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Scientist Monitor Watershed from Hog Farm: The complexities of water movement around a Newton County hog farm in the Big Creek watershed have prompted researchers to use an innovative approach to discover how nutrients move above and below ground. A team of research and extension scientists from the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture has been collecting data and monitoring the potential impact on water quality in Big Creek for nearly a year as part of a multi-layered, long-term study. The project is unique in many ways, said Andrew Sharpley, professor and leader of the Big Creek Research and Extension Team. “The methods used to collect data for the study were designed to address the concerns that people have about this farm,” he said. “Right now, we have a lot of data and a lot of variability that is normal for these kinds of areas,” Sharpley said. “We haven’t seen any consistent changes or anything that indicates the farm is having an effect on water quality in Big Creek thus far.”

North Arkansas Steak Cookoff: The inaugural Northwest Arkansas Steak Cook-off will take place at Arvest Ballpark on Saturday, September 27, from 1:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. as part of the new Bikes, Blues & BBQ entertainment venue in Springdale and is a Steak Cook-off Association sanctioned event.

Teams made up of chefs and amateur cooks will fire up their grills and other cooking apparatus’s to find out who is the master of the ribeye steak that day. Each team submits one 16 oz ribeye steak to be judged by a panel of experienced beef eaters who sample, vote and determine who moves on to the 2015 World Championship Steak Cook-off in Magnolia, Ark. Teams or individuals interested in competing should visit BaconBowl.net. Team registration is open until Friday, September 19. Admission is free for the live music, car and motorcycle shows. Steak dinner tickets are $15 each and tickets for appetizer competition are $7.

Fall Sales Set for Oklahoma Quality Beef Network: Dates and locations are set for annual fall sales featuring Oklahoma Quality Beef Network (OQBN) certified cattle. OQBN is available to aid producers in making preconditioning decisions and capturing the value of preconditioned calves when it becomes time to market them, said Grant Mourer, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension beef enhancement specialist and OQBN coordinator. OQBN will return to Cherokee Livestock on Oct. 29, and Elk City Livestock on Nov. 7, for the second straight year and will host a sale at South Coffeyville on Nov. 21, for the first time. For additional sale dates and for more information contact your local county Extension office or call Grant at 405-744-6060.

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Homer never asks, or even hints at any need for help because, though in his early 70s, he is still one of the toughest cattleman I’ve ever known.

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I and two more of the regulars volunteered to assist after he assured us that she was already captured in the loading pen and all we really needed to do was get behind her so he could close the gate when she ran in the trailer. Ron (late 70s), Marvin (early 60s) and I, all got in our trucks and headed over to Homer’s place.

Sure enough, the big, white cow was in the pipe and concrete loading area with the trailer already backed up to the chute. The old cow was snorting and pawing the ground as we approached her and, even with two-inch steel pipe between us and her, I will have to admit that I jumped every time she charged at me.

“Get in there and drive her toward the trailer,” Ron instructed.

“You go ahead,” I answered, “I think she likes you better.”

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t really will be fall soon. Things in life go faster and faster it seems in my life than it Western novelist Dusty did when I was kid. Especially waiting for Richards and his wife things to roll around like turning 16 so Pat live on Beaver Lake I could get my license. After school and in northwest Arkansas. on weekends I worked on Milky Way Hereford To contact Dusty, go to Ranch up on Camelback Road in north Phoenix ozarksfn.com and click on where there is a big shopping mall now. When I ‘Contact Us.’ was a boy lots of farm kids drove vehicles starting at age 12. A buddy of mine drove to the license bureau in west Phoenix and got a beginner permit for his folks to fill out. The man said he had to have this filled out and passed before he could drive a car legally. Gene said, “Oh yes, I know that.” He did too, got in the old family car by himself and drove it back home.

When I was driving back and forth from the Milky Way Hereford Ranch to the Scottsdale place, mother asked me if they knew I didn’t have a driver’s license. I put my finger to my lip. “Don’t tell them. I don’t have to get out and open those dang gates either. I let the cowboys do that.”

The first old car I owned I used my high school graduation money to buy. It was a pre World War II four-door Plymouth. You put in $3 of gas at $0.25 cents a gallon in the tank and pumped up a quart of some bulk oil in the spout can to put in the crankcase. I had a patch kit, tire tools, an air pump and a jack to change and repair the sorry tires. But it was a car and I could date in it, though I later had a Model A Ford coupe, which a girl refused to go on a date with me in. She saw it turned around and went back in the house when I drove up.

Her mother was laughing, said she loved that old car because her husband had one when they dated. The girl never came out to talk to me. So I went on. Her loss not mine, but some of my buddies also laughed when they heard about her refusal.

I later had a Willy’s Jeep station wagon like they advertised on Maverick so my fraternity brothers called it Maverick. It had a four-cylinder engine and wouldn’t go much faster than 35 mph going up mountains on the Interstates. I was going to drive it over to LA to attend a wedding of my friends. One of my mining buddies traded me his Buick hardtop because he thought I’d get run over. After I went over there and got in that wild traffic I was sure grateful I had that big Buick.

I recall the first car I drove that had air conditioning in it. It belonged to a golf pro I worked for after school. It was a new four-door Oldsmobile 88, mid-50s model. A big boat but it had all the things on it including headlight control that automatically dimmed the lights when another car approached it. Now those kinds of things wouldn’t impress anyone with all the gadgets that are on my new Chevrolet pickup but boy I never forgot them. And before I took his family up to the Boy Scout ranch near Prescott for his son to go to camp, I asked him about the tires since I had so many flats on my vehicles.

He said they were Goodyear Double Eagle white walls, with nylon cord in them; the best tires money could buy. Well I never owned any but all the time I worked for him he never had a flat. And the light dimmer did work coming back that night after dark from Prescott on the big freeway they called the Black Canyon Highway at 60 mph.

I never got a speeding ticket in any of my cars as a teen or going to college, they wouldn’t go that fast or I was afraid to drive them that fast, I am not certain. May the Good Lord Bless and keep you and all America, Dusty Richards

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had the opportunity to visit the Dominican Republic last month for vacation. It sure was an experience I’ll never forget. I even got the chance to swim with a shark and stingrays.

Lynzee Glass graduated One afternoon during our trip we went into from Missouri State town to go shopping giving us the perfect opportuUniversity with a nity to pick up a few souvenirs. As we went from degree in Agricultural Communications in 2008. shop to shop one store held my attention. In this She grew up on a family store were four shelves of decorative cows. Yes, farm in Dallas County, Mo. decorative cows; this country girl was in heaven.

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I eventually left the little souvenir shop and continued to browse around the mall. However, my mind kept wandering back to those cows. I decided to go back to that shop and purchase a cow. It took me another 45 minutes to select the perfect cow. I wanted a cow that represented my trip to the Dominican Republic so I selected a tropical themed cow.

I found out that these cows are figurines based off of a public art event called the CowParade. After some research I now know the story behind these beautiful cows.

According to the CowParade’s website, CowParade started in 1999 and events have since been staged in 79 cities around the world including New York City, London, Tokyo, Brussels, Hong Kong and the parade will head to Shanghai this month. It is estimated that 250 million people have seen these famous cows displayed around the world.

The fiberglass cows are painted by local artists and displayed for two to four months and then are auctioned off for charity. Their website states that $30 million has been raised for charities including Texas Children’s Hospital, Special Olympics and University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital.

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Life is Simple Continued from Page 3 theory, but when she saw the gate closing, she wheeled around and butted it so hard that it broke Marvin’s new rope.

I had the bright idea that, since she was charging at anything that resembled a human, I could tie a plastic OB glove on the end of a sorting stick and dangle it in front of her until she followed it all the way into the trailer. That was another good theory that didn’t pan out. She wanted my arm and not the little shiny thing that resembled my arm on the end of a stick.

After another half-hour of the four of us trying every strategy imaginable to bait, drive or force the girl down to the trailer entrance, someone came up with a brainstorm. Since the loading area sloped significantly downward to the trailer, maybe a person on top of the rear of the trailer would be at enough of the cow’s eye level to entice her to charge at them and she would run on into the

trailer. We all looked at each other and decided it made as much sense as the other things that hadn’t worked. But who would climb on top of the trailer?

I suggested that the ‘youngest’ man should make the climb, knowing that Marvin was a full three months younger than me. Homer and Ron both agreed that age was the fairest way to pick a climber. Marvin gave me the evil eye, but proceeded to scale the side of the trailer, anyway. Once, on top, he dangled his legs over the open trailer gate and got the attention of the cow by hollering sweet words to her. According to plan, the cow charged at Marvin’s feet as he swung them up to avoid her head, and she stumbled into the trailer as Homer slammed the door on the nowcaptured cow.

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What started out as show animals for their children has turned into a profitable breeding herd for Lyn and Leah Cotter Lyn and Leah Cotter are the perfect husband-and-wife example of how hard farmers have to work to make ends meet in today’s economy. Not only do they work just over 100 Shorthorn cattle on their 650 acres near Henderson, Ark.,

everything. My grandpa had hogs and a dairy and then the beef cattle side. He got me started.”

When Lyn was only 6, he started buying bottle calves. He said, “I raised the bottle calves and as I sold them I bought cows and that’s how I got my deal started.”

A breed that was once valued for meat, milk and working abilities is now finding success in the show ring and in the field on the Cotter farm. (Pictured L to R: Bodie, Leah and Lyn Cotter) Photo by Jack and Pam Fortner

Lyn believes his family came to this area but Lyn is an Ag teacher in Bakersfield, Mo., and Leah is the principal at Nel- back in the mid-1850s. The original farm son-Wilks-Herron Elementary School extended from just above the state line in Mountain Home, Ark. But wait – in Missouri, down into Arkansas. The that’s not all. Lyn is also a sales represen- Cotters are related to the Shrable family.

Lyn said, “Everybody says if it tative for VitaFerm and is an wasn’t for the Cotters and the AI technician.

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bought up land, acre by acre. Lyn said his grandpa used to say that he could “take a trailer load of cattle to the sale barn and take that money and buy 40 acres. He had about 1,500 at one time.” Lyn’s dad still has 160 acres of the original farm.

Lyn said that his grandpa had a dairy for a while, but a tornado blew it away in 1968. He farmed corn and even hand dug a silage pit. Lyn tells the story about when his grandpa got his first tractor. “He ran through the fence and nearly went in the creek, hollering ‘Whoa’ all the time.”

The Cotters got interested in the Shorthorn breed when their daughter, Hannah, and son, Bodie, first started showing animals. Lyn said, “They showed goats the first year. We’d see some of their friends show the Shorthorns and saw how pretty they were. So we started with a few. I bought my first cows about 10 years ago.

It was really dry in Oklahoma. There was a little set of Shorthorn cows out there for sale on the Panhandle, and I went out there and bought those and started with them. So it started with the showing end of it and then we’ve gone from there.”

The Shorthorn breed isn’t the only breed on the farm, but it is the prominent one.

Currently, Lyn said that about 80 percent of his cows are Shorthorn influenced. He said, “Probably half of the cows are purebred Shorthorn and then most of the other half are a percentage… They’ve got to be 50 percent to be a ShorthornPlus. A 7/8 is considered a purebred if it’s not black. If they’re black at all they can’t be anything more than a ShorthornPlus.”

The entire Cotter family is involved with the Shorthorn breed. In addition to running them on their farm, their daughter Hannah is the breed representative for the Arkansas State Fair, and Lyn and Leah are both junior advisers for the state association. Bodie is junior president for the Shorthorn Association. He does a lot of showing and has won the Purple Circle Award with one of their Shorthorn cows.

Lyn, who loves this breed of richly colored cattle, says that he especially loves the red ones. He said, “I told someone the other day that my favorite things on the farm are my red cows and my red-headed woman.” Leah responded with, “Probably in that order.”

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Maurice said he never thought that he cattle, they can increase weaning weight by as much as 100 pounds,” Maurice said. would have another profession after reShortly after purchasing his land in 1988, tiring from UCA, but that he does raising cattle. “I love what I do 16 years before he retired and I love trying to produce from teaching, he purchased quality cattle,” he said. his first five cows, and as he Houston, Ark. Most purebred Simmentals would say, the rest is history. in Arkansas are black. FleckHe chose this dairy and beef vieh cannot be black, according to breed for its extreme docility and perfection, and he breeds — Continued on Page 13 to and for perfection. He uses

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Courthouse Triumph

By Terry Ropp

Since the 1830s the Madison County Courthouse has faced much turmoil but has remained a historical figure in the community The long history of the Madison County Courthouse in Huntsville, Ark., provides a local snapshot of how constant change really is the critical role fire played in much of our history.

The first meeting of the county court was held in a barn owned by Huntsville resident Evan S. Polk until the first courthouse was constructed in the late 1830s. This original courthouse was a one-room, dirt-floored log building on the public square. Sessions were held in late spring and early fall rendering a stove or fireplace unnecessary. According to records, a tax levy of $1.28 per 40 acres of improved land provided the $150 construction cost.

That first courthouse was small and soon replaced by a second in 1845, also on the public square. Evan Polk was again heavily involved and served as contractor with the construction bricks kilned on his farm. The new brick building was two stories and contained a brick floor. New upstairs rooms provided offices and jury room with the judge and the courtroom occupying the first floor. This structure cost $4,000 but burned along with the city during the Civil War. The private residence of Judge G. W. Vaughn and the Masonic Hall housed court business following the war.

The Civil War destruction of Huntsville created serious economic difficulties for the community resulting in delayed construction of the third courthouse and another wooden structure to keep costs under $3,000. The new courthouse opened for business in early 1871 but survived only eight years before the editor of the local newspaper, also housed in the structure, accidentally caused another devastating fire in 1879.

The location for the fourth Courthouse was fraught with issues of location and funding as well as difficulty in finding a building commissioner. The new two-story brick structure

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ozarks roots was completed and furnished in 1882 for a total cost of $4,000. This time the courtroom was on the second floor with the lower floor divided into four administrative rooms. Apparently insufficient funds were set aside for repair and upkeep. The east entrance deteriorated to the point of needing replacement, the roof began to leak, the yard was littered and unkempt and windows were broken by vandals before the courthouse was destroyed by yet another Huntsville fire in 1902 that razed 14 businesses including the courthouse.

Huntsville was once again plagued with the problem of building yet another courthouse. Financing was complicated due to an attempt to use bonds to support construction, an attempt plagued constitutional issues. When funding and plans were adopted within a year, a political controversy erupted. Residents of St. Paul argued that a more centrally located county courthouse was necessary while Huntsville residents maintained that the current location worked well. The Huntsville location was finally approved although the courthouse site was moved from the center of the square to the north side. Construction issues abounded so the new stone courthouse was not completed until four years later in 1906. In 1914 a local entrepreneur paid for the cost of adding electricity in exchange for being allowed to use the facility to show weekly movies.

This fifth courthouse lasted until the late 1930s when the structure became too small to house all court needs and new monies from Roosevelt’s New Deal were available.

In order to raise money for this sixth courthouse, a public vote approved extending a current bond and adding 1.5 mills for 2 1/2 years. Although the approval margin was less than 8 percent, this action provided $49,000, the community’s portion of the $98,000 construction cost for a four-story courthouse and jail completed in 1939.

Now, 75 years later, the Huntsville Courthouse has fallen victim to time and water.

The top floor is unusable except for storage.

Water leaks through old window casings, walls and a severely deteriorated the flat roof. The city of Huntsville is once again rising to the problem by seeking grants. A complete restoration of the basement was finished this year with funds from a $65,000 grant from Arkansas Historical Preservation. Restoration included improved draining as well as completely redoing the floor, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

plaster, and ceiling followed by color-coordinated painting that blends with original decor. Another $186,000 grant to redo the roof and air-conditioning has just been received. County Clerk Faron Ledbetter said, “Architect Gary Clements is a specialist in restoring historical buildings and has created plans that would amaze the founders of the first Huntsville Courthouse and make the original builders of this courthouse proud.”

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Future Plans: “Because we’re so new the future is also the present since we are still developing our business. We are in the process of adding a roller mill that will crack corn so we can buy more bulk and plan on adding a wider variety of store items such as veterinary supplies, ear tags and horse tack. We are also going to add wheat and ryegrass seed as well as other miscellaneous items such as tractor pins, net wrap and hay twine for baling. We are surrounded by cattle people, and will continue to add products as we develop and people’s needs change.”

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meet your neighbors Adding more Pounds with Fleckvieh Continued from Page 8 Maurice who has raised the breed for over 20 years. He said that almost all fullblood Simmentals in the U.S. are Fleckvieh.

“Fleckvieh means spotted cow,” Maurice said. “They should be red and white, or yellow and white.”

Maurice believes that color is overemphasized with the breed. “I think we need to think about more functional traits,” he said. “Concentrate more on feet, still work on frame score and udders.”

He believes that the reason this breed is not seen much is because 30 and 40 years ago the breed was harder to keep. Not so now, he said. “It has been a real challenge to convince people that these smallerframed, easy-keeping cows are not those.”

Maurice and one neighbor manage the entire herd by themselves with no major issues. He has a healthy herd. “I have good producing cows that are 12-15 years old,” he said. His cows are all registered with the National Simmental Association. When driving down his driveway, one will see two older cows separated from the rest,

A Good Eye for Cattle Continued from Page 9 The secret to Troy’s success is a good eye for cattle. He culls his herd when the calves are seven months old and keeps improving the overall quality of both herds through successful culling and lightweight purchases. Troy and Beverly are a constant presence at the I-40 Livestock Auction where Troy not only selects and purchases both registered and commercial cattle for other people but also buys 300 pound lightweights to add to his own herd which he then fattens before culling again so only good-quality heifers remain. An indication of his success is a group of 16 lightweights he purchased which have proven to be excellent mothers and are now producing their second babies.

Because Troy has many years of experience working with cattle, he has become an unofficial community vet. If neighbors need help, they call him and he puts his years of experience to good use. A good eye for cattle and the ability SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Daisy and Johanah. “Daisy is 16 and Johanah, an AI cow, is 17,” Webb said.

He professes that his Fleckvieh are not hard to keep at all, but admits that good pasture management begets health. He divides five paddocks to rotate every three days, and he insists that paddock rotation pays off. “The biggest problem I have with my cattle are these invasive weeds that weren’t here 25 years ago,” he said.

Maurice absolutely believes that he is raising the best purebred cow with Fleckvieh Simmental. He said production value is up with the breed, adaptability and vitality.

Among the breed positives are; improvement of udders, they are a hardy, grazing breed with good temperament and character. Maurice is sure to add that this breed can be a bonus when added to other herds.

Maurice said, “I am so convinced that commercial breeders will see what these Fleckvieh can do.” In addition to the 100 pounds at weaning, he believes a Fleckvieh replacement heifer can produce more milk in the herd.

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In order to support their herds on 60 acres, the couple leases an additional 400 acres for Bermuda/Fescue hay. Because a neighbor has six chicken houses, Troy frequently fertilizes with chicken litter though has used commercial fertilizer as well. He sprays for weeds once a year in the spring and spot sprays as needed, especially for thistles. He believes the second cutting is the best and stores those bales undercover while the rest remain outside.

Unlike many farmers, Troy puts up both round and square bales using the square bales for calves, lightweights and weaning.

As if they are not busy enough, Troy and Beverly also run the Brentwood Bluegrass Show in the Brentwood Community Center, a two room school house built in 1927.

Troy said, “Beverly and I are happy with the size of our cattle operation and with how we live our lives. Every day we spend here is a good day.”

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When Tom Tate told everybody at home he was going to the northeastern part of Oklahoma to find a big cattle ranch everyone told him he was on a wild goose chase. Then Tom met J.C. Bonner a west Texas oil man.

“Dad called it the Wild Goose Ranch for a long time,” Tom Tate’s oldest son, Howard said. “C.J. Bonner sold 36,000 acres to dad on a hand shake in 1967. Mr. Bonner took

around 7,000 acres to the company that developed Flint Ridge. Having developed land near Keystone lake before and seeing Flint Ridge being developed right literally across the river from him on land that used to be part of the ranch sparked the idea for the Illinois River Ranch. “The Illinois River Ranch is about 10 percent of the original ranch at around 3,600 acres,” Howard said.

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Howard Tate’s goal is to revitalize the Illinois River Ranch and finish what his father started 30 years ago

a liking to dad and treated him like the son he had never had. It was the definition of a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

Tom Tate had a law degree from the University of Oklahoma and a degree in agriculture from Oklahoma State University.

“Growing up, dad’s primary interest was and always was ranching,” Howard said. “Of the 36,000 acres probably only 5,000 or 6,000 of it was cleared land. The rest of it was heavily timbered property. So we weren’t really able to use the majority of the ranch for the purpose of raising cattle,” he continued. In the 1970s Tom sold

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and selling feedlot cattle. After college, he found his passion in helping his dad with the development.

Howard left in 1984 to pursue a career in the construction business and eventually established his own business building homes. Howard and his wife, Donna, noticed Tom’s health starting to fail and decided to move back home. “As the oldest son, I felt an obligation to the family to Kansas, Okla. be there. Nine days after moving back my dad passed away from a heart attack working cattle right SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

meet your neighbors here on the ranch,” Howard said. “I think it solidified the desire in each of us to keep the ranch together in some fashion.” Howard and Donna have a son, Connor, who is 18.

Tom Tate had four children; Howard, Brian, Susan and Shannon. “The trustees through their deliberations decided it would probably be the fairest and the most equitable way to just split the ranch up four ways and to let each of us determine how we want to use our portion of the ranch. This is after a five-year process,” Howard said. “Each of us was affected by growing up on the ranch in different ways. Each of us realized it was a huge blessing to inherit our share of the ranch that was left when dad passed away,” Howard said. “My goal is to revitalize the Illinois River Ranch and basically finish what dad and I started 30 years ago.” Brian lives in Arizona. Susan lives in West Virginia. Both Brian and Susan lease their portion of the ranch.

Shannon and her husband, Tracy, had 180 acres when Tom passed away. “We commingled cattle with Tracy’s dad and his brother and had some out here on the ranch.

Dad’s lease agreement with Tracy was any time dad would run cattle Tracy would help,” Shannon said. “With a lot of prayer and asking for guidance, we decided to move back to the ranch,” Tracy said. Both Shannon and Tracy worked full time away from home when Tom passed away. Shannon taught elementary school. Tracy is a park manager at Natural Falls State Park with the Oklahoma State Parks Department. They went from running 180 acres to 1,500 acres. Shannon now works full time on the ranch and takes care of their three children Tate, 12, Cole, 9, and Anna 4 soon to be 5, while still staying active in the school system.

“We are primarily a cow/calf operation right now running about 250 head of momma cows,” Tracy said. “We have a spring and fall calving crop. In the spring we have about a 90-day calving period. We start in February and try to end before April 1.

We also start calving the first of September and typically by the middle of October we are done calving,” he said.

Pictured L to R: Conner, Donna and Howard Tate

Photo submitted Shannon Robertson

Tracy and Shannon work with another producer to obtain genetically similar calves for marketing purposes. “We do a cooperative with another producer to commingle all our yearlings. Our cattle and his are from the same genetic sources. We have also tried to use the same type of bulls so the calves look the same when you throw them into the same lot so we can sell in load lots,” Tracy said. “With the partnership, we will run 350 to 375 yearlings a year. We will background the steer calves and market those at optimal market prices. We will retain the heifers.

“About four years ago, we started our heifer development center. We AI those heifers both in the spring and fall. I have been a certified AI technician for 10 years,” he said.

“Then we turn in a clean up bull two weeks later. Currently, there are 120 at our heifer development center. We have 30 registered cows; sell club calves and the kids show calves.

We produce our own hay. We are able to put up about 1,500 to 1,700 round bales a year.”

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In the Country: “We own 10 acres outside of Gentry and farm close to 40 acres with Dwain’s brother and father. We have a commercial cow/calf operation with Brangus cross mommas. We have seven on our place with a total of 30 between us. We breed with the Brangus bull we purchased from a neighbor. We like Brangus because they have a smaller calf, so birthing is not so hard on the momma but the calves grow big and strong.

“We band the bull calves usually around a week old and usually try to wean at 6 months and then sort and keep or sell what we don’t want.

“Our boys show at the Benton County Fair each year, so each spring we look at our calf crop and the boys get to pick out which heifer they want to show. This year, both boys got blue ribbons in the commercial heifer category in their breed. The youngest also shows rabbits and got Grand Champion rabbit overall.

“In addition to working our own land, we also do custom baling for farmers in the area. We do both round and square baling. Depending on what the customer wants, we bale on shares or charge by the bale.

“We really like living in the country and being able to have our animals and such. In addition to cows, we also have horses, rabbits, geese, chickens, dogs and a cat. There is always something to do and the boys would rather be outside than sitting in front of the television.”

Future Plans: “Like a lot of people, we would love to be full time farmers. Most of the time, unless you’re born into a large amount of acreage, being a full time farmer is a very difficult thing to achieve. Nonetheless, our oldest would love to make a living farming.

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80

Receipts: 496 Springer heifers bred seven to nine months: Supreme 2100.00-2400.00, ind 2700.00, Approved 1750.00-2100.00, ind 2175.00, Crossbreds 1750.001825.00, Medium 1400.00-1660.00.

Heifers bred three to six months: Supreme 2050.002310.00, couple Swiss 1950.00, Approved 1700.002100.00, ind 2175.00, Crossbreds 1525.00-1635.00, couple Swiss 1775.00, Medium 1300.00-1675.00, Crossbreds 1325.00-1450.00, Common 900.00-1175.00.

Heifers bred one to three months: Approved couple 1760.00-1810.00, Medium 1400.00-1475.00, Crossbreds 1110.00-1490.00.

Open Heifers: Approved lot 291 lbs 770.00, 200-275 lbs Crossbreds 490.00-530.00, 360-380 lbs 820.00-860.00, pkg 360 lbs Jerseys 890.00, 325-355 lbs Crossbreds 650.00-710.00, 400-440 lbs 830.00-930.00, couple 488 lbs Jerseys 1140.00, 400-500 lbs Crossbreds 730.00940.00, 525-535 lbs 980.00-1020.00, pkg 538 lbs Crossbreds 850.00, 600-660 lbs 980.00-1160.00, 625-655 lbs Crossbreds 970.00-1030.00, 700-800 lbs 1210.001280.00, 800-900 lbs 1300.00-1350.00, 935-955 lbs 1400.00-1410.00, Medium/Approved mixed couple 513 lbs Jerseys 1020.00.

Replacement Cows: Fresh: Supreme ind 2175.00, Approved 1750.00-1925.00, Medium 1100.00-1700.00.

Milking Cows: Approved couple 1770.00-1775.00, Medium 1350.00-1450.00.

Springer Cows: Supreme 2225.00-2300.00, Approved ind 2075.00, Medium 1550.00-1825.00.

120

140

160

180

239.50

254.77 *** ***

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Week of 8/31/14

*

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

** 249.18 244.67

Bulls, Med. & Lg. 1

*

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

225.98 ** ** **

Heifers, Med. & Lg. 1

** 185

206 227 248 269 * No price reported in weight break **USDA Failed To Report *** No Sale

290

Prices Based on Weighted Average for Steers and Heifers 550-600 lbs.

18 18

300-400 lbs.

400-500 lbs.

500-600 lbs.

600-700 lbs.

700-800 lbs.

Ash Flat Livestock

627

1096

Uneven

5-20 Higher

285.00-360.00 250.00-290.00 217.50-257.50 209.00-220.00 200.00-210.00

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----227.50-272.50 210.00-245.00 199.00-215.00 190.00-203.00

----282.50-295.00 230.00-240.00 201.00-204.00 -----

240.00-310.00 215.00-272.50 211.00-240.00 195.00-220.00 187.50-199.00

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1173

111

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290.00 245.00-270.00 ----222.00-226.00 214.00

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230.00-286.00 210.00-258.00 200.00-233.00 195.00-216.00 190.00-213.00

247.50-277.50 215.00-250.00 210.00-237.50 179.00 -----

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County Line Sale Ratcliff 9/3/14

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150

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234.47

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127 5(3257('

245.11

9/4/14

Receipts: 1871 Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 wooled and shorn non-traditional 80-90 lbs 150.00-172.50; 90-100 lbs 137.50-147.50; traditional 100-150 lbs, 142.50-147.50. hair 70-80 lbs 165.00-182.50; 80-90 lbs 147.50-166.00; 90-100 lbs 125.00-162.50.

Feeder/Stocker Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 wooled 60-70 lbs 145.00-182.50; hair 40-50 lbs 190.00-200.00; 50-60 lbs 205.00-220.00; 60-70 lbs 165.00-185.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-3 wooled 75138 lbs 32.50-80.00. hair 62-97 lbs 72.50-77.50.

Bucks: wooled 130-225 lbs few at 52.50 cwt.

Replacement Ewes: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 160.00-170.00 per head.

Bucks: hair 160.00-170.00 per head.

Goats: Slaughter Classes: Kids Selection: 1 40-60 lbs 220.00-225.00; 60-70 lbs 200.00-220.00; 70-80 lbs 187.00-197.50; 80-100 lbs 180.00-205.00; 100-115 lbs 160.00-200.00. Selection 2 50-60 lbs 205.00212.50; 60-70 lbs 155.00-160.00; 70-80 lbs 170.00180.00. Selection 3 70-80 lbs 150.00-155.00; 80-90 lbs 155.00-170.00; 90-100 lbs 150.00-165.00.

Does/Nannies: Selection 1 132-195 lbs 77.50105.00. Selection 2 75-108 lbs 112.50-150.00.

Selecton 3 Dairy 82-125 lbs 100.00-122.50; Pygmy 45-67 lbs 87.50-115.00.

Billies: Selection 1-2 150-190 lbs 135.00-185.00. Selection 2-3 aged wethers 75-140 lbs 125.00-175.00.

Selection 3 85-160 lbs 115.00-125.00.

Replacement Nannies: Selection 1 93-150 lbs 100.00-155.00. Selection 2 81-98 lbs 125.00-155.00.

Selection 3 Dairy 65-135 lbs 110.00-155.00.

Billies: Selection 1 135.00-260.00 per head.

Stocker/Feeder Kids: Selection 1 40-50 lbs 235.00240.00. Selection 2 30-40 lbs 210.00-260.00; 40-50

lbs 190.00-212.50.

195.00; 40-50 lbs 1 187.50; 60-70 lbs 1

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Receipts: 163 Slaughter Classes: Goats: Kids: Selection 1 45 Selection 1-2 81 lbs lbs 180.00. Selection Feeder Kid: Selecti Slaughter Does/Na Selection 3 75.00.

Slaughter Bucks: S bucks 105.00.

Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: C or hair 80 lbs and u Choice 1-2 75.00.

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Receipts: 415 Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: C traditional 108-132 165.00-175.00; 70-8 Feeder/Stocker Lam 40-50 lbs 175.00-20 Slaughter Ewes: U few 185-229 lbs 67.

75.00-140.00.

Goats: Slaughter Classes: Kids: Selection 1 5 1-2 40-50 lbs 210.0 230.00; 70-80 lbs 19 lbs 180.00-182.50. S 165.00; 60-70 lbs 18 Does/Nannies: Sele Billies: Selection 1 Replacement Nann 87.50-140.00 few at 95 lbs 100.00-155.0 Billies: Selection 1

stocker & feeder

No Sale - Holiday †

100

goats

Diamond, Mo. • TS Whites Sheep and Goat Sale

Springfield, Mo. • Springfield Livestock Marketing Center 8/26/14

USDA Failed to Report † 136.50-143.50 †

Baby Calves: Holstein heifers ind small 370.00, Crossbred heifers couple 290.00-350.00, Holstein bulls 210.00-370.00, small 160.00-190.00, Crossbred bulls 300.00-350.00, Jersey bulls 185.00-220.00.

sheep &

dairy cattle

120.00-150.00 † 108.00-145.50*

OKC West - El Reno Livestock Market Ouachita Livestock Auction - Ola Ozarks Regional Stockyard Stilwell Livestock Auction Tulsa Livestock Auction

9/7/14

5 Area (Tx-Ok, Ks, Neb, Ia, Colo) Live Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 157.00-164.00; wtd. avg. price 160.04.

Heifers: 156.00-164.00; wtd. avg. price 160.30.

Dressed Basis Sales - Over 80% Choice Steers: 248.00-252.00; wtd. avg. price 250.40.

Heifers: 248.00-252.00; wtd. avg. price 250.76.

135.00-139.00 †

County Line Sale - Ratcliff Decatur Livestock Auction

*

cattle

Midwest - High Plains Direct Slaughter Cattle

Not Reported † USDA Failed to Report † 128.00-143.00*

Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Livestock Auction Cleburne County Livestock Clinton Livestock Auction

257.99

beef

126.00-150.00 † 1

Arkansas Cattle Auction, LLC

232.75

Week of 8/17/14

bulls

Decatur Livestock* -----

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348

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297.00-332.00 262.00-297.00 252.00-262.00 228.00-252.00 208.00-228.00

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283.00-295.00 245.00-287.00 224.00-245.00 215.00-224.00 -----

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0-50 lbs 235.000-260.00; 40-50

Receipts: 415 Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 wooled traditional 108-132 lbs 140.00-150.00; hair 60-70 lbs 165.00-175.00; 70-80 lbs 157.50-175.00.

Feeder/Stocker Lambs: Medium and Large 1-2 hair 40-50 lbs 175.00-200.00; 50-60 lbs 140.00-185.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-2 wooled: few 185-229 lbs 67.50-77.50; hair few 90-106 lbs 75.00-140.00.

Goats: Slaughter Classes: Kids: Selection 1 50-60 lbs 210.00-215.00; Selection 1-2 40-50 lbs 210.00-218.00; 60-70 lbs 210.00230.00; 70-80 lbs 190.00-212.50. Selection 2 50-60 lbs 180.00-182.50. Selection 3 50-60 lbs 141.00165.00; 60-70 lbs 182.50-205.00.

Does/Nannies: Selection 2 85-140 lbs 120.00-155.00.

Billies: Selection 1-2 120-210 lbs 97.50-130.00.

Replacement Nannies: Selection 1-2 88-115 lbs 87.50-140.00 few at 170.00-180.00. Selection 3 7895 lbs 100.00-155.00.

Billies: Selection 1 few 155-170 lbs 137.50-152.50.

feeder

Farmer’s & Farmers Ranchers - Livestock Vinita, Okla.* Springdale 9/3/14 ----348 Steady 297.00-332.00 262.00-297.00 252.00-262.00 228.00-252.00 208.00-228.00 --------------------283.00-295.00 245.00-287.00 224.00-245.00 215.00-224.00 -----

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Ft. Smith Livestock

Corn

8

10.18

10.28 6.24

5.30

10.33

9.78

10.28

5.40 5.35

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305.00-340.00 265.00-305.00 248.00-270.00 219.00-265.00 211.00-245.00

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

267.00-309.00 250.00-259.00 224.00-238.00 200.00-217.00 204.00-208.00

Week of 8/10/14

230.80 235.29

* 216.36 225.01

3000

4000

pairs

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1000

**

5000

225.92

1550.00-1825.00 †

237.65 223.99 220.83 236.15 222.51

1 1225.00-2750.00 † Not Reported † USDA Failed to Report †

* 217.70

1175.00-2450.00 * 2075.00-2200.00 † No Sale - Holiday * None Reported † Not Reported*

232.32 233.99

1800.00-2800.00* USDA Failed to Report †

* 231.87

No Sale - Holiday † 2000.00-3300.00 † 2050.00-2950.00 †

* 223.30

1900.00-2475.00* USDA Failed to Report † USDA Failed to Report † 1900.00-3000.00 † 1800.00-3250.00 † 2200.00-2800.00 * No Sale - Holiday †

2000

3000

218.53

4000

240.13 221.33 220.34 227.50 222.15

5000

210.56 216.68

Mo-Ark Exeter, Mo.*

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3.19

Pine

2000

Barry County Livestock Marketing Benton County Sale Barn Cattlemen’s Cleburne County Livestock Clinton Livestock Auction

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----257.00-260.00 227.00-239.00 210.00-223.00 210.00

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Aug

1000

Ash Flat Livestock

16 10.08

219.42

(Week of 8/31/14 to 9/6/14)

20

12

217.87

No Sale - Holiday †

Arkansas Cattle Auction

Sorghum

219.26 212.25 211.31

106.00-142.00 † Prices reported per cwt 1100.00-2900.00 † 1800.00-2625.00 *

cow/calf

Week Ended 9/9/14

Soft Wheat

I-40 Livestock Ozark 9/4/14

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0

233.04 221.18

USDA Failed to Report †

OKC West - El Reno Ouachita Livestock Ozarks Regional Stilwell Livestock Tulsa Livestock

avg. grain prices Soybeans

221.38 220.64

Week of 8/17/14

1 40-60 lbs 0.00; 70-80 lbs 05.00; 100-115 0 lbs 205.00-80 lbs 170.000-155.00; 80-90 0-165.00. lbs 77.5050-150.00.

122.50; Pygmy

8/26/14

Ash Flat Livestockk

Week of 8/24/14

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Buffalo, Mo. • Buffalo Livestock Market

235.00 226.56

† 1 1100.00-1825.00

Barry County Livestock t kM Marketing k ti Not Reported † Benton County Sale Barn USDA Failed to Report † Cattlemen’s 1100.00-2390.00 * Cleburne County 120.00-137.00 † Prices reported per cwt Clinton County No Sale - Holiday* County Line Sale - Ratcliff 115.50-143.00 † Prices reported per cwt Decatur Livestock Market Not Reported* Farmer’s & Ranchers 1500.00-1900.00 * USDA Failed to Report † Farmers Livestock Ft. Smith Livestock No Sale - Holiday † I-40 Livestock 1225.00-2700.00 † Joplin Regional 1200.00-2725.00 † 1200.00-2200.00* Mo-Ark - Exeter North Arkansas Livestock - Green Forest USDA Failed to Report †

9/5/14

Cheese: Barrels closed at $2.3250 and 40# blocks at $2.3500. The weekly average for barrels is $2.3231 (+.0171) and blocks, $2.3500 (+.0490).

Fluid Milk: Milk production is steady to higher in the Midwest, Idaho, Utah, California, and New Mexico, while showing declines in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Florida, Arizona, and Pacific Northwest.

Competition for truck drivers is heightened as processors are noting scheduling and delivery problems causing delays and a few cancellations. All the schools are back in session, driving bottling sales higher throughout the regions. Cream supplies and demand vary. Availability tightened in areas of the East and West while loosening in the Midwest. Transportation costs slowed sales of cream interregionally. Class II interest is slowing, most notably for ice cream/frozen dessert novelties.

SPOT PRICES OF CLASS II CREAM, $ PER POUND BUTTERFAT F.O.B. producing plants: Upper Midwest - $3.3348-3.6104

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N. Ark. Livestock Green Forest -----

OKC West - El Reno, Okla.

9/3/14

Ouachita Livestock Ola, Ark. 9/5/14

Ozarks Regional West Plains -----

Stilwell Livestock Auction* 9/3/14

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5324

500

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1324

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Uneven

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345.00-375.00 281.00-337.00 251.00-274.00 230.00-255.00 224.50-239.50

300.00-355.00 270.00-278.00 245.00-253.00 230.00-239.50 226.00-233.00

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300.00-380.00 270.00-315.50 240.00-266.00 225.00-246.50 200.00-230.00

285.00-300.00 253.00-304.00 226.00-279.00 211.00-265.00 193.00-245.00 260.00-301.00 240.00-260.00 215.00-244.00 183.00-220.00 -----

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335.00-347.00 273.00-312.50 237.50-265.00 229.00 ----283.00-300.00 242.00-304.00 229.00-239.50 216.50-226.00 202.00-215.00

261.00 250.00-261.00 223.00-241.00 216.00-223.00 ----299.00-316.00 242.00-258.00 222.00-233.00 213.00-220.00 190.00-196.00

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280.00-370.00 255.00-305.00 230.00-255.00 215.00-235.00 190.00-220.00 265.00-317.00 240.00-285.00 225.00-246.00 210.00-235.00 190.00-215.00

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Selection 1-2 81 lbs and over 90.00. Selection 2 45-60 lbs 180.00. Selection 1-3 dairy kids 150.00-170.00.

Feeder Kid: Selection 1-2 20-44 lbs 80.00.

Slaughter Does/Nannies: Selection 1-2 75.00-85.00.

Selection 3 75.00.

Slaughter Bucks: Selection 1-2 90.00. yearling bucks 105.00.

Sheep: Slaughter Lambs: Choice and Prime 2-3 wooled or hair 80 lbs and under 120.00-140.00. Good and Choice 1-2 75.00.

Slaughter Ewes: Utility and Good 1-3 45.00.

Slaughter Rams: aged 45.00.

cows

heifers 550-600 LBS.

(Week of 8/31/14 to 9/6/14)

12 6$/( +2/,'$<

9/4/14

8/30/14

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replacement

Stocker/Feeder Kids: Selection 2 20-30 lbs 210.00230.00; 30-40 lbs 210.00-215.00. Selection 3 30-40 lbs 167.50-185.00; 40-50 lbs 150.00-190.00.

12 6$/( +2/,'$<

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lbs 190.00-212.50. Seletion 3 30-40 lbs 150.00195.00; 40-50 lbs 155.00-170.00; 50-60 lbs 172.50187.50; 60-70 lbs 135.00-160.00.

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** 224.00 232.92 * 217.26 ** ** ** **

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Running a commercial herd of our own butter but when we switched to a little over a 100 head of full- a tank, we could not do that. I really liked blood Limousin cattle is what the dairying and stuck with it for 43 years keeps Richard Nelson, 88, of until my knees gave out. I got my knees Chelsea, Okla., on one side of replaced and have not had a single probthe road or the other. It also attrib- lem since. If I was hard-headed, I would uted to him being named the Fullblood have stayed in it longer.” They mainLimousin Commercial Producer of the tained that operation until they decided Year. His calf crop consists of both spring to switch to raising beef stock.

He expects to have 40 calves for his fall and fall breeding which are separated by a dirt road. “I keep my fall crop on one season. “I have 15 calves on the ground side of the road and my spring crop on the now; the mommas are having babies other. Depending on the season, I keep every day now. It is hard to tell when the breeding crop closer to me to keep a they will drop one; I just check a couple times a day,” said Richard. The calves better eye on them,” said Richard.

Before purchasing the farm, Richard are weaned from its mother after six to worked up and down the east coast for a seven months. I really like this breed. I pipeline company. “My wife, Leota, and used to go to the stockyards and when I found out the LimI moved different ousin brought 10 places with them.

Chelsea, Okla. cents more a pound I eventually moved I chose this breed back to take over the over any of them. farm and when my dad retired I I have been satisbought the farm from him. When fied with them; the we used milk cans, we could skim beef is very lean. the cream off of the top and make Ozarks Farm & Neighbor • www.ozarksfn.com

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They grow so well after you wean them.

I wean them 45 days before I sell them.

You would be surprised at how much they gain,” he added.

His cattle are sold at 700 pounds, and sometimes at 800 pounds. “For personal use, I feed them out. But when they are sold, they will go to a feedlot to be finished.” Richard sells his Limousin to Laura’s Lean Beef in Lexington, Ky. “I sell twice a year to them. I just load them up, take them to Chelsea to be weighed and they are loaded on a semi-truck there.

Then they are off to Nebraska to a feedlot. After they finish them, they are processed and sold back to Laura’s Lean Beef which were originally only available on the east coast but the Limousin beef has made its way back home to Oklahoma and can be purchased in local markets.”

The cattle graze on 400 acres of fescue, bermuda and bluegrass throughout the year and are rotated when the acreage needs replenishment time. The average consumption per head of bovine is about an acre and a half, with a maximum of two acres. He is still able to bale hay and generally has a large amount of grass left over. A good rainy season gives about an acre per head. His five ponds keeps the cattle well hydrated and he uses cement troughs.

He used to raise a little dirt crop but bales his hay now and always has some held over. He said, “I have more than enough. I have not bought hay for many SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

years. This year I had a good hay crop.

The rain last week really helped. We got an inch and half and helped make some fall pasture. The current nutritional value is around 15 percent to 17 percent. In the dry years, I had some pretty sorry hay.

But this year is good as long as the rain comes. In the winter I will supplement with a 33 pound of a 37 percent protein block; they come running when they see it. It will take a week to go through one block. They are fed hay every day in the winter and pastured until they are sold.”

He sprays and brush hogs his pastures but claims he sprays most of the time.

He used to drill in wheat in the fall but not anymore. The fescue that comes up in the fall makes good pasture.

Richard credits the way cattle are raised to having a healthy herd. “It is very rare that I have to give antibiotics or have to take them to the vet. I just do not have any problems. People who buy from me continue to do so because of the good health. I do not give any to the calves because they nurse and do not need them.

I never had a calf get sick so they have a pretty good immune system. I will give them their vaccinations to prevent pneumonia and other illnesses they would get if not protected,” he stated.

As far as retiring, “I farm because my dad and my grandfather farmed. I just did not know any better. I will keep doing this; it keeps me going,” ended Richard.

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Feed efficiency and conversion is top priority for the bulls raised on Fox Hollow Farms.

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I needed to make sure my family could work safely around the herd in case I was Farms, is on sound and functional seed- not available. I want my girls, Lilly and stock for commercial cattlemen as well Madeline, to enjoy the same experiences as purebred breeders. We rely heavily on as they grow up,” he stated. artificial insemination (AI) and embryo The Charolais breed originated in transfer (ET) to select the premier ge- France. They are known for their docility, netics from across the nation. We have large muscles, meat and harmonized qualia small herd, based ties, especially when on proven genetics crossed with Angus and catered to speand Hereford breeds.

Catoosa, Okla. cific customers,” Continental genetsaid Stephen Melics influence the lott of Catoosa, Okla., located production of highin Rogers County. Stephen also er quality beef and markets his seedstock program use less resources through private treaty sales. such as forage. The

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Stephen and his ranch Their cattle crop are manager work an avset to calve in the erage of more than spring, which en50 hours a week ables them to taking care of I searched for docility, rotate pastures everything along with other heritable year round. needing attraits, because I needed “We keep tention on stocking rates the ranch, to make sure my family around 1 1/2 including could work safely around to 2 acres per spraying for the herd in case I was not cow,” he said. weeds. available. I want my girls, Their cattle They also Lilly and Madeline, to enprimarily eat have a relijoy the same experiences grass and hay able network but do suppleof veterinarians as they grow up. ment in the winshould they en– Stephen Mellott ter months with a counter problems mix of grains and feed with the herd. “Dependcontaining up to one and a ing on the issue, our local half pounds of protein each day, per vet is a good resource. Because cow. “Because we wean in the fall, of our reliance on AI and ET, we we grow out our calves through the have a good relationship with sevwinter. We feed our bulls a high eral different veterinarians.” roughage ration,” he added. ManStephen also works at a steel fabricaagement of winter pasture feedtion company in Tulsa that builds large ing for mature bulls is primarily process equipment for oil refineries. the same as for the cowherd.

When it comes to balancing family and “The bulls we sell are expected to per- work, “Fortunately, I’ve been able to make form on limited input, so feed efficiency everything work, but quite often there and conversion is a must. Our cattle have isn’t a balance,” concluded Stephen. to perform on grass. The bulls are in demand now more than ever,” said Stephen.

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“My project is in animal science and is about showing market goats, registered Boer does and a commercial Hereford heifer. I picked this because I really like working with goats and spending time with my heifer. I keep records of my shows and workshops. My favorite workshop was about clipping goats.”

How did you get started with 4-H? “My mom told me about her experiences in 4-H, which made me want to try it for a year. I really liked it and have been in 4-H for five years now.”

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s any farmer knows, farm profits can greatly vary from one year to the next. Crop yields, drought conditions, and feed prices are among the reasons that a booming year can be followed immediately by a meager one, and with those swings in profit, large variations in tax Adam Wolfe, CPA from year to year can be a common issue faced is the Partner & Tax by farmers. For exactly that reason, our tax code Director of Bobby Medcontains a provision, created solely for farmers, lin, CPA. Adam has called income averaging. worked at the firm’s Lake Ozark branch Income averaging is a complex topic, but it’s since 2010. important that farmers not be scared away by the complexity. A working knowledge of this provision can lead to huge tax savings – so we’ll touch on the basics that will allow you and your tax preparer to take advantage of those saving opportunities.

The best way to explain income averaging is with a very simplified example. Fred and Mary are grain farmers. In 2013, the couple had a bumper crop and their taxable income was $100,000. In each of the three years prior, crops had been average at best, and their taxable income was $50,000 in 2010, 2011 and 2012. At $50,000 of taxable income, Fred and Mary were in the 15 percent federal marginal tax bracket.

In 2013, with the bumper crop, their tax bracket was 25 percent.

From 2010-2012, the couple’s total tax income tax would have been roughly $6,630. For 2013, that number jumped to approximately $16,857. If the couple’s tax preparer correctly carries out income averaging on the 2013 tax return, then income from 2013 can be slotted into each of the previous years – taking advantage of the remaining room under the 15 percent brackets each year, rather than being taxed under the 25 percent bracket. This is done only on the 2013 tax return, without amendments to prior years.

For 2010, 2011 and 2012, there is roughly $22,500 of income that could still be taxed at 15 percent before any would be taxed at 25 percent. By moving $67,500 ($22,500 x 3 years) of income into 15 percent tax brackets available in those years, under this very simplified scenario, income averaging saves the taxpayers $2,727.

The important thing to realize from this article is certainly not how to calculate tax in a given year, but to recognize that when farm income rises sharply, an opportunity likely exists to take advantage of this important provision. By working closely with a tax professional who is familiar with farm taxation, you can ensure that this opportunity is not missed, and you can keep significant sums of money in your own pocket.

Talk to your tax professional about income averaging, and ask if it has been useful to you in the last three years. If it has been missed, it’s not too late to amend tax returns for potential refunds.

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he IRS Office of Chief Counsel recently issued a memorandum concerning the use of IRS Form 1099 (also known as “information returns”). This form is important to taxpayers especially if you are audited in connection with horse activities, ranching or farming.

John Alan Cohan is a Farmers, ranchers, owners and breeders regulawyer who has served larly pay for services performed by vendors, the farming, ranching veterinarians, and other nonemployees or inand horse industries since dependent contractors. These payments typi1981. To contact John Alan cally include wages. When payments are made, Cohan, go to ozarksfn.com and click on ‘Contact Us.’ you are responsible for issuing a 1099 form to the extent if the sum of the payments made to the payee amounts to $600 or more in the year.

These forms are required to be sent to each payee by January 31 for the previous calendar year. The forms are designed to help the IRS keep track of income paid to self-employed workers and contractors. You must also send the forms to the IRS by February 28 of each year.

According to Terry Miller, CPA with Miller & Miller Associates of Fresno, California, IRS auditors will invariably fault taxpayers who fail to file 1099 forms. Failure to prepare and file these forms, he says, could work against you in an audit because it may suggest you are not keeping accurate and businesslike records.

When payments are made, you are responsible for issuing a 1099 form to the extent if the sum of the payments made to the payee amounts to $600 or more in the year. These forms are required to be sent to each payee by January 31 for the previous calendar year.

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The 1099 forms pertain only to payments made for business or trade purposes. So, for example, payments for veterinary services for horses used in the activity are subject to reporting on the form, but veterinary services to pet dogs or cats are not. A 1099 form is required for payments to land owners for rent and/or services. Payments to attorneys, accountants, mechanics, and laborers also require issuance of the 1099 form if the services pertain to the farming, ranching or horse activity in question.

The recent IRS memo referred to above indicates that 1099 forms are required whether the veterinary service is rendered by a sole proprietor or an incorporated entity that provides veterinary services.

Some nonemployee income payments do not require issuance of the 1099 form.

Generally, payments to corporations – except for veterinary or legal services – do not require a 1099. Payments for hauling livestock or grain do not require issuance of a 1099. Other farm or ranch-related costs, such as for feed, fertilizer, chemicals, fuel or other non-service items, do not require a 1099 form.

There seems to be an enhanced level of scrutiny in the IRS of taxpayers with a significant history of losses and deductions against other sources of income. Thus, it is more important than ever to keep appropriate records to monitor the progress of your business, to show whether it is improving, which items are selling, or what changes you need to make. Good records can help you make better decisions as well as help support your position in the event of an IRS examination.

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A look at how Russia’s ban on U.S. imports will impact the U.S. ag industry production, so the lost sales would only back 1.4 percent of proOn Aug 6, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev duction into the domestic or other foreign markets. Ever since announced a one-year ban on imports of numerous exports to the region surged during the last days of the Soviet farm products from the U.S., Canada, the E.U., Norway and Union, American poultry has been a favorite political target of Australia. The ban was in overt response to Western financial sancthe Kremlin; there was a temporary ban in 2002, and in 2010 tions imposed on Moscow for providing support to insurgents in Russia eventually slashed the U.S. quota from 700,000 metric Ukraine. According to Russian customs data, last year’s imports from tons to under 300,000 MT. Arkansas Farm Bureau Director of the affected countries of the items involved – beef, pork, poultry, fish, The $400 million in Market Information and Economics Matt King told Ozarks Farm fruit, vegetables, cheese, milk and other dairy products – amounted to lost poultry sales & Neighbor, “We’ve seen this about three times in the past five $9 billion, $441 million of which came from the United States. represents 7 peryears, where Russia’s either had anti-dumping or different things Nearly all of that was poultry; two years ago, Russia barred U.S. like that where they’ve banned U.S. products, primarily poultry beef because the U.S. government wouldn’t issue certificates cent of all U.S. poulproducts, from entering their markets. Producers here haven’t reguaranteeing the meat would contain no trace of ractopamine, try exports, but the ally felt a huge impact from that, as of yet.” the muscle-partitioning agent sold by Elanco Animal Health as industry shrugged; Upon announcing the bans, Russia immediately began solidifyPaylean. Most beef and pork importing nations have established exports in turn, are ing its relationships with South American farm suppliers. But the Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) for ractopamine, but Russia, U.S. will simply sell more meat in the markets from which South China and the E.U. have a zero-tolerance policy. just 20 percent of America is diverting supplies to Russia. Explains King, “Very Despite a similar ban, U.S. pork sales to Russia had been reU.S. chicken prolikely you’re going to see Brazil going in there, selling at a higher covering. In their Aug 11 Hog Outlook, University of Missouri duction, so the lost price into that market just because they’re not accepting U.S. economists Dr. Ron Plain and Dr. Scott Brown noted, “Pork exsales would only and they’ll have to buy Brazilian product. We’ll likely have some ports to Russia accounted for 5.4 percent of total U.S. pork exAsian markets where the U.S. may pick up some market share, ports during May and June 2014, after being virtually zero from back 1.4 percent of and likely see very little impact to our poultry industry here.”

March 2013 through April 2014 due to concerns over ractopaproduction into the When it slowed poultry purchases from the U.S. in 2010, Rusmine.” But U.S. pork sellers hardly missed the Russian business; domestic or other sia said it was mounting a drive toward self sufficiency, but King Plain and Brown pointed out, “For each of the first six months of foreign markets. said, “I don’t know how much further they can go in that direc2014, pork exports have exceeded the year ago level. Year to date tion. While they are trying to increase their production in-counexport levels are 7.4 percent above 2013, an incredible feat given try, we’ve seen a lot of business from the United States because product price increases during the first half of the year.” Overall U.S. beef exports have also been running above year ago levels and set a record for they’re buying genetics from us here. So while we’re not exporting the birds, (broiler breeding stock company) Cobb-Vantress and others have carved out a pretty signifithe first half of the year at $3.27 billion, according to USDA data.

The $400 million in lost poultry sales represents 7 percent of all U.S. poultry ex- cant market share in those types of markets.” ports, but the industry shrugged; exports, in turn, are just 20 percent of U.S. chicken

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“Good weight, a docile temperament and length are most important.

Temperament ranks highly because cattle do better in terms of both weight and stress when they are calmer by nature.”

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“I want to pass on heat tolerance so I can breed in the middle of summer and have April calves. That way the calves will have good grass for grazing.”

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“We have dairy replacement heifers and breed for increased milk production as well as confirmation because we also show.”

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By Gary Digiuseppe

There are several factors to consider when selecting replacement heifers Anecdotal evidence suggests at least some cow/calf producers are taking advantage of better grass and record calf prices to hold back heifers; when selecting which animals to retain, there are a number of steps they can take that will improve longevity of their herds.

One of those, according to Dr. Patrick Davis, University of Missouri livestock specialist at the Cedar County office in Stockton, is to select heifers that were born earlier in the calving season. Davis told Ozarks Farm & Neighbor research from the University of Nebraska finds those animals are in turn more likely to conceive earlier in their first breeding season. Those early conceptions can lead to a more successful herd; data from the USDA Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Nebraska, and from South Dakota beef herds, suggest heifers calving within the first 21 days of their first calving season have increased longevity, and wean more pounds of calf over their first six calving seasons when compared to their later calving counterparts.

Davis added, “Another criterion that should be used is pelvic examinations, which allow the producer to identify heifers that do not have a sound reproductive tract or that have a small pelvic area that could lead to calving difficulties.” The exams should be conducted 30 to 60 days prior to the breeding season.

If heifers are found to have an unsound reproductive tract or small pelvic area, they should be culled from the replacement pool.

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you do that, then you’re selecting for a larger framed female, and over time that’s going to increase the mature cow size in your herd,” he said. Should you seek out smaller heifers? “That fully depends upon the size of your herd as it is.

If you’re happy with the size that your cows are, then stay with a female that is going to be very similar, and look at the cow that she came out of. If that cow is representative of what you like in your herd, then use her.”

Some producers select replacements based on sire EPDs; Wells said they should look for the highest possible number for maternal calving ease. “Look for birth weights to an extent, but your maternal calving ease will cover most of that,” he said. Other favorable traits include hip heights, scrotal circumference, and milk – but, Wells cautioned, “We have enough milk built into most of our cow herds now that we don’t need to be pushing the extremes. Moderation is the place where we need to be on milk.”

In some cases, producers are truly replacing cows, even if those cows had been efficiently producing calves. Look to the future; Wells said if a cow is older than 9 or 10, you should check the inside of her mouth around fall weaning time, and ensure she still has a good set of teeth to handle the dry forage that’s ahead.

Ranchers may be hesitant to rebuild because they’re not sure the drought has been broken, but Wells said the economics may be worth it. He noted, “I had one cooperator here recently who sold a culled female, and she brought $1,575.

He paid $1,150 for her four years ago, so there may be opportunities right now for a producer to sell an older culled cow for more than they paid for her. Still, we recognize that she’s not going to pay for the complete cost of her replacement.”

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To achieve that, ensure replacement ish their breeding herds. But they need to keep in mind that the replace- females have some of the better pasture available to them; ment heifer needs to winter pasture, both have a higher plane Hay intake should be annuals and perenof nutrition availnials, will typically able to her than 1.75 to 2 percent of be of a higher nutridoes the older cow. body weight when tional value. If their “One of the hardest the heifer is fed grain needs can’t be met calves to breed for at 1 percent of her solely through pasis that second calf,” ture, supplemental body weight. If hay Dr. Robert Wells, feed will be needed livestock consultant intake is lower than – but not too much. with the Samuel R. the recommended “A couple pounds of Noble Foundation level, then hay qualadditional feed per in Ardmore, Okla., ity is likely poor. day may be all that it told Ozarks Farm & takes to keep her on Neighbor, “and typically what we see is that first calf female a positive plane of nutrition,” Wells said. is not in a high enough condition to “One of the old rules of thumb that peosupport all of the bodily functions of ple used to use was to feed replacements a maintenance, growth, lactation, and lot of corn. My philosophy is we can use then finally reproduction. So we want to corn if it is economical, but you want to

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farm help stay less than 5 pounds per head per day in that scenario.”

Dr. Patrick Davis, University of Missouri livestock specialist at the Cedar County office in Stockton, forwarded charts (Table 1 & Table 2) prepared for articles written by Georgia Cooperative Extension researchers. He told OFN, “A heifer has similar nutritional requirements to a lactating cow. However, based on the two tables, pregnant, non-lactating mature cows have lower protein requirement than developing heifers.”

Table 1 shows that as Average Daily Gain increases on the developing heifers, the level of Total Digestible Nutrients (TDN) in the diet increases to a higher level than those of both lactating and non-lactating pregnant cows. “An obvious difference between mature cows and heifers is body size, which is a major determinant of feed intake,” Davis noted.

“Therefore, feed intake is higher for mature non-lactating pregnant and lactating cows than for developing heifers.” The calcium/phosphorus (Ca/P) ratio requirement for all three classes is 2:1; however, Davis said the first calf cow has the highest nutrient requirement, since she is lactating, trying to repair her reproductive tract/breed back, and continuing to grow.

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to feeding to ensure supplementation is adequate. They said, “Hay intake should be 1.75 to 2 percent of body weight when the heifer is fed grain at 1 percent of her body weight. If hay intake is lower than the recommended level, then hay quality is likely poor.” In addition to the winter annuals for spring born heifers, they noted, “Fall-born heifers are weaned in the spring and will spend a portion of the development period on summer forages.” They said heifers will usually gain about 1 pound per day grazing bermudagrass, but this can vary considerably with variety, forage availability and time of year.

And Wells stressed the importance of the heifers making their target weights.

He said, “At breeding time we want those females to be about 65 percent of mature weight, and then at calving we want them to be about 85 percent of mature weight, or heavier. We just don’t want that female being bred too small because, one, the likelihood of her getting bred is lower, and then number two she’s going to have a lot of room to have to catch up so that she’s big enough to calve unassisted, and then to be able to supply enough milk for that calf – and get rebred for that second calf.”

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The Importance of Hay Quality

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Think pounds of nutrients instead of tons of hay for winter needs When ranchers buy hay, they usually think of how many tons they need to get their livestock through the winter when they should be thinking of the pounds of nutrients they are buying, said David Fernandez, Cooperative Extension Program livestock specialist at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

Ranchers can feed their animals 33 pounds of pine straw per day and meet their need to eat something, but that will not meet their nutritional needs, Fernandez said. Most hay producers don’t test their hay, so ranchers can’t know whether or not they are buying enough nutrients for the animals’ needs.

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What if your hay analysis shows 45 percent TDN and 6 percent CP? If so, she will only get 9.9 pounds of TDN and 1.32 pounds of CP which is not enough to meet her nutritional needs. You may have paid the same amount of money for each ton, but you did not buy as many nutrients in the second example, he said.

When feeding poor quality hay, you have to supplement your livestock with grain, pellets or cubes. A cow eating this hay needs an extra 1.1 pounds of TDN and a quarter pound of CP daily to meet her needs.

For more details on hay testing, see Extension fact sheet FSA 3114 “Test Hays for Nutrition Composition Before Feeding” by Shane Gadberry and Mark Keaton. To learn how to substitute supplements for hay, get FSA 3036 “Substitution Grain for Hay in Beef Cow Diets”

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