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Post by hoekland on Apr 24, 2012 11:23:58 GMT -6
I think new members should introduce themselves, I liked it when we all knew each other, that way discussions were always kept civil without the need for a moderator.
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Post by mrvictordomino on Apr 25, 2012 4:37:48 GMT -6
I agree Harley, folks on some of the other boards seem to want to hide behind some alias name....I don't have nothing to hide and what I would type would be no different than what I would ask or say in person.
Danny Miller
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Post by hoekland on Apr 25, 2012 5:42:36 GMT -6
Thanks, Ken, but I think most all of us knew who you were. I hope the other new members join in.
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Post by Glenn on Apr 25, 2012 6:51:47 GMT -6
Hello,
My name is Glenn. I'm a Hereford-a-holic.
This is one of those groups, isn't it!?!?!?
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Post by S&S Farms on Apr 25, 2012 12:02:24 GMT -6
I dont give a crap what is on their heads if they dont have guts nuts and butts they are going to town as steers. I agree with Danny if I wont say it to your face I wont say it here either.
Jeff Smith
S&S Farms
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Post by cmaherefords on Apr 25, 2012 14:32:16 GMT -6
Caleb Ahrens
Monroe, WI
My prefix is CMA. I only have like 15 cows that are primarily past show heifers that go back to either 29F or Steeldust.
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Post by mrvictordomino on Apr 25, 2012 20:18:33 GMT -6
Hello, My name is Glenn. I'm a Hereford-a-holic. This is one of those groups, isn't it!?!?!? I think that's the first step Glenn....Admitting it.  |
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Post by herstonfarms on Apr 25, 2012 20:53:15 GMT -6
Robert Herston prefix herstonfarms I am 17 I started showing Herefords when I was about 13 years old. I live in north Alabama
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Post by bookcliff on Apr 25, 2012 21:01:01 GMT -6
been pissing people off in this Hereford thing for years, most of you already know me either but my prose in the Headliner or getting cussed about by the powers-to-be in this breed. Don't really give a damn what people think, I call it how I see it. like a told a national board of director one time, sooner or later if you keep burying things people start to notice the new cemetery.
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Post by S&S Farms on Apr 25, 2012 21:15:08 GMT -6
I guess I should say welcome to the new and yound persons joining this board and the breed. If you are lucky someday you will be old and can be crusty like some of us who have been doing this for a while my self I am just starting to get that first crusty layer started. Bookcliff is many crust layers ahead of me:;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2012 21:28:52 GMT -6
Tom Granzow
Kansas
I think my online name gives me away.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2012 23:59:04 GMT -6
John Alexander
I use both horned and polled Herefords, but I prefer polled heads. I live near Salina, more specifically, near Gypsum, KS. According to the AHA I still live near Lyons, NE, where I spent the first 48+ years of my life. I am 53 1/2 now. I will die believing that next year will be a better year than this, so I appreciate the here and now.
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Post by Glenn on Apr 26, 2012 8:18:37 GMT -6
I know that most of you know me, but for the new folks.
Glenn C. Chitwood, Jr.
Wichita Falls, Texas
I am fairly new (although that excuse is running out of steam) to the Hereford business.
I have been in the Cow-Calf business since the mid 1990's, mostly commercial but I did dabble with a few registered Angus in the late 90's.
I am also a stocker operator and most years run 300-600 head in two programs a summer grass program and a winter wheat/rye program. This year however I am "out" of the summer deal. Decided not to "play" since the numbers just did not work at all. Too high going in and not able to forward contract for high enough price coming off.
I am also a CPA in public practice here in Wichita Falls with a very diverse client base but do deal with a lot of oil and gas.
I started this site as a way for breeders to connect, share ideas and thoughts and generally just BS. I have made some very good friends through the site and my hope is that others can do the same.
I have never edited anyone's thoughts or posts on the site and hope not to. I believe in the right of anyone to express their opinion. The only line I draw is not telling an untruth about another person.
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Post by hoekland on Apr 26, 2012 8:30:06 GMT -6
Harley van Rhyn
Hoekland Herefords
Western Cape
South Africa
I breed poll herefords, but am in the process of starting a horned program again.
I also run a straight hereford commercial herd using only my own bulls (because I have them)
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Post by George on Apr 26, 2012 10:10:35 GMT -6
George Wooley
Herefords.US
221 N. Belknap St.
Stephenville, TX 76401
Cattle currently in both Erath and Eastland Counties and looking for additional pasture to lease.
80 head of registered Herefords(cows/heifers), both horned and polled, down about 20% from last year because of the drought
I bought my first registered Hereford cow in 1960 and was in the Hereford business until 1985. My father and I ran Anxiety 4th Herefords.
I decided to get back into the Hereford cattle business in 2002, making my first two purchases from Colyer Herefords in what is said to be the first Internet based sale of cattle conducted. It's amazing how THAT has changed in 10 years! I followed up with purchases from the Rock Creek Dispersion and the Indian Mound Ranch Dispersion in the same year.
I've made other purchases since, but my cowherd has about 90% /HUS prefixes now, with my goal to eventually become a 100% home raised cowherd.
Like Tom (bookcliff), I tell it just like I see it though certainly not nearly with the eloquence that Tom does!
So I guess I'm another one of those ol' crustys that Jeff is referencing!
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Post by jjbcattleco on Apr 26, 2012 12:45:14 GMT -6
Jon Blin
JJB Cattle Company
A quick google search will give you plenty of info about me via my blog and twitter but here is the short and sweet- I am a product of the evil showring and "popular" genetics. My 15 cow herd all goes back to three show heifers. Within the next couple of years my wife and I will run hopefully close to 30-50 cows with half of them being recips. Have been reading on this site and CT for a long time so I already feel like I know most of y'all!
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Post by Glenn on Apr 26, 2012 13:18:46 GMT -6
Jon Blin JJB Cattle Company - I am a product of the evil showring and "popular" genetics. Well, Jon, like they told me, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery! j/k Welcome aboard |
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Post by AMC on Apr 26, 2012 14:34:41 GMT -6
Alex Cosgray
Cosgray Polled Herefords
Like Jon said you can find most info on us on the web. I personally run 13 registered Herefords with 4 recip cows with the goal of expanding to around 30 head of registered females and 20-30 recip cows if I can find the pasture!
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Post by mrvictordomino on Apr 26, 2012 19:26:10 GMT -6
Danny Miller JMS Polled Herefords Knifley, KY A little more information not on the website: Cow herd 150-175 females. Herd now closed. Line Breeding the Victor Domino line of Polled Herefords. Established 1975, a young teenagers dream of owning a herd of straight bred R. W. Jones cattle. Originally started as a hobby.....A little more than that now. A little more info....Employed at Fruit Of The Loom for thirty-six years, Director of Process Engineering for Textile facilities. Locations in US and Central America. Wife Janelle works in the school system with the Family Life Center. Have three sons, Travis age 26 and 23 year old twins, Trent and Tyler. 7 1/2 year cancer survivor, God is great!! Life is good!! |
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Post by herfdog on Apr 26, 2012 19:50:25 GMT -6
Jeremy Bremer Bremer Polled Herefords Zumbro Falls, MN I have only been raising Registered Polled Herefords since 2008. I calved 11 his year and have a goal of 25-30. It’s a very slow process here. Most of my cows are from Curtis Polled Herefords and picked a few others up here and there. I have a very basic website that has all the cattle on it if anyone is interested. www.bremerpolledherefords.com Jeremy Bremer |
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Post by guffeygal on Apr 26, 2012 20:02:54 GMT -6
Mike and Jane Deewall--Deewall Herefords
Coldwater, Kansas
Are continuing two lines of Hereford cattle. The registered line is a herd of line bred Advance Domino/President Mischief breeding founded by Jane's Grandfather Walter Nash in 1914. Jane's father, Franklin spent a lifetime with the herd. Our commercial cows go back to Par-Ker Ranch of Oklahoma that Mike's father Orville managed for 25 years. The cows Orville brought from Oklahoma were of Colorado Domino with a little bit of English heritage. They were papered cattle, ,but Orville didn't keep the papers up on them. Our largest bull market is range bulls that go on black cows. Because of the drought, we did sell two sets of heifers this year, so our numbers are down a bit. We raise our own herd bulls and replacement heifers.
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Post by bookcliff on Apr 27, 2012 14:46:40 GMT -6
Tom Krauss
Bookcliff Herefords
Since everyone else is putting their bio................
3rd generation Hereford, dad was in the reg business, both side of his family were commercial and the Illinous part of the family were farmer feeders who fed only Hereford steers from 1910 till they hung it up in the 70's (hence my emphasis on feedlot performance and carcass--it was ingrained in me at an early age as was my for my dad also) They bought em in KC, Denver and Omaha and sold as fats in Chicago.
Our main hereford base stems from Dads papered cows that he started in 1962. 150 cows (pre-drought) primarly Horned (FRC, Canadian) and some polls (because I have customers who want em-primarily Feltons) a few Registered Angus cows left (married a 4th generation Angus gal so we got into the Angus thing back in the mid 90's when Hereford was so tough but most of our Angus program have become recips for Hereford babies, what aren't are primarily TC and Conneally bred)
retain ownership in the feedlot pretty much anything that don't go in the replacement heifer pen or the bull pen and have done so since 1994 calf crop + buy and feed out some of our bull costomers calves as well
sell about 16-20 yearling bulls a year
used to do alot of custom cowboyin when we first moved out here (and down in the Flint Hills earlier) but I have pretty much given that up,processing, ropin' strays, and gatherin' bulls that nobody could pen ain't as much fun as when I was younger and it never did pay that good.
run my father- in-laws Reg Angus cows for him (he's 75) and help him do alot of farming (he's still farming 4,500 acres)
Ran Cedar Creek Ranch in Manhattan KS for 13 years (from KSU Graduation in 1990 until 2003 when we went out totally on our own) We ran 100 Reg. Polled cows ,500-600 commercial cows, bred and calved anywhere from 150 to 250 hfrs each year--(only had one hired man hence my hard edge towards convience traits) retained ownership on all feeder calves produced at the ranch since 1992. sold 30 to 40 bulls annually.
Wife-Andrea, CPA and controller for John O. Farmer, Inc (one of the bigger independent Kansas oil companies), one daughter Katherine in the 6th grade. Both of us graduated from K-State, Andrea with duel degrees in Ag Econ and Accounting and a MBA, me with a BA in American History and a BS in Range Managment.
Oh, and I have gone thru the 12 step program for recovering clipper monkeys but have fallen off the wagon since my daughter likes to show in the 4-H circuit.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2012 19:34:13 GMT -6
Tom Granzow - Herington, Kansas
We have been in the Hereford business since 1976. We have about 70 spring calving cows and 20 fall calvers. We raise both commercial and registered Herefords and black baldies. My wife Mary is a beautician and owns her own business and we have two children. Toniann is the CEO of a health care coalition in Missouri and Tobyn lives in Herington. He is the manageing partner of First Choice Meats along with his interest in our ranch. We also manage steers in the summer. I am the secretary/manager of the Kansas Hereford Association and manage the National Hereford Feedout. I am 57 years old and graduated from KSU in 1976 with a degree in Animal Science and a speciality in feedlot and range management.
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Post by Mickelson on Apr 27, 2012 22:56:13 GMT -6
I wasn't gonna say much as I figured nobody cared much, or they already read it. 4th generation to raise Hereford cattle. Bought my first Hereford heifer from TG. great cow, ask me about her next time we cross paths. Back to it...commercial hereford producer, and a die hard. Proud new support of the KHA!
Chris Mickelson
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Post by rockmillsfarm on Apr 29, 2012 20:55:45 GMT -6
Well it's gonna be pretty obvious from anyone reading the forum that I'm the nice guy on here, I'm NOT crusty, I always have good things to say and I do give a shit about what folks think. I also wish to remain anonymous.  Oops, forgot to put my name on here   ;D Paul Novak Rock Mills Herefords. |
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