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Latest Neighbor Stories - Arkansas
Eyeing EPDs from Horseback It is a love for cattle and the country that brought Calvin and Laura Harris together and keeps their marriage strong after 26 years. The couple, originally from Fresno, Calf., started raising Limousin cattle in 1979. They moved Harris Cattle Company to Tontitown, Ark., in 1987 to expand the operation and now have 65 cows and two herd bulls they use to raise Limousin, Angus and LimFlex cattle. LimFlex cattle are a combination of Limousin and Angus, and flex is an acronym for flexible Limousin efficiency cross. In 2004, the Harrises bought a national reserve champion Limousin bull to breed to...Read Full Story |
Arabians and Angus At the age of 10 years old, Michael Economopoulos walked race horses at a New York track, and dreamed that someday he would have his own race horses. The dream started to become reality in 1979, when he purchased 120 acres at Witts Springs, Ark., and began raising Arabian race horses.Read Full Story |
Show and Go "To see a kid walking out of the show ring with a smile on his face – that’s what it’s all about,” explained Blake Morrison of Morrison Show Cattle near Mountain Home, Ark., in Baxter County. “To know the amount of work they have put into their animals and know that it has paid off. That’s the best part of this life.”Read Full Story |
Latest Neighbor Stories - Missouri
Breed the Best and Ride the Rest Breed an average cow to an average bull and no matter what color or breed, the end product is beef and it can be sold at the sale barn or put on the table.Read Full Story |
More Bang for Your Buck Two important points make Beefmaster the breed of choice for Ray Bohannon. To him, they are easy calvers and they are low-maintenance.Read Full Story |
Fighting Burning Questions With corn at $5.50 a bushel, probably not too many people are throwing it into a furnace.Lawrence County poultry producer Roger Schnake is one of the exceptions.Read Full Story |