

— Continued on Page 18

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town &

country

in the field and in the office

Larry Gregory Family: Larry Gregory lives in Laclede County with his wife, Melissa, and two daughters, Gracie and Eden.

In Town: Larry Gregory of Laclede County has been working for the Lebanon MFA Feed Division in Lebanon, Mo., for nearly seven years. “We help people with feed rations as they figure out their goals for the growth of their cattle and any changes they need or want to make,” he explained on a quick break at the busy MFA store. “We write up the orders for bulk feed, primarily beef cattle, but we also do some dairy and hog rations, as well as a few horse rations. We do different custom mixes. Of course, corn is king but we make up different mixes depending on the customer’s protein and energy goals.

We also do bagged rations for goats, deer, show cattle and horses. Basically, whatever feed ingredients are needed, for whatever kind of livestock, we can put it together.”

In the Country: While many have given up dairy farming in this part of the country in recent years, Larry has found a unique niche that allows him to continue to work in a vastly changed and changing industry. “I raise Holstein cattle. At the moment, I have 200 head with 120 yearlings on 325 acres. I’m what you call a contract grower. I raise cattle for Fair Oaks Dairy out of Indiana. They milk 30,000 cattle a day.”

By Ozarks’ standards, Larry admitted with a grin that was a huge number of cattle to be milked daily and more than he could really imagine. “They ship me 200 pound calves every year and I ship them back 7 months bred,” he explained the process. Larry has been in this line of work since 2002. “While in college, I worked for Dr. Lloyd Gloe, a veterinarian in Marshfield, Mo., and he really helped me get started in the contract heifer program. His neighbor was also a broker for this dairy.

“I started with 50 head and I got another load of 50 the following year. I’ve received 120 head every March since. The turn over makes for a constant cash flow.”

Making it all Work: “That’s somewhat of a struggle. It doesn’t seem to matter if you are working 5 acres or 5,000, there is always something that needs to be done or that I want to get done. My dad helps me some, but I’m pretty much a one-man band. My wife, Melissa, also works and my daughters, Gracie age 5 and Eden age 4, really enjoy ‘helping daddy feed cattle’ which usually consists of merely watching.

They are growing so fast though it will seem like next week when they are big enough to carry feed buckets on their own.

“For now, I don’t have any plans to expand. I’ll just stay about the size I am so I can keep working, keep up with the chores, and still have time to spend with the family.”

Story and Photo

By Laura L. Valenti JANUARY 12, 2015

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Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

112.00-138.00* 1 No Sale - Holiday †

Interstate Regional Stockyards

No Sale - Holiday †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

No Sale - Holiday †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

111.00-142.50 † No Sale - Holiday*

Lebanon Livestock Auction Mo-Ark - Exeter

Not Reported*

MO-KAN Livestock Market

No Sale - Holiday †

Ozarks Regional Stockyard - West Plains

No Sale - Holiday*

South Central Regional Stockyards

No Sale - Holiday

Springfield Livestock Marketing

No Sale - Holiday

80

100

120

slaughter

140

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160

180

cows

(Week of 12/28/14 to 1/3/15)

94.00-119.50*

Buffalo Livestock Market Douglas County Livestock

No Sale - Holiday †

Interstate Regional Stockyards

No Sale - Holiday †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

No Sale - Holiday † 96.00-126.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

No Sale - Holiday*

Lebanon Livestock Auction

Not Reported*

Mo-Ark - Exeter

No Sale - Holiday †

MO-KAN Livestock Market

No Sale - Holiday †

Ozarks Regional Stockyard - West Plains

No Sale - Holiday †

South Central Regional

No Sale - Holiday †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

40

60

80

100

cow/calf

120

140

160

pairs

(Week of 12/28/14 to 1/3/15) Buffalo Livestock Markett

1450.00-2575.00* No Sale - Holiday †

Douglas County Livestock - Ava

No Sale - Holiday †

Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

No Sale - Holiday †

Joplin Regional Stockyards Kingsville Livestock Auction

None Reported

Lebanon Livestock Auction

No Sale - Holiday*

No Sale - Holiday

South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna

1000

2000

3000

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4000

5000

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

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

(Week of 12/28/14 to 1/3/15) Buffalo Livestock

1750.00-1900.00* No Sale - Holiday †

Douglas County Livestock - Ava Interstate Regional Stockyards - Cuba

No Sale - Holiday †

Holsteins, Lg. 3

No Sale - Holiday †

Joplin Regional Stockyards

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

1785.00-2350.00 †

Kingsville Livestock Auction

No Sale - Holiday*

Lebanon Livestock Auction

Not Reported*

Mo-Ark - Exeter

Ava Douglas County† -----

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No Sale - Holiday

Springfield Livestock Marketing

MO-KAN Livestock Market - Butler Ozarks Regional Stockyards - West Plains South Central Regional Stockyards - Vienna

No Sale - Holiday †

Heifers, Med. & Lg. 1

No Sale - Holiday † No Sale - Holiday

†

No Sale - Holiday †

Springfield Livestock Marketing

16 16

sheep &

2000

3000

goats

Diamond, Mo. • TS Whites Sheep and Goat Sale

1/1/15

Receipts: 1777 Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 wooled traditional few 103-132 lbs 175.00-185.00; hair lambs 50-70 lbs 220.00-265.00; 70-80 lbs 210.00-235.00; 80-100 lbs 205.00-210.00.

Feeder/Stocker Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 20-30 lbs 180.00-220.00; 30-40 lbs 225.00-230.00; 4050 lbs 220.00-250.00; 50-60 lbs 205.00-240.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-3 wooled 135-228 lbs 75.00-105.00; hair 110-160 lbs 90.00-105.00; 85110 lbs 95.00-140.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Medium and Large 1-2 wooled 175-310 lbs 75.00-90.00; hair Bucks: 130-185 lbs 85.00-95.00.

Replacement Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 78148 lbs 105.00-147.50.

Goats: Slaughter Classes: Kids Selection 1 40-50 lbs 255.00260.00; 50-60 lbs 240.00-257.50; 60-70 lbs 267.50270.00; 70-80 lbs 255.00-267.50; Selection 2 40-50 lbs 240.00-257.50; 50-60 lbs 255.00-260.00; 60-70 lbs 250.00-260.00; 70-80 lbs 235.00-250.00; 80-90 lbs

Select 175.00 Billies lbs 115 Replac Nanni lbs 145 Billies Feeder 195.00 30-50

Koshkonong, Mo. • Oregon Cty Sheep and Goat Market 12/27/14

Nation

Receipts: 91 Slaughter Classes: Goats: Kids Selection: 1 45-60 lbs 230.00; 61-80 lbs 230.00. Selection 2 45-60 lbs 210.00.

Slaughter Does/Nannies: Selection 1-2 115.00. Selection 3 85.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1-2 135.00.

Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 hair 80 lbs and under 160.00-200.00.

Receipts: 243 Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 hair 40-50 lbs 200.00-205.00; 50-60 lbs 190.00-220.00; 70-90 lbs 180.00-225.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good wooled one package 155 lbs 80.00; hair 75-130 lbs 65.00-90.00.

Replacement Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2: wooled one package 157 lbs 85.00; hair 115-130 lbs few 105.00120.00 cwt with some packages at 105.00-135.00 per head.

Slaughter Bucks: wooled one package 195 lbs 160.00 cwt.

Goats: Slaughter Classes: Kids Selection: 1 40-50 lbs 255.00260.00; 50-60 lbs 240.00-250.00; Selection 1-2 60-70 lbs 220.00-240.00; 70-80 lbs 210.00-225.00; 80-90 lbs 180.00-215.00; 90-100 lbs 185.00-205.00; Selection 2 40-50 lbs 200.00-212.50; 50-60 lbs 210.00-215.00.

Doe/Nannies: Selection 1 100-135 lbs 110.00-130.00;

stocker & feeder

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5000

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400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Buffalo Livestock Auction* 1/3/15

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†

No Sale - Holiday †

Ozarks Regional Stockyard - West Plains

1000

Receipts: 765 The demand was good and the supply heavy. There were 05 percent springer heifers, 10 percent bred heifers, 40 percent open heifers, 05 percent fresh heifers and cows, 03 percent milking cows, 04 percent bred and springer cows, and 04 percent baby calves.

The balance was steers, bulls and slaughter cows.

Several milking cows and bred heifers sold by the pound. Prices reported on a per head basis and for Holsteins unless noted otherwise.

Springer Heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme 2000.00-2425.00, Approved 1650.00-1900.00, few crossbreds 1500.00-1525.00, Medium few 1300.001400.00, ind crossbred 1425.00, Common few 1075.001225.00.

Heifers bred three to six months: Supreme 1875.002135.00, ind Jersey 1800.00, Approved 1600.001800.00, ind Jersey 1775.00, ind crossbred 1575.00, Medium 1250.00-1500.00, crossbreds 1300.00-1400.00, Common 900.00-1125.00.

Heifers bred one to three months: Supreme ind 1660.00, ind crossbred 1700.00, Approved 1400.001575.00, Medium 1350.00-1375.00, few crossbreds 1350.00-1400.00, Common 800.00-1200.00.

Open Heifers: Approved Lot of 10 head 290 lbs 600.00, Jerseys 230-250 lbs 460.00-470.00, 331-400 lbs 635.00685.00, 403-480 lbs 570.00- 760.00, few crossbreds 530.00-740.00, 524-585 lbs 750.00- 970.00, few crossbreds 680.00-720.00, 604-694 lbs 850.00-1000.00, lot of 9 head 658 lbs 1060.00, crossbreds 800.00-840.00, 760-785 lbs 950.00-1050.00, lot of 8 head 722 lbs 1090.00, lot of 12 crossbreds 701 lbs 1010.00, 810-885 lbs 1010.00-1300.00, 922-997 lbs 1280.00-1390.00, 1002-1038 lbs 1385.00-1410.00, Medium and Common

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Not Reported*

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195.00-230.00; 90-100 lbs 190.00-205.00; Selection 3 50-60 lbs 215.00-230.00; 60-70 lbs 210.00-240.00.

Does/Nannies: Selection 1 100-160 lbs 120.00-150.00; Selection 2 90-100 lbs 142.50-165.00; 66-92 lbs 170.00-197.50; Selection 3 70-130 lbs 125.00-145.00.

Billies: Selection 1-2 100-130 lbs 135.00-155.00; Selection 2-3 aged weathers 85-125 lbs 155.00-175.00; Selection 3 88-100 lbs 155.00-170.00.

Replacement Nannies: Selection 1-2 70-102 lbs 155.00-180.00 cwt.

Billies: Selection 1 320.00-500.00 per head.

Stocker/Feeder Kids: Selection 2 20-40 lbs 240.00260.00; Selection 3 30-40 lbs 195.00-225.00; 40-50 lbs 190.00-235.00.

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1/4/15

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 161.50-169.00; wtd. avg. price 165.74.

Heifers: 163.00-168.00; wtd. avg. price 166.29.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 262.00-267.00; wtd. avg. price 264.78.

Heifers: 264.00-268.00; wtd. avg. price 265.51.

Open Heifers were scarce.

Replacement Cows: Fresh Cows: Supreme 1975.00-2100.00, Approved 1600.00-1825.00, Medium 1475.00-1530.00, Common 1200.00-1325.00, crossbreds 710.00-1300.00.

Milking Cows: Supreme few 1825.00-1875.00, ind Brown Swiss 1925.00, ind crossbred 1875.00, Approved 1530.00-1650.00, few Jerseys 1500.00-1600.00, Medium few 1425.00-1475.00, few crossbreds 1500.00-1550.00, Common few crossbreds 1050.00-1300.00.

Springer Cows: Supreme ind 1925.00, Approved ind 1760.00, few crossbreds 1625.00-1725.00, Medium few 1400.00-1450.00.

Bred Cows: Approved few crossbreds 1600.00-1775.00, Medium 1375.00-1450.00, Common few Jerseys 885.001375.00, few crossbreds 1380.00-1390.00.

Baby Calves: Holstein heifers scarce, Holstein bulls 360.00-460.00, small few 270.00, Crossbred heifers-ind 250.00, Crossbred bulls 380.00-480.00.

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Receipts: 5,854 Weaner pigs mostly steady. Supply light and demand moderate. (Prices Per Head.)

Early weaned pigs 10 lb. base weights, FOB the farm 0% negotiated, 3820 head, 10 lbs, 36.00-46.00, weighted average 42.61.

Early weaned pigs 10 lb base weights, Delivered 61% negotiated, 2034 head, 10 lbs, 64.00-77.50, weighted average 72.30.

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Hay movement continues to be limited due to large supplies and lack of winter snow cover. Farmers are feeding slightly more hay with each passing week but many farmers with low cattle inventories still have cattle eating what is left of stockpiled pastures. Hay piles in several cases still look untouched with many bales still left of the 2013 crop which due to that years growing conditions has very little feed value left. Although if run threw a grinder and supplemented with the abundance of available corn is quite suitable for feeding. The supply of hay is moderate to heavy 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.

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Cheese: Barrels closed at $1.5400 and 40# blocks at $1.5700 on Friday. The weekly average for barrels is $1.4794(-.0181) and blocks, $1.5344(-.0275).

Fluid Milk: Milk production is steady to increasing nationwide. Manufacturing milk supplies are still higher than normal. Bottling demand has declined but is expected to pick up shortly as schools start a new semester. Butter/powder and cheese manufacturers will manage milk intakes through the balance of the week. Cream supplies are heavy this week with increased volumes going to churns. Trucking continues to be an issue for several reasons but mainly due to a shortage of drivers.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM: $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT, F.O.B., producing plants, Upper Midwest $1.6747-1.9938.

$160

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National Dairy Market

$200

Week of 12/14/14

dairy & fed cattle

Sales Reported. *Early weaned pigs are under 19 days old. **Most lots of feeder pigs have a sliding value from the negotiated weight basis which is calculated on the actual average weight of the load plus or minus .25-.40 per pound. Some early weaned lots have a slide of .50-1.00 per pound.

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Selection 2 50-93 lbs 130.00-150.00; young nannies 60-90 lbs 155.00175.00; Selection 3 50-120 lbs 95.00-130.00.

Billies: Selection 1-2 145-165 lbs 145.00-167.50; Selection 3 75-155 lbs 115.00-145.00.

Replacement: Nannies: Selection 1 103-155 lbs 130.00-140.00; Selection 2 90-95 lbs 145.00-165.00.

Billies: Selection 1 few 125-140 lbs 160.00.

Feeder/Stocker kids: Selection 2 20-30 lbs 155.00-275.00; 30-40 lbs 195.00-230.00; Selection 2-3 18-30 lbs 150.00-165.00; Selection 3 30-50 lbs 153.50-185.00.

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550-600 lb. steers

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0-130 lbs 135.00-155.00; hers 85-125 lbs 155.00-175.00; 55.00-170.00.

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Keeping it Simple and Keeping Quality Continued from Page 14 lose 30 to 40 percent of your hay quality Jerry attended grazing school years ago by leaving it outside so I keep mine in- and plans to do so again this coming side. You can pay for a hay barn in short spring. “I practice intensive grazing and order, selling better quality hay and it I’d like to work more closely with wildlife smells better, too.” conservation.” He also has plans to add In addition to the cattle business, Jer- A.I. (artificial insemination) to his operary also makes use of his forested land to tion this coming year as one more way to meet another popuimprove his herd. lar demand in the “You have to main“I once heard an Ozarks. “I lease acretain your soil,” Jerry old farmer say you added in closing, “and age to White Tail Inc., for deer hunting can’t starve a dollar do your soil testing each year. They only out of a cow. I’m still each year before you take the bigger anifertilize. That will cernot sure what that tainly save you a lot mals and are here for just the first three days means but for some of money,” referring to of deer season.” the soil’s pH content reason, it always Jerry also serves as a which should remain stuck with me.” distributor for a baked slightly acidic for the mineral supplement best forage growth.

– Jerry Hiland, that he uses with his “You want to keep your Camden County own cattle. “The first soil at about a 5.7 level.

Cattleman time I used this prodI once heard an old uct, I liked it so much farmer say, ‘you can’t I decided to sell it myself, to family and starve a dollar out of a cow.’ I’m still not friends,” he continued. “With other sup- sure what that means,” he concluded with a plements I found that they were often laugh, “but for some reason, it always stuck wasted if the weather turned rainy after with me. Certainly not wasting money on you put it out or if the animals turned it tons of fertilizer when you don’t need it, is over. This product is in a tub, with a mo- one more way to save a few of those dollars. lasses base and it holds up well, even in “I like to keep it all as simple as posthe rain. The deer also love it. You can sible. I don’t expect you’ll get rich in the always see their hoof prints around the cattle business any more but it is an entubs and they took some big deer here, joyable way to make a living. I make less this past season, so it apparently works now than I ever have but I’m happier for them, too.” doing something I really enjoy.”

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Mason Hayes Age: 10 Parents: Jarrod and Carla Hayes Hometown: Everton, Mo. Grade: 5 4-H Club: Turnback Trailblazers, Dade County 4-H Leader: Carla Hayes (mom) How are you involved in agriculture?

“I’m involved with my grandfather’s beef (a herd of mostly Charolais owned by Carl Wright). I help him with shots. He lets me give some of the shots in the neck. He also lets me use the dart gun to shoot them from the truck sometimes. We bring them up and he lets me get in the corral with him to sort, count and stuff. I look to see if they are bred or ready to breed. If they are ready to calve, I look to see if their rear end is a little swollen.

“I also help my dad a lot on the tractors (Jarrod runs Hayes Tractor service right on the farm in Dade County). I put a lot of things together for him. He has me put the oil pans back on. I work on the hydraulics; putting in pins and tightening the hoses.

Last night I took out the hydraulic in the bush hog – the thing that makes it go up and down. I also change spark plugs. I know how to change brakes.

Every once in awhile I have to have dad’s help ‘cause I get mixed up. I know how to put brakes together; I know how they fit and stuff.”

What else are you doing?

“I also show. I show one Shorthorn, the rest are Charolais. The main one is like a pet. Her name is sugar. You can pet her in the field.

“I went to Texarkana in 2013 to the Junior National Show for Charolais. (What’d you get?) I think I was 4th.” (Mom from the other room: “No, you were last in your class.) Nothing like your mom to bring you back down to earth but remember, Mason was only 8 years old at the time.

“This year I have two heifers I might show. I have been brushing them and getting them ready. I have a friend Elijah who might show, so I’m thinking about showing and going over there. I might teach him a couple of things.”

What are your 4-H projects this year?

“Beef, leather – my first year, camping and archery. I did robotics last year.”

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Creep gates are one option. This stationary gate has opening large enough for calves to go through, but not large enough for an adult cow, so calves can access the supplemental feed on their terms.

Another option could be incorporated in your rotational grazing program. A few days before you give the herd access to the next

By Jessica Bailey strip or paddock, allow the calves access by placing the fence wire he cattle industry has rarely seen better times than right higher (or installing a creep gate). The premium grazing can be now. The local stockyards lowest price at the last sale of utilized by the growing calves.

2014 was $127/cwt… for a Holstein 900 lb steer, a price But how does creep feeding add to the bottom line when you have that most of us would have been ecstatic to receive for the added expense of additional feed and/or gates, fences, etc.? Simthe same black steer just a couple years ago. Feed costs ply by adding pounds to that calf. At today’s cattle and input prices, are low – local cash prices for corn and soybeans are averaging a mere extra 50 pounds can be gained at a very little cost over a 3-5 Jessica Bailey is an $3.50/bu and $9.55/bu, respectively. A good summer left us with month period. A bonus result is that the supplemental feed takes agricultural lender at hay and stockpiled pasture. In fact, things are going so well, the some pressure off the momma cow, allowing her to maintain a betHometown Bank in pessimistic farmer in all of us is wondering when the other shoe ter body condition, which means easier, quicker breed back and Neosho, Mo. A resident is going to drop, and how hard. We all know the markets have to healthier calves overall. It is a win-win for all involved. of Newton County, she correct themselves at some time. So, how can we best take advanManaging the nutrition of your herd is the best investment you can also raises cattle on tage of the industry environment right now? One option would be make.

Calves are healthier and fatter, which means a higher price her family’s farm and creep feeding. at the stockyards, and your breeding herd is also better conditioned is an active alumni of For those unfamiliar with the idea, creep feeding is giving unto produce those better calves. And investing in those fixed inputs, the Crowder College weaned calves access to additional feed away from the momma such as gates and fencing, now, when sale prices are high, frees up Aggie Club. cows. It is used as a supplement to, not a replacement for, momcapital for nutritional supplements when prices are not as good. So ma’s milk. Calves naturally start exploring the grass, hay and feed when that market correction comes, and come it will, hopefully you available to the momma cows, some as early as a few days of age, but there are ad- will have positioned your operation and your herd nutritionally so that you can conditional ways we can help that process along. tinue to bring those “nice” calves to market and receive the premium pricing.

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Time to Supplement?

By Klaire Howerton

Experts urge producers to test their forage instead of guessing what nutrients cows are lacking Almost every farmer or rancher has encountered a situation look only at what the cost is on a dry matter basis for the nutrients your cattle are short of. where the body condition of their livestock begins to decline. This Protein is usually less of a worry than energy, calories or total digestible nutrients (TDN).”

Cattle producers also need to consider their performance goals when choosing supsituation can be caused by several different factors – drought, poor quality forage, stress, or a tough winter, to name a few. When these or other circumstances arise, it plement. Are you after better milk production, or higher weaning weights? Do you can be assumed that this is a good time to implement a supplement program for your want better utilization of any available forage? Shea Barber, regional sales manager for cattle. “Supplement implies you do not feel the ration being provided to an animal SmartLic Supplements in South Dakota and Feed in a Drum Supplements in Oklais sufficient to allow it to perform up to your expectations. Thus, you’ll need to add homa, said, “Supplements enhance the digestibility of poor-quality forage.” He also an ingredient or two in order to meet the nutritional needs of the animal,” said El- notes that “supplementation improves rumen function, provides more energy through dry matter intake, and leads to better semen quality.” don Cole, livestock specialist at the University of MisOnce you determine your production goals, you can souri Extension. The first step in putting a supplement Supplementation improves move on to evaluating the cost of supplements that will program into play is to evaluate the current nutrition rumen function, provides help you achieve them. “A good, grass-legume forage being provided to the animal, followed by selecting the system should reduce forage supplement needs and save proper supplement and finally, making the supplement more energy through dry money,” noted Eldon Cole. available to your herd. matter intake, and leads to

better semen quality.”

Feed: After selecting the proper supplement for –Shea Barber, regional sales manager your cattle herd needs and desired performance goals, the program, you first need to know your cattle, and know for SmartLic Supplements and Feed in a final step in your program is to get it into your cow’s diets. your feed. Observation can often be the first clue to Drum Supplements There are a few things to consider to make sure you are whether or not your herd needs supplementing. If you supplementing as efficiently as possible; if you have senotice a drop in weight, loss of coat or hair sheen, and dull eyes, it’s time to take action. The next step needs to be to conduct a forage lected a powdered or granulated supplement, such as a dry mineral mix, you will want analysis with the help of your local extension. Eldon Cole noted that when it comes to keep it covered in the pasture – rain and snow can cause this form of supplement to forage, cattle producers need to “test don’t guess.” This test can help you deter- to clump and harden. Supplement blocks and hard cooked tubs like those offered by Missouri Livestock and Feed in a Drum will hold up to the weather more consistently. mine what nutrients your cows are lacking.

Liquid feed supplements are a convenient form of supplement, but make sure your tub Select: “A supplement may be high-quality pasture such as wheat, rye or ryegrass, is sitting on a level area to avoid excess spillage.

There is a lot of information to consider when supplementing, but observing your alfalfa hay, by-product feeds such as corn gluten feed, soybean hulls, dried distillers grain, corn or any number of commercially prepared meals, cubes, blocks, barrels, tubs, liquid cattle, analyzing your forage, and keeping good records of cost and performance can feeds and the list goes on,” Eldon Cole said. “When shopping for supplements, seriously keep you on the right track.

Evaluate: To make the most of a supplement

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How will you stretch your feed and forage supplies this winter?

“I use hay rings for feeding cattle, not much difference when feeding pigs. I also give a molasses tub to the cattle. It gives them more nutrients so that they aren’t needing so much from the forage.”

Rick Cameron Barry County

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“By using stockpiled fescue to stretch the cattle through for another month. I am getting ready to turn them out in the pasture next week. I have two pastures of fescue I have not grazed since August.”

Dave Loftin Christian County

“Extend your grazing by using strip grazing and utilize the forage you have to the maximum.”

“I tighten my strip grazing down. Where I was grazing for three days I have cut it down to one day. They seem to waste less with the shorter grazing. I also keep mineral supplement out and unroll hay as needed.”

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A look at new technology and products that are rolling out this year

Six New Models for KIOTI NX Series Tractors

KIOTI has recently added six new models to its NX Series of tractors. The new models are an open station platform featuring common rail diesel engins, independent rear braking, remote three-point control, a lift arm adjustment handle and diesel particulate filters. The HST models offer dual hydrostatic transmission pedals to reduce fuel consumption and simplify tractor utility and loader applications, and optional true-speed cruise control and turn assist control. The NX Series engies gross 45 to 55 HP, have a rear PTO speed of 540 RPM and a 3,177 lb. lift capacity.

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Honda Updates the FourTrax Foreman Rubicon 4x4

Honda has announced a variety of improvements and new features for their 2015 Lineup of FourTrax Foreman Rubicon 4x4 ATVs. They started out by adding Independent Rear Suspension (IRS) to improve ride quality and handling. Front and rear suspension travel were increased to 7.3 and 8.5 inches, respectively, without sacrificing vehicle size, a low center of gravity or handling abilities. All four shocks are preload adjustable and connected to an all new double-cradle steel frame. The Rubicon also received upgrades to the brakes, tires, engine, fuel injection system and gearbox.

New Roll Belt Balers from New Holland

New Holland introduced the Roll-Belt 560 variable-chamber round baler in 2014 that produces a 5’x6’ round bale.

The company is adding three new models in 2015. The 450, 460 and 550 which produce bales in 4’x5’, 4’x6’ and 5’x5’ sizes respectively. According to New Holland, the new balers increase bale density by 5 percent while allowing for 20 percent more capacity, 20 percent more power available to the belts and 20 percent more puncture resistant belts than the previous BR7000 series balers.

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John Deere 6R & 6D Tractor Improvements

John Deere 6D Series tractors now come with two new transmission options: a 12/12 PowrReverser or the optional 24/12 PowrReverser Hi/Lo transmission.

The 6R Series tractors have received extra horsepower with three new models: the 6175R, 6195R and 6215R. All engines are Final Tier-4 compliant and both models are receiving a new hydraulic valve stack, better visibility to rear SCVs, new remote rear couplers and an IVT transmission with new overdrive. The cab interiors have also been updated with a new Command ARM with 7” Gen. 4 CommandCenter touch-screen display and a 30° right hand swivel seat.

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2015 Suzuki KingQuad 750AXi Power Steering

Kubota Expands Tractor Line with Introduction of MX5800

The new KingQuad 750AXi Power Steering is Suzuki’s most powerful and technologically advanced ATV. The 722cc fuel-injected engine has been tuned to provide plenty of low-to-mid range torque and powerful high-rpm output. The 750AXi’s advanced power steering system provides easy maneuverability and responsive handling. With independent rear suspension, a high/low range CVT transmission with reverse and standard locking front differential, the 750AXi combines features to make the ride and drive easy without losing the ability to work.

Kubota Tractor Corporation has recently introduced its latest addition to the MX-Series utility ag tractor line. The new MX5800 is a four-wheel-drive HST model with a turbocharged 4 cylinder engine producing 61.4 gross horsepower. The MX5800 was designed to provide environmentally-friendly performance by meeting new Tier-4 Final emissions standards while increasing engine power and including ergonomic features for driver comfort.

2015 Kawasaki Brute Force® 750 4x4i EPS

An Electric Power Steering (EPS) system included standard on the 2015 Kawasaki Brute Force® 750 4x4i EPS provides the rider with an effortless ride in a larger ATV. The new EPS system, 749cc VTwin Engine, four-wheel independent suspension and dual range four-wheel drive improve traction, handling and versatility.

Bush Hog Introduces New Additions to its Cutter Lineup

New RB Series Round Balers from Case IH

The new RB5 series round balers from Case IH deliver 20 percent more capacity than its predecessor and comes in three sizes – the RB455 (4’x5’), RB465 (4’x6’) and RB565 (5’x6’) models. The RB455 and RB465 are available in four configurations for hay, silage, rotor cutter and rotor feeder. The RB565 comes in three versions for hay, wide pickup and premium. The hay, silage, wide pickup and premium models feather a new overshot feeder between the pickup and bale chamber to create quick and even feed into the bale chamber.

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Bush Hog has several new models that have been added to their line of rotary cutters. The new Bush Hog 1815 Flex-Wing Rotary Cutter features a 15’ cutting width and is designed to cut weeds, grasses and brush up to 2 1/2” in diameter. The cutter is designed to work with tractors from 60 to 130 horsepower and is recommended for pasture maintenance, corn shredding, drainage areas and general maintenance locations. The 1815 has smooth decks and a standard gearbox sight glass for easy maintenance and comes standard with features adopted from the heavyweight units such as Perma-Level Hitch and distribution baffles and standard features like EZ lube drivelines and highway transportation lights.

Bush Hog has also reintroduced their Razorback Series of Rotary Cutters. The Razorback Series is designed to be an economical option for home and small farm use. The Razorback comes in 4’, 5’ and 6’ cutting widths, have minimum tractor PTO HP requirements of 15hp, 20hp and 25hp respectively and can handle brush and grass up to 1-inch in diameter.

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Get Prepared for Calving Season

By Gary Digiuseppe

Now is a good time to get your calving tools ready It’s time to get ready for spring calving, according to Dr. Tom Troxel, University of Arkansas professor of animal science. “This is a time for getting your cows a good, clean pasture,” Troxel told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor, adding it’s also a good idea to deworm your cows 30-45 days before calving. “It’s been shown that when cows calve, they shed a lot of internal parasites,” Troxel said.

“If you deworm your cows prior to calving, that helps reduce the internal parasite load of your calves.”

Troxel recommended producers use the opportunity to prepare all the tools they’ll need, like calving chains, lubricant, OB sleeves, and colostrum in the refrigerator. Also, make sure you’ve got the phone number of your veterinarian handy so that when you have an emergency, you’re ready to call.

Some pregnant heifers may actually calve in early winter, and it’s important to watch pregnant heifers carefully to be able to assist them when necessary.

“Sometimes you have light birth weight calves, so you have to be careful to make sure those calves will get up and nurse,” Troxel said. “Those calves may not have the energy to get up so make sure that those cows and calves pair up, and those calves get a good nursing of colostrum.”

Colostrum contains the proteins and antibiotics the calf will need to fight diseases early in life; if it’s a cold, wet winter, it will be the calf’s first line of defense against a potentially fatal bout of scours.

Eldon Cole, University of Missouri Extension area livestock specialist based in Lawrence County, said grass tetany can also be an issue. “I always tell people to start thinking around the first of the year to buy a grass tetany-type mineral that has 10 percent or more actual Mg in it,” Cole told OFN. “Those problems usually occur on these spring calving cows that

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are heavy milkers, and may be eating a pretty good amount of lower quality feed that may be low in magnesium.”

Cole acknowledged calving season has become a moving target. He explained historically all calves were usually born before the first of June, “but as time has gone on in Southwest Missouri we discovered that sometimes these cows that were running on fescue didn’t seem to want to breed back very readily, and wouldn’t breed back until the cooler weather in the fall after the ‘hot’ fescue had done a number on them.”

Cole, a 50-year veteran of Missouri Extension, said the trend of fall calving became more noticeable the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, as many ranchers were leaving their bulls out with the cows all year long.

He said, “We can get more bull power usage by having both calves in the spring and the fall, and we can lessen our bull expense per calf and spread out our marketing season.” But, he added, there are still a lot of cows that calve from midJanuary up through the first of May. Cole noted that while Extension talks about splitting up the cow herd so spring calvers and fall calvers are not running together, it doesn’t always happen that way in practice. However, it’s more economical to divide the herd so the fall calver is not getting the same feed as the spring calver that needs more feed and of higher quality. There is also the recent research that shows cows fed later in the day tend to calve more often in the daylight hours; while some people have reasons for feeding first thing in the morning – for instance, they may want to provide hay before they head to an off-farm job – Cole noted an earlier spring calving has the benefit of taking place when it’s not as cold and easier to see; also, if you have to call the veterinarian, he’d prefer to come out during the day than late at night.

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Consider the cost of the feed compared to the value of the additional weight gain when looking at creep feeding As feed prices have gone down and cattle prices have gone up, it’s become more attractive to consider creep feeding fall born calves. But be sure to crunch the numbers.

Dr. Shane Gadberry, professor of animal science with University of Arkansas Extension, told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor it’s all about the cost of the feed compared to the value of the additional weight gain.

“That’s your supplemental creep feed conversion rate, and that’s going to be dictated heavily by the quality of your pasture,” Gadberry said. “With fall-born calves, by the time we get around to creep feeding in the spring these calves are going to be 4-6 months of age, just prior to weaning, and many times that’s when our pastures are of greatest quality. So creep feed conversions can make that creep feed decision more of an expense than it is a reward on the weight gain.” Gadberry’s rule of thumb is if pasture is of good quality, the best case creep scenario is about 10 pounds of creep feed per pound of gain. Therefore, the 10 pounds of creep feed has to cost less than the value of the 1 pound of gain.”

Creep feeding is usually employed around the calf’s fourth month, and continues through weaning 2-3 months later. Gadberry said calves often have a better feed conversation on creep feeds with greater protein content, but achieve more total pounds of weight gain on feeds that are lower in protein but highly digestible, so it’s something of a trade off. “A common creep feed ration may be in the neighborhood of a balance between a good level of protein and a good level of energy, so they’ll often run around 17 percent protein,” he said.

Creep feed is often offered on a free choice basis and Eldon Cole, University of Missouri Extension area livestock specialist based in Lawrence County, said

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A number of commodities can be used in a creep ration, such as a forage/grain mix or byproducts like soyhulls, corn gluten feed and dried distillers’ grains. Cole recommended a good alfalfa hay as well; not only can it produce extra gain and growth, but if the animals are balking at the creep ration, a little alfalfa sprinkled over the top may be enough to entice them.

Ultimately, creep feeding should add 40-50 pounds of weight by the time of weaning. However, “Some calves never learn to go to a creep feeder,” Cole noted. “Maybe their mother is giving enough milk that they feel they don’t need to do that, or they don’t like the consistency of the feed. They could also be timid and don’t like the social activity that goes on around the creep feeder.”

Gadberry added that there can be a period of adaptation. In addition to eating out of a feeder for the first time, the calf also has to grow accustomed to the feed; for example, corn gluten feed sometimes has an odor that the calves may not readily accept.

With difference in particle size, the calf may also sort through the feed. However, he said they’ve found in general will readily accept many of the feedstuffs in time.

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Expanding the Fed Cattle Industry

By Gary Digusepppe

Governor Jay Nixon encourages more in state cattle finishing to help the rural economy The Ozarks are not a big cattle feeding region. diet is grain,” Gadberry told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor. “In Missouri reported 687 farms and about 85,000 feedlot cattle in those situations, we will typically see cattlemen feeding grain 2012, but that compares to over 26,000 feedlots and over 14 at a level where they’re trying to target somewhere around a million cattle nationwide; most of the Missouri feedlots are in 2.0-2.5 pound daily rate of gain. Those will typically be diets the northern part of the state. As of the 2012 Census of Agri- where about 60 percent of what the calf eats is a grain or a culture, Arkansas had only 8 farms with a combined total of 235 grain byproduct feed-type mix.”

Gadberry said up until recently, byproducts like distillers cattle on feed; although that may have been a function of the drought, the 2007 Census only recorded 75 farms with 1,965 grains, corn gluten feed or soybean hulls were the basis for the concentrate portion of the rations; frequently, they involved cattle on feed.

There is interest in expanding that industry in Missouri, and 3 or 5-way commodity blends. But this past fall, the drop in it was expressed by Gov. Jay Nixon on Dec. 17, at the 45th corn prices caused a shift. He said, “We might find a cattleman Governor’s Conference on Agriculture in Osage Beach, Mo. that’s backgrounding calves on a diet that is 30-40 percent Even though Missouri has the second largest state cattle herd hay, and the other 60-70 percent – if they’re really trying to after Texas, the governor said, “95 percent of the cattle we push those calves – could be a distillers’ grain/corn mix, inraise each year end up being finished and processed out-of- stead of the 3-way commodity blend that they may have used state,” and more than 75 percent leave the state immediately in the past.”

Some cattle are also fed out by entrepreneurs who market sides after weaning.

Gov. Nixon said that is costing Missouri’s rural economy of beef to neighbors or local stores or restaurants. Gadberry said, more than a billion dollars, and in order to keep more of the “The consumer may have interest in purchasing local product, returns in the state he planned to convene a first-ever “Beef and may be thinking they may be able to acquire beef more Summit” on Jan. 5, in Columbia that would address the ques- economically from the local cattleman.” Those ranchers, he tions of how more Missouri calves could be fed in the state, cautioned, “have to really watch their costs and make sure that and what it would take to get a major processing facility lo- when they are growing out that calf to 1,000 or more pounds cated in Missouri. The governor said, “Advances in the lab they’re looking at the cost that it took to get the calf there, to over the past 25 years have shown that it’s possible to feed and make sure they’re not providing that service at a financial loss process cattle using methods that are both economically and to their operation.”

But he said there has been increasing interest in procuring environmentally sustainable. So what’s stopping us?”

Dr. Shane Gadberry, professor of animal science with Univer- locally grown beef and other food, in part because consumsity of Arkansas Extension, said despite the lack of a cattle fin- ers want to support their local economies and farmers, and because they want ishing industry there to be more certain are two common sceof where their food narios in the Ozarks on 1,000+ Capacity Feedlots, United States comes from. Gadwhere calves may Million head berry said, “I’ve probbe fed a fairly high 11.5 ably made more farm rate of grain. One of visits in the past two those involves back- 11.0 years helping producgrounders who buy ers look at finishing weaned calves at the options on farm than sale barn rather than 10.5 I have in the past, growing them out on and it’s been for difpasture. “They’re ei- 10.0 ferent scales of being ther put in a dry lot 2013 2014 able to provide beef situation or they’re 9.5 to consumers.” housed on pasture, Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec but the bulk of their

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Smart Supplements for Small Ruminants

By Klaire Howerton

Keeping your small ruminants performing well throughout the cold season Any stockman worth his salt recognizes that the changing of the seasons brings a whole new set of challenges to the farm or ranch. This is especially true during the winter, when these challenges are accompanied by snow and ice. Feeding livestock like sheep and goats during the winter, and keeping them at their optimum performance level, is a challenge that can be overcome by introducing a supplement to help them get through the cold season. By feeding a supplement, “the animal’s overall health will be improved,” said Shea Barber, Regional Sales Manager for SmartLic Supplements in South Dakota and Feed in a Drum Supplements in Oklahoma.

Goats

Goats are known for their preference to eat brush/browse such as multiflora rose, wild raspberries and poison ivy. While some types of browse last into the winter months, goats will do well with some added supplementation in their diet. “Producers should provide supplemental protein to improve the digestibility of what animals are being fed,” Barber said. This is especially true for goats that may have access to low-quality forage during the winter. There are a vast number of supplements on the market to aid in this process. Hard cooked tubs (tubs filled with a supplemental substance with the consistency of peanut brittle) hold up to winter weather and moisture very well, which enhances the efficiency of the product. Hard cooked tubs like Feed in a Drum Goat 20 N provide the herd with vitamins, minerals and protein, while also supplying fermentable carbohydrates that optimize rumen fermentation. “It has to be licked to receive the benefits, which leads to consumption in trace amounts and better utilization of the product,” said Barber.

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nant herds. Ellen Dorsey, owner of Dill’s, A Little Goat Farm in Chelsea, Okla., said that loose mineral specifically formulated for goats is the best option for her program.

“I mix it right into their feed so they have to eat it,” she said. Still other producers supplement with natural products. Lesley and Barry Million, owners of Terrell Creek Farm, an Animal Welfare Approved dairy goat farm in Fordland, Mo., choose to use several different kinds of herbs in their supplement program; “Some are fed weekly to control parasites and some are used as needed for other issues (immune boosting, anti-bacterial or anti-fungal),” Lesley said.

Supplemental herbs fed at Terrell Creek Farm include black walnut hulls, garlic, ginger, pumpkin seed, fennel, dandelion, oat straw, apple cider vinegar, kelp and many others. Lesley also noted that goats require high amounts of copper in their diets.

Sheep

Sheep oftentimes prefer pasture over browse, which can be challenging in the winter. Luckily, sheep can greatly benefit from supplements too. Supplementing your sheep “leads to better offspring and milk production, and improves immune function,” Barber noted. SmartLic offers a hard cooked tub specifically formulated for sheep and lambs with low amounts of copper (excess amounts of copper can kill sheep).

The tub also promotes co-mingling within the sheep herd. Sheep can also be supplemented with other forages if you feel that your pasture is inadequate – alfalfa hay or alfalfa in chopped, cubed or pelleted forms makes a good high-protein supplement. If your farm does well with growing fescue, you might want to consider supplementing your sheep with stockpiled fescue during the cold months. “Winter stockpiled fescue is a safety net for many nutritional needs,” suggested Eldon Cole, livestock specialist for the University of Missouri Extension.

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Nevada, Mo. – 417-448-2560 to register 13 Beef Cattle Supplementation – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 15 The Affordable Care Act: What Individuals Need to Know – 6:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m. – Barry County Library, Cassville, Mo. – 417-847-3161 15,22 Farm Estate and Succession Planning Program – Cost: $50 per person, $90

per couple ($10 per person coming with couple) – First Baptist Church,

Lamar, Mo. – 6:00p.m.-9:00p.m. – 417-682-3579 17 Webster County Diversified Ag Conference – 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. – Cost:

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January 13th – Faith Southern Baptist Church, Marshfield, Mo. – 417-859-2044 20 Barry County Soil and Crops Conference – 6:00 p.m.-9:00p.m. – Cost: $5

– Cassville, Mo. – call to pre-register 417-847-3161 20 Reducing Stress for Better Health – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 22 90th Annual Dade County Soils & Crops Conference – 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. –

United Methodist Church Life Center, Lockwood, Mo. – 417-637-2112 22-24 Heart of Missouri Dairy Forum – Springfield, Mo. – 417-847-3161 23 Stay Strong, Stay Healthy Program – 10-week program on Friday mornings

– Marshfield, Mo. – 417-859-2044 27 Southwest Missouri MU Extension Beef Conference – Cost: $20 per person

if pre-register by January 20th, $30 per person after January 20th

– Stockton United Methodist Church, Stockton, Mo. – 417-276-3313 27 Getting Finances Back on Track – Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 28 or 29 Greene County Master Gardner Training Orientation – 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. –

required to attend MG Training sessions on February 17th – Springfield, Mo. – 417-881-8909 February 2015 2 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – $15.00 fee – 6:00 p.m. – Hermitage, Mo.

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Mo. – 417-532-7126 4 Crane Dairy Day – Crane Christain Church, Crane, Mo. – 417-847-3161 4 Jasper County Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.

– Cost: $15.00 per person – Jasper County Extension Office, Carthage, Mo.

– 417-358-2158 4 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. – Cost: $15.00

per person – Barton County Extension Office, Lamar, Mo. – 417-682-3579 5 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 6:00 p.m. – Dade County Extension

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6 Seeds of Prosperity, Local Food as Economic Development Seminar – 8:00 a.m.

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County Extension Center, Neosho, Mo. – 417-455-9500 10 Private Pesticide Applicator Training – 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. – New-Mac

Community Room, Anderson, Mo. – 417-455-9500 16 Polk County Private Pesticide Applicator Training – Bolivar, Mo. – 417-745-6767 17 Beef and Forage Meeting – West Plains Civic Center, West Plains, Mo. –

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Carthage water and electric building, Carthage, Mo. – 417-358-2158 19 Monett Dairy Day – Monett National Guard Armory, Monett, Mo. – 417-847-3161 23 Dallas County Private Pesticide Applicator Training – Buffalo, Mo. – 417-745-6767 23 Taney County Livestock & Forage Conference – 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. – Forsyth

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